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Friday BOOM: Massive Explosions, Driver Survives, Two Seat Roadster Does Not

As announced last week, we’re going to be running a new blog item series every Friday with the creative title, “Friday BOOM”. This is where we’ll have a video of stuff blowing...

Dodge Dart Pro Stock Debut And Wind Tunnel Video Right Here!

If you are a fan of door car drag racing, like we are, then you are going to be excited about seeing the new Dodge Dart Hemi Pro Stockers that were just debuted and will make their first passes down...

Gallery: A BangShifty Tour Of The GM Heritage Collection By DRD Photo

(Photos by DRD Photography) – When our man Dom Damato said that he was going to Autorama this year and that he’d love to get a look at the GM Heritage Collection while he was in the area...

Gallery: The 2014 Detroit Autorama By DRD Photography – Gallery 1

The World of Wheels is the series that kicks off the indoor car show season for most of America and the Detroit Autorama is the big show on the tour where the top builders in the country compete for...

ChumpCar Race Report: La Laguna Zeca-The Dry Lagoon – Chumps On The Corkscrew!

The Optima Batteries ChumpCar World Series (www.chumpcar.com)traveled to the world-class Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, located just off of the coast of Monterey, CA to kick off the West Coast Region...

Mean 15 – Lohnes Picks His Favorite 15 Cars From The 2014 Bakersfield March Meet

The 2014 Bakersfield March Meet sure was an adventure and I’ll fill you in more on that in a different blog today. We had a great time at the event and of course thoroughly enjoyed bringing...

Size Matters Two Film Coming – We Have The Preview Video! Big Rig Bad-Assery

We all remember the awesome Size Matters video featuring the huge hot rodded Freightliner of Mike Ryan. Well as we told you in January, Ryan and a team had concocted a new video and were working to...

CLICK HERE To Watch Our REPLAY Of The 2014 Bakersfield March Meet!

Thanks to the management of Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, California and our great sponsors, BangShift will return to The Patch in just a couple of weeks to live broadcast the 2014 Bakersfield March...

Gallery: Never Before Published 1960s Drag Photos From Great Lakes, Cordova, More!

(Photos by Darwin Busch) – Yesterday, photographer Brent Busch sent me a note and invited me to look at a bunch of photos that his dad took in the late 1960s at places like Grat Lakes...

Jeff Gordon Taxi: How To Scare The Daylights Out Of A Doubting Jalopnik Writer – EPIC

This is totally one of the greatest pranks ever pulled in the history of the internet. Travis Okulski is the deputy editor of majorly huge automotive blog site Jalopnik and he was one of the most...

Watch A Hennessey Venom GT Go 270mph On A NASA Runway – In Car Video With Telemetry

Chances are that you already know what a Hennessey Venom GT is but if you don’t, here’s a rough sketch of what the $1-million dollar super car is all about. It starts life as a Lotus and...

Video: This Could Be The Coolest 1957 Chevy Pickup In America – Simplicity Rules

The guys at Holley titled this video, “No Modern Amenities” taking a line that owner/builder Kelly Hawthorn uses while describing the truck. We’re freaking ga-ga over this truck....

Watch Kevin Mullins 4.11 Run On 315 Drag Radials! 4,000hp Twin Turbo Hemi!

First off WARNING – THERE IS SOME STRONG LANGUAGE AND SWEARING AT THE END OF THIS VIDEO — IF THIS IS A PROBLEM, STOP IT IMMEDIATELY AFTER YOU WATCH THE RUN.  This is the most incredible...

WINNING: A 1960s Cragar Blower Off An Early Top Fuel Car Has Blown Life Into This Willys Truck

(Words: Brad Klaassen – Photos: Klaassen and Shane Carson, Mar-Car Photo Collection)- It’s no secret drag racers have been reusing performance parts for decades. One man’s trash is...