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This Spectacular Video Recounts Chrysler’s Efforts To Build Tanks For WWII – Assembly Lines Of Defense

We love looking into the industrial history of our country, especially during the time period in and around WWII. We have showed you videos of all different stuff being built from tanks to trucks....

Reawakening A Project: The Cleanup Work On This Ford F-250 Begins After A Year-Long Nap!

Kevin from JunkyardDigs has had an interesting time in the last twelve or so months…namely, he and I now share something in common: the experience of an exceptionally hot night in a sandy part...

Zero Excuses For You: Watch As The “Open Container” Blazer Hangs Them High At LS Fest!

Maybe it’s because I’ve worked with a bunch of vets who are missing a limb…or two…or more who carry on a kind of gallows humor about what happened and make killer Halloween...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is The Ultimate Racing D*** Move?

Here’s something I actually expected to be doing: writing another piece on Moto2 rider Romano Fenati and his abhorrent sportsmanship actions during competition. Back in 2015, Fenati and Niklas...

To The Ski Lift In Style! Who Wants A Cadillac On A Snowcat Chassis?

Sitting in my backyard, making sure that my lawn doesn’t suddenly blow away in the breeze, is the 1980 Cadillac limo that has a date with destiny during the winter months at NCM Motorsports...

Morning Symphony: This Jaguar’s Straight-Six Scream Is A Much-Needed Palate Cleanser!

For the better part of a week now, the only two soundtracks I’ve been hearing involves all sorts of rock music from satellite radio…no shock there…and the booming noises that...

Holley LS Fest 2018: Sorry, Mr. Weatherman, But You Were Wrong And We Had A Ball!

The forecast for the weekend of the Holley LS Fest was simple: doom and gloom, with a chance of flooding. If you trusted the weather reports as they came in, LS Fest was going to be a no-go the...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is The First Car Or Truck You Can Remember Seeing That Stopped You In Your Tracks?

The reason this question came to my mind was because of the yellow Mustang posted above. Not one like it, not a copy, THAT car. I saw it at a cruise night recently and it transported me back to a...

This 1963 Pontiac Grand Prix Is The Cure For The Common GTO – A Big, Clean, Car!

So truth be told, I’m kind of shopping these days. Not ready to buy yet, but I’m peeking seriously at stuff to find something to stick in the garage at the new house. I have divested...

50th Cobra Jet Reunion: The History, The Cars, The Horsepower, and The People Were At Norwalk

(Photos by Joe Grippo) –  More photos of cool and historic Cobra Jet powered Fords from the massive 50th Cobra Jet Reunion a couple of weeks ago. Joe Grippo was in his glory both racing his...

AutoMeter Video: The Install of AutoMeter Extreme Environment Gauges In A Dirt Late Model Is Cool

We have been talking at you about the importance of proper instruments in your street and race car since, oh, the second day BangShift existed we think. This video which highlights the install of...

Watch Hot Rod Drag Week Here: 2018 Live Streaming Coverage Starting From Atlanta Today

It is that time of the year again, time to tune in and watch some of the most interesting, weird, wild, and fast street legal cars in the world compete at four tracks in five days and pound pavement...

Thirteen Years After: Photos, Personal Memories, And Botched Coverage Of Drag Week 2005 – How That Event Led To BangShift Existing

Some mistakes you can never escape and this is one of them. For whatever reason, while I was on the road covering Hot Rod Drag Week in 2005 for CompetitonPlus.com, I got hung up on the idea that...

Quaint Old Video: This Look Back At The 2006 Pump Gas Drags Seems Appropriate Today

As you are reading this, Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2018 has kicked off and more than 400 of the most awesome and fast street cars from all over the world are at Atlanta Dragway. Before Drag Week...