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Texas Early Day Tractor and Engine Association State Show 2018: Old Iron On Display!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – For nearly 50 years the Texas Early Day Tractor and Engine Association has been putting on their big state level show and this year our own Charles Wickam was...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Weirdest Rare Car Sighting You’ve Had?

For the last couple of weeks, I was on vacation. A real one…exceptionally limited Internet, no phone, no laptop, no camera. Just myself, my wife and her parents on a slow boat up the Eastern...

DSM Goodness Inside: The Better Side Of Mitsubishis On Display At The DSM Shootout

Mitsubishi is a strange focal point of mine. I used to crack all of the crank walk jokes and “Danger to Manifold” lines I could. But at the same time, I have some very, very fond memories...

Buy The Book: Last Days Of The Concorde by Samme Chittum – BangShift Review

Being that we are heading into the holiday season, publishing companies are releasing a torrent of new material to capture some of those holiday spending bucks. If you have loved ones that are...

Classic YouTube: A Ten-Second Cadillac Fleetwood That Gets Jumpy At The Launch!

Would you be surprised that I’m on a big Cadillac kick again? I’ve been busy at BangShift Mid-West and part of the work has involved the dirt-cheap limo that has been lowering my property...

2018 Cynthiana Rod Run Photo Gallery Coverage: Big Mopars, Big Pontiacs, And Cool Cars Galore

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Several clubs caravan or at least gather at this event in significant numbers.  The Scroungers, Hilltoppers, Bourbon Street Cruisers, Bombers, and more...

Morning Symphony: The Suzuki TL1000S Taking On The Great Lie Detector!

Meet a superbike that is considered one of the scariest two-wheeled contraptions ever unleashed unto the public, the 996cc Suzuki TL1000S. What was scary about a V-twin semi-crotch-rocket that could...

2018 Hot Rod Hullabaloo Photo Gallery: More, Cars, Music, Trucks, and Fun!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Not everyone jumped right on the drying process and I am pretty glad for that.  I don’t really mind shooting cars with beads of water on them.  When...

Caption This: Automotive Jenga At It’s Finest Was Captured In This Northern Arizona Accident!

Ah, Prescott, Arizona…I miss that place. I lived there three years and loved just about every day I was there. Don’t mistake Prescott for “cactus and lizards and HOLY HELL...

Leah Pritchett Wins 2018 NHRA SAM Tech Factory Stock Showdown World Championship In Mopar Dodge Challenger Drag Pak

As the NHRA season winds across the country to its eventual close in Pomona, California class championships are being decided in many of the various forms of competition that the organization...

Watch Annie Whiteley’s High Speed Trip Into The Texas Motorplex Sand Trap – She Was OK

My obsession at finding and seeing as many drag strips on this planet as I possibly can stems from the fact that while all of them are (at base) long strips of asphalt and/or concrete, they each have...

RacingJunk.com Find: This 1965 Dodge A990 May Be A Tribute But We’re Deep In Love All The Same

There are times when we would prefer a tribute car over the “real” example of an iconic machine from Detroit and this is one of those times. Why? If we had the real version of this car we...

Rough Start: The C4 Corvette Of Your Cheap 1980s Nostalgia Dreams!

A few days ago, Chad put up a question in the form of a C4 Corvette that was very well built, clean as a whistle, and in need of a bit of minor maintenance that the owner wasn’t willing to...

2018 Cruisin’ For A Cure Photo Coverage: Our Last Shot Of SoCal Photos

(Photos by Wes Allison) – After a few hundred images we are finally at the end of our run of photos from the 2018 Cruisin’ For A Cure car show. This time it is hot rods, muscle cars,...