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Morning Symphony: Screaming Through Rainbow Canyon At Low Level

In military terms, it’s a section of the desert northeast of Los Angeles known to aviators as “The Complex”. In general aviation terms, it’s R-2508 and you better have your...

Rough Start: This 1978 Oldsmobile Cutlass Is Done – LS-Swapped And Turn-Key!

Calm down, anti-LS brigade, it’s not worth the fight today. Cheap-car hunting and GM’s current golden child of an engine normally don’t go hand-in-hand unless you have no problem...

The Straight-Axle Throwdown! Hoonigan And Finnegan Square Off, One Man Will Lose A Beard!

On the surface, to the untrained eye, the matchup between Mike Finnegan’s “Blasphemi” and Jon Chase’s “Tri 5 By Fire” seemed fairly even. Both cars are...

Accel’s Ceramic Boot Spark Plug Wires Are Hot Exhaust Proof And Now Available In Black

I’ve had the pleasure of using Accel’s Ceramic booted plug wires on engines on the dyno at Westech and can tell you that these things are capable of handling anything your headers can...

Jay Leno Talks Lamborghini Engines. One Is Little And One Is Huge, But Both Are Ultra Sexy!

I grew up as a die hard Chevrolet car and truck guy, but when I first started paying attention to vehicles outside the muscle car family there was no doubt that a Lamborghini was one sexy machine. I...

Tow Pig Greatness? This Phantom Dodge Crew Cab Shortbed Dually Just Needs A Fifth Wheel!

So the other day Chad brought up the question of what kind of tow rig you would pick if you were transported back to 1975. It’s a good question, though you could realistically expand the years...

The Evolution Of King Of The Hammers: If You Like Off-Road Racing You Will Love This Story.

We’ve often talked about King of the Hammers here at BANGshift. I’m a huge fan of the event and disappointed that we had to miss it this year. I’ve been lucky enough to go the past...

Unhinged: Car Culture Clashes Spoken Eloquently And Dead-On Perfect

(Photos: Speedhunters/Matthew Everingham) You would think that it’s just a quick jibe, a line that is meant to be nothing more than some good-natured ribbing. You would think that what...

These Two Turbocharge Tacoma Pickups Blew People Away At Imports Vs Domestics AND Neither Has An Engine You’d Expect!

We love underdogs, and trucks ALWAYS seem to be the underdog whether at the dragstrip, the autocross, or the road course. Only off-road are they given a fair shot, and even then it depends on what...

Cleetus’ Auction Corvette Gets A New “Fresh” 4.8 With Hopes Of Running In The 8’s Soon!

The Auction Corvette is no stranger to breaking engines, after all it had done it before Cleetus even bough the damn thing. It has stuck to that script since he did purchase it, and now it is in need...

Save The Link: 2019 Hot Rod Drag Week – Are You Ready To Go?

The annual party of the quarter-mile street-driven freaks that is known as Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week is approaching again. For everyone who wanted an East Coast-biased Drag Week, this year...

Super Semi Pulling Trucks – When In Doubt, Grab A Lower Gear And Give It Hell!

Semi tractors, dump trucks, heavy wreckers…they are all the workhorses of the Interstates, the farms, the factories. You see eighteen wheels, you know that someone is working somewhere and that...

High Roller: Mickey Thompson Offers Its First Off-Road Only Tire – It Is Bad Ass

When one thinks of an “off-highway” performance tire, you’re likely seeing a drag racing slick in your head. What if we told you that Mickey Thompson has just released the off-road...

Romp And Talk Video: Ride With Jim Pace As He Laps Daytona In A Shelby Daytona and Narrates The Lap!

There is nothing like hearing someone who is really good at something describe how to do it…as they do it. In this video we get the road racing version of just that as Jim Pace laps Daytona in...