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Will These Replica Classic Car Bodies Reshape The Car Industry? Juncheng Vehicle Co. Is Replicating Icons In China

Several years ago the restoration body parts business went to a whole new place when companies started offering complete bodies for our favorite American classics. 1969 Camaros were one of the first,...

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Use This 3 Step Secret to GLASS FLAT Paint! Kevin Tetz Shares Decades Of Experience That Will Make Your Paint Job A Success

We’ve shared plenty of Kevin Tetz videos over the years around here, and I can tell you that Kevin sure knows what he’s talking about. The number of TV and YouTube personalities that have...

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SUPPORT SURGES FOR LENO’S LAW AS CAR CULTURE DEMANDS COLLECTOR’S RIGHTS: Letters Pour in from California’s Lowrider Community and International Car Rreservationists in support of California SB 1392

We’ve talked about California SB 1392 in the past, and are thrilled that despite not making it to a vote in 2025, the bi-partisan group of California law makers who support it are still pushing...

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How To Fab Headers: Follow Along As The Iron Trap Garage Crew Build Custom Stainless Headers For The Ardun Powered 1933 3 Window!!

Headers are one of those fabrication projects that seem to intimidate a lot of people, and for good reason. If you go at them from the wrong direction, don’t have a game plan in place to start...

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Steve Magnante’s Daily Junkyard Crawl: THIS RARE FIREBIRD FORMULA 350 HAS HAD A HOD ROD LIFE! COME SAVE IT!

It’s time for another Daily Junkyard Crawl with Steve Magnante, and this time it’s another really cool Pontiac. How about a real deal 1987 Pontiac Firebird Formula 350 that has had a few good go...

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Wild Ride at the May 2026 El Mirage California SCTA Meet – The Spirit of AutoPower III Comp Coupe Hits A Bump at 228 MPH!

The Spirit of Autopower Comp Coupe is a pretty radical machine, and a staple in the land speed racing community. This thing is based off a little tiny first generation Honda Civic, but the rest is...

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More Drag Race Photo Coverage From The 2024 NHRA Virginia Nationals: Our Wheels Up And Tire Smoking Door Car Photos Continue!

Here’s our second gallery of door car photos from the Virginia Nationals at Virginia Motorsports Park and if you missed our first gallery, or our Nitro category photos, use the link below to...

Jay Leno Explores The Beast: Inside the Presidential Limousine with Real Life Secret Service Agents And Everything!

The presidential limo has always been a relatively well known government vehicle, with some being way more famous than others. But never before has a presidential limo gotten more attention than The...

Street Freak – Part 7: This Mid-Engine Drag And Drive Lambo Powered All-Wheel Drive Volvo Needs To Be Ready For Street Week!

Here’s the seventh video in the series, and more fab work is happening because some stuff hasn’t worked out so far. Now that doesn’t mean all is lost, but it does mean the pressure is...

Halfass Kustoms 1949 GMC Roadster Pickup Custom: Making Headway On The Custom One Off Front And Rear Bumpers

Custom bumpers baby! The custom bumpers on this truck are something special and although Brent has gone back and forth on them, we know they are going to be something special. I love the idea of...

Will Dylan McCool’s RATTY 1969 Charger Survive A 1,400+ Mile Road Trip! The Summer Heat Has Been A Killer!

Dylan’s 1969 Dodge Charger has been under the knife for a while. He’s been working on it and “restoring” it in hopes of being able to get it out on the road for some fun...

Awesome Build: Watch This Operational Scale Model Of A Rotary Engine Constructed With Lego Blocks!

This is easily one of the most awesome Lego builds we have ever seen. We know we had some rotary stuff on the front page today already but this is in a different league. The whole engine is custom...

Awesome Historic Video: Road Racing on the Streets of Pontiac Michigan in 1975

In 1974 and again in 1975 the streets of downtown Pontiac, Michigan were turned into a road course that hosted a couple large scale road racing events. These were “outlaw” events in the...

Amazing Video: This 1960 United States Air Force Review Has Footage Of The X-15, Kittinger’s Jump, and So Much More

  This 1960 film made by the US Air Force is a review of all the stuff that they had going on that year. It is astonishing and incredible to see everything that was happening. From the X-15...

Attainable Fantasy Car: This Review Of The 1994 SLP Firebird Firehawk Reminds Us How Awesome It Was

Gearheads are worrywarts, generally speaking. Every time something changes with one of our favorite cars we assume the worst. This is doubly true when it comes to performance models like the Mustang,...

Hear Richard Petty’s 1970 Superbird Roar Back to Life with Kyle Petty Behind the Wheel! Hemi Awesomeness…

A Hemi Superbird is a bad ass no matter what, but when it is an actual race car and that race car belonged to Richard Petty, it’s truly something special. In this cool video from the Petty...

OPTIMA’s Ultimate Street Car at Road America: We take a look at the points chase after the mid-point of the 2024 season!

(Words by by Jim McIlvaine, Photos by Kaleb Kelley) OPTIMA’s Ultimate Street Car series, presented by Advance Auto Parts, makes seven stops before the grand finale in Las Vegas. Road America not...

Drag Race Photo Coverage From The 2024 NHRA Virginia Nationals: Nitro, Nitro, And More Nitro! Top Fuel And Funny Car Photos!

Here’s our second gallery of photos from VMP baby! This time it’s all Nitro classes, so if you love nitro then you’ll love this photo gallery. And if you missed the previous photos,...

Pontiac In 1971: This Compilation Of Pontiac Promotional Videos From The 1971 Model Year Is Awesome

We have showed a ton of cool manufacturer promotional films over the years. We have also told you about the training films that the companies would make and still make to train their sales people but...

The Heavy Iron: This 1969 John Deere 860 Elevating Scraper Promotional Film Is Awesome

It has been too long since we’d talked heavy equipment here on BangShift. Today we’re fixing that with this killer John Deere promotional film for their 860 elevating scraper that was...