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Meet The Alfarrari: I Just Found Out About This Project, But Man This Thing Is Cool! Try To Keep Up

I’m about to ruin a couple of hours of your holiday, and by ruin I mean you should get a drink and a snack and sit down because for the next hour you are going to be glued to the screen...

Using Simple Aerodynamics to Beat High Gas Prices (Home Improvement Store Edition)

While I only own cars that were built before 1995, and I’d love to claim that all of them are V8 powered and make over 1,000 horsepower, the truth is I do own two cars that are NOT V8 powered....

Here’s Your Chance To Buy One Of The Stunt Aston Martin DB5’s From “No Time To Die”

(Words by Scott Liggett) We have been seeing that Christie’s Auctions is having a sale of 10 items from various the James Bond movie franchise in the near future. The one item getting the most...

Is This The Ultimate Porsche 917? And Is It Really Road Legal In The UK?

Video Description: Is this the ultimate (and only road legal) Porsche 917 recreation project? Think of 917s and you might think of Steve McQueen in the Le Mans film… Gulf livery, flimsy, but...

Fresh Barn Find: Stored Since 1978, This 1966 Pontiac Is Saved And Will Live On

(Words and Video by Chad Ehrlich) Tonight, we have a fun video! A few weeks ago, I got a call about a 1966 Pontiac. It was a little ways away from me, but the owner wanted to make sure the car...

Reader’s Project: This 1975 Jeep CJ5 Is All Hot Rod, And We Totally Approve!

When Kim Welch sent us some photos and history on his cool CJ5 build, we knew he was our people. As a regular visitor to BANGshift.com he knew that we love to take content submissions so he sent us...

BangShift Test Drive: 2018 Polaris Slingshot – Sports Car? Motorcycle? Eh, Have Both!

Recently, the missus and I decided that we needed to disconnect from the world for a bit. We tend to do autumn vacations because she gets “fall break” from work and I usually have a...

Custom Truck Feature: LS Swapped 1950 Studebaker | Bello Build

Bello’s Kustoms is owned and operated by Mike Bello who’s one of those SoCal builders everyone knows. He’s got a great attitude, serious metal shaping skills, and an eye for...

Gasser Spotlight: This 1948 Austin Gasser is a Stack-Injected Big-Block-Powered Monster in a Miniature Package

This all-steel 1948 Austin is super rad, and is referred to as the “Bare Metal Brute” for good reason. John Verde owns this thing and built it because his father had one way back in the...

Pro-Touring LS Swapped Cadillac Coupe Deville- Introducing The Chicken Coupe, A Project That Excites Me To No End.

The Chicken Coupe has been a long time coming and is a project that I am behind 100%. After all, good friend Matt Graves is the one behind this craziness and he’s been involved in some...

A 2JZ Swapped Nash Rambler? That’s A Daily Driver? With Carburetors And A Distributor? Yep! Watch.

What in the wide wide world of sports is going on here? Creativity is going on here, that’s what. Richard Holdener went to visit a guy that did a complete 3.0L 2JZ Swap on his WIFE’s 1960...

This LS Swapped 1962 Volvo Is Way Cool And Packs A Punch The Owner Isn’t Afraid To Throw

For some reason I dig old Volvos. I know that seems weird, but there are some cool body styles like this 1962 Volvo Amazon for instance. And the earlier models kinda looked like an early ’40s...

This 1985 AMC Eagle Might Be The Nicest One In The Country…And It’s Loaded, Too!

AMC Eagle wagons are a weird thing to me. On one hand, if you’ve seen one, you’ve pretty much seen them all: you have the same basic shape that first appeared as the AMC Hornet...

If You Don’t Believe That Anything Can Be A Race Car, Then Check Out The Tofu Drift Van

At one point in time a few years back Lohnes referred to me as “BangShift’s patron saint of automotive lost causes” in reference to the SuperBeater Dodge Mirada, and it’s...