Category Archive: AMC, Project Cars, TRUCKS
Project Update: The Turbo Hemi-Swapped 1983 Jeep Cherokee Is Alive And Moving!
Last April, we stumbled upon one of the most bizarrely awesome projects we had ever heard of: Greg Huizenga’s 1983 Jeep Cherokee. In short, this is going to be one of the most radical...
Checking The Box: The Owner Of This 1961 Ford Falcon Ran Rocky Mountain Race Week As A Bucket-List Item!
I’m not what you would call an optimist when it comes to the idea of a long life. Making it to the ripe old age of seventy will be a gift if I am lucky enough to get that far. But what do you...
COMP Cams Offers New GM LS Upgraded OEM Rocker Arms – More Durable Than Stockers!
If you have a bone stock LS motor and you are feeding it boost or spray or perhaps working it harder than the factory parameters would be happy with COMP cams has a product that you would be royally...
Check Out The DFL Show for Some Reasonably Uncrappy Racing Discussion
Like to talk about racing and listen to people cover issues with racing that nobody else is talking about? You’re in luck, six people in the world, because I recently started cohosting The DFL (as...
2016 NMCA/NMRA Super Bowl: Our Final Gallery From The Showdown In Illinois!
It had been a long and somewhat eventful weekend in Joliet, but we finally neared the end as the classes reached semi-finals and finals, and you couldn’t have asked for better racing. Some...
Rough Start: Handy With A Paint Gun? Then This 1979 Chrysler 300 Is For You!
First off, I want to extend a huge thanks to everybody who sent me the link to this car. I’ve been successfully pinned down: a 1979 Chrysler 300 that is rough in all of the right ways in...
Money No Object: This Restomodded 1967 OSI 20M Is Nothing Short Of Pornographic!
By the time I finish writing this, the eBay auction on this 1967 OSI 20M will be over, and judging from the action for the last hour, ownership of the car will come down to a last-minute battle...
Hemmings Editor Mike McNessor’s New Book About Tackling the Carrera Panamericana in a ’61 Chevy Impala is a Wild Ride
Mike McNessor is the editor of Hemmings Motor News, and his daily job involves pulling content together that hundreds of thousands of people read in the bathroom every month. In 2005, though, Mike...
2016 NMCA/NMRA Super Bowl: Sunday, Sunday, Sunday Action From Route 66 Raceway!
Energy drink and breakfast sandwich in hand, we got out of the rental car and geared up for the final day of the NMCA/NMRA Super Bowl at Route 66 Raceway in Illinois. First thing that came across my...
No Times, No Prep, No Problem: Midnight Drags From Tulsa Raceway Park!
You want to know what the middle ground between drag racing and street racing looks like? Here it is…it’s the Midnight Drags at Tulsa Raceway Park, and it’s got the right mix of...
When Heading to Dinner With BangShift Leads to Big-Fin Spotting – 1958 Cadillac Or 1960 Dodge Seneca?
When the BangShift editorial crowd was in my neighborhood for the NMCA-NMRA Super Bowl of Street Legal Drag Racing at Route 66 Raceway, I told them I’d meet them post-race for a dinner and to get...
This Celica’s Wheelstand-Gone-Wrong Could Have Gone a Lot Worse At Santa Pod
Despite its general appearance a ⅘-scale Ford Mustang, the first-generation Toyota Celica doesn’t have a massive reputation as a drag car. However, English shop MGT, who are traditionally Nissan...
Classic YouTube: This Supercharged, 5.0L Swapped Saab 900 Rules! Where Did This Car Go?
We like the strange and weird around here if it is done right, but what is right? How do you know if it’s properly awesome or if it’s just left-field weird? It’s hard to define, but...
Classic Video: When A Marcus Ambrose Tire Returned To Its Family
Some videos are just worth pulling up from the deep basement of internet car videos and this one from V8 Supercars in 2001 remains one of the greatest of all time. During that year’s Canberra 400...