Category Archive: 1320 Cars With Doors Feature, 1320 Drag Racing Feature, BangShift 1320
SEMA 2017 Coverage: Wagler Competition Products Unveils Diesel Pro Mod, We Swoon
Ok look, I may be a teense jaded. I get to see awesome drag racing iron on a weekly basis around the country so it really takes something bad ass to get my attention. This got my attention. Wagner...
SEMA 2017 Vehicle Spotlight: The Hellcat Powered Prius From American Racing Headers Is Epic In Every Way
Not every car at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas is designed to impress because of classic styling or epic performance. Some are there just to grab as much attention as possible using pure obnoxiousness,...
Surprise! This 1970 Challenger Looks Like A Concours Resto But It Runs Low 11s!
So sometimes I get to twirl the electronic pen for the pages of Mopar Muscle magazine and some of the car features that I get to do are pretty sweet. Take this 1970 Challenger for example. The car...
Jimmy Daniels Two-For-Two At US Nationals Mopar HEMI® Challenge
(Photos courtesy of Mopar Motorsports) Second generation Mopar racer Jimmy Daniels is now two-for-two in the Mopar HEMI® Challenge. The 21-year-old driver from Yardley, Pennsylvania, made...
Pro Stock’s Allen Johnson Calls It Quits After 2017 Season
(Photos Bob Wingfield, Jeff Burghardt, Mike Burghardt and Mopar Motorsports) One of the last remaining non-Chevrolet NHRA Pro Stock racers, Allen Johnson, has carried the Mopar flag for his entire...
Anything Goes: This 2007 Dodge Charger Daytona Can Do Just About Everything!
Early on Sunday morning, as Haley and I were packing up Angry Grandpa for the long drive back to Kentucky, few cars remained from the MSHS group that we had been hanging around with all week. One...
The Pat Foster Driven, Woody Gilmore Rear Engine Dragster Came Before Garlits And Almost Killed Him!
(Photos by Mr. Wanbaugh) Pat Foster was a certifiable bad ass in the drag racing world, although most probably know him as one of the pioneer Funny Car drivers, not the driver of Woody...
Bonneville Legend: Art Arfons’ Cyclops – Up Close And Personal
Art Arfons’s famed Cyclops jet dragster was a prolific machine in its time. The giant jet engine on wheels held Bonneville records (one of which still stands), was converted into a boat for a...
1987 NHRA World Finals Pit and Action Gallery: One Man’s 6,000 Mile Journey On Film
(Words and photos by Benoit Pigeon) – I can’t say it’s my best work ever when it comes to photography. Far from it and my low end scanner probably did not improve the situation, but...
How To Make Money Building A Race Car: The 12.99 Dart Is A Lesson In Frugality You Need
There has been a push for the last twenty or so years to make your car be and do just about everything. It’s the essence of Pro Touring: classic looks, modern performance, comfy cruiser, brutal...
Ate Up With Motor: The Metronome – The Craziest Car In English Drag Racing History
Most people in the USA have never seen or heard of a Bond Bug micro car unless you watch the rebroadcasts of the English car show Wheeler Dealers or you’ve run into one at a museum. A Bond Bug...
Watch This Awesome Sleeper Saturn SL2 Destroy A Fifth Gen Camaro On The Strip
BangShifter Scott Sousa has one of the most awesome little humiliation machines we have ever seen and he was cool enough to send us the inside dirt on the car along with the some video of the thing...
Pretty/Wicked: Justin Moses’s 1956 Chevy Steals The Show, Then Puts One On!
At an event like the Holley Hot Rod Reunion, it’s very, very difficult to stand out when everybody and their mother is trying to stand out. You have to have an “X-factor”, something...
Father’s Day Fun: Streamliner Has A 30 Cubic Engine And Is Faster Than Any Lamborghini Ever Built
So you think you are good at hot rodding? You may be, but you are nowhere as good as Mark Lingua. Mark is the guy who dreamed up, built, and drives the streamliner below. The machine is classified as...