eBay Find: This Wide-Body, Minilite Equipped Bugeye Sprite Is Awesome And Needs More Power
It isn’t all muscle cars and lumbering trucks that fill my list of automotive wants. In fact, there are some little cars on the list as well. I’d love to have an MG GT, Sunbeam Tiger,...
BangShift Speed Records: A Brief History Of Plymouth Duster Jingles Past and Past-er
(By Eric Rood) – Plymouth used the Duster moniker not once but twice in the space of a couple decades and managed to churn out some quality of-their-time jingles for the respective...
This 1972 Porsche 914 Could Be A Riot On The Autocross
Back in the day I used to run at the Porsche Club autocross events in Weatherford Texas. And one thing I remember about those events was how fast the Porsche 914 guys were. The cars are tiny, a V8...
Kevin Tetz Shows Us How To Set And Massage The Door Gaps On Your Old Hot Rod
Bodywork is one of the most intimidating parts of building a hot rod. It is the part a lot of people dread, and with good reason. Doing it wrong can ruin a lot of good stuff. Or so we think. Kevin...
Unique Beauty: Check Out This Unique 1961 Vignale Bodied Corvette And The Story Behind It
It is kind of sad that we live in the post coach builder era. Yes, there are amazing metal artists that are still making things. Guys like Rob Ida, the Marcels, and others still have the old world...
Bimmer Kart: This V12 Powered Rig Looks Fun! Why Has No One Made A Race Series Yet?
Ok we can’t stand it any longer. After watching this video of something that have dubbed the “Bimmer Kart” we’re demanding that someone out there make a racing series for...
Home Grown Dukes Of Hazzard Fun: It’s Amazing What Fun A $200 Beater Can Be!
For years I’ve been saying that I want to get a few buddies together and have each of us buy a $200 car and then go out and thrash it in the dirt. Or on the dragstrip. Or… well you get...
Winter Rally Madness: The Action And Carnage From The Jari-Pekka Junior WRC Rally In Finland
As I type this, snow is dumping on BangShift Mid-West HQ for the third time in two weeks, and just as the last of the second storm had melted off. It’s no secret that I’m not a winter...
Roadtrippin’: Being In The Moment And Nearly Missing It… My Day With The Unsers
(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) One of the car shows I went to this past summer was the Goodguys “Day In The Hay” that was held in Lincoln, Nebraska in July. I found out about the...
Another Ice Racing Camaro: 454 And Spiked Dual Tires At All Four Corners!
Apparently mid-1970s Chevrolet Camaros are the vehicle of choice to blast around the frozen lakes of Finland. Who knew…around the U.S. they are either the poor man’s split-bumper Camaro...
Racer Scott Tucker Arrested – Made Billions, Plowed 67-Million Into Racing, Charged With Nine Counts In Federal Court
The high flying, fast living, live on the edge lifestyle of racing attracts a certain type of person and over the years these “certain types of people” have (on occasion) proven...
This Buick Regal RS Is The Only T-Top Equipped, Corduroy Interior, GM A-Body We’ve Ever Seen
This just might be the strangest GM A-Body we’ve ever seen. When Chris Todd sent us the link to this one on Craigslist, he said that he’d never seen one before and hoped we would dig it...
Watch This Ford Fiesta Rally Car Jump Half A Football Field At Rally Sweden! Woah Mamma!
(By Eric Rood) – Ah, Rally Sweden, the world’s best snow rally. When not contending with mixed ice and snow conditions on the country’s back roads, drivers are fighting the difficulty of...
This 1970 Dodge D100 May Be The Neatest Pickup Truck We’ve Seen – Awesome In Every Way
There was flood of words that come to the tip of my tongue when I saw this truck and none of them are printable. I unabashedly love every inch of this rig and what’s even better than the looks...
