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Woah: The Untouchable Jet Dragster Is For Sale – 50+ Year Old Early Example Of The Breed

There are not that many opportunities anymore to get your hands on a functional (we think) and literal piece of drag racing history. This is one of those times as the original Untouchable jet...

630hp and 1,600 lb-ft – This 8V92TA Detroit Diesel Won’t Have Issues Pushing Airplanes Anymore

As hot rodders, we see horsepower as a fun number, as something of an entertainment quotient that allows us to enjoy ourselves and impress our friends. Something that makes scaring your wife...

Ride Along In A Thundering Saleen S7 R At The Spa Classic – 427ci Ford Small Block Power!

The Saleen S7 was one of the best supercars in the world for the period that it was built. Using advanced design techniques and engineering while deriving power from a tried and true 427ci Ford...

BangShift Reader Brawl: Tell Us What The Fastest, Cheapest Factory Car Ever Is!

Recently in the NHRA tower, a debate erupted between a couple of us when the question was posted, “What’s the fastest, cheapest car ever?” Of course it will cause a veritable rock...

Call It A Toy, We Dare You: Check Out These Huge R/C Aircraft Models!

I’m an aviation geek through and through. Even before I worked on flightlines, I loved aircraft. Boeing 727s, McDonnell Douglass MD-11s, Lockheed C-141 Starlifters…I got to see many...

More Like It: Jay Leno Checks Out Two Mil-Spec Modified HMMWVs!

When you spend years hoping, praying, bargaining with motor pool mechanics, attempting to bribe officers and still get nowhere, you tend to dream up builds for the HMMWV. Or was that just me?...

Hot Rod Magazine’s Power Tour 2019 at Kentucky Speedway: The Rolling Roadshow Comes To Town!

Twenty-five years ago, eight Hot Rod Magazine staff vehicles and eight cars driven by readers left Los Angeles, California on a 2,200 mile trek across the country to Norwalk, Ohio en route to one of...

Summertime At The OPGI Car Show Series – We’ve got the Chevys!

(Photos by Roger Rohrdanz) – Summer is here in Southern California and if you cannot find a dozen car shows, autocross, drag races, sprint car races or short track late models, you’re not looking...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Was The First Song You Listened To After Getting Your Driver’s License And Driving Alone?

This question of the day has been elusive. I have had it climb into and out of my brain several times over the last couple weeks as I have been driving and listening to the radio. Basically,...

It Got Real Quick: Watch This Insane Wreck From The 24 Hours of Lemons Race In New Jersey!

One of the things that budget car racing series like the 24 Hours of Lemons keeps really close tabs on is the safety equipment required in competition cars. Some people have issues with this because...

A Classic Kill: This Sleeper Video From Mexico Literally Never Gets Old

(By Greg Rourke) – Everyone loves a good sleeper, except perhaps the guy in the other lane. Here we have a guy who’s happy to embarrass whatever supercar  is unlucky enough to choose...

Aeromotive Introduces New Variable-Speed Controlled Pumps and Controller

Just when you thought it was safe to go outside, Aeromotive is innovating again! This time they have introduced new variable speed controlled pumps and a controller for converting other brushless...

Watch Bigfoot 1 Get Driven Harder Than We Have Ever Seen – Think The Front End Fails?

There’s always something interesting about watching an icon get used and used hard in motorsports. In this case we’re talking about Bigfoot 1, perhaps the coolest monster truck of all...