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All Hot Rod Drag Week 2015 Tracks Announced – Gateway Motorsports Park, Indy, Great Lakes Dragaway and Cordovas Round It Out!

After months of waiting, fingernail gnawing, and speculation, Hot Rod Drag Week 2015 tracks have been announced and this looks like it will be a wild Midwestern adventure through some of the coolest...

Truckin’ Photos: More Tire Smoking, Wheels Up Action From The Houston Performance Truck Shootout

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Engines are dumb. We don’t mean it like that, they’re cool and interesting but ultimately they don’t care what they are bolted into and making...

Feature: Here’s How A 2015 Hellcat Charger Gets Broken In The BangShift Way – Photos, Video, Smoke!

(Words and photos by Kaleb Kelley) – Everybody has been talking about the Hellcat since it was first announced last year. Everybody is getting to see the car they’ve been drooling over on...

Check Out This Footage FCA Released Of The 2015 Easter Jeep Safari Concept Vehicles Playing At Moab!

For years now, Jeep puts together some excellent concept vehicles, hauls them out to Moab, and in the spirit of marketing and having fun, takes them out onto the trail during the Easter Jeep Safari....

Here’s A Collection Of The Most BangShifty Stuff At The 2015 Carl Casper Car Show

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – The 2015 Carl Casper show took place during some not very accommodating weather, but the turnout was still pretty good.  This year the venue offered more...

The Test Mule For Rolls-Royce’s Upcoming 4×4 Looks So Wrong, Yet So Right

The second I saw this Rolls-Royce test mule, code-named Project Cullinan, I started smiling. Rollers are highly esteemed cars, exceptionally luxurious and eye-wateringly expensive. There isn’t...

This Foreign Towing Operation Doesn’t Know The Meaning Of The Word Quit….Or The Words Impending Doom

(By Greg Rourke) – Towing and recovery is a dangerous job. You have weather, other drivers doing their taxes while driving, and vehicles in all sorts of predicaments that you have to get picked...

This Golden Pontiac Trans Am Is For Sale For Over $3.6 Million Dollars

Here’s the facts behind what you are seeing: this 2002 Pontiac Trans Am was bought by All Naeemi, an Iranian living in Germany, in 2004. The car was imported in, and customization work began....

Did Somebody Say “Dino”? FCA Confirms New Engines For Alfa Romeo, Including A Ferrari-Designed V6

Ferrari is known for their riotous V8s and screaming V12s, but the Dino V6 has plenty of racing credibility of it’s own, finding homes in the Dino 206 and 246 and most notably, the Lancia...

Cruisin’ SoCal At The 2015 Prolong Twilight Cruise

Just one of the features of living the hot rod life in Southern California, aside from the awesome weather, is the variety and hot rodding ideas reflected in the hundreds of local car shows and...

Wagons, Porsche Powered Hot Rods, And More Great American Iron From Viva Las Vegas 2015

Our never ending crush of photos from the 2015 Viva Las Vegas continues today with this batch of sweetness from the Nevada desert featuring  hot rods with weird engines, station wagons, and kustoms...

2015 Buffalo Motorama: We Pound The Floor And Show YOU All The Great Stuff At This Show

(Words and photos by Mike Brooks) – For over 60 years, downtown Buffalo has hosted a custom car show to bring people together to welcome springtime in Western NY with high doses of paint and...

Big News: Auto Meter Acquires Palmer Performance Engineering – New Technology Brought Into Fold

In the ever evolving world of aftermarket performance, new technologies are emerging almost weekly. It is always cool when two innovative companies can hook up and work together to the benefit of...

Houston Performance Truck Shootout: More Tire Roasting, Front End Lifting Action From The Strip!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – We’re back with more great Charles Wickam photos from the 2015 Houston Performance Trucks Shootout at Royal Purple Raceway in Baytown, Texas. Wickam was...