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Rough Start: This 1987 Pontiac Fiero GT V8 Is A No-Brainer!

I love it when I find a Rough Start car that is so close to done that all I can do is to shout, “BUY IT NOW” as loud as I can. Let’s face facts…not every Rough Start find is a...

NCM Track Weekend Gallery: BingeTokyo And The Southern Roots Spring Fling

I get cabin fever pretty badly. I am the kind of person who would rather be outdoors, enjoying fresh air, feeling the breeze on my skin than be the kind who sits at home all day long. Soon as the sun...

Hell On Parts: This Bugatti Brake Testing Video Is 1,800-Degrees Of Gnarly

Yeah, you are looking at a brake rotor that is carry about 2,000-degrees of temperature in the middle of a brake testing regimen that would make even the most brutally harsh engineer cringe. The work...

Video: Hanging With Mac – A Fun Conversation With Drag Racing’s Most Unmistakable Voice

There was a moment a couple of years ago when I had to promise Dave McClelland that I was not stalking him. As Dave decided to step away from some of the work he was doing as an event host, a few of...

Incredible Photos: We Tour 3Dog Garage – Is This America’s Greatest Car Collection?

(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) –A few weeks back I was fortunate to able to tour one of the most incredible private car collections anywhere in the world. Maybe you think that is hyperbole...

2019 Summit Racing Equipment Piston Powered Expo Show Photos – Another Killer Event!

(Photos by Mike Brooks) – There are certain shows that even we look more forward to than others in terms of providing coverage of. The Summit Racing Equipment Piston Powered Expo is one of...

Spud Speedway In Caribou Maine Is For Sale – Cool Little Track With A Price Lower Than Lots Of Houses! Wow!

So we have been showing you a lot of these track listings lately and as it turns out people like finding them here. They like finding them so much that we have to sometimes take them down after the...

Funny Stuff: Tim Wilson Performs The Talladega Song – You Don’t Want To Be Near This Family At The Track

(By Greg Rourke) –Can you use a good laugh? Sure you can, we all can. Are you familiar with the musical stylings of the late Tim Wilson? In my opinion Tim was the Southern comedian Jeff...

Aeromotive’s Adjustable Universal In-Tank Brushless Fuel Pumps Are Here! The Best Of All Worlds!

How do great companies stay great? By listening to their customers, that’s how. Aeromotive has proved once again that it follows that mantra as good, or better than anyone in the industry with...

The Story Of The Surfin’ Bird: 3 Strangers, 1 ’75 Abandoned Firebird, and 2000 Miles to Glory

(Words and photos by John Bunger) – Meeting strangers from the internet to revive a forgotten muscle car and drive it 2000 miles across the country might just be the worst idea I’ve ever...

Youngest IndyCar Winner Ever: Colton Herta Tops The Board At COTA

(Lead photo: Motorsport.com) At the age of 18 years, 11 months and 25 days, Colton Herta has become IndyCar’s youngest winner after he took the checkered flag in a well-contested race at...

1966 Or Older Allowed: Pie Crust Slick Racing At Byron!

Here’s a sincere thought that has run through my head ever since I started writing here at BangShift: How do you relate to a time period that is older than you by decades? We have a broad...

For The Sporting Sir: The 1962 Ford Thunderbird Phantom Station Wagon

According to Lohnes, Ford screwed the pooch with the 1958 Thunderbird and from that moment forward, the model as a whole is dead to him outside of certain individual cars that earned their keep...

Unhinged: The 288 GTO, The Only Ferrari I Would Ever Own

My memories of grade school are fairly blurred…thank a career in the Army that included explosions, chemicals and “heroic” levels of drinking, plus other issues that come with time....