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This S2000-powered 1966 Sunbeam Minx Project Is Awesome And Homebuilt!

When Dennis Rannebeck warned us that digging into this project thread from 67-72ChevyTrucks.com would potentially be a late-night read, he knew what he he was saying. I, however, shrugged off his...

BangShift Challenge: What’s The Best Power-To-Dollar Vehicle You Can Get Off Of A New Car Lot?

Would you like to purchase a new car? Not a used one, but the one that has single-digit mileage, no title, and still has that new-car smell? Of course, for one reason or another, a new car seems...

Unhinged: Mitsubishi’s Sad Fate Summed Up In One Purple And Green Mirage

Twenty years ago, Mitsubishi was making excellent cars. No, really…leave the Fast and the Furious jokes out of it and look at what was available in the showrooms in 1995: You had turbocharged...

Caption This: No Hitchhikers Allowed Past This Point

My intolerance of anything that flies with a stinger attached to it’s back end is well-documented here. I’m fine with bees and wasps when they are at a distance doing their own thing. I...

BangShift Project Files: “Project Neglect” Mustang…The Story Of This Fox’s Return To Glory Is A Must-Read!

We love a good “brought back from the dead” story here, and when the project is a Fox Mustang notchback that has been sitting for twelve years being returned to daily duty with some...

Red Bull Frozen Rush 2015: Photos From The Roasty, Toasty, Warm Pits At Sunday River

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – As we are gearing up for today’s side-by-side racing action here at Red Bull Frozen Rush 2015 at Sunday River Ski Resort in Newry, Maine we wanted to share...

This Turbo-Diesel Garden Pulling Tractor Is The Angriest Little Thing You’ll See Today

Well this is something different! This little tractor is powered by a turbo-diesel engine of unknown cylinder count and displacement (to us anyway). We’e guessing that it may be a Yanmar diesel...

Unknown Parts Counter Guy: “You’re Worse Than The FedEx Guy!”

Heading into the store this morning to pick up a few items and to price some parts, I was greeted, at eight in the morning, by hearing the unbridled fury of Warehouse Guy in the back of the store at...

South Dakota Professor Claims That $2 Gas Will Lead To More Traffic Deaths – Here Are The Flaws In This Logic

It goes without saying that we are enjoying the recent drop in gas prices, but there are those in the world who think that cheap gasoline is, without question, the worst idea ever. And one of those...

Ride Along With Andy Seuss As He Races A Modified On Ice!

If you haven’t noticed, today’s theme is “cold”…mainly because that is exactly what I am right now. It is bitterly cold, yet it’s sunny and otherwise beautiful...

Just In Time For The Arctic Blast: Here’s How Manufacturers Tests Their Cars For Cold

Over the next couple of days, temperatures around BangShift Mid-West will be sitting at a high 0f maybe 15 degrees F with night time temps dropping to 2. And that’s before wind chill is even...

BangShift Project Files: Hemi Joel’s 1932 Plymouth Is An Exercise In Having It All In One Package

“Hemi Joel” Nystrom is one of BangShift’s more well-heeled forum members. That’s not a dig at him either, as he is a through-and-through gearhead: as far as I am aware of, he...

Craigslist Find: This Caprice On 30″ Wheels Is Putting The “Wagon” Into “Station Wagon”

Lohnes and I are currently in the middle of a bitter and cold war of the station wagons, and so far every shot has been, in one way or another, a good one. A low-mileage clamshell Pontiac, two Caddy...

Police Find Crashed Car, Tow Car, Locate Driver Six Hours Later

Dayton, Ohio police are trying to figure out the story behind on one of the strangest vehicle accidents in their investigation history. A Chevrolet Impala was found wrecked in the early morning hours...