Tool Tech: Have You Ever Seen A Screwdriver This Good? Testing And Reviewing Precision And Electric Screwdrivers

Let’s face it, there are plenty of times that the tools we are using on our hot rods and race cars are about as rudamentary as can be. Hammers, pry bars, even screw drivers sometimes. But then...

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What If You Could Buy A $25K EV Truck or SUV That You Can Repair Yourself? Does That Change The Game? Meet The Slate Truck

One of the many complaints that automotive enthusiasts have about electric vehicles is that they can’t work on them themselves because they are dangerous and require special tools. And while...

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Ed Iskenderian, The CamFather And Hot Rodding’s Oldest Living Legend, Has Died At The Age Of 104. Thanks For All The Speed Ed!

Ed Iskenderian, at 104 years old, was the oldest living hot rodder on earth! And as my friend David Freiburger wrote on Facebook, “If you define ‘hot rodding pioneer’ as...

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Freiburger and Finnegan Q&A: While They Cross-Country The Limo Truck, Finnegan Interviews Freiburger And Here’s All The Answers!!

Everyone loves a good Q&A session with their favorite car guys, and this one here is coming to you from Finnegan and Freiburger, who are road tripping the limo crew cab truck across the country...

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Electrical Tech: WIRE CRIMPING 101 – How to Crimp Open Barrel Terminals Like a PRO! (Wire Selection Included)

There is a lot of wiring going on in your average newer built hot rod, what with EFI and electric everything and all that. But even if you have an older, or more traditional, ride there are still...

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Nicole Baird’s Blue Ribbon 1932 Ford Roadster built by Squeeg’s Kustoms Win’s America’s Most Beautiful Roadster At GNRS 2026!

This year’s cars that were competing for America’s Most Beautiful Roadster were as diverse as I’ve ever seen, and while I thought all of them were beautifully done cars, there were...

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2015 Goodguys Lone Star Nationals Autocross Action! See The RideTech 48-Hour Corvette In Action!

(Photos by Jason Brady/RideTech) – The skies may have been gray but the action between the cones at the 2015 Goodguys Lone Star Nationals autocross was red hot. Headlined by the awesome and...

It’s A Match Made In Drifting Heaven: A $350,000 Lexus LFA With A NASCAR TRD V8

The Lexus LFA is a strange beast of a car, because it’s both a technological demonstration and a completely unnecessary supercar that didn’t sell well. Anybody who has ever heard the 4.8L...

This 1958 Hillman Husky Two-Door Wagon Is Awesome But It Needs More Motor – Do You Agree?

Balance baby, it is all about balance. Ok, most of the time we have no problem with being completely unbalanced and out of our minds around here but there are some cars built by people with restraint...

Watch Brock Yates, Circa 1982 Describe The Way Real Race Fans Feel About Wrecks And The Drivers Who Suffer Them

Brock Yates is now and forever will be one of my favorite automotive journalists. From his books like Sunday Driver and Cannonball to his work for various magazines and his television coverage of...

Random Car Review: 1983 Ferrari BB 512i – My Final Answer To The “Pick A Car From The Year You Were Born” Question

You know that game: “Pick one car from the year you were born!” It’s fine for you older types, because it’s easy to select a cool car. In 1983 the pickings are pretty damn...

This Escort Goes For A Very Violent Crash At The 2014 Urjalan Society Competiton Rally

Jarkko Lankinen and Kari Salminen probably bought their roll cage builder a significant amount of whatever the hell they wanted after this particularly brutal crash at the 2014 Urjalan Rally in...

FY Racing’s Sno*Drift Video Captures A Great Look At Life Behind The Scenes For A Rally Team

Going behind the scenes of a racing team is the only way to get the entire story of what it takes to get man and machine to glory, and there are far more players that anyone would normally realize....

Is The DeltaWing Going To Become A Road Car? It Just Might, If Don Panoz Gets His Way

Panoz has built cars before, but in extremely limited numbers and only in two main models: the Roadster, which dates back to an Irish sports car developed in the early 1980s, and the Esperante, which...

This 1967 Video Shows What The Stock Car Racing Scene Looked Like In Lancaster, New York – Cool Cars!

While stock car racing always gets pegged as being a “southern” sport, history shows that there were guys racing in circles in all parts of the country for decades before the explosion of...

Video: Astoundingly Skilled Gymkhana Driving Action

Everyone and their mother has seen the incredible video of Ken Block wheeling a Subaru through a series of precision driving techniques and obstacles. That style of automotive competition is called a...

Frederick, Maryland Is The Home Of The Only High Wheeler Bicycle Race In America And It Looks Pretty Awesome

It seems funny to think about how revolutionary and game changing bicycles were in the 1800s. Today we just kind of take them for granted as bikes because they are everywhere. Kids have them, people...

It’s Official, Folks: The German Grand Prix Is Dead As Hockenhemiring And Nurburgring Both Back Out Of Talks With F1

For the first time since 1960, there won’t be a German F1 Grand Prix. Both the Nurburgring and Hockenheimring have thrown in the towel in regards to any negotiation with the Formula One Group...

Hotchkis Sport Suspension Goes BIG With Its Autocross Series In 2015 – Events Across The Nation!

It was big news when Hotchkis announced that it would be sponsoring autocross events at venues all across the country in 2015 but they have gone ahead and trumped themselves by growing the number of...

Ford Performance’s Latest Video Puts Vaughn Gitten, Jr. On Ice With His New RTR Competition Mustang

Y’know, something has been missing here on BangShift for the last few months: Ice racing. Yes, we’ve covered tons of snow-based sports, including Red Bull Frozen Rush this year. Yes,...