Cool or Not: A Chrysler Cordoba Made to Look Like a Superbird!
Posted in Car Features January 16, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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After seeing these photos posted on the BangShift forums by member Remy-Z we had to get them in front of the BangShift readership and get your collective opinion. In the interest of full disclosure, we don’t actually hate this thing and there are parts of it, we kinda like. Sure it takes some courage to [...]
Car Feature: Lee Sicilio’s 283 MPH 1969 Dodge. Can He Run 300 In A Daytona? We Think So!
Posted in MOPAR August 21, 2012 by Chad Reynolds
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Lee Sicilio is a Texan with a penchant for Salt. His friends will tell you that nobody uses it on the rim of a Bloody Mary better, but they’ll also tell you that his drink making skills pale in comparison to his love of the salt at Bonneville. With numerous records behind the wheel of [...]
UPDATE: Lee Sicilio’s 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona Runs 283 MPH, Gets The Record, But No 300 YET
Posted in LAND SPEED RACES August 20, 2012 by Chad Reynolds
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Update Friday: Well it’s all over for Speed Week 2012, and Team Sicilio should be ultra proud of themselves. They came out with a brand new car and in less than a half dozen runs set a record at Bonneville. We know guys that are out there for decades and never get a record. They [...]
1962 Plymouth Fury With 777 Original Miles – A BangShift Exclusive!
Posted in Car Features January 1, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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(Words and photos by Dave Nutting) – Bangshift contributing photographer Dave Nutting here to share an infamous time capsule of Mopar history that Brian Lohnes and I stumbled upon while working on another feature, one that involves more than a hundred pounds of boost, several thousand foot-pounds of torque, and smoky, rolling burnouts galore. After [...]
Nitro Resto – The Story of the Famed Country Girl Funny Car and How It Was Restored By The Family That Raced It
Posted in Car Features November 28, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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(Words and Photos by Mike Bradford) – In the racing world, if you don’t have deep pockets and want to go faster, one car is sold to fund the new toy. More often than not, the old car is forever lost, out of sight and mind while all effort is focused on the replacement. Such [...]
SEMA 2012 Featurette: Don “The Snake” Prudhomme’s 1970 Hot Wheels ‘Cuda Funny Car
Posted in Car Features November 5, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Of all the cars and trucks that filled the nearly one million square foot Las Vegas Convention Center last week during SEMA, the most historically significant race cars is this one. Don Prudhomme’s 1970 ‘Cuda Funny Car is the actual car he raced against Tom McEwen during the famous “Snake and Mongoose” days when the [...]
Car Feature & Video Re-Run: Gary and Pam Beineke’s Serpent SRT-71 Dodge Charger
Posted in Car Features April 15, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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We featured several cars from the collection of Gary and Pam Beineke in 2009. Gary and Pam have made a name for themselves in the Mopar community by creating so-called, “what if?” cars. Normally they answer the question with respect to the time period of the car they are working with, be it their 1971 [...]
Gallery: Vintage Photos of Freiburger’s Super Bee
Posted in Car Features December 22, 2008 by Chad Reynolds
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As many of you know, a few months ago Chad and I had to close down the old website that used to employ us and also clear out the shop where we’d been working. Aside from the drama of going out of business and losing our jobs, one of the biggest defeats to me personally [...]
Car Feature: 800 Horsepower 1964 Dodge 330 by Renteria Bros.
Posted in Car Features March 4, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Mike Renteria Sr.’s 1964 Dodge 330 makes 800 horsepower out of a 496ci big-block Mopar wedge motor, gets driven and shown regularly, and belongs to a man who is 70 years old. Mike is the father of Tom, Sean, and Mike Jr., who operate the Renteria Brothers Custom Shop in Morgan Hills, California. They are [...]
Car Feature Re-Run: Gary and Pam Beineke’s Awesome 1971 One of None Superbird
Posted in Car Features January 21, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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A car feature on a 1971 Plymouth Super Bird? You got it. So what if Mopar never built such an animal, Gary and Pam Beineke did, and this one’s loaded with a 472ci Hemi wth a Six Pack. Yeah, Chrysler never made a Six Pack Hemi, either. If you’re hungry for details, jump here for [...]
Car Feature: Jet-X, The 1972 Plymouth GTX that Mopar Never Built
Posted in Car Features July 10, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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Here’s a car from the cover of the October 2009 Mopar Action magazine, and one that’s being debuted at Chryslers at Carlisle, July 10-12, just as this is being posted at BangShift.com. It’s Gary and Pam Beineke’s brand new creation, Jet-X. This is the 1972 Plymouth GTX that Chrysler never built, it has 440 Six [...]
Car Feature: Renteria Brothers’ 2,000-Horsepower, 6-second, 4-door, ’65 Plymouth Valiant
Posted in Car Features March 8, 2011 by Chad Reynolds
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Normally you would consider a four-door 1965 Plymouth Valiant to be a family car, but normal doesn’t begin to describe the Renteria Brothers or their bitchin’ ’65 Valiant race car. When Mike Renteria, the Dad in Renteria Brothers and Dad Racing, first ran his four-door Valiant drag car, he apparently didn’t tell his kids that [...]
Hack Job General Lee: So Close We Can Almost Taste It, With Video!
Posted in Car Features August 24, 2009 by Brian Lohnes
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The Hack Job General Lee, the well publicized Charger project from Hell, is finally near completion and it may well be the the greatest case of making automotive chicken salad out of chicken you-know-what that we have ever seen. A patient owner and a team of skilled craftsmen have taken a rolling disaster and turned [...]
Pro Street 1970 Challenger Mini-Feature
Posted in Car Features January 19, 2010 by Chad Reynolds
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Every once in a while we run across a car we know you would love to see, but that we can’t shoot a full feature on due to time or circumstance. Our neighbor, George, has some cool toys, including a clean four-speed 1970 Plymouth Roadrunner, several cool trucks, and a really bitchin’ big rig. But [...]
Car Feature: The (Formerly) Hack Job General Lee
Posted in Car Features October 9, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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If Cooter Davenport had the budget and parts, this is the General Lee he would have built for the Duke boys. He would have started with an old wreck and pieced the car together until he had a romping, stomping, ‘shine runner that no one could catch. The Hack Job General Lee was saved by [...]
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