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2018 Performance Racing Industry Show Photo Coverage: More Cars, Mills, and BangShifty Stuff!
(Photos by the author) – For all the complaining that people want to do about having to go to Indianapolis in the winter for the 2018 Performance Racing Industry Show, it has not slowed the...
Overkill: Twin LS4s Crammed Into An Acura RSX Should Be Fun!
What makes an ordinary, sane individual look at the project car they have going and mutter to themselves, “You know what? I know what this thing needs…another freaking engine. Yeah,...
Flying Cars Video: Free Life Films Collection Of Cars Launching Skyward Is Impressively Insane
The modern landscape of drag racing looks lots different than it did even 20 years ago, especially when we look at performance. Full bodied cars on comparatively tiny rear tires are doing things that...
Dead: Suzuki Hayabusa, The World’s Fastest Production Motorcycle
For almost twenty years, one name has stood above the others in the sport bike world: Hayabusa. The name alone is the Japanese name for the peregrine falcon, a raptor that can easily hit 200 MPH in...
Video: 2018 JE Pistons Masters of Motors At SEMA – Picking The Coolest Engines At The Show!
2018 has been a killer year for experiencing and being involved in cool stuff. A personal highpoint was being part of the judging panel for an innovative new awards program that JE Pistons came up...
BangShift Test Drive: 2019 Challenger R/T Scat Pack Widebody – 485hp, Fender Flares, Tire Smoke, and True Muscle Car Spirit
(Photos by Dave Nutting – Words by Lohnes, Sestito, Nutting) – For a guy who does not own a Challenger, I spend inordinate amounts of time in them. Between spending a week with...
The Bloodhound SSC Project Is Dead: Broke and With No Hope Of Funding, Car Is Being Dismantled, Parts Sold
The most ambitious land speed record project in history is dead. The Bloodhound SSC project, a near decade long undertaking to design, engineer, and build the first car capable of going 1,000mph has...
Money No Object: One Bad, Black Goat – This 1971 Pontiac GTO Is Sublime!
It’s no Tri-Power car, it isn’t a Judge, and it isn’t a even the “right year” for the GTO, whether you believe that’s 1964, 1967, 1969 or 1970. It’s not 100%...
AutoMeter Hot Rod Holiday: EVERYTHING Is On Sale, Literally Everything! Check This Out
Many manufacturers run great sales around the holidays and they typically have some great deals to take advantage of. AutoMeter has taken this concept to the next level with their Hot Rod Holiday...
2018 PRI Show Photo Coverage: More Cars, More Power Plants, More Cool!
(Photos by the author) – We’re continuing on with 2018 PRI show photo coverage today with a collection of images that starts to give a pretty good idea of the cross-section of mechanical...
2018 Pumpkin Run Nationals Coverage: Our Last Photographic Blow Out From The Fall Show!
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – This is the last of our series covering the 2018 Pumpkin Run Nationals in Southwest Ohio. This gallery consists of those machines that either look like...
eBay Find: Have We Actually Reached The Era Of A $55,000 1988 Jeep Grand Wagoneer?
It is the constant debate when we look at everything automotive on eBay. How bad do you want it? How much money do you have to spend? How rare is it? How tough is it to find? These are the things...
Rough Start: Another Clean Oldsmobile Omega? Hey, It’s Christmas…Treat Yourself!
Five thousand dollars…that’s the entirety of the budget that the Rough Start series gets to work with. That’s not purchase price of the car, that’s the entire budget to start...
Thunderstruck: Cleetus’ Auction Corvette Has One Hell Of A Backstory! Hear How The Truck-Engined C6 Came To Be!
Every car has a story. Someone built it, someone bought it as a brand-new car and from the moment it rolled out of the dealership, the chapters unfold. Some cars have nice, boring lives of just...