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BangShifter Ron Ward Picks The Coolest Cars of His Birth Year….1964!

(Words by Ron Ward, photos by interwebs) – I was fortunate enough to have been born in 1964. The Beatles were hot, skirts were getting shorter, cars were getting faster and it was a great time...

Ford’s 1962 Mustang I Concept Car May Be The Coolest Thing At The 2014 Detroit Auto Show

Of all the neat stuff to gawk at inside Cobo Hall at the 2014 North American International Auto Show, Ford gets the nod from us for having the coolest vehicle…and it was built in 1962. This is...

This Video Of A 3,000hp Pro Mod Motor Making A Dyno Pull Is AWESOME

Danny Rowe Racing posted a video to their Facebook page yesterday showing Jimmy Rector, the team’s crew chief and long time builder of insanely powerful alcohol motors pulling one of the...

Chevy, GMC, and Cadillac, At The 2014 Detroit Auto Show – A Photo Collection

While the Corvette and F-150 were grabbing all of the Monday headlines at the 2014 Detroit Auto Show, there are other interesting bits of news as well. The 2015 GMC Canyon is one of them and we have...

Lucky’s Rod Run to the Chicken Oil Company 2014 – A Texas Sized Rod Run!

(Words and photos by Charles Wickam) – It is funny how things happen some time. Almost 20 years ago William Lucky of Conroe, Texas happened upon a great restaurant called The Chicken Oil...

It’s Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Week! AFCO Is There Supporting Racers – MavTV Is There Getting Ready To Broadcast It Live!

There’s nothing like the famed “Chili Bowl”. For nearly 30 years, racers from all over the county have been gathering in Oklahoma in the dead of winter to race for days on end,...

Footage From The 1972 Super Stock Nationals – Nitro, Pro Stock, Super Stock, More!

While we’ve never run into a video featuring old drag racing footage we’ve disliked, some are certainly head and shoulders above the rest. This one is about 16 feet above the rest and it...

Craigslist Find: This Steel Bodied Fiat Is Exactly As It was Built And Raced In 1959 – Amazing Old Drag Machine

We have to thank Johnny Gaudette for the tip on this amazing old Fiat Topolino drag car that he found while goofing off in study hall or something yesterday. The steel bodied cars was built in 1959...

The Uraidla South Australia Car Show: An Aussie Hot Rodding Extravaganza

(Photos by Darryl Daniels) Every year Darryl Daniels sends us photos from Uraidla Australia’s bitchin car show and cruise, and every year it makes us want to come to Australia and bring some...

Bangshift Question Of The Day: The 2015 Z06, Love It Or Hate It?

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last month or so (If that is the case, Welcome back!), it’s been pretty difficult to avoid all of the fanfare and hoopla around the new...

The Top 11 Cars You Thought Should Have Been On Chad’s Top 11 From 1972, But Weren’t

Last week I did the Top 11 Cars from the year I was born, which was 1972, and while a ton of you agreed with me, there were just as many who raised their hands via the comments, email, PM, text...

Watch Dennis Anderson Freestyle The King Sling On Three Wheels After One Falls Off – This Man Is Our Kind Of Lunatic

Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina was never the same after Dennis Anderson showed up. The man who brought forth the Grave Digger monster truck into the world and then parlayed that into an...

Dodge and Mopar Coolness At The 2014 Detroit Auto Show — Also, Rumor Mill Has Chrysler HQ Leaving The USA?

We showed you some cool stuff from Chevrolet in the form of the 2105 Corvette Z06 yesterday and from Ford with the new F-150 and the 2015 Mustang so today we get to shine the light on the Chrysler...

2015 Mustang And 2015 F150 Are Ford’s Big Stories At Detroit Auto Show – Photos Here

Our photographer on the scene of the 2014 Detroit Auto show continues to send us dispatches from the bustling show floor as hordes of media swarm to whichever display is pouring the free drinks...