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Heavy Hitter: Go In-Depth On Joe Barry’s Six-Second Shoebox!

There’s a select handful of people who have run Drag Week in the single-digit zones. We aren’t talking nine-second quarters so much as we’re talking about the monsters. Larry...

Score! We Found The Perfect Gift For The FE Lover In Your Home – A Complete Latham Axial Flow Blower Setup!

Ahhhh, the internet. Yes, it can be used to sew the seeds of badness on a daily basis in ways that humanity has not even considered yet BUT it is also the kind of place where the impossible becomes...

A BMW Autocrossing On Snow Tires – That Looks A Little Sketchy!

While we tend to wind down from the racing action throughout the colder months, it doesn’t mean that everybody just stops racing at Thanksgiving and we pick it back up full-time around March or...

Rough Start: Get This AMC Eagle SX/4 Out Of California As Soon As Possible!

It’s a sporty two-door hatchback. It’s a selectable four-wheel-drive vehicle with some legit off-road chops. It’s pure Malaise, but it’s the kind that can be corrected with...

For Some Reason Owning A 1948 Kurtis V8-60 Midget Seems Like An Awesome Idea Right Now

Now THIS is awesome. We were doing our normal stumble job around eBay looking for things that we cannot afford, things that we should not own, and things that we don’t want anyone else to have...

Donut Media Tells The Story of The Cummins Engine Company – Good History With A Twist

Donut Media makes some pretty good stuff. Their videos are wide ranging and touch on a load of different automotive areas. The one we have posted below tells the story of the Cummins Engine Company...

Power Move: Bob Tasca III Adds Mike Green As Co-Crew Chief On Ford Motorcraft/Quicklane Mustang

Bob Tasca III’s return to full time nitro powered NHRA drag racing had its moments in 2018 but just not enough of them for the Rhode Islander with championship aspirations. Because of this,...

Hell Bent: Tim Cameron’s Rock Racer Spent 2018 Going For Glory

A name is everything on a race vehicle. You are branding that machine, and whatever you name it, the combination of the driver at the wheel and the machine’s capability have to align right....

2018 Photo Highlight Reel: Doug Gregory Picks His Favorite Images From The Year (Part 3)

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – This last gallery completes my favorite images of 2018 and has the least action of the three.  We did want to make it out to smell race fuel being burnt...

The “WTF?” Files: This Nissan-Powered 1971 Ford Pinto Has Been Worked Over!

Have you ever seen the translation guide to phrases used to sell a car? Where “rare” means “none of these things lasted over ten years”, and “one careful owner”...

2018 East Coast Indoor Nationals: Here’s One Last Truckload of Photos To Check Out

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Welp, we have reached the end of the awesome photos that OG BangShift contributor Joe Grippo sent us from the 2018 East Coast Indoor Nationals car show. We’ve...

Your Machinists’ Nightmare: This Caterpillar D2 Engine Is Beyond Salvation!

I haven’t been playing with the internals of engines long. I’ve done head swaps and stuff like that since I was a kid, but getting into the deep internals of an engine has been a recent...

2018 Photo Highlight Reel: Doug Gregory Picks His Favorite Shots Of The Year (Part 2)

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – This 2nd group of 2018 favorites starts off with one nostalgia event and rolls right into another then another.  We only got in one trip to US60 this...