Category Archive: 1320 Cars With Doors Feature, BangShift 1320

Just Add Salt: This 1931 Model A May Live In Massachusetts But It Has The True Spirit Of An Ancient Salt Running Hot Rod

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – Sometimes simplicity can be jaw-droppingly cool and that is the case with this 1931 Ford Model A (with ’32 grill shell) owned by Jesse Treveloni of...

Step Aside Sonny: Rich Sedelnick Is Still Pounding Drag Strips All Over New England At 81 Years Old

(Words and photos by Mike Bradford) – Since the beginning of time men have searched near and far for ways to live longer and happier lives.  The fountain of youth may be a mythical glowing...

Car Feature: A 1935 Chevy Gasser That Is The Picture Of Perfection – Olds Motored Glory!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – See, when I saw this stunning 1935 Chevy coupe parked in the car show section at Beech Bend Raceway during the Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion, I immediately...

A Multitude Of Mopar Magnificence: Check Out This Group Of Awesome Street and Strip Chryslers

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – I will state again for the record that I am not a Mopar person. I’ve been playing with Chevy for a long time so its what I know, but I like virtually...

Project FatLane Is Done, Delivered, And Preparing To Terrorize Drag Strips With Six Second Fury – Here’s A Look At The Final Product

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – For a couple of years we have been showing you the incremental progress of a car we dubbed FatLane, a Ford Fairlane being built to run in some Outlaw small tire...

Toyota’s Wild Flip Top, Supercharged V8, Production Bodied Funny Car Is Even More Awesome In Person – Yes, We Just Said Camry And Awesome

Yesterday McTaggart ran a press release about a crazy SEMA car that Toyota had built to display at the show. When I first saw the release, my head about spun around because I have been zipping all...

Mustang King Cobra Bows With All Of Ford Racing’s Bolt-On Parts, Bringing Over 600HP To The Street

Um…what about the Mustang II? While we’ve got nothing against the Mustang II King Cobra, the truth is it was a malaise-era muscle car that looked more than it actually did. But after...

SEMA 2013 Mini-Feature: Galpin Ford’s Recreation Of The Awesome Backup Pickup Wheelstander Rules

Editor’s note: Our 2014 SEMA show coverage will begin in earnest on Monday, so this weekend we’re looking back at least year’s show to get you revved up! So the SEMA 2013 hits keep...

The Larson Race Cars ZL1 Camaro – A Twin Turbo Big Block, Back Half, Drag Week Destroyer! All Modern Stuff Still Works!

Apparently Larry Larson has fully recovered from the post traumatic stress of Drag Week 2015 because he rolled one of the coolest cars in the history of the world out of his shop yesterday. This 2013...

Bayou Bomb: Leroy Brown Is Heading For The 8s – Here’s A Last Look At One Of The Tamest Looking Deep 9-second Street Cars In America

(Photos by Charles Wickam) We’re breaking from normal protocol here. Why? Normally when a car owner tells us that he’s going to be blowing the car apart to make changes that should speed...

Car Feature: This 1971 Nova Has Big Cubes, Big Compression, A Big Cam, A Classic Looks That We Love

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Tommy Keeton of West Liberty, KY owns this Autumn Gold ’71 Nova SS.  We met Tommy for the first time at the 2014 Boonesborough Boogie Nationals held...

Drag Week Uncensored Part 1: What It’s Really Like To Drive A 6 Second S10 Cross Country!

When normal people are standing around looking at a car, where something about it causes a wee bit of concern due to the extreme nature, impromptu repair, or what have you, I’m often excited at...

We Want It: This Weathered Impala SS Is Sleeper Perfection!

Our buddy Jeff Lee was either trolling us or was just showing off sending us pictures for this particular Impala SS. The first picture showed the big black Chevy sitting in the driveway looking like...

Elephants At INDY, Charlie Wescott Jr. Leads The Herd At Mopar HEMI Challenge

For many of us, the sound of a pair of mid-60’s Chrysler Hemi’s is music and these rare, high dollar racecars always put on a killer show with twenty-six of them towing into Indy for the 60th US...