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Manifold Unobtanium For Sale: This Piece For A 303ci Ram Air V Pontiac Is Amazingly Cool

I have no idea why I love seeking out rare and interesting parts that are for sale online but it’s fun. This time we have one that may top them all in terms of rarity and it’s a Pontiac...

Flying Start Video: Ride Along In A 1974 IROC Porsche At Sebring – This Thing Dominates The Start!

The IROC (international race of champions) series had some incredibly long legs in the world of motorsports. While it is no longer contested, the series ran from the early 1970s right up until 2005....

Watch Mike Castellana’s Wild Ride From The 2019 NHRA Gatornationals – He Is OK

It was a rough start to the 2019 season for Mike Castellana, literally. His Al-Anabi Performance sponsored Camaro broke a rear axle, lost a wheel, and piled into the wall during qualifying, ending...

Video: Nothing But Awesome Photos And Footage Of 1960s and 1970s Drag Race Haulers – Trailers, Ramp Trucks, More!

(By Greg Rourke) – There was once a time when even the touring drag racing professionals moved around the country with a station wagon and a single axle open trailer. Yes BangShifters under...

Springtime Green: It’s Not Everyday A 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle SS454 Pops Up!

Let’s see here: the trees are budding out, the grass is starting to get tall enough to mow, the dandelions are bringing some kind of color to the yard, and I got my first bit of pulse-racing...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Should Brands Get Their Own Engines Again?

In 1977, General Motors experienced blowback when Oldsmobile owners noticed that their “Rocket 350” engines were, in fact, Chevrolet blocks. Buick V6s powered seemingly everything. The...

Win At All Costs: These Two Tough Truck XJ Cherokees Battle It Out!

I am of the mindset that if American Motors had managed to hang on just another four years, that we’d still have the Big Four. Hear me out: Their main products at the time were the XJ Cherokee,...

TX2K19: When Being A Quick Street Car Just Isn’t Enough, Bring Out The Monsters

TX2K events are wild to me for one reason and one reason only: the “holy ….” factor involved when the E.T. and MPH numbers flash on the boards. You can have a quick street car all...

BangShift Tune-Up: “Wild, Wild Mustang” by Dick Dale and the Del-Tones (1964)

You may not know the name of the song. But as soon as the opening notes play, young or old, you know the song. It’s a folk song that comes from the Eastern Mediterranean region, one that has...

Ride Shotgun In A Thundering Daytona Prototype At Sebring – Jim Pace In-Car Action Supreme

This killer in-car video with BangShift’s adopted road racing hero Jim Pace is great and you are going to love it. This footage is from the 2014 12-Hours of Sebring which is run as part of the...

Aeromotive Takes You Through The Hows, Whys Of Vacuum And Boost Referenced Fuel Pressure Regulators For Carb’d Engines

Never in the history of hot rodding has more horsepower and more technology been available to regular guys. This is a great thing but it can also be confusing and tough to figure out what components...

Crown Vic Drifting: Project Neighbor Hangs The Tail Out Like A Boss

Ford fought tooth-and-nail to fight downsizing in the late 1970s. GM had shrunk the Impala and Caprice and walked away smelling like a rose. The race was on…who would be the next to shrink...

Money No Object: The Prototype Dodge Big Horn Short-Nose

There is only one aspect where Brian Lohnes and I share a focus on odd Mopars. He loves the big trucks, and high on his list is the Dodge Big Horn, also known as the CN/CNT900. Between the latter end...

The Marcos: Take A Closer Look At A Low-Slung British Rarity!

In the library of Sedgwick Junior High there were a catalog of four books that I’m pretty sure I was the only kid to check out in at least a decade. I can’t remember the names of the...