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Make It Kustom, HalfAss Kustoms Cab Over Ramp Truck Build! The 1971 GMC Fire Truck Ramp Truck Is Getting A Custom Build DIY Rear Swaybar

In this video from the Fire Truck turned Ramp Truck, where Make It Kustom and HalfAss Kustoms have gotten together to thrash on Karl’s Make It Kustom rig, you’ll see the rear suspension get some...

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MiniTruckin Nationals Photos From Maggie Valley North Carolina – Old School, New School, Mini’s And More!

I didn’t make it out to the 2024 Mini Truckin Nationals in Maggie Valley, but boy I can’t wait for next year. That’s because our friend Damon Steinke from E3Extreme hit the show and...

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Mud And Dirt Racing Photos: The Lee County Darryl Jones Memorial Race Was Epic And We’ve Got The Photos!

(Words and Photos by David Whealon) With the unfortunate passing from a courageous battle with cancer back in 2021 of famed and beloved mud racer Darryl Jones, pilot of the legendary “Scooby Doo”...

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BIG TIRES & BLOWERS – The Hot Rod Hoarder Hits Up The Spring Pigeon Forge Rod Run 2024 And Man There Were Cool Cars On Parade.

Pigeon Forge is a tourist destination, and home to several awesome car and truck events, in the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee. It’s a cool town full of restaurants, shops, hotels, Dollywood,...

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Our Final Gallery Of 2024 PDRA East Coast Nationals Action Photos: Check Them All Out Here, Along With A Link To Any You Might Have Missed!

We’ve got our fifth, and final, photo gallery from the PDRA East Coast Nationals below, but if you missed the previous galleries from the race, you can use the link we’ve included as...

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Newbern Helped His Neighbor Get This SS Chevelle Up And Running For Burnouts After Sitting For 40 Years And A Seized Small Block

There are lots of will it run videos out there of engines being started after sitting for years and years and years. But when an engine is actually stuck, or seized, the success rate goes down...

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Wanna Play Army? This 1977 Dodge M886 Ambulance Is A Good Selection!

It’s difficult to call the Dodge M-truck program a success or failure. The best way to view what happened was to think of it as a stacked deck. In the mid-1970s, the military wanted to start...

Alan Johnson Confirms Via Twitter That He Will Be Tuner For Brittany Force In 2016

Well here it is, confirmation of what could have been the hottest rumor in the world of professional drag racing since the holiday season. Alan Johnson, one of the greatest minds in the history of...

Three Classic Survivor Camaros For $250,000? What do you think?

That sound you hear is likely Chad loudly scratching lottery tickets, trying to get his ship to come in because if he had the money, I KNOW he’d be on the line with the seller of these three...

El Vega-Mino? Check Out This Strange Little Mini Trar From Craigslist!

Here at Bangshift, you know we love weird car/truck creations, so when a reader forwards us a mysterious Craigslist link labeled “Check this weird Vega truck/car thing out!” you know...

Tire Slog: We Test The BFGoodrich All-Terrain T/A KO2 In Muck, Mire, and Snow

(Words by Lohnes and McTaggart) – Just about a year ago, Nutting and I went into the wilds of Maine with the fine people of BFGoodrich to test our their All Terrain T/A KO2 tire. This is the...

FAST Launches New Ignition Division So They Can Now Provide The Hot Spark To Light Your Fuel!

If there is one thing that manufacturers and end users want with their high performance components it is control. Whether that control comes in the form of dedicated quality programs, testing, and...

eBay Find: This 1967 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Is Mint! This Hardtop Would Be A Killer Cruiser!

When I was a kid, if you hunted around long enough and stayed away from the more desirable model names, you could pick up an extremely nice 1960s era ride for a song. That was in the late 1990s....

Pomona Swap Meet Coverage! We’re Back With More Classics And A Couple Of Ugly Ducks As Well

And we’re back! Yes our unrelenting torrent of photos from the January iteration of the Pomona Swap Meet continues. We’ve got all of the photos we have posted so far below with the...

Hop In The Hot Rod Time Machine And Check Out This 1980s Car Show Action

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Blackwell is where I was born and raised and was also on the 2014 Drag Week path.  That route took this impressive band of automobiles right down Highway...

eBay Find W/Video: The Corsetta Is A BMW Isetta Microcar With A Corvair Flat Six Jammed In It!

In this history of crazy ideas and things that are totally bat crap insane, the Corsetta may actually stand alone. A tiny BMW Isetta microcar with a Corvair flat six engine hanging off the back, it...

You Have To Love A Nitrous-Infused Dodge Dakota R/T That Can Stomp All Day Long At The Track!

I love the 1998-2003 Dodge Dakota R/Ts. They are a perfect mix of modern and old-school Mopar muscle that was packaged up and promptly ignored as a sticker package by many. Sure, the original 250...

Watch This 1944 Mack Fire Truck Powered By A Viper V10 Perform A Sweet Burnout!

We have to thank Daryl White for the tip on this awesome video that is short but pretty flipping sweet as it shows a classic 1944 Mack fire truck that has been hot rodded to the hilt and re-powered...

What Would You Do With This 1975 Chrysler VJ Valiant Ute That’s For Sale In Atlanta?

Ever since I’ve figured out how to work YouTube, I’ve been fascinated with the cars of Australia, and not just the Mad Max Falcon, either. Australia gets the concept of the muscle car and...

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Zombie Killer: This Marmon Herrington Former Railroad Truck Would Be The Best BS Command Center Ever

It was likely around one o’clock on Monday morning at the Street Car Super Nationals that both Chad and I retired to the Chevy Spark rental car I was driving and actually took a nap. There was...