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Highway Creepers Car Show Photo Coverage: Real Cars, Real People, Real Fun

(Photos by Scott Liggett) – We’re back with some more of the “lost episode” coverage from the Highway Creepers car show. This event happens right in the heartland of America,...

Money No Object: Have Your Race Car For The Street With This Legalized Craftsman Truck F-150!

Everybody always says the same thing about NASCAR race vehicles: “I wish it was like back in the day, when teams used real cars for race cars.” That’s a fair shot at what is now the...

Save Of The Century: Watch As Will Davison Spins His Audi R8 LMS Twice On The Top Of Mount Panorama!

The Mount Panorama circuit in Australia isn’t the most forgiving place on Earth for a racing driver. There’s 571 feet of distance between it’s high and low points, there’s the...

Survivor Alley: More Photo Coverage Of The 2018 Cincinnati Cavalcade of Customs!

(Word and photos by Doug Gregory) – We are creatures of habit.  Proof:  when we enter a venue for any gearhead event we tend to begin our rounds from the same point and generally follow the...

Ready For Spring Lawn Care? How About This Lego Technic-Based Hay Baler System?

March 20th is the Spring Equinox…the day that winter is officially over and done with and for many, the time frame where lawn care starts to re-enter the picture after all of the snow and rain...

The Cobra Jets Are Coming! Hajek Motorsports To Display First Four 2008 Cobra Jets At NHRA Winternationals

If you love the Ford Motor Company, the 2018 NHRA Winternationals is going to be the spot to be this weekend. Why? Ford’s back in nitro racing and there will an event-long celebration of the...

The Ringbrothers Javelin In All Of It’s Hellcat-Powered Glory! Leno Checks Out The Most Modified AMC We’ve Ever Seen!

AMC products usually aren’t well represented at the SEMA show, but the Ringbrothers Javelin, “Defiant”, was one of the more notable (and polarizing) vehicles on the grounds for...

Drag Action Gallery: Nitro Harleys, Top Fuel, Alky Funny Cars, Injected Dragsters At NHRA 2018 Pre-Season Testing

(Photos by the author) – After the majority of the NHRA Mello Yellow Series top fuel and nitro funny car teams concluded their testing on Saturday it was time for the Lucas Oil Series teams to...

BangShift Exclusive: We Talk To Bo Butner As He Earned His NHRA Pro Mod License In Harry Hruska’s Camaro – BoMod Video!

Outside of the normal stuff one would expect to see during NHRA pre-season testing at Wildhorse Pass Motorsports Park in Chandler, Arizona, there was a fun sub-story that played out on Saturday. The...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Was Your Favorite Vehicle Ad From The Super Bowl?

Super Bowl 52 is over and done with. Philadelphia is in celebration, Tom Brady and the Patriots can at least say that they put up a hell of a fight to the very last second in a solid game, and we can...

2018 Cincinnati Cavalcade of Customs – The Bleeding Edge Of The Midwest’s Best Show

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Last album from the 2018 Cincinnati Cavalcade of Customs/Autorama/World of Wheels show.  These are images from the main floor though without carpet and...

Stevie Fast Lays Out His 2018 Call Out List – Bring Cash…And A World Class Car

So here we go! The drag racing season has officially started with races like the US Street Nationals at Bradenton Motosports Park and other test sessions that have taken place. One of the larger...

Turn-Key ChryCo: This 1986 Dodge Charger Is Ready To Go To War!

The K-car gets the glory but the L-car was the true turnaround point for the Chrysler Corporation in the later 1970s. When the majority of the cars being sold were tank-like barges that had roots...

We’ll Take Two: $500,000 Gets You A Pair Of Pratt and Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp Radial Engines

There are certain machines that, while not perfect, are perfect for the role they were designed to fill. The Model T, the small block Chevy, and in the world of aviation, the R-1830 engine. We were...