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BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s Your Take On The New Crop Of YouTube Mechanics?

Today’s question starts out with a video series on YouTube that kicked off at the beginning of the year on the D.I.Y. Gang YouTube channel. A 2016 Dodge Challenger Hellcat that saw the wrong...

This 1983 Jeep CJ-8 Scrambler Is The Vehicle From The Year I Was Born I Could Use Right About Now

I hate playing the “what car from the year you were born” game. 1983 didn’t offer up a lot of positive options. The Fox Mustang is a solid choice, but it wasn’t that much of...

The Dirty Cougar: The Real Adventures Have Begun – Break Out The Cleaning Gloves!

If you missed the last update on our 1987 Mercury Cougar LS known as the Dirty Cougar, click here! So we have a running, operable Aero Cat…nice! Even nicer, at the last update the total price...

This 1963 Ford Falcon Wagon Is Cruiser Perfection You Can’t Build For This Money

We’re all used to seeing cars and trucks listed for the cost of building them, which is often way more than they are actually worth. But it is human nature to want to try and get what...

Rockers, Patch Panels, And Tubs Oh My: The Mongrel Project Keeps Getting More Sheet Metal

Urchfab’s Mongrel Project, where a Ford 100E body is being combined with the unibody of an MX5 Miata, is moving forward like none other. We’re talking lots of work and lots of progress...

In Memoriam: Glen Wood, NASCAR Hall Of Fame Member And Founding Member Of Wood Brothers Racing

In 1950, three brothers came together to start a racing team, and that team is still going strong today. Wood Brothers Racing has been known for three things: a strong alignment with Ford, the...

This Is What A Burnout In The Shop Looks Like When You Have A Twin Turbo Duramax C10.

If you’ve never done a burnout indoors, then you are missing out on one of life’s simple pleasures. With that said, you should be careful as to when and where you do one indoors because...

$300 Charmer: Junkyard Digs Drags A Beater Oldsmobile Home!

I hate to be a spoilsport of sorts, but this Oldsmobile Delta 88 has already been sold off. I know, because I was privy to the whole thing from beginning to end. Kevin from Junkyard Digs had been...

Unhinged: Remember, You Are A Special Little Sunfish…

Recently the International Consumer Electronics Show wrapped up at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Normally, this would barely register on the radar here at BangShift, but then we started noticing...

SICKO. Is It The Baddest 1966 Mustang In Australia? It Sure Looks Like It!

Anyone who builds blown big and small blocks, with the only intention being to sit them on the rev limiter for as long as possible, so as to smoke the tires until they blow is probably good. Actually...

Classic YouTube: The Fort St. John Rally Race Of 2010 – $200 Beaters Romping In British Columbia

Fort St. John, British Columbia is a little north of the center of the province and on the eastern edge, parked along the Alaska Highway at Mile 47. Other than being a transportation hub of sorts,...

Ryan Martin’s Fireball Camaro Takes On The Fireball Ford Lightning At Winter Meltdown No Prep

Ryan Martin’s Fireball Camaro is one of the most famous street race and No Prep cars on the planet and with good reason. This thing hauls ass and is a force to be reckoned with anytime he lines...

The Auction Mistake Corvette Has A New Heartbeat! See Cleetus Get Dirty Putting The New Mill Together!

The last time we nosed around Cleetus’s neck of the woods with the Auction Mistake Corvette, it was right about the time he absolutely and utterly fragged the engine while on a dragstrip pass....

Watch Locomotives Pass Over The Worst Railroad In America – Tracks Look Like Spaghetti!

(WORDS BY GREG ROURKE) – Steel wheels on steel rails is a very efficient way to move freight. Many hundreds of thousands of tons move across the landscape daily. However, the big railroads are...