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The Dallas- Ft. Worth Truck Shootout Was Hot And Heavy And Not Just The Weather – Coverage Here

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – You may be thinking to yourself, “Wait, I already looked at photos Wickam shot at a truck drag race shootout?!” The answer is that you are technically...

It’s Built, It’s Bad, And It’s On Ebay: A Nine-Second 1971 Pinto With Teeth

Silly me for thinking that a pinto was a patterned horse. In this case, this 1971 Ford Pinto is really a little monster, ready to take on all comers with a mouth filled with pointy teeth and an...

NTPA Mule City 300: Flying Dirt, Huge Horsepower, And Big Performances At Galot Motorsports Park

(Words and photos by David Whealon) – When owner of Galot Motorsports Park, Earl Wells, announced the rebuilding of the old Dunn-Benson Dragstrip in Benson, NC it stoked everyone’s fire....

Random Car Review: The 1971-74 Dodge Serra Boulevard 3700 GT

The legendary Chrysler Slant Six…that leaning tower of power that appeared in just about everything Chrysler made between 1960 and the early 1990s was known for durability and economy, but...

Billet Technology’s Oil Catch Cans For Mopar 5.7 and 6.1 Hemi Engines Are Easy-To-Install Insurance

Would you pour a capful of oil down the carburetor of your hot rod? Of course you wouldn’t. So why would you let the same thing happen to your daily driver? Oil vapor, along with other...

Barrett-Jackson, Take A Seat: RM Sotheby’s “Pinnacle Portfolio” Is A Proper High-Dollar Automobile Auction Collection

For years we’ve grumbled and muttered under our breath about how the automobile auction business, and in particular the big-name companies, took most of the cars we love to race, cruise and...

Here’s How Hard Secretariat Would Have Hammered American Pharaoh At Belmont – Neat Split Screen Video

Forgive me here for focusing on stuff with one horsepower but this is one of the more interesting things I have seen lately and I thought that the BangShift readership would get a kick out of it. The...

The World’s First (and Only) 6.2L Raptor Engine Swapped Fox Mustang Is For Sale – Stick And 9-Second ETs!

The 6.2L SOHC Ford Boss V8 is an engine that few people have done much with yet. The thing makes some great power in stock form as as time progresses we’re guessing that the “big...

This 1969 Dodge Dart Is For Sale Right Around The Corner…Danger, Danger, Danger

Good thing we are broke already, because this 1969 Dodge Dart is pretty stinkin’ cool and it’s right around the corner from us! At $7500 for the roller, it might be a pretty good deal....

Ride Along With Ridetech’s Bret Voelkel At The Midwest Muscle Car Challenge

Ridetech’s Bret Voelkel tore it up at the Midwest Muscle Car Challenge, along with a ton of other cool muscle cars, hot rods, and sports cars. His venerable 1969 Mustang is one to watch, and...

WTF Is Dodge Thinking? Why I Would Never Buy A Current RAM Truck

So I’m sitting in a rental Dodge truck at a race this weekend, enjoying the cool A/C and lack of humidity, while eating a mediocre at best Subway sandwich when I realize that the crap I’m...

If Only Changing Engines Really Happened This Quick!

Joe Escobar, who’s bitchin little Turbo 2.3 powered Pinto we showed you last week running around the autocross, is one talented mechanic! Check out this cool time lapse video he did of him...

Build It Yourself: The 2015 Mopar Kit For The Dodge Charger – Only 50 Will Be Created!

For the last few years, Mopar has put out a special edition of a car, complete with stripes and bits from the Mopar Performance catalog. The Challenger got Mopar-ized twice, and the Charger, 300C and...

More Icelandic Hillclimb Footage, With Arne Johannessen And His 850HP Off-Roader!

Watching Icelandic hill climb events makes you think that someone looked at a remote-control buggy and went, “That’s what we need: overpowered, big chunky tires, and the ability to do any...