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More Photos From The Whittier Area Car Show In Southern California, Charity Never Looked So Good

(Words and Photos by Darr Hawthorne) Whittier is a small part of the greater Los Angeles/Orange County area, but in that part of town there’s a particularly awesome collection of hot rods, cruisers...

Unknown Parts Counter Guy: A Top 10 List To Help Me, Help You…..And Advice On Personal Hygiene

It’s Spring! For at least a couple of days until the temperatures sink faster than the Titanic, but for now, the warm weather has got people buying car wash stuff at a record pace and has every...

Electric Swamp Rat 37 Nearing Race Trim – Garlits And Team Shooting For First 200mph Electric Quarter Mile

We’re not usually hot on electric cars as they just aren’t really our jam around here, but one that Don Garlits is involved with, required the use of Bad Hadman to build its chassis, and...

It Lives! The Crazed 12-Rotor Engine Makes Initial Runs On Dyno – We Have Video, Sheets, And Power Numbers!

It was late January when we told you about Tyson Gavin’s wild 12 rotor engine that has the potential on paper to make multiple thousands of horsepower when fully sorted out. At that time, Tyson...

REVEALED: Chrysler New Yorker Electronic Voice Alert Guy Works for Speak and Spell!

In a brilliant investigative piece the likes of which we have not seen since Woodward and Bernstein, YouTuber Spats Bear has determined that the guy who was the voice behind the Chrysler New Yorker...

BangShift Exclusive: Liam Garritty Unveills “Saturday Forever” A Cartoon Tribute To Vintage Drag Racing

Anyone who’s hung out here at BangShift.com knows the name Liam Garritty, because Liam puts together some super cool galleries of photos for us every year at the March Meet and California Hot...

Watch A Hennessey Venom GT Go 270mph On A NASA Runway – In Car Video With Telemetry

Chances are that you already know what a Hennessey Venom GT is but if you don’t, here’s a rough sketch of what the $1-million dollar super car is all about. It starts life as a Lotus and...

For Sale: 80-Acre, 8,000 Car Idaho Junkyard – Show Up With $3,000,000 And You Own It

I am glad that my kids were not sitting in close proximity when I opened the email that informed me of the sale of L&L Classic Auto in Wendell, Idaho. Once I saw the ariel photos of nearly 100...

Gallery: Early Season Drag Action From Thunder Valley Raceway Park In Noble, Oklahoma!

(Words and photos by Brad Klaassen) – So, what’s a drag starved gear head to do when it’s still winter time? Well, as most of you know Oklahoma weather has had multiple personality issues...

Video: This Could Be The Coolest 1957 Chevy Pickup In America – Simplicity Rules

The guys at Holley titled this video, “No Modern Amenities” taking a line that owner/builder Kelly Hawthorn uses while describing the truck. We’re freaking ga-ga over this truck....

Gallery: Freaks, Trucks, and Hot Rods At The 2013 Big Three Swap Meet – San Diego, California

We’re continuing our photo coverage of the 2014 Big Three Swap Meet with today’s gallery that centers around cool trucks, some nifty hot rods, and some real weirdo stuff. Every once in a...

On This Date In 1893 The Diesel Engine Was Patented In Germany – Here’s Our Video Tribute To Compression Ignition Engines!

Rudolph Diesel would be so flipping happy at the way things are turning out for his basic engine design today, mainly because he would be wealthy beyond anyone’s imagination so it is too bad...

QuickTrick Is Giving Away One Of Their Awesome QuickSlide Caster/Camber Alignment Tools! Enter Here Before Feb 28!

If you are on Facebook and fail to heed the simple instructions below, simply put you are dumb. Like goalie on the dart team, window licking dumb. Why? Because for about 15 seconds of effort you can...

Project Violent Valiant Update: The Front Frame Rails Get Fabbed And Installed

We’re back with another update on Project Violent Valiant the unique pro touring destroyer being built by Hot Rod Chassis and Cycle‘s Kevin Tully at the Skunkworks in Illinois. In case...