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Money No Object: This 1972 Pontiac LeMans Convertible Has Us Dreaming Of Warmer Days

If you are one of the people who clamor for the first snowfall of the year, I single-handedly blame you for the current situation outside of my front door. It is a misty, gray, muddy mess at...

Big Toys: Mega Truck Short Course Racing From Tulsa Raceway Park

Mega trucks are a curious thing. They are like art in a way: they only exist for the sake of existing. They don’t work. They don’t have any intrinsic purpose other than bringing...

Unveiled: 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 – Heeere, Kitty Kitty…

In the late 1960s, the fight wasn’t so much Mustang versus Camaro as it was Ford versus Mopar. The setting was NASCAR, the cars were the special aerodynamically-tuned jobs and the speeds were...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Most Embarrassing Mechanical Mistake You’ve Made?

For all you yukksters out there, skip answers like, “Buying a Ford/Chevrolet/Dodge” that’s not the intention of this question. No, we want to know a screw up you have made while...

Hover Torquer: This Video Feature Of A Wildly Low Slung 1958 Ford C550 Is Awesome – Cummins Power, Burnouts, More!

This is one wild truck. It has the visual impact of a sledgehammer and the truck has a cool backstory and build story as well. The 1958 Ford C550 cab was found intact in a junkyard and the cab along...

This Little 1970 Datsun U521 Crew Cab Truck Is Rare, Weird, and Kind Of Awesome

As we speed toward our 30,000th blog item here at BangShift there are some things that continue to surprise us. Firstly is seeing a car or a type of car that we have never seen before or never knew...

Watch This Awesome Saab Sonnett Bonneville Record Holder Make A Dyno Pull With Its 3-Cylinder 2-Stroke Engine!

The Saab Sonnett was a minuscule sports car offered by the Swedish company in three different generations. Small, light, front wheel drive, and fun to operate, they were not sold in huge numbers here...

Got A 2015-2018 Polaris RZR 900 or 900S? You Need This New Flowmaster XDR Bolt on Exhaust

The world of side by side and UTV performance is expanding at a rate faster than the galaxy is. These things have become a hot rodder’s dream with stout engines from the factory that can be hot...

Rough Start: This 1963 Chrysler Newport Is Unrealistically Clean!

Before you start, I didn’t pick this thing for our latest cheap-car hunt because it’s a Mopar. I mean that. Trust me, at the hour that I’m writing, I would’ve taken anything...

Want To Build The Coolest Small Block Ford You Can? Buy This Gurney-Weslake Top End Package – Vintage Power!

We know, we know. Modern heads make more power. Modern heads move more air. Modern heads have decades and decades of development behind them. All thats fine but there ain’t a modern head that...

The Long-Term Project: This 1977 Pontiac Grand Prix Has Quite The Story Under It’s Faded Paint!

With all of the “how have you aged” photos flying around Facebook, I decided one night that instead of blindly just putting up an old and new photo of myself, I’d instead take a...

Mid-West Pro Mod Series Is Adding Two New Classes: Top Sportsman And Top Dragster, To 2019 Season!

In an announcement yesterday evening, Keith Haney announced a couple of new additions for the 2019 Mid-West Pro Mod Series. We’ve been working in close proximity with MWPM since early on,...

The Homecoming Rescue: Waking Up A 1991 Firebird After Years Of Sitting

The best part of the story of this rescued and revived 1991 Pontiac Firebird is much more than getting lucky and scoring a pretty decent third-gen F-body for damn near nothing. It has nothing to do...

Rough Start: Want An Aussie Falcon But Need Space? This 1977 Ford Falcon XC GS Panelvan Should Do The Trick!

This time around, I’m taking the Rough Start project hunting abroad once again! As usual, there have to be slight adaptations to the program, so before we get into the vehicle of choice,...