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Need A Lesson On The History Of Holden? Learn More About GM’s Aussie Arm Here!

It is hard to not be impressed with the vehicles that the Australians cranked out on their own terms in their own country. From an American viewpoint, there was a lot that they got right: a love...

What Does It Take To Restore A Tractor? Follow Along As This Big Bud 525/50 Gets A Freshening!

Tractors do not have an easy life. They are the purest workhorses when it comes to an engine-powered vehicle. They go out and work and when they wear out, they…well, normally that’s that,...

Cooling Tech Video: AFCO Talks About The Pluses And Minuses Of Single And Dual Fan Shrouded Radiators

Well this is some perfect timing! Over the next couple of weeks we’re going to be talking about AFCO radiators and cooling systems a bunch as we finally put Buford T Justice back together in...

Rough Start: Find The Cleanest Car For Your Project…Like this 1979 Olds Cutlass!

I’m a beater addict. It’s true…I’ve got a perfectly normal, relatively late-model daily driver that has plenty of grunt and yet, I love the idea of daily-driving dirt-cheap...

Money No Object: One Bad 1987 Chrysler LeBaron – 224 MPH At The Silver State Classic!

If you were a Mopar fan in the 1980s, bless you…while Ford and GM were having a ball reawakening the horsepower challenges with Firebirds, Mustangs, Grand Nationals and the like, you had to...

Lunatic Video: Watch The Driver Of This Altered Get It Totally Vertical ON PURPOSE!

It takes a special kind of maniac to enter his altered into a wheelstand contest in the first place but said maniac kicks it up like 50 notches when he pulls the wheelie bars off the car and gets all...

The 4.2L Vortec Checker Build: Shift Linkage, Fuel In, And Maybe A Start?

Making sure that a engine is bolted into a car and won’t go anywhere anytime soon is actually the easy part of a swap. You can bolt something together, right? Of course, that’s easy...

Top Fuel Harley Davidson Action Photos: The Most Insane Bikes In Drag Racing Attack Gainesville Raceway!

(Photos by David Whealon) – If there is one class that represents the blatant insanity of drag racing, it is the Mickey Thompson Top Fuel Harley-Davidson division. These are V-twin bikes that...

This Modified Jeep FC-170 Project Could Be The Coolest Off-Road Camping Rig Ever!

If you are a regular reader of BangShift, you know right away that we LOVE the old Jeep Forward Control trucks. Built by Willys and Kaiser between 1956-1965, the Forward Control’s many variants...

Honesty In Review: Bob Mayer Takes On The 1980 Chrysler Cordoba!

For anyone who aspires to review new cars, there are certain people that you should aspire to be like. Csaba Csere, Bud Lindemann, John Davis, Brock Yates, and David E. Davis, Jr., a man once known...

The Turbo Six Just Works: This Stroked Holden Is A Street-Driven Monster

You can remember the GSX, the GNX, the Grand National all you want. If there is one thing that Buick should be remembered for, it should be the 231 cubic inch V6 that was in production for over forty...

Is This The World’s Quickest Mack Truck? Watch It Boil The Tires And The Run 11s At 120 +

We’ve showed you a little window into the wild world of high performance diesel big rig trucks and buses on the small island of Puerto Rico before and we all went nuts for it. These guys LOVE...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Behavior Monitoring, Then And Now – What’s Your Take?

Hm. What does an orange Volvo keyfob and today’s question have in common? Behavior observation, that’s what. Here’s what I mean: That orange key is another part of Volvo’s...

Gratuitous Violence: Ramming A Leopard Tank Through Cars At Speed

Here’s some information about the Leopard 2A4 tank: they’ve been around since 1979, weigh in at over sixty-eight tons and are powered by a MTU-sourced twin-turbo V-12 diesel good for...