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BangShift Tune-Up: A Metal Lesson In How To Drive A Stick!

The best theft deterrent system for cars in the United States: A manual transmission! HAHAHA…oh, wait. Nevermind, that’s true. And sad. The days of rowing your own are fading out, with...

This Anniversary Edition 1987 Mercury Cougar Survived The 80’s And Has Only 750 Miles!

1987, if you were around to experience it, was one hell of a year. Many consider it to be the pinnacle of the Decade of Excess, and looking back, it really was chock full of awesomeness. For example,...

Watch One Of The Most Vicious And Awesome Flaming Aussie Burnout Performances Ever

The Holden you’ll see in the video is called UNLOAD as Aussies have this cool habit of naming their cars on license plates. Now, if there were truth in advertising and enough spots on the...

Nice Try Video: Dude Nearly Saves His Opel Drag Car But Ends Up on Lid Anyway

Over the past couple weeks we have featured some great driving work in the form of drag cars being dragged back from the brink of wreckage by their drivers. Well, just to show you that not all of...

Those Old Display Tanks At War Memorials Don’t Run, Right? In Russia They Do!

Chances are, your town or local area has some sort of war memorial and that war memorial may have an old piece of iron at it. Maybe it is some sort of a gun, maybe it is even a tank or a personnel...

Question Of The Day: We Want To Hear Your “That’s Too Much Car For Them!” Stories!

I never thought that I would make it to the point in life where I would see someone with a badass car and instead of being impressed or jealous, I’d think, almost immediately, that I was seeing...

In 1967 Art Arfons Mounted A Jet Car On Sponsons (With Tires!) And Planned To Go 300 MPH On Water – He Didn’t

I remember the first time I saw the lead photo in this story and the thoughts that ran through my head. “Is that….wait…I think…HOLY CRAP IT IS!” Yes, you are looking at...

The Smart Build: This Guy Did Everything To His Camaro RS Before Going For The Engine!

The first thing I always hear from people who ask me for advice on their cars: “I want it to go faster.” They don’t care about handling or aero so much as they do the horsepower...

Rough Start: Long-roofin’ It With An Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser!

The Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser was the warning flag that the brand was about to slip under the waves. Long the longroof option for Oldsmobile, when the 1991 update occurred, the 307 V8, the final form...

Money No Object: This 1963 Split-Window Corvette Needs Nothing! Drive The Wheels Off Of This Sucker!

Living in Bowling Green means that I am inundated with Corvettes. Here a Vette, there a Vette, seems like everywhere there’s another Vette. But from a BangShifter’s point of view, they...