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Stop Your Whining!!! Do Burnouts At Home While Your Stuck Waiting Out The Virus And Send In Video! Finnegan Did!

DISCLAIMER: We are not legal experts, do this at your own risk. Crash your junk in your driveway doing burnouts? On you. Get the cops called and have to try not to get arrested? On you. Get fined for...

This Custom 1978 Chevrolet Dually Suburban Will Scare Away Chuck Norris AND The Coronavirus

Everyone that reads BANGshift knows that I’m a huge fan of duallies, and Suburbans, so it should come as no surprise to any of you that I LOVE dually Suburbans. Mind you, if I had my dream...

Underwater Treasure Hunting: Pulling A 1973 Ford Mustang Mach 1 Out Of A River After 40 Years!

What’s the quickest and most sure-fire way to guarantee that nobody is going to come looking for a car that you never want to see the light of day again? You sink it. Don’t ask how I know...

Hide In The Boondocks Or The Backcountry In This 1968 Jeep M715!

Boy oh boy, these are some strange days we live in, right? Kind of makes you want to just pack up a bug-out bag and head out to the furthest point away from humanity and proceed to shelter in place...

Alternate Reality: What Would A Front-Engined C8 Corvette Look Like?

The C8 Corvette is the biggest shift in Corvette design since the C4 appeared in 1984, one year late and radically different from the long-in-the-tooth C3 design that had made the transition from...

BACK TO THE ’80s! The 5.0 Battle. TPI Small Block Chevrolet VS The Famed 5.0 Ford. Parts, Boost, And More!

I remember when a 5.0 Fox Body was a fast car. Back when nothing made horsepower from the factory and the LX 5.0 was the lightest most powerful combo you could get. I hated them, even though I...

American Powertrain Stimulus Sale! Save $250, Free Shipping, Free T-Shirt, Interest Free Financing, Layaway, And Price Matching!

The gang at American Powertrain are a dedicated group that loves hot rods, motorsports, and racing as much as the rest of us. They are a small business that is made of great people, making great...

Quarantine Project Hour: Turn A Small Trailer Into An Engine Test Stand!

One of the biggest things that drove me nuts while rebuilding the 367ci small-block Chrysler for the Imperial was that I couldn’t run the engine until I dumped it into the car. That part drove...

Someone Peeked At Toyota’s Two-Year Product Plan – What’s Coming? Something Fast And Cool It Seems

(Words by Tom Lohnes) – Toyota being one of the largest automotive manufacturers in the world constantly has to keep their lineup fresh. Lately they’ve kind of been slacking off with the...

Cynthiana Rod Run Show Coverage: Fun BangShifty Cars and Trucks From The Awesome Show In Kentucky

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) –  Square-bodies, Mopars, and really big trucks.  See what happens when you move in closer to the city’s center.  This is getting into the premium spots...

Rough Start: 1977 American Motors Hornet AMX – Here’s Your Chance, Rambler Fans!

Rough Start hunting AMC products is a challenge. It isn’t everyday that I find one worth posting up, even rarer if I find one worth posting up that isn’t an Eagle of some kind....

This Film Featuring Late 1950s Drag Racing At Sanford, Maine Is Spectacular – Horsepower Time Travel

In these weird times we’re all kind of looking for something simpler, right? Well it got no simpler than drag racing in the late 1950s. Car Clubs would get together on the weekends,...

Copart Cadaver: 2010 Dodge Charger – Time For A Ute Conversion!

When it hit the market in 2006, the Dodge Charger proved to be two things at once. It was the answer to the prayers of the V8, RWD Mopar faithful, the police who sorely missed the Diplomat and the...

Not Your Father’s Oldsmobile: This Review Of The 1987 Olds Cutlass Calais International Is Cool – A Pocket Rocket From GM

I absolutely love these Retro-Reviews because they are perfect for putting us back in the right context of looking at old cars when they were new. Cars that we think were OK, cars that we think were...