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The 12 Tanks of Christmas! 12 Sweet Aeromotive Stealth Performance Tanks To Check Out!- One You May Need!
Aeromotive’s expansion of their Stealth Performance tank line with 12 models that fit popular applications means that here’s a better than average chance they’ll something for your...
The Texas Invitational: Vipers, Lambos And Corvettes…And A Couple Of Ruined Race Suits
You can have your opinion about dig versus roll racing all you want, but here’s where I stand: once you start making four-digit horsepower figures, starting off already moving is probably your...
Go Karts On Steroids: It’s The Pro UTV Knockout Racing World Championship!
I’m not that old. I grew up with three types of go-karts: the kind you found in a tourist trap that were asphalt-based and might have done 25 MPH on a good day, the ones with three-wheeler...
Morning Symphony: The Unholy Thrashing Of A Group A Subaru Legacy
When Group B racing got closed down at the end of the 1986 racing season, the Group A category became the next wildest category to watch. More cars were required for homologation and the mental power...
The 2017 Summary From BS Mid-West: Where Do Our Project Cars Stand?
It’s about time to start taking stock in what we’ve managed to accomplish this year with the project cars in the stable here in Kentucky. This year has been…well, I guess you could...
Unhinged: Junkyard Finds On An Otherwise Unsuccessful Day At The Yard
Of all of the cars that inhabit BangShift Mid-West, it was the two “daily drivers” that got me to haul my butt back down to the LKQ yard in Nashville yesterday in the pouring rain....
A History Note: Wally Parks’ Hot-Rodded WWII Jeep, “Sigue Na”
Prior to being the man whose name became tied to statues won by the hardest of the hard-charging drag racers in the world, prior to his titular role as the founder of the NHRA, and prior to leading...
The Skid Factory: The Toyota-Swapped Ford Fairlane Is Up, Running, And Blowing The Tires Off (As Well As The Tailshaft…)
If you missed our initial introduction to the YouTube series called The Skid Factory, let us bring you up to speed: it’s a Mighty Car Mods spin-off that skips out on the Japanese cars and the...
Rough Start: This 1972 Ford Gran Torino Four-Door Is Cheap Fun Beater Material – Can You Rebuild A Carb For A $1,000 Car?
The cogs are turning on this one, readers. A 1972 Ford Gran Torino for $1,000. Yeah, it’s a crew cab…so what. It’s a one-year-only body that has the open grille, the thin bumpers,...
BangShift Question Of The Day: How Sentimental Do You Get When It’s Time To Let The Ride Go?
Without actually counting, I believe I’ve moved around 50 cars in and out of my life since I got my first car when I was twelve. To varying degrees, I miss just about all of them…minus...
The Amtrak Train Derailment: What Went Wrong On The First Journey Of The New High-Speed Rail System?
(Lead photo: KOMO-TV Seattle) At 7:33 in the morning on Monday, December 18th 2017, the Amtrak Cascades passenger train derailed off of the Point Defiance Bypass on it’s inaugural run on the...
But Will It Haul The Christmas Tree Home? This Ford Station Wagon Romps!
We like fast wagons. We like fast Fords. We can appreciate anybody who can take one of Ford’s fullsize Panther platform cars and make it move out like Ford never considered. But a wood-paneled...
Would You Rather, The Trucks of Mecum Edition! Which Old Hauler Suits You Best?
The Mecum auction that will go down in Kissimmee, Florida is STACKED with good choices. Seriously. You can buy Dick Landy’s A/FX Coronet. You can buy a Motion GT Corvette. You can buy a 1994...
