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Category Archive: BangShift News, BangShift Question Of The Day??

Can You Identify This Weird Old Engine We Found St Gates Salvage? We Couldn’t!

One of the more interesting things that Fitzgerald and I stumbled on (literally) at Gates Salvage was a car that wasn’t much of a left of car at all. Basically a set of frame rails, a cowl, a...

How The Rich Do It: Skeet Shooting From A Porsche 911 Targa With Trick Shot Philip Thorrold!

You remember Tax The Rich? The unknown drivers who treated the cars of the upper crust like a rented Chevrolet Impala…drifting them through the grass, fire burnouts, and a stunt involving a...

Classic YouTube: Barry Johnson Literally Flying A Subaru Rally Car At The 2007 Jim Clark Rally In Scotland

I know this footage well…shortly after getting internet in my living quarters during my deployment in 2007, this footage was sent to me by a friend who wrote, “if you drove rally cars,...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-worthy News! This Week: Crash Testing Advancements, Angry Germans, And More!

Just when your stomach had finally recovered from the damaging effects of Thanksgiving, Black Friday and the total cost of Junior’s ten packages under the tree…and all of the batteries...

eBay Find: A Ready-To-Go 2001 Chevrolet Silverado, Complete With Tubs And A Supercharged 5.3!

You want to go fast right now, but don’t have the time and/or inclination to put together your own ride? Hey, we understand that some people are busy and want immediate satisfaction, and today...

FAST Puts The Spark In Fuel Air Spark Technologies With An Entire Line Of Hot New Ignition Systems

We knew it was only a matter of time before FAST: Fuel Air Spark Technologies decided to bring out their own line of Capacitive Discharge ignition systems for hot rods, street machines, muscle cars,...

Ford Fans Rejoice: Introducing The Moser M88! Moser Is Making New 8.8 Ford Axle Housings!

Anyone who has owned a Fox Body, SN95, truck, etc knows that the 8.8 rear axles in late model Fords are stout pieces from the factory and can be really strong with the right parts. Stock they come...

Sounds Like A Good Plan: One Set Of Off-Road Tires, One Clapped-Out BMW, And Some Desert Off-Roading..

Unless your name is Bill Caswell, the concept of taking a E30-era BMW off-road should be left to those drunken nights in college that end up with a tow truck bill and a Craigslist hunt for a...

Playing In The Mud On DOT-Legal Rubber At Twitty’s Mud Bog – Yes, That’s A Mustang…

Sometimes the only real way to have fun is to just get full-on down and dirty and have a screaming good time doing it…and if your mind went anywhere else than to a mud bog, then that is...

Burnout Footage: Tire Annihilation At Tread Cemetery – Attacking The Skidpad With Extreme Prejudice!

Hey, Australia: is the fun in full swing yet? We are guessing that it is, considering how many videos hit our inbox every day! While we’re buckling down for winter and preparing our plans for...

Update: Jason Tabscott’s Truck Found! Now, We Need To Locate His Stolen 1975 Camaro!

It has been almost four months since Jason Tabscott’s GMC Sierra, car trailer, and the white 1975 Chevrolet Camaro that ran hard in Street Race Small-Block N/A on Drag Week this year were...

Hot Rod Garage Meets The Crusher Camaro! The 1970s Street Machine Look Is Ditched In The Name Of Handling!

Hot Rod’s Crusher Camaro is the other bright yellow Chevy magazine project car that seems to evolve every few years, causing a stir with fans and readers alike. Not that Freiburger, the...

Rough Start: A Big-Block Cordoba That Looks Daily-Driver Ready – And It’s Under Budget!

One of the biggest problems with scraping the bottom of the budget barrel of Craigslist, as our Rough Start series does, is that every single vehicle we have shown tends to need something…it...

PRI 2015: Moroso Brings The Heat To Valve Covers – Billet Pieces, Fabricated Style, Ford, GM, Chrysler

CNC machining has been one of the most amazing drivers of hot rodding technology, parts, and components, of the last couple decades. If a human mind can dream it up and draw it, incredible multi-axis...