With all the hot and heavy action ready to get fired up in Wilmington again in a couple weeks and Speed Week looming on the horizon, we got to mentally bench racing with ourselves and started dreaming about the LSR rig we would build. There’s the side of us that would want to build something [...]

Calling on a jet engine must be super cool. I mean just saying “Yeah, I’m calling about the jet engine you have for sale?” LOL That would rule all! I totally want this. I don’t know what I would do with it, other than bolting it to my back patio and lighting off the afterburner [...]

Not the let the cat out of the bag early on something, but later today GM is dropping off a 2013 Camaro SS Hot Wheels edition for an upcoming road test story. Normally when I have a car coming, I tell the kids. This time I didn’t because I gave both of my sons the [...]

This may be an odd question, but I was thinking about it while forming new brake lines for Brutus the tow truck recently. I despise forming and flaring brake lines and I always manage to choose projects that pre-bent lines are not available for. It is definitely a skill that I have come to learn [...]

This photo arrived through our tip line the other day and the dude who sent it isn’t answering any emails regarding where it came from, but holy crap is it awesome. It appears that these two hooligans were instructors at the Bondurant driving school and if we had to put a time period on the [...]

We remember when the “Street Freak” era was hot, tubs weren’t cool, and gassers weren’t the only thing with a straight axle. Of course if you really wanted to be the dude you also had 18 colors of paint and an actual name written on your car somewhere. Well, this Skylark isn’t quite up to [...]

We really idolize sleepers here on BangShift and we think lots of you do too. Putting one over on someone or winning a race/fight after being underestimated or marginalized is one of the great joys of hot rodding. Hell, we’re even of the mind that if you are the fish that takes the bait and [...]

So this week I served as the host for the 2013 Diesel Power Magazine Challenge. This unique event pitted 10 of the nation’s toughest and most wild diesel pickups against each other in a series of challenges. The pulled the pulling sled, drag raced, drag raced while pulling a 10,000lb trailer, and spun the dyno [...]

Everyone has different tastes when it comes to cars. Some of us are way into engines, others are wowed by great body work, still more dig the perfect stance, and the there are the guys who like gadgets, radios, and electronica of all types. Speaking only for ourselves, we normally go straight for the goods [...]

The answer for me is hells to the no baby. I will drive anything. But I’ve never been a real bike guy, so maybe that is part of it, but the other thing is I don’t want 1500hp between my legs on a machine that only uses the front wheel to hold itself up when [...]

I have been on a hot streak over the last couple weeks in seeing horsepower made in virtually every way a gearhead could dream up. There was the insane diversity at the Ohio Mile, then last weekend I attended an SCCA autocross with Buford T Justice and saw another load of wild combinations and engines [...]

So last week was a good one in the life of ol’ Buford T Justice, our BangShift 1987 Caprice project. I think I drove the car about 500 miles over the course of the week. I hit two cruise nights and then auto-crossed the thing to within an inch of its life on Sunday. The [...]

Outside of some places in the midwest, it is automotive fun time season in the rest of the country. Have you gotten your junk in gear yet? We’ve been hitting cruise nights, the drag strip, and shooting car features in the warmth of the sun again which is a welcome change from the crappiness of [...]

We’ve all got a list. You know, the list of cars, trucks, boats, or motorcycles that we ultimately want to own. It’s the list that would get a lot of check marks on it if I won Powerball. The cool thing about “the list” is that when you sit around bench racing about your list [...]

There are lots of things that require a ton of skill when building a hot rod. But the top four are probably welding, paint and body work, building an engine, and building a transmission. So for today’s BangShift Question of the Day, we are wondering which is more intimidating and scary…Painting a car or building [...]

Names like Bill “Grumpy” Jenkins, Glen “Fireball” Roberts, Warren “The Professor” Johnson, Ivan “The Iron Man” Stewart, Don “The Snake” Prudhomme, Tom “The Mongoose” McEwen, Shirley “Cha Cha” Muldowney, “Dandy” Dick Landy, and countless others have become the characters that define motorsports. And while each of these folks have proven themselves on the track, it [...]