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Trans Dapt Rolls Out New Plastic And Canvas Phenolic Carburetor Spacers With Swirl-Torque Technology

Carb spacers have been part of the hot rodding bag o’ tricks for a long time now and Trans Dapt is putting their own spin on a line of ’em for your engine, literally. The company has...

This Turbo, Big Block Chrysler, Four Door, 1968 Valiant Is Some Work And Creative Exhaust Plumbing Away From Sleeper Stardom

Wanna get famous? Pay the $2500 asking price for this 1968 Valiant, finish it and then take YouTube videos on the race track running ridiculous elapsed times and laugh your way to internet hero...

More Sweet Photos From Tucson Rodders Days – The Full Spectrum Of Hot Rodding Coolness

(Photos by Jace Ray) – We’ve been doling out the photos from the 40th Tucson Rodders Days this week which were taken through the lens of BangShift contributor Jace Ray. We haven’t...

Chevy Guys Will Cry – Someone Turned A Pretty Clean 1972 C10 Into A Grill?!

We have to thank Matt Cramer of DiyAutoTune.com for the tip on this pretty incredible Craigslist find. Long story short, some guys converted a 1972 C10 truck into a huge grill that can be towed...

This 1987 Chevy El Camino up for sale on Hemmings.com holds a deep, dark secret

I want a 1978 to 1987 El Camino like a raccoon wants my garbage can, so I’m constantly combing the classifieds, the List of Craig, eBay and Hemmings for one that’s not gonna bust my bank...

Holley Adds New Mid-Rise Intake Manifold To LS Lineup – Multiple Applications For Carbs, EFI, Port Styles

We’re reasonably certain that everyone at Holley has figured out to to live without the annoyance of sleep in their lives. They’ve had to because with the amount of stuff that the company...

Redline Motorsports Put Their 2014 Camaro Z/28 On The Chassis Dyno – Hear It And See The Numbers In This Video

Back in January we had occasion to spend a few hours at Redline Motorsports and specifically with the shop’s owner Howard Tanner. At the time, Tanner was working on tuning a supercharged C7...

Watch The 2014 Ridler Award Winning Rivision Built By JF Kustoms Pick The Kids Up From School, Blow Donuts, And Come To Life

Rivision, the incredible 1964 Buick Riviera by JF Kustoms won the Ridler Award at the Detroit Autorama in 2014. The car is wild and polarizing in its style but it is unifying in the fact that any car...

Gearhead Guys You Should Know: John Schinella

When you hear about GM design staff, it’s always the man in charge that everybody talks about: Harley Earl, Bill Mitchell, Irv Rybicki, Chuck Jordan, Wayne Cherry, and now Ed Welburn. But under...

Breaking News: 50,000+ Gallons Of Crude Oil Spilled In Los Angeles – “Gentleman’s Club” Swamped

Hours ago, an above ground pipe that measures some 20-inches in diameter and carries cruse oil through the town of Atwater Village, California ruptured and released an estimated 50,000 gallons of...

Drag Video: Fires, Wrecks, and Near Misses From The Australian National Drag Racing Association Race At Sydney Dragway

Judging by the angle of the car in the lead photo above, this isn’t going to end well  for him. To be brutally honest, half of the cars in this video had a decent run while the other half get...

An Angry Old Guy In Oklahoma Closed His Junkyard In 1953 And Now The Entire Jordon Collection Has Come Up For Auction

Oliver Jordon was just a guy looking to make a living. In 1945 he bought a wrecking yard in Enid, Oklahoma and picked right up from where the guy he bought it from had left the business. Cars were...

This 1978 Dodge Magnum Daytona Is Not A Special Factory Package Car

Hey, this normally isn’t me. I’m typically not the guy who is going to go all “factory” on you with nut and bolt restorations and period correct air in the tires, etc, but in...

Tucson Rodders Days – More Killer Photos From A Beautiful Weekend Of Hot Rodding In Arizona

(Photos by Jace Ray) – We’re back with another great installment of photos from Jace Ray featuring the great Tucson Rodders Days show that went down last weekend. Jace was blasting photos...