Category Archive: 1320 Project Cars, BangShift 1320, MOPAR, Project Cars

Stick To The Resolution To Lose The Weight! More Weight Reduction For The Bottle Rocket Coronet!

80% of New Year’s resolutions are worth little more than hot air by the beginning of February. What, did the cheap candy for Valentine’s Day cause you to bail on the diet? You were the...

Drag Action Gallery: More Sportsman and Straight Axle Madness At Historic Thornhill Dragway!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – For those that read and look at my stuff on here it will be no shock to see some images with intentional lens flare.  I like it and will actually seek it...

BangShift Question Of The Day: When Did You Realize That Your Car Was Possessed?

We all know that one scene in the movie “Christine”, where a dejected Arnie, alone with his prized Plymouth, is busy assessing the damage caused by hoodlums. He promises that he will...

2018 Syracuse Nationals Photo Coverage: The Cool Cars And Trucks Of The Northeast Were All There

(Photos by Mike Brooks) – There are car shows and then there are CAR SHOWS, baby! The yearly mechanical orgy known as the Syracuse Nationals falls into the all-caps category of automotive...

This 1993 GMC Sierra GT Runs 8’s With A Small Block And An F2 ProCharger!

Getting a fullsize pickup to haul ass is pretty easy if you take away all the stock everything and slide it over a tube chassis, but if you keep most of the stock truck and then try and run in the...

The Woodsman: This 1972 ex-Forest Service Dodge Power Wagon Is An Awesome Workhorse

For the most part, Lohnes and I can see eye-to-eye on trucks, with a couple of minor indiscretions. He likes older rigs, me not so much. He likes the geared-down, lumbering tractor-like styles of...

Husband, Wife, Girlfriend, Boyfriend, Kids, Or The Dog, Who’s A Better Road Trip Co-Pilot?

Anyone who’s actually been on a road trip with friends, family, or the dog, knows that there are challenges with all of them. Where to eat, where to stop, where to stay, what to do at each...

Scaled Land Speed Attempt: How Fast Can A Bugatti Made From Legos Go?

Ever since the arrival of the Veyron, Bugatti has been one of, if not the top-tier point of automotive land speed, factory-direct. Utilizing quad-turbocharged W-16 engines and all-wheel-drive, the...

Here’s Another Killer Action Video From The Gang At Monster Energy: High Flying Action!

There is no doubt that Monster Energy puts out some of the coolest promo and action videos. Crazy stunts, high flying action, dirt, gasoline, and more are always the features of them and that’s...

RFID Door Locks For Your Hot Rod? This Project Is Kinda Cool

This dude certainly didn’t take the easy way out in putting something extra special and cool in his 1976 Mazda RX-5, but the result is something pretty neat that you aren’t going to see...

V8 Supercar Randomness: Check Out This Collection Of Odd Moments From Australia’s Halo Motorsport!

Cars arrive, cars tech in, drivers qualify. Pre-race festivities go on, cars line up, cars race, somebody wins, cars get packed up and move on to the next stop in the series. That pattern goes for...

Money No Object: McTaggart’s Dream Plymouth Satellite – The Car Has Been Killer As Long As He’s Been Alive!

I’ve seen this 1971 Plymouth Satellite in my head for years. I first saw the car as one of the two hero cars that race in the music video for Breaking Point’s “One Of A Kind”....

Another One Bit The Dust: The Autopsy Of Project Neighbor’s Built Mill!

Cleetus isn’t having a good run lately. He wounded Leroy the Savage’s engine. He absolutely nuked the turbocharged truck motor in the Auction Mistake C6 Corvette. And then there’s...

Making It Official Once Again: The World Record Australian Burnout At Summernats

Aussies and burnouts just go together. We can’t explain why the whole continent down there gets so psyched over roasting tires…we get it, doing a burnout is a freaking blast…but...