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Suspension Tech Videos from Detroit Speed – Camber/Caster Explained and Backspacing

With the explosion in popularity of Pro Touring cars, and more importantly, using Pro Touring cars, learning how to properly set up a suspension is super important. Years ago, a car with big wheels...

The Romping, Stomping Rolls Royce From England With Drag Week Aspirations!

We were hanging out over at YellowBullet the other day when we stumbled upon a thread about a kick ass Rolls Royce drag car over in England. Even cooler was when the chassis builder revealed that the...

Leaked Test Video:Prototype Enderle Bug Catcher With Holley EFI!

Long established as the industry leader in high performance carburetors, the men and women of Holley are quickly becoming known as EFI ninjas as well. Their easy to use and tune EFI systems have...

BangShift Project Spotlight: The Unholy Union of a Caddy V6 and a Fiat Spyder

BangShift member Aaron had a problem. He was arguing with his wife about fuel efficiency and how a light car with a modern engine could perform at a high level (50 mpg) and that electric hybrids...

Hot Six Video: An Aussie Ford Falcon With Turbo Straight Six Power Tears Up the Strip

While Aussie gearheads love the V8 engine as much as their American brothers and sisters do, the history of performance cars down under has been marked with some pretty bad ass six cylinder engines....

Killer Documentary Video Alert – Black Air: The Buick Grand National Documentary

Without question, the Buick Grand National is one of the greatest performance cars ever produced by General Motors. During a rather moribund time in the performance history of the Buick brand, this...

Update: Epic Project Thread: Building a Twin Engine Dragster From Scratch

We have lots of respect and interest for all the projects that BangShifters have going on currently, but one has really got our tongue hanging out. BangShift member Toymaker is building a twin engine...

The Top 10 Reasons You Need to Attend the 2011 NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion

October 21-23 are the dates for the 2011 NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion, held at Famoso Raceway, in Bakersfield, California. This is one of the premier nostalgia drag races in the world and the...

Cool Vintage Army Training Video: Missile Men – A Look at the Dawn of the Guided Missile Age

We have proclaimed ourselves history dweebs many times here on the electronic pages of BangShift, so it should come as no surprise that we’ve dug up a killer old Army video that is quite...

Blastolene’s Latest Build: The Decoliner – Flash Gordon’s Motorhome

The latest build from the fertile mind of Randy Grubb and the Blastolene stable is called the Decoliner and it is a wild motorhome that looks as though it belongs in a Flash Gordon movie. Starting...

Cruise Gallery: The Hot Rod Magazine Cruise Night – El Segundo, California

Scott Liggett, our man on the scene in Southern California recently took in the monthly Hot Rod Magazine Cruise night, held on the last Friday of the month at the Automobile Driving Museum in El...

Car Show Gallery: The 2011 Geneva Concours d’Elegance – Geneva, Illinois

Normally with the words Concours d’Eelgance are thrown around, visions of important people dressed in dumb clothing gawking at old foreign cars come to mind. In the case of the...

Roadside Find: A 1964 White Cab Over Semi Truck Still On the Job!

Yesterday, we decided to play storm chaser with the family and headed down to the ocean to see all of hurricane Irene’s fury. Well, the storm was built up to be this near doomsday event in New...

Car Show Gallery: The 2011 Wheels of Time Rod and Custom Jamboree – Macungie, PA

For 33 years the Wheels of Tim Rod and Custom Jamboree has been taking place. This year, one of our Pennsylvanian photo dudes, Doug Garrison hit the show with his camera and sent us back more than...