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There Is Something About This Video About A Plymouth Satellite That Will Stir Your Inner Hot Rodder

The folks at Burlapen Films sent over this cool video about a 1967 Plymouth Satellite that we really dig. If you are looking for sexy, snappy, music video type of video, this isn’t it. If you...

This Original SS396 Impala Wagon Rules, Is For Sale, And We Want It!

Since we are currently working on our own 1966 Chevrolet Station Wagon, although ours started life as a 283 and Powerglide equipped Bel Air model, we got super excited when we saw this rare SS396, 9...

Optima’s Search For The Ultimate Street Car Airs Tonight On MavTV From California Speedway

Optima’s Search for the Ultimate Street Car is heading to California in this weekends episode, and that means hot and heavy racing action at Fontana’s Auto Club California Speedway, home...

This European Ford Granada Is One Of The Most Evil Sleepers We’ve Seen! 1700+ Horsepower!

Of all the things you could call the Ford Granada Mark II, “fast” isn’t a word that comes to mind first. When the hot button is a 160hp V6, things aren’t looking good. When...

Corvette Coverage: Mystery Car Unveiled! And It Is…

The silver cover draped over the shell of a car that I could not figure out. One guy got booted out of the museum the day before yesterday for trying to take a peek. The shape was kind of Corvette,...

Pro Weird: This 1972 Honda Z600 Is Tubbed And Ready For Drag Week

When Chris Johnson sent us an email instructing us to click a link and see a car he described with language I can’t really use here, we knew that something interesting lurked on the other side...

Caption This Photo: Larry Larson Gets Up Close And Personal With Our New Drag Week Ride.

This went down while moving our new S10 Drag Week project from the paint shop down the street, over to Larson Race Cars to start assembly. It was a moment that I couldn’t resist shooting a...

QuickTrick Has An EXCLUSIVE Offer Just For BangShift – Inventory Clearance Blowout – Save Big Here!

When we got the word from Tess and the gang at QuickTrick that they were having a blow out, inventory clearing sale on their QuickSlide systems exclusive to BangShift we jumped on the horn here to...

Gauntlet Thrown: This 1938 Ford Bus Destroys Anything That McTaggart Suggested For A BS Mobile Command

  The other day McTaggart thought he’s be cute and take pot shots at my suggestion that we use a beat up 1960 Lloyd van as the new BS mobile command center. He then made some generalized...

Drag Action Gallery: Wheels Up, Tire Smoking Fun At the Sunday Niagra Nostalgia Drags and Reunion In New York

(Photos by Mike Brooks) – Yesterday we showed you some great photos from the Sunday Niagra nostalgia drags and car show held at what was formerly known as Lancaster Speedway in New York. The...

Question Of The Day: The National Corvette Museum Is Opening Up Their New Racetrack Tomorrow And Is Holding A Three-Day Party: What Do You Want To See?

You can’t live in Bowling Green, Kentucky and not know what is going on with Corvettes. From the evil car-eating sinkhole to a certain silver ’75 that was abandoned behind Holley’s...

Someone Actually Built A Hot Rod Manure Spreader – Fling Cow Dung As You Have Never Flung Before

When Tammy Thomas sent us a link to look at a 1949 Oliver manure spreader hot rod, we were a little leery to click it. Something like that sounded like a total spam situation and we didn’t want...

Ferrari Sends Cease-And-Desist Letters To Deadmau5 Over His “Purrari”

Ferrari as a company acts like owning their car is a gift given to you by the Mafia. If the model is particularly rare (or is intended to be rare) you have to be invited personally by the company for...

Video: The Ultimate Vintage Drag Film, Ingenuity in Action at the 1959 NHRA Nationals

Here’s a film that’s been around a while! This greatness was lost to the public eye for many years, but in today’s times it has been passed around the Internet. This most recent...