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Question Of The Day: In The Spirit Of Halloween, What Car Scares You The Most?

Yeah, it seems I’ve covered this track before. We know the famous cars from the movies that haunted us: The Duel Peterbilt, Christine, The Car, The Wraith. But that’s not what I’m...

Swedish Auto Magazine Calls Out Honda’s CR-V As A FWD, Not AWD, For The Second Time

As any of our Nordic readers can tell you, snow and ice are concerns that must be addressed when it comes to vehicle choice. And like anyone will tell you, if you buy a product and it doesn’t...

V8 Van Does Burnout, Gets Dizzy, Falls Over Sick And Pukes At The Crowd

Anyone who has surfed YouTube with “Aussie Burnout” in the search bar (or is Australian) has probably seen this particular  van before. Nicknamed “TOASTR”, the micro machine...

Lingenfelter Performance Engineering Releases New Nitrous Control Center – Fully Stand Alone, On-Board And PC Programmable

The boys at the Lingenfelter Performance Engineering skunkworks have been busy this year and the proof is in the form of this NCC-002 Nitrous Control Center which is a follow up on one of LPE’s...

BUY IT NOW! 1987 Yugo Powered By 180hp Snowmobile Engine Mounted In The Rear – 100% BangShift Approved Insanity

This thing is so far past hack Yugo jokes, it isn’t even funny. How about a brilliant and kind of weird homebuilt hot rod that uses the car’s tin can light weight in its favor and uses...

2014 California Hot Rod Reunion: Doorslammers and Nothing But Doorslammers At Famoso

If all anyone wanted to do at the drag strip was to get to the finish line in the most consistent and efficient way possible, the world would be awash with dragsters and that would be a boring world....

Drag Action Photos From The Kontinentals Car Club Day Of The Drag Race – So Much Cool Stuff

(Photos by Bob Paxton) – For 13 years the Kontinentals car club has been putting on an awesome weekend of old school drag racing at Little River Dragway and after rain pushed them off their...

The Mystery Of The Foss Lake Camaro And 1952 Chevy Is Solved – Remains Identified From Decades Old Disappearances

It was in September of 2013 when we told you about the bizarre story of the cars (and bodies) discovered at the bottom of Foss Lake in Oklahoma (CLICK HERE TO SEE THE STORY). Law enforcement...

The Parting Shift: A Look Inside The Stick Shift Life Of Super Stock Racers At The 2014 NHRA US Nationals

There were more stick shift drag cars at the 2014 Chevrolet Performance US Nationals than I had ever seen in one place before. I’m not sure how I missed this awesome Les Mayhew video that he...

2014 Rodders Journal Revival: A Last Looks At Cool Customs, Cruisers, and Street Machines

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – As I told you yesterday, Grippo had a great time and shot like half a million photos at the 2014 Rodders Journalirevival at Pimlico a month or three ago. We have been...

2014 California Hot Rod Reunion – More Great Action Featuring Altereds And ONLY Altereds

We’re continuing to work through our massive pile of 2014 California Hot Rod Runion photos and that’ll roll on over the next few days because we have that much stuff left to go and our...

Ebay Find: This 1973 Pontiac Grand Am Has A 400ci V8 And The Lightning Rods Shifter…We Want It!

Let’s get the bad out of the way right off the bat: The price is higher than I’d pay, the paint is rough, there’s rust around the vinyl top, and there’s signs of past bodywork...

Blog War: A Cheap Shot On The Steel Jaw Of BangShift By A Former Friend Earns A Response

Yesterday, while most of America slept and prepared themselves for another day of work as productive members of society, Craig Fitzgerald had been up for hours scheming and plotting to take a blatant...

Question Of The Day: If You Could Name One Product Accurately, What Would It Be?

It cranks and cranks, but just won’t kick over. And you can hear the battery winding down and you curse and pray simultaneously for the damn thing to just start. Soon, you get the clicking of...