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How Would You Build It: This 1983 Cadillac Coupe deVille Is Gorgeous, But Needs Something…

I love, love, LOVE the big C-body Cadillac Coupe deVilles. Not may cars from the late 1970s and early 1980s can carry the presence that the wreath-and-crest coupes can. You have the clean, boxy...

Unhinged: It’s A New Year…What Would You Like To See Us Do With It?

Is it strange that the novelty of writing for you guys hasn’t worn off yet? It’s been three years since Brian and Chad gave me a shot to put posts up on the page, and since then...

Jiffy-tite Motorsports Parts Builder Program Is A Great (and fun!) Tool To Use To Figure Out Your Fittings!

BangShift Sponsor Jiffy-tite has a great website for all you car junkies out there. Their experience on the OEM side of things has translated into really cool products for hot rodders and racers,...

Watch John Puckett’s Drag Week and Race Week Surviving 900hp Coyote Mercury Clean Up At No Prep!

John Puckett’s Mercury Capri is one of our favorite hardcore street cars because the guy built the thing to be as reliable as an anvil and he also built it to beat the daylights out of it. A...

Watch Ziff Hudson Nearly Become The First Man To The 3s On A 275 Tire Before He Let The Fire Out

We love those round numbers in drag racing. Breaking a performance barrier is always cool but never so cool as to when it is through the bottom of one time increment and into the next. There’s...

2017 Grand National Roadster Show Coverage – More Photos From The Fairplex

Our coverage of the 2017 Grand National Roadster Show continues! While we have shown you dedicated photos of the AMBR contenders and the Tri-Five Chevy hall, this is a collection of a wide range of...

Ride On The Helmet Of Top Fuel Motorcycle Racer Ian King As He Makes A Fast Lap – Crazy!

Anything that runs on nitromethane is exceptionally cool and that’s a fact which cannot be denied. The fuel is the most intense “power adder” in the known universe and whatever...

Racing Season Needs To Hurry Up – We Need Things Like Nine-Second Diesel Trucks Again!

Is it spring yet? No…crap. At least time is on the march, because right now I’m missing the smell of PJ1 and race fuel. The strip is calling our name, and while Lohnes will be out for the...

2017 Grand National Roadster Show: More Tri-Five Chevrolet Perfection!

This is the second part of a look into the incredible hall at the Grand National Roadster Show that’s solely dedicated to celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Tri-Five Chevrolet....

Venomous: Sal Patel’s Dodge Viper Is Still One Of The Most Evil Snakes At The Strip!

It’s well known that the Dodge Viper’s entire reason for existing was because Bob Lutz wanted to have a contemporary version of the famed Shelby/AC Cobra, and when Dodge unveiled the...

This Chopped and Channeled 1971 Model R Mack Is Awesome – Take A Video Tour

(By Greg Rourke) – We see cool project cars on BangShift every day. What we don’t often see is the cool way some of these cars get hauled around. Here we have a guy who looked at a truck...

Roadkill! No American Cars, They Must Be Prettied Up And They Have To Be Raced At An Event…No Sweat, Right?

TopGear may have perfected the budget-minded cheap car shootout, but it’s one thing for three Brits who are all about picking a car down to it’s core to score beater cars and try to make...

Prepare Your Eye Bleach: This 1976 Buick LeSabre Is An Automotive Experiment Gone Awry!

Here at BangShift, we always get a kick out of what people do to their cars to make them stand out from the pack. You know we love crazy engine swaps and sleeper builds, making ordinary cars into...

Here Are All The Contenders For The 2017 America’s Most Beautiful Roadster Trophy

It was more than 30 years ago that I went to my first Grand National Roadster Show, back when it was home in Oakland California, and the electricity and excitement of that event then is still present...