Category Archive: Apex Online Find, BangShift APEX, BUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, Racing Junk Find
Apex Predator: A 1995 Pontiac Firebird That Is Dying To Hit The Apexes!
In nature, the contrast of black and a bright, vibrant color is usually a form of aposematic coloring. Big word, I know, but you know what it means. When you see a black and white furry animal that...
This Hand Made Steam Engine Took 30 Years To Build And Now It Can Be Yours
Hot rodding is really a singular activity. We all enjoy hanging out with other hot rodders but the things that we do individually, we do for ourselves. Maybe other people like them, maybe they become...
Live Out Your Altered Wheelbase Fantasies With This 1965 Plymouth Belvedere!
This is so freaking awesome we can hardly stand it. You are looking at an altered wheelbase 1965 Plymouth Belvedere that is street legal and packing a cross-ram equipped hemi for power. The inside of...
Morning Symphony: The Daddy Of All Modded Chrysler 300Cs Is Alive Once More – The A-Bom Lives!
In March 2017, one of our favorite builds, a Chrysler 300 SRT-8 from Arizona many know as “A-bom” (read: abomination), the pet monster of “Mad” Matt Leischer, wound up with...
Holley Releases 500 CFM Marine 2-Barrel Avenger Carb – Tuned and Tested For Salt and Freshwater Environments
We know that there are loads of BangShifters out there who like to have fun on the water when they are no in their land locked hot rods. Holley knows that feeding your boat fuel is as (actually more)...
Nicest One On Earth: This 1966 Ford F-260 (yes, 260) Truck Is Incredible
Sometimes you have to hate your friends. I have been searching for a project/old hunk of something for a little while now. I’ve been in this mindset of finding a cool, old four wheel drive...
Hoonigan Is Building A Pit Truck Out Of This Suzuki Carry For A World Class Drift Team!
If you have never dealt with a Kei truck from Japan, you are missing out. It’s difficult to see a vehicle like a Suzuki Carry (pictured) or any of the other micro-trucks, like the Honda Acty or...
Inspiration Video: Greg Mayton’s Twin-Turbocharged 1987 Cougar Lapping At Beech Bend
To start a build of any kind, you need to have some kind of inspiration or vision. I had neither when I dragged the Dirty Cougar home. I had enough money to purchase the Mercury and a suspicion that...
Rescue Me Please: This Donated 1979 Hurst/Olds Is Sitting In A Copart Lot And Is Up For Auction!
Oh, this is sadness. I don’t go on Copart often, but every now and then I’m linked to the site for one reason or another via social media and this time, it’s a heartbeaker. Three...
Aeromotive Named the Official Fuel System for Frank Hawley’s Drag Racing School
It is always neat when two great teams get together for their mutual benefit. In this case it is the team at Aeromotive and the team at Frank Hauley’s Drag Racing School. This is a great deal...
Rough Start: 1989 Merkur XR4ti – Turbo Ford With A German Accent For The Dirt!
At the January King of the Heap race, a Merkur XR4ti showed up. The body had been sitting in a field for quite some time and the engine was fresh enough, but the rumor mill was flying about the...
The American Powertrain Tuesday Shift: A Supercharged Straight Eight, A Clutch Pedal, And A Hill Climb
We live in an exceptionally neat age where things we see on a magazine page will suddenly roar to life in front of our very eyes in video form. That’s exactly what you are about to watch. The...
The Story Of Finnegan’s Box Truck Continues! When A Working Tape Deck Is The Highlight, How Bad Was The Low?
If you didn’t catch the first part of the story of this rather expansive square-body monster that Finnegan bought for himself, you need to check that out first. Trust us, you want and need the...
Money No Object: This 1972 Pontiac LeMans Convertible Has Us Dreaming Of Warmer Days
If you are one of the people who clamor for the first snowfall of the year, I single-handedly blame you for the current situation outside of my front door. It is a misty, gray, muddy mess at...