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More Bonneville Speed Week 2019 Photos For You To Check Out! Man The Machines On The Salt Are Awesome.

We told you we weren’t done yet, and this is one of our last few galleries of photos from the 2019 Bonneville Speed Week races. Bonneville is a very special place to us. I’ve raced there,...

The U.S. Nationals At Indy Are In Full Swing! Here’s The Highlight Videos From NHRA

The Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals in Indy are in full swing and that means the biggest and baddest drag race of the year is making heroes and breaking hearts right this moment. But, if you...

It’s Just A Little Rusty, It’s Still Good: Waking Up An Old Chevy That Hasn’t Run Since 1989!

Our boy Derek at Vice Grip Garage is at it again. He’s gotten word that a Chevy truck from the mid-1960s is up for grabs. That would be a dream score…but this is a truck that has been...

Spintires IRL: This Off-Road Mud Race In Estonia Is An Absolute Slogfest!

“Spintires” is a video game reference. Put simply, it’s an off-road simulator that encourages you to push through some of the most intense off-road situations you can dream of....

From The Bones Up: Watch As Another Psychotic Power Wheels Kart Starts To Take Shape!

For a while now we’ve shown you the brilliant little over-powered go-karts that Grind Hard Plumbing Co. make using ordinary Power Wheels bodies. It’s effectively a way of realizing a...

The Mobile Mansion: This 1983 MCI MC-9 Bus Conversion Is RV Awesomeness!

On trips into downtown Colorado Springs, the younger version of myself loved it when my grandfather would wheel his Chrysler E-Class down Weber Street towards the Greyhound bus station, where fleets...

There’s A Hoe In The Back: Take A Ride In The World’s Fastest Shed

Kitschy art-cars usually suck. They’re more about visual gags than anything else, and half of them only run long enough to be moved from the garage to the trailer, to the spot on the grass...

One Piece At A Time: Who Knew A Volvo 360 Could Be So Wicked?

Remember the old Johnny Cash tune, “One Piece At A Time”? The premise sounds something like this: instead of going into debt buying a new, long and black Cadillac of his dreams, the...

BangShift Question Of The Day: The Air Force Is Having Trouble Moving Dodge Chargers. What Would You Do If It Was Your Problem?

(Lead photo: SrA Jake Carter/USAF) It’s the dream job for a gearhead who wants to serve their country: to be one of the chase drivers that is responsible for helping the pilots of the U-2 spy...

Unhinged: Roast The Late-Model Driver Nanny Of Your Choice!

In a study conducted by J.D. Power, drivers of newer vehicles with features like lane-depart assist are more annoyed than anything by them. One of the figures cited was the amount of people...

Bitchin’ Video: Gassers at the NHRA US Nationals in the Late 1960s

This video is a spectacular example of what the height of the gasser wars looked like on the strip in and in the pits. The infamous gasser wars of the mid to late 1960s were fueled by provocative...

Rough Start: 1973 Ford Maverick – Make Your Very Own Tijuana Taxi At Home!

Have you seen that one meme: “If you park your car and don’t look back at it as you head inside, you have the wrong car”? That’s the feeling I’m getting with this 1973...

Money No Object: 1971 Pontiac GTO – Simpler Is Better, Right?

My dad Robert wasn’t exactly a car guy. He drove trucks for a good portion of his life, had a Jeep kick for a bit, and if you ever asked him about one particular red Ford stepside, he’d...

Ride Along Video: Jim Pace Hauls The Mail In A Porsche 962 At Road Atlanta!

As a kid, I LOVED the IMSA GTP series. There were exotic looking cars, exotics sounding drivers from all over the world, and the best road courses in the country were their playgrounds. In this video...