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BangShift Question Of The Day: How Important To You Is Using Technology In Your Hot Rod?

After watching the video of the old school gassers getting after it on the eighth mile, it got me to thinking about the use of modern technology in hot rods. Some guys hate it all and won’t...

More Four Speed Gasser Greatness Video – This Is Stott On Stott Family Crime! Big RPM, BangShiftin’!

So what’s better than showing you Quain Stott running his gasser? How about showing you Quain Stott’s nephew, with some coaching from his legendary dad Mitch running his gasser against...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy – Kenny Chesney (1998)

On my long ass drive to Ohio yesterday for the ECTA meet this weekend, I saw lots of tractors. None of them were manned with a dude with a hot chick hanging off of him, but maybe that’s a...

Would You Drive It? A 1972 Toyota Corolla Road Race Machine We Found On Ebay

We dig old iron. Even the import stuff like this little 1972 Corolla, although we could live without what appears to be a miniature Chevy Monte Carlo front end on the thing. We even have video of...

Power Tour Is In Full Swing! Visit BangShift’s Sponsors, And Win Big!

That’s right, hanging out in this joint may actually pay off for you guys eventually. After all, BangShift.com’s sponsors are some of the biggest and baddest on Hot Rod’s Power...

Vintage Baja Chevy Truck Formerly Owned By Steve McQueen And Raced By Mickey Thompson Heading For Auction

Well if this isn’t the coolest Chevy 4×4 of all time, I’m not quite sure what is. This 1969 Chevy truck was the first ever factory built Baja competition truck that the company...

Roadkill: Freiburger and Finnegan Attack The Wilmington Mile With A Crusty Old Monza And Five Leaf Blowers!

Having seen the glory of the leaf blower supercharged Monza in person at the season’s first ECTA event in Wilmington, Ohio, I was super interested to see the rest of the story about how the...

Video: Watch An 8,000 Pound Ram Diesel Try To Move A 15,000 lb Dumpster

Kyle at 1320Video is a good friend of ours, and we always love his videos, but this one here is a preview of things to come from the recent 1320Video burnout contest. Normally they only do this thing...

Cruise Gallery: The South Coastal Corvette Club All Makes/Models Cruise Night – Weymouth, Massachusetts

Since May, my traveling and announcing schedule has been pretty jam packed with events all over the country. I am eternally thankful for that but it doesn’t leave a whole lot of time for doing...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Four Speed, Five Speed, or Six Speed?

Like we always say around here, today’s aftermarket provides a nearly limitless sea of options for hot rodders and BangShifters to swim in when building their cars and trucks. We’re truly...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” Ace Ventura Pet Detective With Range Rover Flip

Ace Ventura, played by Jim Carrey, is known for some really stupid, but funny, lines, but he’s also known by car guys for his amazing ability to park a car. In the first Ace Ventura movie it...

Video: Urban Outlaw – An Unbelievably Well Done Story Of A Hot Rodders LIfe

The description of this video says “URBAN OUTLAW is a portrait of Magnus Walker, the rebel Porsche customizer who turned a hobby into an obsession, and an obsession into a successful business....

Drag Action Gallery: The Cecil County Dragway Outlaw Street Car Shootout – June 2013

(Photos by Jim Colraine) – Call it a tune up for the YellowBullet.com Nationals that’ll be rocking Cecil County Dragway in Maryland at the end of the summer or just call it a bad ass drag...

Video: Ford Recall’s 465,000 Cars For Fuel Leaks, We Show You Pinto Explosion Video!

With news that Ford is recalling 465,000 cars because of fuel leaks, it made us think about the always exciting Ford Pinto crash test video from the 70’s. It’s awesome because the poor...