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Detroit Speed Open House this Weekend: Plus their Chevy II Test Car Video

If you are going to be in the Charlotte, North Carolina, area this weekend, you are going to want to keep your Friday night open for the Detroit Speed Open House and BBQ. Just a hop, skip, and a jump...

eBay Find: A Real Deal Steel 1948 Austin Gasser

If you’re in the market for a gasser project, we’ve found the perfect starting place for you. This 1948 Austin is a legit gasser built in the 1960s by a group of buddies in California and...

The Antique Automobile Club of America Museum

Joe Grippo’s photo galleries from Hershey, Pennsylvania, have covered every facet of the automotive hobby, and we are blown away by the shear number of cars that were on hand at the famed...

Event Coverage: Lehigh Valley Regional Shelby American Automobile Club

The Shelby American Automobile Club holds shows all over the country and the world, but when they decided to hold a “Mini Meet” at the site of the 2010 AACA Hershey Show, Joe Grippo...

SEMA 2010 Sneak Peek: Mopar brings the heat

Chrysler announced today that they are bringing horsepower, and plenty of it, to SEMA 2010 in Las Vegas next week. Were you expecting Fiats with little engines? It wouldn’t have surprised us...

Auto Trader Classics Find: A Super Cool 1958 Chevy Apache Kustom

Kustoms tend to split people right down the middle of love and hate. We’re not particularly cultured in the tastes and trends of todays kustom realm, but this truck really turns our crank. Done...

Shop Tour: We visit with Ridetech in Jasper Indiana

Everybody knows the name Ridetech, manufacturers of some of the finest suspension systems on the market, but most of you have never gotten the chance to visit them at their headquarters and...

Don “The Snake” Prudhomme vs. Tom “The Mongoose” McEwen. It’s Match Race Madness

Don “The Snake” Prudhomme and Tom “The Mongoose” McEwen have one of the fiercest and well publicized rivalries in racing history. And while Richard Petty, Darrell Waltrip, and...

Event Coverage: 643 Photos from the 2010 AACA Car Show in Hershey Pennsylvania

As BangShifter Joe Grippo put it, the 2010 AACA Car Show in Hershey Pennsylvania is one of the most eclectic and diverse car shows around. From Hemi ‘Cudas to Duesenbergs, you’ll see it...

BangShift Approved: The Santa Ana Drags 1950-1959

The grass on the other side of the fence, drag racing days gone by, and pre smog years are just some of the things we humans, and hot rodders always seem to long for. And so in the spirit of those...

Video: The Winged Express pulls off its craziest burnout yet!

Wild Willie Borsch and his famed Winged Express Fuel Altered were always known for smokey, sidewall deflecting, sideways burnouts, so it’s only fitting that the legend continues today. At this...

Video: Bill Caswell to Build Baja BMW at SEMA, We Help

Our rally pal Bill Caswell, of BMW jumping, crashing, and hooning fame will be at the 2010 SEMA show in the Miller booth. Caswell will be transforming a BMW into a Baja 1000 competition vehicle which...

Car Show Gallery: The Mass Cruisers Auto Club Cruise, Foxboro, Massachusetts

We’ve been semi-regular visitors to the Mass Cruisers humongous car show that runs on a bi-weekly schedule at the Bass Pro Shops store in Foxboro, Massachusetts. Most recently, after a...

Funny Car-Nage: A Billet Aluminum Disconnecting Rod

You’ve reached a certain plane of BangShifter zen when you own a hot rod that a) requires billet aluminum rods and b) can break them in awful ways. Such is the case with our pal Dana Hard and...