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Craigslist find: 1971 Dodge Valiant Duster Super Bee For Sale In Florida

As Chrysler was shifting from being the wild child of the Musclecar era to an era of company-wide confusion as to what to do with itself in the United States, in Mexico the party was still going on,...

Ebay Find: The Henry J’s Corporate Brother, The Allstate, Up For Sale!

Allstates are dolled-up Henry J’s that sold through Sears for a bargain-basement price while packing more standard and optional equipment. Kaiser-Fraiser’s economy car had been a slow...

Holy Flying Lorry…Mike Ryan and Lotus F1 Gain A World Record By Launching A Truck Over Their Expensive Racecar

Vacation is over, and as I type this I’m watching the sun set over the regional jets parked at Washington-Dulles as I endure a six-hour layover. Not exactly my idea of fun, so the first thing I...

The Sad Tale Of DeLorean Motor Company, From Start To Finish: See How The Workers Rode The Stainless-Steel Rollercoaster

The view from the Titanic Museum in Belfast, Northern Ireland as I stood outside the front door was, in a word, miserable: rain poured down by the ton as the clouds all but obscured the view out into...

Video: Larry Larson Runs 6.043 at 242.67 MPH: Quickest and Fastest Street Legal Vehicle Ever

UPDATE: Since running the 6.058 earlier Friday, we went out on Friday evening and ran 6.043 at 242.67 mph. That is the exact same ET as Fast Freddy out of Sweden, and our mph is more than 10mph...

New BangShift LIVE Broadcast Sponsors! Welcome Racepak and MAHLE To The Party!

BangShift.com is proud to announce that Racepak and MAHLE have joined the fold here at BangShift.com, and will be BangShift LIVE Broadcast Sponsors in 2015! As if we didn’t already have the...

BangShifty Stuff At The 2014 LA Auto Show – We Skipped All The Boring Junk

The 2014 LA Auto Show is in full swing and we sent an operative deep inside the caverns of Kias, Mazdas, Aluminum Ford trucks, champagne press parties, and people in comfortable shoes to find some...

The Return Part 3: It’s Time For Father And Son To Finally Run The Car They Brought Back To Life

This week we’ve been running a series of videos about a father and son, Jim and Ryan, who found and bought back an old racecar they had built years before, dragged it home, put a new engine...

Happy Birthday To US! BangShift.com Turns Six Years Old Today!

…and they said it wouldn’t last! That’s right everyone, BangShift.com celebrates its sixth birthday today and we couldn’t be happier. On November 21, 2008 Freiburger made the...

Amazing – Smokey Yunick’s 1978 Luv Truck Is For Sale On Craigslist – It Even Has Experimental Tires On it!

BangShift tipster BigDad gets all the credit on this incredible Craigslist find. What is it? How about the personal shop truck of Smokey Yunick! That’s right, the “Best Damned Garage In...

Mini-Feature: The Steve Korney Stone-Woods-Cooke 1969 Corvette Blown Gasser

Before there were pro mods, before there were X275 cars, before anyone knew or cared what a 10.5 tire was there were gassers. All the stuff that you will see this weekend on our live broadcast of the...

Watch Rick Snavley Suffer A Massive Crash At The 2011 Street Car Super Nationals – He Was Banged Up But OK

While we cannot possibly predict anything about the performances at the 2014 Street Car Super Nationals we car certainly use history as a guide to tell you that there will likely be some insanely...

Reason #8: “Never Count Out Larry Larson” We Unveil Larry Larson’s Potentially 5-Second Barrier Smashing Street Legal S10

  (Editor’s note: Because this weekend is the “reintroduction” party for Larry Larson’s S-10 to the world and maybe a sort of introduction party to the rest of the...

Goodguys Southwest Nationals Autocross Action Photos – Cones Fly and Champions Are Crowned At The Last Hurrah In 2014

(Photos by Jason Brady and Dan Ballard/RideTech) – If you have ever attended an “end of season” event of any kind you know that there is a certain feel to the whole thing...