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Freiburger Builds Up Hot Rod Garage’s Late-Model Mustang Into A Budget Autocrosser!

If there is one car in my recent history that is near and dear to my heart, it’s the 2005 Ford Mustang GT that I traded in for the Angry Grandpa Chrysler a couple of years ago. The Mustang was...

Dallas Autorama 2015: Our Photo Coverage From The Show Continues

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – As we told you the other day, Charles Wickam was the man on the scene at the 2015 Dallas Autorama. His photos cover every square inch of the giant facility that...

The Real-Life Bravado Banshee And The 56-Year-Old Grandmother Who Won The Custom Viper [Video]

We covered the eBay auction of the Dodge Viper SRT-10 Bravado Banshee when the car was on eBay last July. It wasn’t too surprising that the car didn’t sell, even with the bidding cresting...

The Scaled Composites “Roc” Is In It’s Construction Phase And The Scale Is Ridiculous

Currently the largest aircraft in the world is the Antonov AN-225 Mriya, and it’s a freaking monster in a world of giants. Designed originally to haul the Soviet Buran spacecraft, the...

Would You Lay Out $2,500 For This (Claimed) Original Camaro Cowl Air Cleaner?

Of all the muscle car stuff that I am interested in, rare parts are pretty close to the top of the list. Not necessarily because I know everything about them, where they came from, who invented them,...

Big 3 Swap Meet 2015: A Last Collection Of Killer Truck Photos – From RVs To Mini-Trucks They Are In Here

We went car and truck shopping on the parking lot of Jack Murphy stadium in San Diego last weekend at the Big 3 swap meet, which has been going on for some 49 years now. No, we didn’t buy...

Teaser Video: The RideTech 48 Hour Corvette Is Following In Its Famous Older Brother’s Footsteps

March 10, 11, 12 from 8am until midnight each day, you’ll watch a team of experienced wrenches, industry experts, and escaped mental patients take a pretty decent little Corvette down to the...

Someone Hand Built A Two Door 1965 Buick Sportwagon Hard Top And Now You Can Buy It

BangShifter Matt Munger sent an email the other night that suggested we may be interested in showing a Buick wagon he had stumbled upon for sale on CL in Arizona. Because our readers are just like...

Merrill Ice Drags 2015 Coverage: A Second (Arctic) Blast Of Photos From The Wisconsin Ice

(Photos by Jacob Marshall) –  Intrepid BangShift contributor Jacob Marshall really crushed it with his photos from the Merrill Ice Drags which we first showed you yesterday and are back with a...

Another Competitor Enters The Ring: The Aston Martin Vulcan Has Arrived To Do Battle In The Track-Only Hypercar War

Ferrari FXXK. McLaren P1 GTR. Both of these sociopathically-fast hypercars have one thing in common: they are track-only vehicles. Ferrari pretty much rents the FXXK, much like it did the 599XX, to...

Look Out Below! Boston Driver Launches His Toyota Tacoma Off Of Interstate 93

A Boston driver had better be thanking any and every deity possible for seeing him through this crash. Early Sunday morning 33 year old Vannak Sao launched his 2006 Toyota Tacoma off of a raised...

This Is How A Four-Cylinder Should Sound: The Lancia 037 – Screaming Supercharged Violence

We aren’t exactly kind to four-bangers around here, and you can blame a lot of that on the “fast and furious” crowd that made every Honda Civic sound like an armada of Asian Giant...

Watch This 16V92 Detroit Diesel Powered Hot Rod Fire Up – One Huge Coupe

Somewhere in the world, right now, at this very second, there is a 16V92 Detroit Diesel hot rod being built and there is video proof that the big machine actually runs and makes incredible noise...

Another One Bites The Dust: Nissan’s Xterra Ends Production After 2015

In a move that really should surprise nobody, Nissan is killing off the Xterra SUV at the end of this year, citing slow sales. This, along with the death of Toyota’s FJ Cruiser, means that...