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Top 11: Good Cars For An Aspiring Teenage Gearhead

We hear it all the time. “There are no cool cars available that kids can afford.” Well, that depends. Clearly you have to keep your standards within reach, and also be realistic about...

Backfire: A Response To The Current State Of The Hobby For The Entry-Level Crowd

There’s a phrase I like to use: “smacking the hornet’s nest”. This is where you find a sensitive subject, and instead of leaving it alone like you should, you get the biggest...

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This 1966 C10 Has The Right Stance, The Right Interior, And An Engine You Will Cheer For – Not An LS In Sight!

You have seen it plenty of times on these pages. A car or truck that looks perfect, has personality, has the right interior, sits like a million bucks, and then the engine is a total downer. Either...

The RideTech Report: New Products, A Survey, Videos, And A KILLER New Tool To Check Out!

…annnnnd we’re back! The latest issue of the RideTech report has been published and this one is a must read. Why? Beyond the cool customer car profiles, the shop information, the new...

Top 11: Our Favorites From Mecum’s 2016 Kansas City Auction – How Would You Treat Yourself?

Now that Barrett-Jackson’s Scottsdale auction is over, with any luck prices for cars at auction will drop back into the realm of reality. It’s a hope, anyways…after cruising the...

The Winner Of America’s Most Beautiful Roadster 2016 Is Darryl Hollenbeck’s 1932 Ford Roadster

Wow! What an exciting week it has been since some of the most bitchin roadsters in history started showing up here at the Grand National Roadster Show 2016 to compete for the 9 foot tall...

All The Contenders For The America’s Most Beautiful Roadster 2016 Title

Here they are folks! Yep, this cool variety of hot rod roadsters is your America’s Most Beautiful Roadster 2016 class. The different styles and shapes of these hot rods really turns our crank...

The RideTech Report! Talking Street Grip, Bushings, Customer Rides, Video, and More!

The RideTech crew is on it! While the weather in Indiana may be crummy at this time of the year the attitude and working environment at RideTech certainly is not. Hot off the heels of the release of...

Scrapple, The NAIAS Platter! Here’s The Rundown On All Of The “Other” Rides In Detroit!

(Lead Photo: Fox-2 Detroit) The North American International Auto Show is over, and sadly it wasn’t quite the throwdown special that we got to see last year. Buick did serve up a beautiful...

Unhinged: The Year In Review, 2015 – The Highlights From My Year

Here we are, facing down the end of another year, and if I thought my first twelve months at BangShift was something to behold, 2015 has been nothing but a whirlwind, both as far as writing here goes...

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In Memoriam: This Incredible Retrospective On The Life Of Jeff Jahns Tells The Story Of An Legendary Hot Rodder’s Life And Times

(By Scotty Gosson – Photos: Gosson/Jahns Collection) – We were pitted next to each other at the drags. I needed to borrow some tool I’d forgotten to bring, and went over to...

Scrapple, Your Weekly Guide To The “meh”-worthy News: A Super-Sized Edition! From Horrible Law Proposals To Horrible Companies, It’s All Here!

We hope you brought an appetite, because this week we’re serving up a double-portion of everybody’s favorite group of leftovers! We’ve got the hot sauce if you’ve got the...

NTPA Mule City 300: Flying Dirt, Huge Horsepower, And Big Performances At Galot Motorsports Park

(Words and photos by David Whealon) – When owner of Galot Motorsports Park, Earl Wells, announced the rebuilding of the old Dunn-Benson Dragstrip in Benson, NC it stoked everyone’s fire....

This Rear-Drive SJ Cherokee Is Getting A Turbocharged Modern Hemi And Six Speed – We Can’t Wait To See The Finished Product!

When you look at one of the full-sized Jeep SJ-platform SUVs, what do you think of first: mud truck, rock crawler, farm implement, prairie decoration or overstuffed yuppie wagon? The SJ, much like...