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Ken Kelley’s 1956 Ford F-100 Is Fat In All The Right Places, Just Like An Effie Should Be And Now It Is For Sale

(Words and Photos by Kaleb Kelley) Here at BangShift, we like a little bit of everything. Some oddities that normally would be frowned upon, we love. We also like some of the iconic cars and trucks...

Drag Week Uncensored Part 1: What It’s Really Like To Drive A 6 Second S10 Cross Country!

When normal people are standing around looking at a car, where something about it causes a wee bit of concern due to the extreme nature, impromptu repair, or what have you, I’m often excited at...

Unhinged: Did The Factory Skunkworks Teams Go Away?

At the ripe old age of thirty-one (stop laughing), I grew up just as Detroit was waking up from the coma the EPA induced using a baseball bat in the early Seventies. 5.0 Mustangs and IROC Camaros...

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Three Guys, A Dragster, A Wounded Station Wagon, And A Rickety Trailer – An Adventure For The Ages In 1978

(Words and Photos by Carl Blanton) – (Editor’s note: There are few cooler things in the world to read than racers telling their stories of high adventure from back in the day. I was...

Roadkill: How The Hemi 1955 Chevy Was Built – In All Of Its Sleep Deprived, Stop And Go Glory

Unless you live under a rock, surely you have heard of the 1955 Chevy build that Finnegan dreamed up decades ago and had begun to actually construct on Roadkill about a year and a half ago. The guy...

Hot Rod Power Tour 2014: Day 2 Coverage From Knoxville, Tennessee – A Collection Of The Coolest Stuff

(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – The Hot Rod Power Tour is in full swing, and stopped at Chilhowee Park in Knoxville, Tennessee yesterday. The place was packed, and Tommy Lee Byrd shot...

Great Lakes Nostalgia Funny Car Circuit Hits Ohio’s Quaker City Dragway – Classic Funny Car Action Photos!

(Photos by Bob & Ginger Snyder -Words by Dennis Salzwimmer and Bob Snyder) -This year the Great Lakes Nostalgia Funny Car Circuit brought their Funny Car Nationals to Quaker City Motorsports Park...

Bing Crosby Built A Race Track In Del Mar, California And One Of America’s Greatest Racers Was Killed On It In 1949

In 1949 there was literally no more dangerous profession in the United States of America than “professional race car driver”. More than 1/3 of men who strapped into race cars as pros...

The Entire SCORE Off Road Series For 2014 Will Be On CBS, And We Will Be There!

That’s right folks, for the first time in SCORE Baja Racing history, there is going to be televised action from each and every stop on the World Championship Series. We LOOOOOVVEEEEE...

Barnstormin’: ……Annnnnndddd We’re Off

It has been far too long since I’ve accosted your eyes and insulted your intelligence with a Barnstormin’ column. It isn’t that we’ve been quiet at the BangShift executive...

Here Are The Contenders For The 2014 America’s Most Beautiful Roadster Trophy

It was more than 30 years ago that I went to my first Grand National Roadster Show, back when it was home in Oakland California, and the electricity and excitement I felt as a young kid is still...

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Action Videos: 10 Crazy Engine Swap Videos For Your Friday Viewing Pleasure

January 10th, 2014: Let this be forever known as “The day that Brian let me go hog wild with a montage of videos of cars with crazy engine swaps”. Some of these are oldies but goodies, while...

The 2013 BangShift Awards – Awards That Have No Meaning And Very Little Value Inside!

(Photos by Dave Nutting, the author, random people about town, Charles Wickam, and a cat named Boots) – Hello and welcome to the 2013 BangShift Awards For Automotive Excellence. These awards...

Flowmaster Giving Away A Trip To The 2014 Daytona 500! Entry Is Simple And You Could Win The Trip!

So we know that lots of you out there in BangShift nation are running Flowmaster mufflers on your cars, trucks, racers, hot rods, etc. Because of that we want to see a BangShift reader enter and win...