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Amazing Find: This 1950s Custom Sports Car Was Dragged Out Of Storage, Is For Sale – Kaiser Henry J Based!

Banghifter Rob Miller gets all the credit for sending us this pretty incredible Craigslist find which is centered around a custom built sport cars from the 1950s that is based on a Kaiser Henry J...

BangShift Question Of The Day: How Bad Did You Kill The Engine In Your Daily?

There are few noises that will leave a brick in your stomach quite like a repetitive “chirp” noise with a vibration as your engine’s power falls off of a cliff. It only means one...

Tanglefoot: Uncle Tony Checks Up On His Buddy Lamchop And His Nova Gasser!

The car is called “Tanglefoot”. It’s an old Nova that’s set up as a gasser, and is undergoing it’s shop time in order to come to the strip swinging, 400 Chevy on the...

Basically Brutal: Watch This Paxton Supercharged, Holley EFI Equipped, Stock Bottom End 302 Mustang Make Power On The Dyno

This right here is BangShifty as hell. It has been a long time since we saw someone doing some stuff stuff with a stock bottom end 302ci Ford in a Fox Mustang and when we stumbled upon this video we...

Truly Cherry: This 1993 Ford Bronco Is A Five-Speed Throwback To Good Old Trucks

In order to explain why this truck screams out to me, I have to go back into my history, specifically January 20th, 1993. I’d been living in Washington State for days at this point, having...

Engine Tech: How To Check Piston To Valve Clearance Two Different Ways – Using Clay or Using A Dial Indicator

It’s kind of funny. Lots of our lives are spent in a rush, right? Trying to make time for the stuff we want to do after finishing the stuff we have to do. If there is one thing we know...

A 572 Hemi-Powered Dodge Polara Coupe In All Green…There Is A Heaven! Watch This Big Barge Take A Run Down The Quarter

The note from Scott Liggett was simple and succinct: “I know you like the big cars.” And he isn’t kidding…properly powerful big coupes are a weakness of mine, but an...

Road Race Battle Video: Watch This GT350 Dice and Slice At Road Atlanta – Crank Up The Speakers!

While nostalgia drag racing is totally awesome and something that we have long loved around here, historic style road racing kind of brings the old school competition up another gear, right? Unlike...

Ported Or Manifold Vacuum Advance: Where To Source And When?

You know that whole thing about “you’re never too old to learn”? Yeah…let’s talk tuning for a second. What I know about tuning is just enough to be dangerous. I can set...

History Fun: How Two Drag Racers With The Wrong Car Set The World’s Closed Course Speed Record In 1961 – Great Story

If you love a good racing story that takes interesting people, a weird car, and a big payoff, this is the one for you. This is the story of Bob Osiecki and Art Malone taking on the scariest speed...

Mark Williams Enterprises Off-Road Brake Kits Reduce Unsprung Weight, Deliver Precise Braking Control

We know Mark Williams Enterprises makes driveline parts that are used in many different racing applications but did you know that the company has a line off-road brake kits for hardcore off-road...

Wrecking Machine: A Guy Named Ben Chen Wrecked A Rare Gemballa GT And A Load Of Other Cars On A NYC Street

(By Tom Lohnes) – Ben Chen, the co-founder of the famed gold-rush supercar rally, has done it again. After crashing one of the first Mclaren MP4-12Cs in the United states, a one-of-three...

Volkswagen Vanagon Westfalia: The Rolling Micro-Hotel That Is Still Adored

In 1989, I was a tubby little six-year-old with almost no adult supervision worth mentioning and all the freedom in the world. The only thing that kept me from being considered feral by the local...

Let Wink Martindale Sell You On The Greatness Of The 1978 Dodge Diplomat Line – Cars We Never Knew Existed

I guessed I missed a day in obscure Chrysler history class. I never knew there was such a thing as a 1978 Dodge Diplomat and I sure as hell did not know that there was a 1978 Dodge Diplomat Medallion...