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Ad Watch: Cool Stuff, Weird Stuff, And Iconic Muscle Car Ads From 1965 Car Magazines

Another week, another trip into the BangShift vault o’ fun here at eastern world HQ. This week, we’re looking at some magazine ads from 1965. I mixed it up some this time with muscle cars...

Rough Start: A 1983 Ford Mustang GT Turbo – Do Not Underestimate The 2.3!

A Ford Mustang must have a V8? No…not the case. Look, we get it, V8s make everything that much better, but there are alternative engine options that can make as much power as eight pots and can...

Watch This Freightliner Sand Rail Scale The Dunes At Pismo Beach – The Beast Rules

If there’s a guaranteed way to be awesome in this world it would be to take a Freightliner truck and convert it into what amounts to a massive sand rail like you see in this video. We’re...

Want A Brand-New 1969-70 Ford Mustang Of Your Own, Already Restomodded? Come This Fall, You Can Have One!

Question: If you had the ability to, would you take a brand-new 1969 or 1970 Mustang? We’re talking fresh sheetmetal, brand-new engine, zero miles on the clock, new. And we don’t mean...

The Saturday Shift: Four Speed Violence Inside A ’55 Chevy!

North Carolina’s Mooresville Dragway has been open and running as an eighth-mile strip for more than 50 years. That’s pretty impressive in itself. The track is used by Greg Anderson and...

Coker Tire Cruise-In 2018: Our Final Gallery From Chattanooga!

That’s it, this is our final gallery from the Coker Tire Cruise-In 2018! Hundreds of sweet rides, all shot on a very compressed timetable, and that’s honestly only just an idea on how...

The American Powertrain Parting Shift: Ripping The Gears In A Detroit Diesel Swapped 1971 Chevy Mini-Rig

We are typically not fans of the “mini-rig” look for trucks where guys try to make a pickup look and act like a big rig but in this case, we’re kind of on board, ok all the way on...

Want A Blown Drag Pak Challenger? Here’s Your Chance To Join The Factory Stock Showdown Crowd!

If you have been enthralled with the explosion in popularity of the NHRA SamTech.edu Factory Stock Showdown like we have these days you’ve undoubtedly thought about how much fun it would be to...

Need Parts For Studebakers, Packards Or Other Old Cars? This Utah Yard Is Being Forced To Close!

Those open plains don’t stay open forever, it seems. Ask anyone who knows about how big Colorado Springs got in the last thirty years, or anywhere else that sees neighborhood developments pop...

Rough Start: Just Your Everyday, Super-Clean V8-Swapped GMC Jimmy

From the outside, the only tell that this GMC Jimmy has even been messed with is the absence of the model nameplate off of the front fender. Otherwise, this little SUV is like the millions of others...

WoahStock: Watch This Fox Body Mustang Get On Its Side In Bizarre Fashion At Darlington Dragway

Here’s a general rule of thumb. If you are operating a video camera on the outside of the wall at a drag strip and you see the underside of a car hurtling towards you at speed, you may want to...

Outlaw Street Car Reunion V: Time Trials As The Big Boys Get Prepared For The War

If the temperatures at Beech Bend Raceway were any indication, Outlaw Street Car Reunion V is going to be a riot to watch come elimination time, because it got cool! The preview day was nice and warm...

The 2018 NHRA SpringNationals Start Today: Watch The 1988 Version Of The Race At A Different Track Here

As we have been telling you all week, today the 2018 NHRA SpringNationals kick off in Baytown, Texas. The NHRA has been racing in Baytown since 1988 and we showed you some of that video earlier this...

Bad Bumpside: Watch This Big-Block Powered Ford Cut Loose On The Strip!

Painted white, this could have very well been the Ford truck that my dad drove when I was a wee tot. It’s one of precious few vehicles that I can see clearly that pre-dates my kindergarten...