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The $6.5 Million Dollar Beauty: Italian Maker Pagani Tries To Top Itself With The Pagani Huayra Tricolore

(By Tom Lohnes) – 10 years ago, Pagani dropped 10 of its most beautiful, most expensive cars yet, the $1,470,000 Zonda Tricolore. Well, now it’s back, just 5 million dollars more and in...

Dyno Shootout Fun: Watch The Most Popular LSx Intake Manifolds On The Market Battle Head To Head!

The battle for the hearts and minds of aftermarket shoppers is raging, especially in the LSx world. Over the course of a year that saw so many facets of the world really suffer, the high performance...

Project Henry’s Hot Rod Video Update: The World’s Quickest And Easiest Swap Is Complete

If there was one thing that has been bugging me since taking our little Ford N-series project tractor home it was the stack exhaust that someone had added over the years. Not pleasing to the eye, not...

Video Bonanza: Indoor Burnouts!

Blame my son Tom for this blog item because it was his idea. Being that it was really cold at BangShift eastern world HQ yesterday morning and we were trolling YouTube together he mentioned that it...

This 1960 GMC Video Heralds The Introduction Of The Latest Heavy Duty Trucks, Including The Famed Crackerbox

Here’s a short and sweet video from the GM Heritage Center that harks back to 1960 and the introduction of GMCs new heavy duty truck models. The main star of the show is a Viking cab-over truck...

Best of 2020: Early Camaro Cup Footage From Sweden

The mythos of musclecars spread worldwide. Japan, the Middle East, Europe, South America, Australia…between 1960 and 1980, depending on where you are at, somehow American musclecars impacted...

Best of 2020: How Lee Iacocca Almost Got A Lamborghini Edition Chrysler Imperial

(Imperial and Daytona renderings: Abimelec Design) It would be unfair to say that Lee Iacocca wasn’t a genius. Over his almost half-century in the auto game, the man had a ton of credits to his...

Best of 2020: WRONG LEVER! A Passenger In A French Military Jet Thought The Eject Handle Was The “Oh, S***” Handle!

What would your reaction be if your friends hooked you up with a ride in a no-joke supersonic fighter jet? We’re not talking an airshow cruise, we’re talking the full suit, the g-lock...

Best of 2020: The Social Distance Bike, Courtesy Of The Mad Inventor

Six feet apart. That’s the current rule, ain’t it? Be six feet apart or you’re going to catch the 21st century plague of the moment. Six feet apart or Brenda there is going to give...

Best of 2020: Boeing B-52 Stratofortress On Takeoff From The Cockpit

I first saw a B-52 mounted on posts on the grounds of the Air Force Academy. 55-0083, a B-52D model in full olive camo color, made for an imposing sight for a mounted aircraft. My grandfather...

TREMEC Releases New TKX 5-Speed RWD Transmission- Available through McLeod Racing

You’ve had a good Christmas, Santa or whoever else was good to you. Now’s the time to do what you have been wanting to do t your hot rod since forever…add a TREMEC transmission....

Coolest Kit Car Ever? Turn A Mazda Miata Into A Pre-War Alfa Romeo Tipo 184 At Home! This is Wild!

Do you have a spare Mazda Miata sitting around? Do you dream of driving a prewar, single seater racecar one day? Well, grab your wrenches because you’ve got work to do. Yes that’s right, you...

Watch A VW Powered Front Engine Dragster Run 6.52 In The Quarter Mile – Fear The Nail!

Of all the awesome stuff that we saw during the course of the 2014 Street Car Super Nationals, the crew from VW Paradise had a couple of the coolest cars. These were aircooled VWs running deep into...

A Go-Kart Sized Monster Truck With A Big Block Chevy Engine Looks Like One Heck Of A Good Time

If there was a record for the most favorable power to weight ratio, we’re thinking that the creation in the video below certainly qualifies. We’re talking about a miniature monster truck,...