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Best Of 2015: Lance Auto Investments Junkyard Crawl, Sweet Springs, Missouri – A Little Bit Of Everything Hidden In The Grass

Interstate 70 through Missouri is, as far as I’m concerned anyways, just as interesting as Interstate 70 through Kansas: boring. I’ve driven that stretch of road at least eight times in...

BangShift 2015 Photo Highlight Reel: Nutting’s Favorite Moments

I love writing these “year in review” pieces, mainly because it gives me an excuse to go back through my photos and blog items from the last twelve months and remember how many awesome...

In Memoriam: Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister, Cornerstone Of The Band Motörhead, Has Passed On

Anyone who knows rock music only needs to hear the name “Lemmy” to know who is being talked about: long black hair, mutton chops, handlebar mustache, a couple of big moles, and a voice...

You Can Own A Legit 200 mph 4th Gen Camaro Right Now!

There are a lot of people who make claims as to the performance numbers of their cars. And some big portion are all bullshit. This is not one of those cases.  This car has been featured in multiple...

An 1100 Horsepower Turbo Ford Lightning Truck For Sale: Nitrous And WaterMeth Too!

1000 is the new 500. That’s what we say at the dyno shop all the time. That’s because everyone wants to have 1000 horsepower now, and in the grand scheme of things making 1000 horsepower...

This Might Be The Baddest Samurai Mud Bogger Ever! NOT Rotary Powered! Ha Ha

We’re guessing high winding screaming big block power for this bitch. And it sounds awesome laying on the wood heading through the mud pit in this video. Rockwell axles under both ends, nasty...

A Rotary Powered, Bogger Equipped Suzuki Samurai? Weird, But Cool?

Suzuki Samurai’s are cool. Sure they are a little lame when stock, but they are super easy to build into a really capable off road rig, and they are cheap enough that you don’t feel bad...

The “WTF?” Files: Man Tries To Time-Travel With A Dodge Challenger, Takes Out Businesses Instead

(Photos: WEAR-3, Florida) In the Back To The Future franchise, Doc Brown and Marty McFly use a DeLorean DMC-12 on steroids to travel through time. In the movie, it looked awesome and sounded...

Roadkill! The Guys Take Their Circle-Track Racer And Slap Most Of A Monte Carlo On Top, Then Street-Drive The Whole Thing!

It is honestly quite impressive that Finnegan and Freiburger actually had a car that the legal team at TEN refused to let them drive on the street. A few years ago, they had bought an amateur-level...

Best Of 2015: The One Chevy Lumina Z34 That You Do Not Want To Provoke – It’s Really A 4th Gen Trans Am! Meet The Z57 Lumina!

Does anybody really remember the Chevrolet Lumina with positive feelings? Nope, not really. The new-for-1990 Lumina, in coupe form anyways, was the replacement for the G-body Chevrolet Monte Carlo,...

Best Of BangShift: The 2015 Mopar Hemi Challenge – Indy’s Most Awesome Battle

Over the six day span that is the Chevrolet Performance NHRA US Nationals, I get to do some cool stuff but the coolest is announcing the Mopar Hemi Challenge alongside Herb McCandless. “Mr....

No-Prep Explosion: March San Antonio Event Has $50,000 For Big Tire Cars And $10,000 For Small

There’s a large contingent of you out there in reader-land who believe that “no-prep” racing is a dumb idea and that it is the current flavor of the week when it comes to drag...

Best Of 2015: Here’s A Proper Barn Find: A Turbonique T-16 Rocket Go Kart Was Found In A Barn In Alberta

Turbonique only existed because the rule book and safety manual were both thrown out of the window when Gene Middlebrooks started screwing around with monopropellant thrust systems. This...

Rusty Riches? Would You Throw Down $5,000 For This 1972 Challenger “Project”? Someone Did

For starters don’t think that the tone of this item is against the guy selling the car. Far from it. The seller here had a ton of clean photos, an upfront approach, and made no bones about the...