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A Decade In Words: This Collection Of The Best NASCAR Quotes Of The Last 10 Years Is Awesome

We’re speeding toward 2020 and that means retrospective stories looking back on the years 2010-2019 are flying out from every direction. We ran into a good one that deals with the best quotes...

The Beast: Aeromotive Unleashes 10-Gallon Per Minute Brushless True Variable Speed Electric Fuel Pump – Supports 6,900hp

The guys at Aeromotive have had a knack for knocking our socks off over the last few years and after chasing successes with more success, they dropped the big one at the 2019 PRI show just a few days...

Executive Candidate: This 1968 Galaxie XL Fastback Is Unrestored And Would Be A Fun Cruiser

I am a bad shopper. Or maybe I am a good shopper and a bad buyer. I have been looking at cars and trucks for over a year now and I have not been able to pull the trigger on anything that I have seen....

Redline Rebuild: Watch A Chevy Stovebolt Six Get Saved From The Woods And Revived!

The Hagerty Redline Rebuild series has been awesome and continues to be awesome because of variety. From top fuel engines to workaday power plants, this thing has really been chock full of the kinds...

Historical Footage: The Bendix Trophy Winning Flight Of The Supersonic B-58 Hustler In 1962

It could run at Mach 2 as long as there was fuel, it made noises that would alert the deaf, and it just might have had the shortest career of any United States Air Force bomber ever, at an even ten...

This Volvo C70 Is One Bad Mother: 200+ MPH And The Ability To Drag A Literbike!

The Volvo C70 coupe normally wouldn’t be anything more than a quick radar blip for BangShift: It was the first two-door coupe from Volvo since the 1990 Bertone-designed 780, and…well,...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Should Pedestrian Avoidance Be A Part Of A Safety Rating?

Starting next year, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is ratcheting up the requirements that automakers must meet in order to earn Top Safety Pick and Top Safety Pick+ designations. Three...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: What’s In A Name?

Ten more days…are you feeling the spirit yet, readers? Are you filling up on the spirits? The Christmas season is in full swing at BangShift Mid-West. The parties are planned, the ingredients...

The Last One Left? 1940 Chevrolet Dubl Duti – How’s This For A Rare One?

The automobile as we know is is over 130 years old, if you utilize the Benz Patent Wagen of 1885 as the beginning point. 130 years…how many makes have gone by? How many models, styles, build...

Rough Start: Classic Fuel Economy Machine? This 1990 Ford Escort GT Is Clean Enough For A Look!

When I was twelve, I was asked what I wanted for a first car. My answer: 1974-77 Chevrolet Camaro. And I got that car…a rusted rot-box whose one other redeeming quality, besides being exactly...

Corn And Broken U-Joints: The Carnage From The Central Illinois Truck Pullers!

The land between Chicago and Interstate 70 to the south are filled with…well, being quite honest, small old towns that seem to be surviving just barely but have character for miles, and corn as...

Wider Is Better: This 1984 Dodge/Wide One Class B Motorhome Is The Right-Sized RV!

Throughout the year, as we go from race to race, show to show and so on and so forth, costs are incurred. That car doesn’t create it’s own fuel, I do not starve myself on the roads, and...

BangShift Tune-Up: “Hard And Loud” by Royal Bliss (2018)

Here’s a dirty little secret about a lot of the gearhead community: we ain’t the country club types. Pressed suits, manicured fingernails free of grease and grime, a shining personality?...

Rough Start: 1971 Oldsmobile Cutlass – Always A Good Decision!

For those who were alive when Oldsmobile was in it’s prime, it’s strange to think how such a successful take on GM product sharing went so wrong. The Oldsmobile Cutlass was a benchmark...