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Unhinged: Why Cutting Loose In The Snow Is Good For The Gearhead Soul

It’s reckless, juvenile, and it’s too much fun to resist. Maybe it’s a leftover instinct from childhood that implies that the first snow of the season should be a time for play....

Rough Start: This 1974 Oldsmobile 98 Could Double As Your First Apartment, Too!

When looking at what $5,000 can get you on Craigslist, you have to create a three way Venn diagram of what you want: Cheap, good, and cool/fast. You can find quite a bit of each one easily, but to...

Unknown Parts Counter Guy: The Alternative Isn’t Always Better…

For years now, I’ve been griping, complaning and outright bitching about automotive parts stores, with a lot of my vitrol aimed at the big names: NAPA, Advanced, AutoZone, and...

With The News That They Are Leaving Endurance Racing, Porsche Sends A Message To Audi

My first day on the job full-time, I wrote a story about the video Audi made when they learned that Porsche was going to go racing in the World Endurance Championship. It might have seemed strange,...

Hot Rod Hullabaloo 2016 Coverage: Lexington, Kentucky Was Jam Packed With Cool Iron and We Were There!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – This is our second year attending the Hullabaloo in Lexington, Kentucky.  The event is free and funds raised go to support Shelby’s Way – a non-profit...

Money No Object: The Ferrari 250 GTO You Can Beat On Without Worry!

The Ferrari 250 GTO (1964-66) just might be the most exclusive, expensive, desired and coveted car ever made. Only thirty-nine were produced under Enzo Ferrari’s scrutinous eye, they rarely...

Regular Car Reviews Tells the Bizarre Story of ‘The Dale,’ a Piece of 1970s Automotive Vaporware

Regular Car Reviews has become a bastion of video automotive journalism with the usual cast of Mr. Regular and The Roman giving some facts and opinions on cars from the past that people remember (or...

Better To Give: “Angry Grandpa” Gets The 1955 Chevy He’s Always Wanted

You’ve probably been hearing it all of your life, and especially in the last few weeks about how it’s better to give than to receive. You’ve been hearing those words all of your...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Most Exciting Class In Drag Racing Today?

This is a pretty interesting question in our eyes because the sport of drag racing has drastically changed over the last 20 years. It is more scattered, fragments, and splintered than it has ever...

Ride With John Hennessey As F1 Star Kimi Raikkonen Laps The Daytona Road Course In A Ferrari

This is a cool video for a couple of reasons. The first is that we get to ride with John Hennessey in the passenger seat with Kimi Raikkonen hauling complete and total ass in a late model Ferrari...

Love Camaros? GMPartsOnline Has A Cool Free Poster You Can Print Up

If you love Camaros and things that are free, boy do we have a deal for you! GMPartsOnline is offering a neat line drawing poster for Camaro fans and all you have to do to get it is click on the...

US Street Nationals Are Coming! We’re Going To Be There – This Video From Last Year Will Warm You Up!

If there is a track that garners more early season drag racing headlines than Bradenton Motorsports Park in Florida, we have no idea which one that would be. Hell, already the place is generating...

Watch The 1971 Nova Of Nathan Shaw Running A Stock 5.3 Block, An LS2 Crank, And Boost Run 7.90s!

(Video and quotes by VictoryRedColorado YouTube channel) – For years one of the things that that LS world has been most, umm, enthusiastic about is going fast while using as many stock parts...

Dead Drag Strip Files: More Funny Cars and Cool Door Slammers From Montgomery Dragway

(By Doug Gregory) – Local street racers would come to test before heading out to run for bucks at a couple well-known spots just North of Montgomery.  Most of these were modest sleepers that...