Late Night In The Shop: Working On A King Of The Street Build At Firepunk Diesel
You know how it goes: you got off of work, went home, grabbed a bite to eat and spent a few minutes with the family, then headed into the shop and proceeded to work with your buddies until it was...
BangShift Project Files: 1968 Chevrolet C10 Stepside – Daughter’s First Truck
The first project car is always something special. I went through a couple of false starts before I got to rip into my 1979 Caprice coupe early in my high-school years and I couldn’t have been...
What Rotary? Check Out This Cummins-Swapped Mazda RX-8!
Sometimes, we wonder about fans of the Wankel engine. We get why cars like the Mazda RX-series has it’s fans, and we love the noise a radically built rotary makes, especially when it’s...
Classic YouTube: The Great Dauphine Enduro Of 1959!
I’m not familiar with the Renault Dauphine. Up until a couple of days ago, the only one I had ever seen in person was mounted on the side of the local transmission shop in Bowling Green, and I...
Rough Start: The Ultimate Winter Beater! A 1966 Plymouth Fury With Blue Oval Bones!
There’s a common theme I’m seeing this week: everybody is putting up their nice rides for the winter. One look outside the window at BangShift Mid-West certainly tells the tale: the yard...
Foose on Design: Tweaking The Look Of An Iconic 1970 Plymouth ‘Cuda
The “Foose on Design” series that Hagerty is producing is brilliant. Why? Because we get to see this guy talk about the stuff that he’s best at. We get to see him sketch, we get to...
Shop Tour: Vintage Planet – A Treasure Vault Well-Hidden In The Hills!
As Curt Lair and I pulled up to a nondescript building sitting in the middle of some hills in central Tennessee, you could’ve convinced me that I was going to see anything else inside. A cube...
Building A Tough Engine And Need A Tough Cam? COMP Cams Has You Covered With GM Sportsman Tool Steel Camshafts
Today’s world of hot rodding is unlike any time that has come before it. Enthusiasts and racers are building engines that no one even 20 years ago dreamed possible and in doing so, making the...
The Monster Honda Odyssey: Freshly Machined Hubs And More!
Grind Hard Plumbing Co.’s Honda Odyssey is currently my dream off-road toy. I wanted one of these ATVs as a kid, because I thought they would be at least as fun, if not more fun, than my Honda...
Thunder Valley Outlaw Armageddon – True Street No Prep Racing Footage!
You can hate on no-prep all you want, but if you’re really bent on running without the prep, at least running at a track with a stripped starting line is a solid way to be safe about it. Nobody...
Unearthed: The First AMX/3 Prototype – Out In The Light For The First Time In Years!
(Photos: AMC_AMX3 via Instagram) The fact that Dick Teague actually got away with this program at all was a shocker. American Motors was known for many things, but they weren’t known for having...
Gripper: Meet The Holden Monaro That Just Took The First Optima Ultimate Street Car Challenge In Australia!
If there is an individual whose calendar I did not envy, it was Jimi Day’s. The dude has been running strong for a while now, with his starting point being the SEMA show. From there he worked...
Classic YouTube: Wringing Out The 1971 AMC Gremlin With Car And Track!
The idea of chopping the ass end off of an AMC product in order to take on the VW Beetle and Toyota Corolla had been in the works since 1966 when Dick Teague and Bob Nixon started talking about...
