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Will These Replica Classic Car Bodies Reshape The Car Industry? Juncheng Vehicle Co. Is Replicating Icons In China

Several years ago the restoration body parts business went to a whole new place when companies started offering complete bodies for our favorite American classics. 1969 Camaros were one of the first,...

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Use This 3 Step Secret to GLASS FLAT Paint! Kevin Tetz Shares Decades Of Experience That Will Make Your Paint Job A Success

We’ve shared plenty of Kevin Tetz videos over the years around here, and I can tell you that Kevin sure knows what he’s talking about. The number of TV and YouTube personalities that have...

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SUPPORT SURGES FOR LENO’S LAW AS CAR CULTURE DEMANDS COLLECTOR’S RIGHTS: Letters Pour in from California’s Lowrider Community and International Car Rreservationists in support of California SB 1392

We’ve talked about California SB 1392 in the past, and are thrilled that despite not making it to a vote in 2025, the bi-partisan group of California law makers who support it are still pushing...

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How To Fab Headers: Follow Along As The Iron Trap Garage Crew Build Custom Stainless Headers For The Ardun Powered 1933 3 Window!!

Headers are one of those fabrication projects that seem to intimidate a lot of people, and for good reason. If you go at them from the wrong direction, don’t have a game plan in place to start...

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Steve Magnante’s Daily Junkyard Crawl: THIS RARE FIREBIRD FORMULA 350 HAS HAD A HOD ROD LIFE! COME SAVE IT!

It’s time for another Daily Junkyard Crawl with Steve Magnante, and this time it’s another really cool Pontiac. How about a real deal 1987 Pontiac Firebird Formula 350 that has had a few good go...

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Wild Ride at the May 2026 El Mirage California SCTA Meet – The Spirit of AutoPower III Comp Coupe Hits A Bump at 228 MPH!

The Spirit of Autopower Comp Coupe is a pretty radical machine, and a staple in the land speed racing community. This thing is based off a little tiny first generation Honda Civic, but the rest is...

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Watching The Restoration Of This 1940s Era Craftsmen Bench Top Metal Lathe Is Awesome!

There are few things more satisfying to us than seeing cool restoration videos. We have showed you various tools, cars, components, and other stuff being remediated over the last few years but this...

Video: Stevie Fast Jackson Wins NHRA E3 Spark Plugs Pro Mod Title – Takes Aim With Champagne

What is greatness? This is an age-old question that comes up in every sporting endeavor. Is it just winning? Is it winning with a panache that others do not have? Is it winning with the expectation...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is Your Dream Project Find This Week?

Forget poetry and prose. I’m covered in coolant and grease from doing a water pump on my wife’s truck. I drove the Imperial into town to get parts and I’m pretty sure that I...

New Engine Break-In: The Lazarus Mustang Gets A New Heart Before Power Tour!

One of the highlights from 2019 for me was meeting the YouTubers that we highlight here in person when Power Tour 2019 swung through Sparta, Kentucky. Kevin, Luke, Derek, Stefan and Rich, and Mike...

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Rough Start: 1994 Ford Mustang – Just Slip-Sliding Away!

Another day, another hypothetical $5,000 to spend on a car that is going to be more than a boring MPG machine. In fact, let’s throw “boring” out of the window altogether. You want...

Ready For Summernats? Cleetus’s Big-Boy Camaro Gets Final Dyno Runs, Including Methanol!

While chatting with the dude at Holley’s Intergalactic Ford Fest, you could tell that Cleetus McFarland’s head was elsewhere quite often. Mainly, it was rooted directly to a black Chevy...

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Unhinged: More Mopar Musings And A Monaco With A Three On The Tree

I’ve absolutely relished my weird side here ever since Brian and Chad decided that I would make a great addition to BangShift. Pushing six years in, that hasn’t changed too much. What has...

NDRL Fall Classic 2019 Gallery: Shaking The Leaves Off Of The Trees

Sunny, cool, and racing the likes of which we go nuts for…what could have been better? The NDRL Fall Classic brought out the cool iron in numerous classes, including Pro Comp, Pro Gas,...

Video: No Belts, No Helmets, No Fenders, No Hood, No Windshield, No Stinkin’ Rules In Tijuana Drag Racing

 Tijuana, Mexico is known as a crazy place for a multitude of reasons but we never expected the drag strip to be one of them. We were tipped off to this video by Brett Kepner and it shows what could...

The Family Ferrari: This 1987 Lancia Thema 8.32 Is A Sports Sedan With Ferrari V8 Power!

Picture this: it’s 1987, you’re a person of means, you’re car shopping, and you have a serious hankerin’ for something Italian. While your heart says Ferrari 308 GTS, the...

1900 Sheets Of Paper And 100 Tons Of Pressure Deliver More Entertainment Than We Expected!

It has been a while since we checked in on the Hydraulic Press YouTube Channel and as we suspected, our pal with the great accent has been up to his old tricks. We skipped the videos about crushing...

Nine Years And Counting: The Mud Pit In Moses Lake That Won’t Be Defeated

Let’s say, just for a moment, that you were in charge of a bounty hole mud pit that, if successfully navigated, would earn the driver coin. Would you put any rules down? Maybe one that says you...

NDRL Fall Classic 2019 Gallery: Winding The Season Down Properly

If Friday’s qualifying runs of the NDRL had been set in the perfect early Fall scene of gloomy, gray and with the threat of rain, then Saturday was the ideal Fall day: warm enough to be nice,...

The Little Black Coupe: 1948 Plymouth Special Deluxe

Earlier this evening, at the behest of Kevin from Junkyard Digs, I sat down and watched the Disney short, “Susie the Little Blue Coupe”, for the first time ever. You can look the video up...