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Sneaky Swap: This Ultra-Clean 1987 Dodge Charger Actually Has A 360ci V8 Under The Hood!

As often as we bag on stuff around here, we need to highlight the good and the creative as well. This 1987 Dodge Charger is just that. Creative and good are two words we would use to describe this...

2019 Restoration Reunion At Virginia Motorsports Park: Photos From The Car Show and The Pits!

(Words and photos by Benoit Pigeon) – Once a year, Virginia Motorsport Park organizes a nostalgia event combined with a race for regional and local  competitors and an additional car show....

NGK NHRA 4-Wide Nationals Nitro Photos: Flames Up, Pig Piles, Tire Smoke, Action and More!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It’s a noise that you literally can hear in only one other place on Earth. It’s a feeling that makes some people, like my buddy Joe, so physically...

Oh, Hell Yes: The Hellcat Miata – You Always Wanted The Hellcat In A Lighter Car!

A horsepower figure above 700 horses just isn’t enough for many people to get past the basic bitch about the LX-based Dodge Challenger: the size of the car the engine is in. I’ve seen the...

Wait…what? This Video Shows A 1986 ASC McLaren Mercury Capri Getting Tested – Remember These?

Ok, now this is a new one on us. We knew that ASC McLaren got in on the Fox body convertible game but we had not idea that they basically had their own version of a Saleen Mustang in the form of the...

Droptop Dreaming: This 1961 Plymouth Fury Is The Sled You Never Saw Coming

It’s convertible season around BangShift Mid-West! Not that I’d know…the last open-air vehicle I owned was a T-top Monte Carlo and I’ve only driven one convertible ever, a...

WTF Video: Watch This Vintage Combine Packing A 500ci Turbocharged Caddy Engine Run 15s at 80+ At The Digs

Just when you think you have see it all…literally. This video from Finland is stunning because it depicts a hot rod that is so weirdly awesome we do not have words for it. This 1967 model year...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Do You Remember Your Very First Timeslip?

In a couple of days, I will be making my way down to Little River Dragway in Temple, Texas for the Showdown at the River event, which you will be able to watch live here on BangShift. It’s a...

Watch The 1989 NHRA Southern Nationals – Wreckage, Upsets, Unscripted Fun!

The first NHRA Southern Nationals were held in 1981 at a track that had originally been designed as an airport and lived a pretty sleepy life before hosting one of the biggest races on the NHRA tour...

Ten Pounds In The Five Pound Bag: The V8 Lada Freakshow Gets Shaken Down!

So this is what happens when you take the four-banger out of a classic Lada and stuff the half-ton, 7.0L V8 from a ZiL medium-duty work truck inside of the engine bay…after you carve out enough...

This 1958 Kendall Motor Oil Video Called “Competition Driver” Is Perfection From 60 Years Ago

For many people who love the history of racing in America, the 1950s are considered one of the greatest eras of road racing this country has ever seen. Returning GIs who were about 10 years out of...