The TRUTH About Oil Additives Revealed, With Real Test Results From The Motor Oil Geek

There are too many Oil Treatments and Additives to count nowadays, and many of them make claims that are hard to believe. Over the years there have been so many of them and while some have good...

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Aftermarket Gossip: Is a Manual C8 Corvette Actually Happening? TREMEC’s Aftermarket Chief Tells All!

I realize the numbers are small, but there are people out there that would like a C8 Corvette with a clutch pedal. And as a guy who drives a stick shift car most days, I understand the allure. But I...

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How to Start a 1990s Formula 1 Engine: You Mean You Don’t Just Pump It Twice And Then Turn The Key?

I’ve been fortunate enough to be around a lot of cool race engines over the years, and a handful of them have had very particular startup procedures. A Dodge NASCAR R5P7 for example that came...

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1972 Chevrolet Crash Test Video: Watch A 1972 Chevrolet Vega Crash Head On Into A 1972 Chevrolet Impala For Science

Everyone thinks of a Vega as being super small, because it was a compact car back in the day, and that an Impala is super huge because at the time they really were and especially when compared to a...

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Build Your Own Vapor Blaster At Home With A Harbor Freight Blast Cabinet, Including a Full Parts List!

Vapor blasting, or wet blasting as many people call it, is a media or sand blasting method that uses water and sometimes an added detergent. The water and abrasives combine to clean and slightly...

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LIVE RACING ACTION | Sepang | GT World Challenge Asia powered by AWS 2026 Race 1 and 2

Here we go again! We’ve got GT World Challenge Racing going on live right here, and we dig road racing and who doesn’t love the World Challenge series? This weekends racing is coming to you live...

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2017 Hot Rod Hullabaloo Photo Coverage: Another Blast Of BangShifty Iron To Feast Your Eyes On

(Photos and words by Doug Gregory) – The Hullabaloo brings out some pretty trick stuff and this Fox-body notch is one prime example.  The routing, craftsmanship, and attention to detail under...

Houston Autorama Coverage: More Hot Rods, Trucks, Sleds, and Muscle!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – We’re back with more killer photos from the Houston Autorama taken by the guy who has been their anchor photographer for a few years now, our own Charles...

Houston Autorama Coverage: Freezing Cold At Home? Come On In And Warm Up With These Snaps

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – So most of the nation, like 90% of it is in the middle of an insane cold snap. We’re talking second ice age stuff in some places like BangShift eastern world...

Swapping an S10/S15 T-5 Transmission Into Your Hot Rod? Hurst Has Your Shifter Needs Covered With The Blackjack

These days many people are swapping GM T-5 manual transmissions into their hot rod projects. These are the transmissions commonly found in S10 and S15 trucks from years back and they can be bought...

2017 Hot Rod Hullabaloo Coverage: Our Third Big Gallery From The Show – These Photos Will Warm You Up!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Back again with more Hullabaloo coverage.  Contract St. in Lexington, KY is closed off and most of the businesses have emptied their parking lots to allow...

Landon Simon To Field Two Cars At 2018 Chili Bowl Nationals

Landon Simon Racing will field two cars this year at the 32nd annual running of the Chili Bowl Nationals presented by General Tire, Jan. 9-13 in Tulsa, Okla. Team owner and Sprint Car driver Landon...

2017 Photo Highlight Reel: David Whealon Picks His Favorites (Part 1)

(Images by David Whealon) – David Whealon has joined in the fun with a killer photo review of 2017. He has picked hundreds of his favorite snaps from the year and we arguing to be serving them...

2017 Hot Rod Hullabaloo Photo Coverage: Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, Trucks, and More

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Not quite sure why donations were down from previous years though attendance was higher.  Shelby’s Way is a worthy cause and since the Hullabaloo is...

2017 Photo Highlight Reel: Benoit Pigeon Picks His Favorite Images Of The Year That Was

(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – We love when our contributing photographers put together image galleries like this. Benoit Pigeon sent in his 2017 photo highlight reel and as you’d expect...

2017 Hot Rod Hullabaloo Coverage: A Fantastic Event For A Fantastic Cause

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Back again for another awesome event supporting suicide prevention through Shelby’s Way.  We’ve brought you coverage of these before and the event on...

It Lives Again! Irwindale Speedway Gets A Reprieve From Becoming Yet Another Mall

Eff you, shopping mall, Irwindale will live on. The track, which was supposed to run it’s last ever event at the end of January before being leveled down and turned into yet another shrine to...

This Rally-Racing Plymouth Valiant Rules! Watch This Classic A-body Tear Through The Forests!

Just like the Ford Falcon and the Chevy II, the Valiant was only meant to be the compact car that buyers wanted, that Detroit really didn’t want to build. Just like the other two, the Valiant...

Best of BS 2017: The Superformance Drift Cobra: A Supercharged Coyote Equals All Anger, All The Time!

Prior to BangShift, the loudest and most brash section of my life was the military. Every day started pretty much the same way: I drug my tired (and probably hung over) ass out of bed, I somehow...

Round 4 Of Our Sheely Charity Autocross Coverage Photos

(Photos by Cole Reynolds) Yesterday we shared the third gallery of photos from the Sheely Collection Charity Autocross in Fontana, and here is the fourth gallery to enjoy while hanging out and being...