The Roughest Start Ever: One Part C4 Corvette, One Part Mooney Aircraft, And A Dash Of Dodge. Would You Dare Take It On?
As you know, the Rough Start budget is $5,000 unless I can find a way to argue my way around it. Normally I fudge the number a little for a car that is so close to the mark that a couple hundred...
eBay Find: This 1979 Dodge SE 300 Truck Is Mostly Stock With One Awesome Exception
There’s nothing overtly wrong with a bone stock 1979 Dodge SE 300 dually truck. They had great styling, they were tough as nails, they were rocking good axles, a Torqueflite transmission, and...
Cynthiana Rod Run 2015 Coverage: 1,500+ Cars and Almost Saw ‘Em All
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Fifteen hundred and thirty-three. 1,533 registered cars. More showed up after registration. By a large margin the 2015 edition of the relatively...
Jay Leno Gets The Rare Opportunity To Drive The Only Operable Mercedes C111 Sports Coupe
Question: What looks like the love child between the AMX/3 and the Maserati Bora, has come with diesel engines, V8s and Wankel rotaries, and has gullwing doors? Nope, not a Bricklin SV-1. Shame on...
Can Changing The Oil Be As Easy As Changing A Printer’s Ink Cartridge? With The Castrol Nexcel System, It Could Be! (VIDEO)
The oil change is that first maintenance step that most people deal with as a vehicle owner. Oil is the lifeblood of the engine, and has to be changed, and for decades that job fell to either a...
Sunday Nostalgia At Lancaster Dagway: Gas Attack! Check Out These Gasser Action Photos
(Photos by Mike Brooks) – I am of the (not too controversial) opinion that you can draw a theoretical dotted line from the gassers of the 1960s and early 1970s to the pro modified of today....
Unhinged: Two Wild Hours At The 2015 ADD Dragtoberfest Diesel Drags At US 60 Dragway
It’s been a busy few months at BangShift Mid-West. Ever since early August I’ve been splitting time between writing and playing Bob The Builder, fixing up the largest purchase I’ve...
Freaky Cool? Freaky Weird? You Decide What You Think About This 1965 C10 Cab Coupe
Here’s a build that will certainly polarize the audience! A hot rod shop took a 1965 Chevy C10 truck cab, gave it a severe chop, ditched all the sheetmetal ahead of the cowl, greatly narrowed...
Lancaster Dragway Sunday Nostalgia – More Photos From A Killer Even In NY
(Photos by Mike Brooks) – We’re back with more photos from Lancaster National Dragway’s Sunday Nostalgia meet which took place earlier in the summer. Why are we just running the...
This Mildly Hot Rodded 1934 Ford Truck Is As Class Act That We’d Love To Cruise
Is there anything neater than when someone takes a classic and iconic shape, tweaks stuff just a little and then “lets it breathe” like the builder of the 1934 Ford pickup did here? We...
Donut Derelicts Cruise Coverage: Sunrise In SoCal With Awesome Cars
To attend the Donut Derelicts pre-dawn cruise in Southern California is to get your day started right. Lots of bleary eyed hot rodder show up to slug back some coffee, munch a donut or two and meet...
Take A Look At Some Of The Cool Stuff We Saw At The Pomona Swap Meet!
It was 4:30 am when I rolled up to Crosby’s shop with Skid Row playing Slave to the Grind at 11 so as to wake myself up. With only a couple hours sleep it wasn’t a pleasure hearing my...
Scott Oksas And Mike Bowman Okay After Horrific Double Pro Mod Crash At NMCA Finals
This one was crazy!!! Watch this video and you’ll see Oksas and Bowman running in the first round of Pro Mod at the NMCA West Finals in Fontana when things went wrong in the worst way. Oksas...
Start Your Week Off Right…With An Airplane Drifting Donuts In The Snow
It is official: Bobby Breeden is a freaking overachiever when it comes to piloting an aircraft. I say that not only as a writer, but as someone who has worked the rudder and stick before. We’ve...
