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Riot! Check Out The Highlights From Jake Burkey’s 2017 Rockbouncing Season!

What you will see here is Jake Burkey’s last season with the old Riot buggy…for 2018 he’s stepping up to a newer, lighter rig that is expected to show up to the first event of the...

The Faint Shine Of The End Of Muscle: This 1975 Chevrolet Nova SS Had The Right Options At The Wrong Time

Before I begin, I must cop to something: I have a strong link to the shape of the 1975-79 GM X-bodies. Growing up in the 1990s, most kids were shuttled around in either minivans or a green SUV that...

This 1968 AMC Rambler American 440 Wagon Has 998 Original Miles On it! Insanity

Yeah, this is one of “those cars” those freakish few who exist to remind us that there’s still some magic hiding out there. Still some stuff that no one has seen in years that has...

BangShift Question Of The Day: How Do You Feel About Electric Hot Rods?

Forget my usual prose for once. Had you told me ten years ago that electric vehicles would be where they are today, I would have rolled out a list of suggestions for places you could go and what you...

BangShift Test Drive: 2018 Jeep Wrangler JL Unlimited Sport 4×4 – Rest Easy, It’s Still Every Part A Jeep!

When a manufacturer has a vehicle they make that is popular, sells, and has a fan base best described as “rabid”, approaching a new generation of the model becomes a harrowing experience...

Watch Stevie Fast Jackson Win The $50,000 Radial vs The World Prize At Lights Out 9 – His Path To Victory

It was Stevie Fast Jackson, driving the famed Shadow 2.0 Camaro who drove to the $50,000 grand prize at Lights Out 9 last weekend. That’s the short story. The longer story is shown below and it...

Crazy Barn Find: The 1969 Car Craft Dodge Dart Swinger Giveaway Car! Fully Documented, Fully Intact!

Now this is insane. Who would have thunk that a car given away almost 50 years ago with the exposed purpose of being thrashed on would actually survive and survive in perfect intact condition?! Such...

Classic YouTube: Celebrating Seventy Years Of NASCAR With The 1983 Busch Clash!

Seventy years ago today, NASCAR formed in the Ebony Bar at the Streamline Hotel in Daytona Beach, Florida. Having drawn from it’s roots in liquor bootlegging in the south, and being led by a...

Rough Starts: A 1972 Pinto And 1977 Mustang II Together In A Cheap Car Package Deal

Going out on a limb here: finding two project cars that are both reasonably close to driver level machines for $1800 in a package deal is a pretty decent find, especially when you are talking about...

Aeromotive Introduces the Phantom Returnless EFI Fuel Pump – EFI Conversions Just Got Easier And More Reliable

This is awesome news! When we get to type stuff like, “Aeromotive introduces the Phantom returnless EFI Fuel Pump,” it makes us smile because we know this is a product that BangShift...

BangShift Question Of The Day: How Many Uses Can You Come Up With For An Old Limo?

It’s weird to me, how quickly a limousine goes from being the car you want to be seen in to being the car you never want to be near. It seems to happen in the blink of an eye. Maybe it’s...

Drag Racing Legend Bob Bartel Passes – Opened Cordova, Founded World Series of Drag Racing, Huge influence On Sport’s Direction

(Bret Kepner) – Robert J. “Bob” Bartel will forever be known by some as the man who built Quad City Drag Strip in the tiny hamlet of Cordova, Illinois. To others, he was the creator of...

Hot Rod Haulers! Place Your Bets Between The 1UZ-Powered Flatbed And the 1JZ-Powered Van!

A Mazda flatbed truck and a Mitsubishi L300 van. I’ll take “Vehicles You’d Never See On A Dragstrip” for a thousand, Alex. Small, compact utility vehicles from Japan...

Treat It Like A Rental: Watch As This 1995 Buick Century Takes Every Ounce Of Abuse Thrown At It!

It’s an automotive cockroach. The Buick Century, the one made between 1982 and 1996, might be proof that at some point in time GM actually did try to make a good front-driver car for the 1980s....