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Wanna Play Army? This 1977 Dodge M886 Ambulance Is A Good Selection!

It’s difficult to call the Dodge M-truck program a success or failure. The best way to view what happened was to think of it as a stacked deck. In the mid-1970s, the military wanted to start...

Alan Johnson Confirms Via Twitter That He Will Be Tuner For Brittany Force In 2016

Well here it is, confirmation of what could have been the hottest rumor in the world of professional drag racing since the holiday season. Alan Johnson, one of the greatest minds in the history of...

2016 NHRA Moser Sportsman Shootouts Move To 3 New Venues

Photos by Mike Burghardt Words by NHRA Communications The NHRA Moser Sportsman Shootouts have moved to three new venues for the 2016 season in the NHRA Southeast, North Central and South Central...

Turbo vs Nitrous vs Blower: Haulin Ass Australian Pro Street Wheels Up Action

I’d love to make it out to an Australian Pro Street Association drag race someday so we could broadcast some of these bitchin machines live. Especially when it’s Turbo vs Nitrous vs...

14 Epic Go Kart And ATV Engine Swaps That Make Stupid Power And Lots Of Smoke

Brian’s new Cellar Dweller go-kart project had me looking at go-kart videos on youtube and we came up with a doozie right here. Everything from 6 cylinder front engine go-karts to 250 hp plus...

Final Round Shootout From Frozen Rush 2016: Ricky Johnson vs Bryce Menzies And More!

We showed you what the action is like at Frozen Rush, where Short Course Off-Road Pro4 Trucks are being tortured in the snow, and this right here is the pinnacle. With an insane save from Ricky...

Three Classic Survivor Camaros For $250,000? What do you think?

That sound you hear is likely Chad loudly scratching lottery tickets, trying to get his ship to come in because if he had the money, I KNOW he’d be on the line with the seller of these three...

El Vega-Mino? Check Out This Strange Little Mini Trar From Craigslist!

Here at Bangshift, you know we love weird car/truck creations, so when a reader forwards us a mysterious Craigslist link labeled “Check this weird Vega truck/car thing out!” you know...

Tire Slog: We Test The BFGoodrich All-Terrain T/A KO2 In Muck, Mire, and Snow

(Words by Lohnes and McTaggart) – Just about a year ago, Nutting and I went into the wilds of Maine with the fine people of BFGoodrich to test our their All Terrain T/A KO2 tire. This is the...

FAST Launches New Ignition Division So They Can Now Provide The Hot Spark To Light Your Fuel!

If there is one thing that manufacturers and end users want with their high performance components it is control. Whether that control comes in the form of dedicated quality programs, testing, and...

eBay Find: This 1967 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Is Mint! This Hardtop Would Be A Killer Cruiser!

When I was a kid, if you hunted around long enough and stayed away from the more desirable model names, you could pick up an extremely nice 1960s era ride for a song. That was in the late 1990s....

Pomona Swap Meet Coverage! We’re Back With More Classics And A Couple Of Ugly Ducks As Well

And we’re back! Yes our unrelenting torrent of photos from the January iteration of the Pomona Swap Meet continues. We’ve got all of the photos we have posted so far below with the...

Hop In The Hot Rod Time Machine And Check Out This 1980s Car Show Action

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Blackwell is where I was born and raised and was also on the 2014 Drag Week path.  That route took this impressive band of automobiles right down Highway...

eBay Find W/Video: The Corsetta Is A BMW Isetta Microcar With A Corvair Flat Six Jammed In It!

In this history of crazy ideas and things that are totally bat crap insane, the Corsetta may actually stand alone. A tiny BMW Isetta microcar with a Corvair flat six engine hanging off the back, it...