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Gallery: A Collection Of Classic American Full Sized Cars From The BangShift Archives

(Photos from the BangShift Archive) – Call me an ugly American is you want but bigger is definitely better when it comes to may taste in cars. The humongous machines of the 1960s and 1970s...

Dyno Video: Watch A Wretchedly Overpowered Sand Car Lay Down 1300hp At The Tire With A TT 454ci Warhawk Mill!

Few vehicles on Earth have the power to weight ratio that modern sand cars have. These tube chassis wonders that were once mostly powered by stock or warmed up VW engines now sport turbocharged V8s...

Video Game Vs. Real Life: Watch A Real Focus ST Battle With A Virtual Focus ST-Plus The (former) Stig

Ford unveiled the new, slightly tweaked version of the Focus ST at the Goodwood Festival of Speed recently. In what we can only assume was a bunch of advertising genius, Polyphony Digital, the...

Ebay Find: 1974 Vega Wagon Funny Car For Sale-Who Wants Their Own Nostalgia Ride?

BangShifter Joe Haber sent me this gem from his backyard in Tucson, Arizona. A full-on funny car and ’74 Vega Wagon body, this thing just needs an engine and trans (as well as a cleanup and...

VTEC Kicked In, Yo! Watch This Civic Take Flight Like A Boss! That Landing, On The Other Hand…

Rally jumps never get old, do they? Hell no! It’s the icing that goes on the cake of watching two people chuck a car through the woods at speeds that would make most normal people lose bowel...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: “America The Beautiful” Ray Charles (2001)

Yankee Stadium, mere weeks after America was attacked in New York City. Nobody has ever sang this song better than Ray Charles, and this particular performance was something special. Click play to...

Party Barge: Holley’s Project ’74 Chevelle “Low Buck Long Roof”

Some vehicles catch your eye with bright colors, big motors, loud noises, a thumping stereo system. Some are so frighteningly ugly that you’d just as soon go look at whatever’s in the parking lot...

Unknown Parts Counter Guy: Don’t Leave Me Hanging, Bro!

The messages have been coming in and I’ve been on the floor…these are good! Keep them coming! Here’s one of the latest ones: I have been a parts counterman and manager for over...

Rough Start: Save This Grand Prix From A Wrong Turn In Albuquerque

Every time that Bugs Bunny was lost, he blamed a wrong turn at Alburqurque. Since that place is apparently interesting enough that the animated wise-ass could get turned around so many times, I...

Nitro Video: A Quick Recap, Explosions Included, From Bakersfield’s Saturday Night Nitro Show Last Weekend

Les Mayhew, the drag racing film making maven was at the Saturday Night Nitro event at Bakersfield last weekend and while he was there he shot a ton of video featuring the various classes that were...

Hotchkis Updates Its TVS Kit For 1967-1972 C10 Trucks To Include Long Bed Applications And Dropped Spindles

You know it and we know it, 1967-1972 GM half ton trucks are one of the hottest vehicles in the aftermarket right now. From builds like Project Cheap 10 that we are covering to insane hardcore pro...

Show Coverage: The Cruise Down Memory Lane In Vineland, New Jersey Was A Blast!

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – The unsinkable Joe Grippo is back with photo coverage of an event we have never showed you and whole bunch of cars you’ve never seen, either! This time Joe and...

Check Out This Video That Chevrolet Performance Put Together On The 2014 Hot Rod Power Tour

The 2014 Hot Rod Power Tour has been wrapped up for a couple of weeks now.  As fans and participants start to make plans for the 2015 Tour, Chevrolet Performance released this video to inspire those...

You Think Your Commute Bites? Try Going To Work At This Lighthouse

This video shows you why the typical morning commute isn’t the gigantic pain in the ass that most people would have you believe. We don’t know where this is on the planet, but the seas...