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Category Archive: BangShift News, Racing Junk Find

Racing Junk Find: The World’s Wildest Gremlin!

During our time at the Holley National Hot Rod Reunion, Chad and I freaked out like women on an Oprah giveaway show when we saw an awesome little Gremlin yanking the tires and running into the 10s....

Racing Junk Find: A 1989 Ford Old School Show Monster Truck – You Know You Want It!

As fans of old school monster trucks, we almost fell off of our rickety shop stool when we saw this totally bitchin’ 1989 Ford old school monster for sale on Racing Junk. Rolling on the 48-inch...

Racing Junk Find: A Restored Fuelie 1957 Chevy

Back in 1957, if you were a forward thinking BangShifter, you would have headed into your local Chevy dealer and thrown cash down for one of the hot Chevrolets with fuel injection. Since we’re...

Racing Junk Find: A Badder Asser, Steel-bodied, 1930 Ford Truck

This screaming yellow 1930 Ford truck caught our eye while we were cruising the electronic pages of RacingJunk.com. The truck is packing a tunnel rammed small block Chevy engine, and aside from the...

Racing Junk Find: A Hermetically Sealed, Pro Street AMX Time Warp

With the 1980s vibe starting to come back into the world of hot rodding with a force, this pro street AMX is the ticket to coolville. The seller does not say when the car was built, but he does...

Racing Junk Find: An Overkill Homebuilt Utility Vehicle

Small utility vehicles, sometimes called “side by sides” have really become popular over the last couple years. Initially coveted by farmers and ranchers, they are now popular as toys and...

Racing Junk Find: An Ultra Rare and Ultra Fast 1968 Plymouth GTX With Factory Hemi Power

Just yesterday we took our first ride of the year in our father in law’s Plymouth GTX. That particular car sports a 440 and an automatic, unlike this machine we found for sale on Racing Junk....

Racing Junk Find: The Only Blown Alky Jeep Cherokee on Earth

When an awesome idea gets fed to a professional that can execute it, great things happen. This Jeep is without a doubt the coolest Jeep we have ever seen. We know about the drag race Wranglers and...

Racing Junk Find: A Bad Ass Poncho Powered Pontiac Drag Warrior

There are lots of Pontiac bodied drag race cars prowling strips across America, but few of them have actual Pontiac power. Nope, most of them are just a Pontiac body holding a Chevy motor. Not this...

Racing Junk Find: A Beautiful Bonneville Racer 1955 Chevy

While there are probably a number of practical racing arguments against owning this absolutely awesome 1955 Chevy LSR machine, the non-practical reasons for owning it number in the thousands. The...

Racing Junk Find: A ZL-1 Camaro Super Stocker That’s Ready To Run

In the ranks of Super Stock, the closer your class designation gets to the beginning of the alphabet, the quicker and faster you’ll be. Naturally, if you find yourself behind the wheel of a...

Racing Junk Find: An Awesome 1965 Malibu SS With A 14-71 Blown, 529-ci Rodeck Motor

In the event that a giant bag of money fell from the sky this week, we’d spend every penny on this kick ass 1965 Malibu SS and run it this weekend at the PSCA Record Breaker Nationals in Las...

Racing Junk Find: Jim Yates Racing Pro Stock Operation

Jim Yates is a two time NHRA World Champ in the Pro Stock division. Currently he works with up and comer Shane Gray as opposed to operating his own team as he had done in years past. We saw that Jim...

Racing Junk Find: A Cummins Diesel Powered Funny Car

With all the talk of dragsters and funny cars around here recently, we went shopping for one on RacingJunk. After seeing several “normal” floppers, we saw this car, which we have read...