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Boss Find: $52,500 Is The Asking Price For These 429 Parts With Yunick and Holman-Moody Ties

As we have often talked about, the market for rare muscle car era parts will continue to accelerate and rise for years to come and more of more of this stuff is “discovered” and put on...

Tii Tharpe Makes One Of The Wildest Nitro Harley Runs We’ve Ever Seen – ‘Chute Out At The Hit!

For those of you that have never seen a Nitro Harley drag bike make a run, fix that for 2018. The NHRA has them out at about a dozen races next year on an expanded schedule, they match race all over...

This Video Of Big Rig Cold Starts Is Pretty Awesome – Lots Of These Big Engines Don’t Sound Happy!

(By Greg Rourke) – Yep, winter is rapidly closing in. The whole country is cooling this week, Chicago is forecast to have a high of about 30 on Sunday. It’s especially tough on diesel...

Rough Start: This Gambler 500-Proven Lexus Is Sensible And Wildly Irresponsible!

I grew up in a time where American cars weren’t cool to most of my peers. They spent their formative years listening to the bitching of their parents who got screwed over with Malaise-era...

SCSN 13 Gallery: Giving Las Vegas Something To Listen To!

Weren’t we just here, like, a week ago? I think so…some big to-do about parts and show cars and parties and celebrities and photography and yada, yada, yada. That was then. This is now....

NHRA World Finals Sportsman Wheels Up Coverage: Our Last Blast Of Cool Stockers and Super Stockers

(Photos by Wes Allison) – Since the 1960 NHRA Nationals that Wally Parks shrewdly held in Detroit where all the manufacturers could watch, stock eliminator has been an important part of the...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Can You State EVERY 1960s Manufacturer’s Name For A Limited Slip Differential?

The 1960s were an amazing time for domestic auto manufacturers. Virtually everyone that was in the business was working at full speed to fill orders and meet demand levels from a country that was...

Listen to Jon Lundberg Announce Captain Jack McClure’s Rocket Kart at OCIR Circa 1973

For drag dweebs like us, the clip below is truly awesome. Not so much a video as it is an audio file, hitting play will transport you back to a night in 1973 at Orange County International Raceway...

This Aussie Mustang Uses A 3.8L Inline Six Ford To Run 8s At Over 170mph!

There’s nothing better in hot rodding than taking the normal, mundane thing and making it into a holy terror. That is the case with this Australian Mustang which runs eight second elapsed times...

A BangShifty Hero With A Lathe, A Mill, and A Welder Built A Radial Engine Out Of VW Stuff Just For Fun

Sometimes stuff just “bubbles up” on the internet. This awesome video is proof of that. Originalyl posted in the late winter/early spring of last year we got a couple of notes via email...

BangShift Christmas Gift Review: The Haynes Visible V8 Engine – Should You Buy It? (W/Video)

(Video at bottom) – I had been wanting to do a model engine with my sons for a while before Christmas came and it was my wife that reminded me that every year I had been kicking myself for not...

AutoMeter Has Lost Their Minds – EVERYTHING Is on Sale – No Rebates, No BS, Just Cheap and Now!

The title isn’t kidding. We got word right from the top today that AutoMeter has launched a huge sale and this is not a rebate offer, or a contest, this is a sale and everything they make is up...

eBay Find: This Chrysler Hemi Rat Roaster Intake Is Cool and Expensive – If Not That Great A Performer

Yeah, yeah, we know. There are more modern, efficient, better working intake manifolds for the classic Chrysler Hemi than the old Edelbrock “Rat Roaster” but few have the reputation and history...

American Powertrain Parting Shift: Ride In A L88 Corvette As It Rips Around The Daytona Road Course At Night

I’m going to give you the straight up warning here. This is pornographic. This video is going to cause a loss of blood to your extremities and likely cause you to make bad decisions. You have...