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Watch This 1959 Thunderbird Carve Up Old English Cars At The Goodwood Revival

Mark the tape! This is me admitting that I am in love with a Ford Thunderbird built after 1957. My normal opinion on these cars (and by normal I mean a steadfast belief) is that Titanic adjacent...

Edelbrock Releases Victor II EFI Intake Manifold For Gen III Hemi Engines

We loves us some Gen III Hemi power around here. Edlebrock loves it too and they have proved it by releasing the new Victor II edit intake manifold for Gen III Hemi engines. This sucker will fit 5.7L...

BangShift Question of the Day: What’s Your Ultimate Cannonball Run Car or Truck?

While on the phone with the kids during Drag Week, talking about where we were driving our Challenger Hellcat, the boys asked me how long it would take to drive across the country. This lead to an...

You Put What Into What?! Check Out Donut Media’s List Of The Craziest Engine Swaps They Know Of!

My inbox is stil flooded with pure venom that is due 110% to LS Fest. And I didn’t even do my “LS in a non-GM car” gallery this year! Why the hate? Partly it’s due to this...

Help Me, Tom Cruise: Watch As The Blain Brothers Mustang Goes Full Inferno at King of the Streets!

Fire is the worst-case scenario going when you’re racing, for one reason: you have to stop the car before you can begin to escape. In between that first lick of flame and escape comes bringing...

FREE LIVE STREAMING VIDEO From San Antonio Night Of Fire Featuring Mid-West Pro Mods!

Starting Friday evening LIVE from San Antonio Raceway in South Texas, comes the San Antonio Night of Fire featuring two nights of Mid-West Pro Mod and Fuel Altereds, plus a lot more. And all if it is...

Sleeper Central: This Holden Calais Is An 11-Second Runner With Cadillac Power!

Aussie cars moving out is nothing new, not for us, not in general. We know that Australians love a good hot rod…look at how many of them came over for Drag Week this year. That’s because...

BangShift Top 11: We Take A Crack At The Most Impactful Model Names Ever Used

Wordplay has always fascinated me. It’s partly the reason why I’ve been typing out stories here for the past few years…it’s not like I’m racing every weekend or building...

The Down-And-Dirty Do It Yourself Hitch Rack! Finnegan And Crew Show You How They Made One For Mike’s ’55 Chevy!

We were glad to see Mike Finnegan’s 1955 Chevy, “Blasphemi”, making it to Drag Week this year. We were less than enthused to hear that he managed to stick a valve through a piston...

Rough Start: This 1981 Pontiac Firebird Formula Has The Kind Of Patina You Can’t Fake

What happened to the days of finding some run-down, beaten up old hot rod on mags for a few bucks? Sometime around the late 1990s, that well just seemed to dry right up, and nowadays we have people...

NHRA Heritage Series Sportsman Winners Crowned At Nostalgia Fall Championships!

  (Photos by Kleet Norris and Darr Hawthorne – Words by NHRA Field Marketing) The 2017 NHRA Hot Rod Heritage Series Championship season is over for Group 2 Sportsman competitors as they...

Flowmaster Has Entered The Cold Air Intake Game With Their Delta Force Line – Better Breathing Means More POWER!

Flowmaster has been the most iconic name in muscle car exhaust for decades. Their full systems, their cat-back pipes, their multiple muffler lines have all been designed and engineered to be the most...

Rough Start: Want Funky? How About A 1985 Trabant Wagon?

Sometimes the strangest cars can be the most rewarding to own, especially if one of your biggest kicks is to have someone come up to you at a gas station just to ask you what kind of car it is you...

Shield Your Eyes, Lohnes: This 1968 Dodge D200 Stakebed Is A Big-Block Workhorse!

Lohnes and I don’t quite see eye-to-eye when it comes to trucks. We’re close in the fact that we want our trucks to be useful and practical for work above creature comforts, but from...