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Cool Movie Car History: Here Are 10 Cool Facts About Kenny’s 1973 Custom Vette From The Movie Corvette Summer

There was a time when I couldn’t stand the Corvette from Corvette Summer. I don’t know why, but back when flares were a thing, I couldn’t stand them. Now I kinda dig them actually....

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Classic Truck Drag Feature: “Uncle Jessie” This 1969 Ford Pickup is equipped with a MASSIVE Twin Turbo Big Block setup and it HAULS ASS!

Classic trucks are cool, and no stranger to the dragstrip, but something like this isn’t what you normally see at a No Prep race. They are either nice and clean S10 trucks, the occasional late...

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1,800 Miles Home! Will This Classic Ford Mustang RUN AND DRIVE From Arizona To Tennessee? Vice Grip Garage Part 2

We shared Part 1 of this whole Mustang II adventure last week and now it’s time for Part 2. Will it actually run and drive and make it all the way from Arizona to Tennessee? Watch to find out....

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Gassers At Shadyside! Southeast Gassers Association 2024 | A/Gas Eliminations | Shadyside Dragway

The Southeast Gassers Association puts on some of the most fun drag racing in the world. It’s an awesome series with old school gassers being driven like God intended and they certainly know how to...

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Vintage Drag Car Feature: This TIME CAPSULE 1963 Corvette Drag Car with De-Stroked Lingenfelter Small Block Is AWESOME!

Tommy Lee Byrd, the Hot Rod Hoarder, is always finding super rad rides to highlight and feature in his videos and this one here is no exception. With a destroked Lingenfelter built small-block under...

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The Stanceworks Honda-Swapped Ferrari RE-BUILD Begins Now! He Blew It Up And Now It’s Time For Improvements

The K24 Ferrari… This evil bastard launched the rods out of it on the back stretch at Buttonwillow not long ago, and in the previous video we learned why. In this video there is a rebuild about...

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We Tour ARP And See How Nuts And Bolts Are Made. Manufacturing Is Alive And Well In The USA!

ARP Fasteners is the premier name in automotive fasteners, and we know the reason why! We got to see first hand the entire operation over there from raw materials all the way to finished goods, and...

Fleming’s Pumpkin Run 2014 Coverage: More Great Cars, Trucks, and Vans From The Coolest Fall Show In The East

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – The coolness continues from Fleming’s Pumpkin Run 2014. Grippo has been hitting the show for years and he loves it because as long as he has been going, new and...

Click Here To Order Or Download Your 2015 MSD Catalog For FREE – From Intakes To Spark Plugs, These Guys Have It All

Thanks to a note from our pals at MSD Performance, we’re able to let you know that their 2015 master catalog is available for download or order right now and it is absolutely free. If you have...

HOLY….Helicopter Hits Fire Truck, Crashes, Then Spins On It’s Belly Until It Explodes (VIDEO)

First thing’s first: everyone survived. Which is pretty amazing considering what you’re witnessing. Police in Santiago, Chile were attending to a crash where a drunk driver struck a...

Drunk Driver Manages To Wedge His Mustang Into Part Of The Golden Gate Bridge, No Word On If He’s Stopped Screaming Yet

A 22-year-old man is in jail on suspicion of drunk driving near San Francisco, California yesterday after he wedged his Ford Mustang onto the pedestrian walkway of the Golden Gate Bridge. Daniel Soto...

This 1965 Galaxie Has A 500hp Cummins Diesel, Gets 30mpg, and Hauls The Family In Style!

As you’ll see more of today, the “diesel swap in a car” thing is gaining more and more steam by the week. From 1980s economy boxes getting smallish turbo diesels to cars like this...

Rough Start: There’s A Lot More To This Volvo Than What The Surface Shows…

I’m a sucker for a good sleeper. The less likely, the better, but it’s becoming more difficult to find a good sleeper anymore. Used to be, if you kept the engine quiet and didn’t do...

Behind The Scenes Video Of The Big Rig Jumping The Formula 1 Car! Check it out!

We just found this brand new video of the recent World Record Big Rig jump, where Mike Ryan jumped a big rig with trailer OVER a MOVING Formula 1 car. You read that right, here is more video of the...

Aeromotive’s New Dual Phantom Setup Supports Up To 2,000 HP IN A STOCK TANK!

We’ve been telling you about the awesome Aeromotive Phantom fuel system for ages now but the Aeromotive crew dropped some new knowledge on the world at SEMA a few weeks ago with the debut of...

1970’s Hangover: The “Travolta Fever” Pontiac Firebird, By George Barris

When I first saw the picture I thought it was a bad Photoshop. Seriously, even in the most drug-addled section of the 1970s, someone had to take one look at what they were doing and realize it was...

BangShift Readers, Do You Know Anything About The Lincoln Mark VII That Raced Trans-Am?

Alright, readers, I come to you requesting help. See, while doing research on Trans-Am cars for a different story, I accidentally slipped and entered “Trans Am L” into Google and the next...

Racing Video: Five Laps Of Tsukuba Circuit In Japan With Five Different Cars

Racing with snow on the ground might be the norm for rally, but for road courses it’s a bad combination. Low asphalt temperatures and high power combine to make for a challenging surface to put...

UK Town Has Allowed Volunteers To Use Radar To Catch Speeders; Cops Stuck With The Tons Paperwork

Ticknall, which is in the midlands of England between London and Glasgow, Scotland, has had a problem for quite some time: on the road that leads into the village, speeding was becoming a genuine...

Ebay Find: This 1980 Oldsmobile Cutlass Is Wild! Four-Wheel steering, Four-Wheel Drive And Still Has The Original Frame!

This Oldsmobile Cutlass is wild. I don’t know how else to properly describe the car that is sitting on eBay right now. From the diamond-plate engine compartment to the radically chopped...