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Project Raven Imperial: It’s Time To Feed The Raven!

The sun was shining, the weather was clear, and I was on a mission: the 1983 Imperial was going to get it’s 367ci small-block Chrysler engine shoved into the bay come hell or high water. Yeah,...

Callaway Corvette #2 Is For Sale – The First One Is In The National Corvette Museum (This One, Too!)

Color us shocked. We were cruising around RacingJunk.com and decided to pop into the Corvette section. Our intentions were semi-nefarious. We were going to find some dogpiled hunk of sad fiberglass...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Best “That’s Not Appropriate” Car You’ve Seen On The Track?

I started autocrossing out at Bremerton Raceway in 2010. I had worked a race back in 1998 as a cone-shagger, a volunteer detail for the NJROTC unit I was attached to in high school, and what it...

Oh, This Blows (oil all over the place): Ever Wanted Your Car To Get An Oil Bath? Here’s The Quick Way

(By Greg Rourke) – So today out in front of my place of employment a Mack ready mix truck came to a smoking, slimey stop. That’s motor oil all over everything,  it was coming out of the...

Perfect Pass: Watch This Brazilian Team Lay Down A Stick Shifted 4.60 Eighth Mile Rip

We always talk about drag racing as being its own kind of international language, right? Well this video is further proof of the accuracy of that opinion . Why? You are about to see a Brazilian drag...

Miss Misery Strikes Again – The Radical Four Wheel Drive Drag Truck Wrecks Hard and Early

(Video by Blown64Vette – YouTube)- There is no more determined man in drag racing than Bobby Dodrill and there is no more aptly named vehicle in the sport than his four wheel drive rig called...

Matt Hartford Will Be Running NHRA Pro Stock This Weekend At The Mile High Nats – Watch His Wild Ride From 2013 In Denver

Matt Hartford will be racing NHRA pro stock this weekend at the NHRA Dodge Mile High Nationals outside of Denver, Colorado. Back in 2013 Matt had a bad ride in his Total Seal Piston Rings car during...

Columbus Goodguys 2018 Photo Coverage: From Ratty Gassers To Modern Hot Rodding Art, The Show Had It All

(Photos by Bob Chiluk) – When people hit a major show like the Columbus Goodguys event, they have expectations. They want to be entertained, they want stuff to do, and they want variety. We all...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Given $300,000 And 24 Hours To Buy Only Car Stuff, How Would You Do It?

So we know how the McLaren guy performed this challenge but how about BangShifters? In today’s question we’re giving you a dream or potentially nightmarish scenario. You are given...

One Day Wonder: A Guy In Virginia Bought A McLaren 720s On Friday and Totaled It On Saturday

Oh, your weekend wasn’t all that great? Maybe the weather was crummy or perhaps the pizza guy jacked up your order and delivered you someone else’s pie. Did you happen to wreck a $300,000...

Cool Video: Check Out This Narrated Test Footage Of The XV-8 Flying Jeep Flex Wing Aircraft From ’62

Today it really is not a big deal to look up and see an “ultra-light” aircraft with a person and a small airframe around them under some sort of wing. Well those things did not just jump...

Caption This: Write The Craigslist Ad For This Farm-Fresh GMC!

Last month, Chad shared a moment he had while poking around a yard. He found a derelict Chevrolet truck that was pretty much done, that was being saved from the crusher more-or-less just because....

Are You A Car Hauling Pimp? Want To Be One? This Cadillac Car Hauler Is Just The Ticket

BangShifter Nick Leone knows that the quickest way to the front page of this website is with an awesome car hauler and boy did this guy ever deliver! You are looking at what has to be one of the most...

Instant Calamity: Watch One Of The Most Violent Sprint Car Crashes We Have Ever Seen (Driver OK)

(By Jason Mazzotta) – Markus Niemelä is a Finnish circle track racer that has accomplished many things in his racing career including a 2008 Formula Atlantic Championship, but while racing at...