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Our Final Gallery Of 2024 PDRA East Coast Nationals Action Photos: Check Them All Out Here, Along With A Link To Any You Might Have Missed!

We’ve got our fifth, and final, photo gallery from the PDRA East Coast Nationals below, but if you missed the previous galleries from the race, you can use the link we’ve included as...

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Newbern Helped His Neighbor Get This SS Chevelle Up And Running For Burnouts After Sitting For 40 Years And A Seized Small Block

There are lots of will it run videos out there of engines being started after sitting for years and years and years. But when an engine is actually stuck, or seized, the success rate goes down...

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Featured Product: This Easy to Apply KBS Bed Liner Protects Truck Beds and Body Panels And You Can Do It At Home!

We’re big fans of KBS products around here, but if you haven’t seen their products here on BANGshift or haven’t caught up with them at the PRI or SEMA shows, then you need to check...

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Influence & Impact Episode 19 – Jason and Marcel Talk About Obscure Muscle Cars: Buick Grand National, Ford Torino, CTSV, And Muscle Trucks

Remember when a Buick Grand National first came out? Do you remember how they were weird because we were in desperate need of some speed and fun but couldn’t quite wrap our heads around why it...

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Finnegan’s Mystery Drag And Drive Project Car Is Here and So Is The Engine! Can You Guess What It Is? We All Want To Know!

Finnegan has a jillion cool projects going, but he’s been trying to keep this one a bit of a secret while tickling us all with posts on his new engine build over at ACE. He’s going to...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Verge Motorsports Quick Outlaw Series – Beech Bend Raceway Park – Sunday Race

FREE LIVE DRAG RACING is going on at Beech Bend Raceway Park this weekend and it is going to be a hell of a busy one. With the Quick Outlaw Series running both 4.70 door cars and 4.50 dragsters,...

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Project Binky Update: Turbo, Transmission, And So Much More For This Turbo 4 All Wheel Drive Mini

While Project Binky is in the body shop getting the outside, inside, and every nook and cranny painted in preparation for final assembly, there are plenty of parts that need help before all that can...

Stainless Line How-To: Brakes, Fire System, And More. Here’s How To Do Them Right

Whenever the subject of hard lines comes up on a project I talk about my buddy Rodney Mason who works at Ridetech. That dude is one of those guys that can see the line in his head and make it just...

This Chevrolet Firenza CanAm Is Violence In A Small Package! Check Out This South African Muscle Car!

The Chevrolet Firenza CanAm is the very angry distant cousin to the Vauxhall Firenza, a handsome enough coupe based on the otherwise homely Vauxhall Viva. Look at it…are you getting an odd hint...

Our Pre Coronavirus Autorama Photos Continue: These Have Never Been Seen Before

We told you we had a bunch of cool show photos, and here they are. When BANGshifter Scott Liggett hit the Autorama to snap photos for all of you to enjoy back in March, he sent them to our Dropbox,...

Historical Footage: A 1920s Dodge Brothers Sedan Taking All The Punishment That A Trip To The Oil Well Could Provide

Mud, dirt, arroyos, rocks, sand, hills…you’d be hard-pressed to convince some diesel truck guys to take their pretty bro-dozers off-road, but for this early 1920s Dodge Brothers sedan,...

Random Car Review: The 1981 Mercedes-Benz 500SL, The Teutonic Rally Terror That Could Have Been

Mercedes-Benz had a unique take when it came to auto racing at the beginning of the 1980s: If their vehicle didn’t outright dominate, they didn’t want to play ball. That pride put a...

Dream Sleeper: A Turbocharged, LS-Swapped RWD Converted W-body Monte Carlo!

Peeling paint to the metal, cheap plasticky 1990s interior…no, I understand if you want to have my head examined by a professional for saying that this Monte Carlo would be a dream to own. But...

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Rust-Replacement At Home: The Rustoleum Valiant Wagon’s Floor Pans Get Patched And Prepped!

When it appeared that Australia was going to clamp down due to the pandemic, Scotty hustled to get the Rustoleum wagon home just in case that the country went into full lock-down mode. It...

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KP Components Trailing Arm Suspension For 1963-1972 C10 Give You Lots Of Options And Awesome Ride And Performance

The Trailing Arm Suspension that came factory on some Chevrolet C10 pickup trucks may not have performed to the level we are used to today, but it was a suspension system from which many race and...

Tank Recovery: Dragging A 1970 Cadillac Sedan de Ville Out Of It’s Muddy Grave!

A 1970 Cadillac is extravagant elegance at the maximum. They are large, they are brash, they are opulent and they have a large presence. Not in the 1970s manner where what you drove espoused your...

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Rally-Tested, BangShift-Approved: 1974 Ford Maverick Built To Run

Of all the cars I miss from my past, one that really stands out is the 1973 Mercury Comet that was around during my junior high days. Painted flat black, running trailer wheels and decent rubber, and...

Never Before Seen Autorama Photos From Just Before COVID19 Shut Everything Down!

When BANGshifter Scott Liggett hit the Autorama to snap photos for all of you to enjoy back in March, he sent them to our Dropbox, including his write up, and then told us they were there and ready...

New-Man: 1985 Nissan Skyline Paul Newman Edition – When You Get Your Own Model, You’ve Won

Off the top of my head, I can only think of two vehicles named after people associated with them with certainty: the Mark Donohue-edition AMC Javelin and the Nissan Skyline Paul Newman edition....

Massive Power: Watch The Murder Nova Make 3,700+ HP On A Hub Dyno!

There was a time a few years back that the most famous cars in America were owned by a couple of street racers from Oklahoma who became famous beyond their wildest dreams. Shawn and Chief, Chief and...