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Category Archive: BangShift Galleries, Car Shows, CAR SHOWS, Event Coverage, Gallery, MOPAR

ChallengerFest 7 Gallery: Take A Tour Of The Parking Lot Festivities During Friday’s Car Show!

What was supposed to be an awesome day of Modern Street Hemi Shootout racing on Friday turned into Mother Nature’s temper tantrum. Shortly after qualification runs started, the clouds rolled...

Hot Rod Garage Makes A 512 Cubic Inch Stroker Out Of A Throwaway Block And Jams It Into This Awesome Fury Station Wagon!

Laying around in the Hot Rod Garage arena was one particular 400 cubic inch Mopar big-block. And it had a sad tale: it was in the truck that Freiburger originally bought to use as an engine donor for...

Carnage At ChallengerFest7: Slicks Plus Traction Equals Big Breakage, As We Will Now Demonstrate…

If there was a noise when it happened, it was drowned out by burnouts. All we knew was that one car refused to burn out and the driver kept pointing to the black Dodge Challenger that was coasting...

Rough Start: Stuffing Ten Pounds Into A Five-Pound Bag With A 440-Powered Chrysler PT Cruiser!

Chrysler’s PT Cruiser was a hit for the company at the turn of the millennium. Funky micro hot-rod styling, Neon underpinnings, and a cute and friendly aura that seemed to just draw in the...

eBay Find: The 1979 Cadimino. Luxury, Meet Utility, Homebuilt Ingenuity, And Open-Air Motoring!

We would love to have been nearby when this idea was hatched: take the nose of a 1979 Cadillac, graft it onto the back half of a stepside Chevy truck, hack the roof off, dress the interior up, and do...

Hellcat Everything! Modern Mopar Extreme Is Now Offering 6.2L Hellcat Hemi Crate Engine

It’s six-point-two liters of barely contained, all-American anger being force-fed by a 2.3L IHI supercharger. It produces enough torque to pin a driver so hard into the seat that it hurts, and...

Roadkill’s Muscle Truck Is Up For Auction! If You Have Lusted After The Loud And Proud Chevy C-10, Now’s Your Chance!

Here is a surprise we weren’t ready to see…the Muscle Truck, Roadkill’s 1974 Chevrolet C-10 stepside, is currently sitting on eBay on auction! The Chevrolet has a strong connection...

This 1977 Chevrolet Malibu Would Make A Killer Sleeper…It Already Has The Look!

Lately, there has been this strange desire that has been haunting me, one that will only be satisfied by a crew-cab sleeper of a car. I want the outside to look like nothing special is going...

Watch This Dodge Dakota Drag A Volvo Tractor To Bump-Start It After The Starter Goes Out!

We’d be lying if we told you that we know all of the details about what is going on in this video. We do know that the Volvo semi tractor’s starter completely and utterly kicked the...

ChallengerFest 7 Is Here! We Scope Out The Early Arrivals, From Awesome Street Cars To Some Serious Third-Gen Hemi Racers!

ChallengerFest 7, sponsored by Billet Technology, has officially kicked off in Bowling Green and we are there covering everything there is to cover! We were impressed with not only the quantity but...

eBay Find: A Late 1970s Chrysler Turbine Engine Is Up For Grabs! Quick, Find An Engineless Aspen!

Chrysler’s turbine program was all but done by the late 1970s. After getting mixed reactions with the Turbine Car testing program of the mid 1960s, the company had returned to creating a few...

Having Your Cake And Eating It Too: This 1971 Dodge Station Wagon Rocks A 440 And A Four-Speed!

The kid in you wanted the Road Runner in SubLime Green, with the Hemi, four-speed, N60s and air shocks in the back to kick the tail up just a little bit. The mature adult in you wanted the GTX 440...

Don’t Tell Chad: This 1981 Toyota SR5 Dually And It’s Sunraider Fifth Wheel Camper Trailer Are On eBay Right Now!

We all know that Chad’s weak in the knees for any recreational vehicle that is cool, and he’s also got a thing for small trucks. That means that I might be hearing an earful once the man...

Rough Start: We Have One Good Reason Why You Should Buy Into A 1989 Buick LeSabre T-Type?

As soon as the Grand National was killed off, Buick found themselves in a strange predicament: should they continue to run with the successes that the Grand National and T-type had brought them...