Unknown Parts Counter Guy: And Boom Goes The Battery!
One of my biggest fears about cars is a battery explosion, and for good reason: lead and acid come together in a plastic container to make electricity and a ton of nitrogen hydrogen (thanks,...
Rough Start: Just In Case You Wanted A Tiny Roadster With ’70s Flair…
Not everyone marches to the same drum. Some like big diesel trucks, some like pimped out vans, some like farm equipment. But let’s suggest, for a second, that your tastes are for the weird....
Caption This: Tony The Tiger Has Been Kidnapped!
You see all sorts of crap strapped to the roof of a car. Lumber, mattresses, Aunt Bethany, whatever. But when my wife sent me this pic of a gigantic stuffed tiger strapped to the roof of a Hyundai...
Someone Put Cadillac Fins On A 1990s Lumina. Grab The Eye Bleach, You’ll Need It
Oh, the horrors…seriously, you have to be one very sick puppy to dream up a concoction like this chimera. What you are looking at (if you haven’t gone blind out of mercy yet) is a 1995...
Watch As This Mudder Explorer Goes For Broke At Michigan Mud Jam!
Mudding requires three things in order to not sink up to the door handles: traction, power, and wheel speed. Put mildly, this monster Explorer Sport has them all. The engine is making some very...
UPDATED: Larry Larson: Fastest Street Car In The World with a 6.16!
Larry Larson’s Chevy S-10 blasted a [email protected] run during the Drag Week Heads Up Competition on Saturday. After testing, tuning, breaking things, and a F-ton of sleepless nights and weekends,...
Listen To One Of The World’s Largest Diesel Engines Start Up And Run
When your diesel engine has several staircases attached to it so that all areas of the engine can be accessed, you have a huge engine and this one was at one time the world’s largest, from...
Is Michigan Going To Be The First State To Ban Aftermarket Exhaust?
There is a piece of legislation in Michigan that raises eyebrows. House Bill 5726 effectively is a ban on aftermarket exhaust systems that are not purely 100% stock. Here’s the wording exactly...
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE FINAL DAY OF DRAG WEEK 2014 LIVE – BROADCAST STARTS AT 10AM CENTRAL!
(Photo credits Brandan Gillogly and Larry Chen/Hot Rod) – Well, the week has finally arrived. After months and months of non-stop work by racers, planning by Hot Rod Magazine staff, and...
Chevrolet Issues “Stop Sales” Orders For C7 Corvette
This wasn’t what Chevrolet needed. GM put out two separate “stop sales” orders on C7 Corvettes to fix two issues that popped up. The first one is for an improperly-installed...
If You’re Into Car-Sharing And Live In Toronto, You Might Get A Lift In Deadmau5’s McLaren
I do find it odd that once again I’m reporting on electronic artist Deadmau5 (aka Joel Zimmerman) and his car for a second time on BangShift, but after seeing this, I couldn’t pass it up....
Define “Missed Opportunity”: The 1999 Chrysler Howler
The Plymouth Prowler gets a bad rap from the hot rodding community, and other than the knock for using the V6 from the Dodge Intrepid hooked to an automatic, I don’t agree. Plymouth was in the...
PDRA DragStock From Rockingham Dragway – Action Photos Of The Hairiest Doorslammers On The Planet
(Photos and words by Benoit Pigeon) – The 7th out of 8 PDRA events, Dragstock XI, saw a lot of action but the original race day was cancelled due to rain. First round of eliminations was...
Drag Week 2014 Roadside Find: Bud’s Salvage – Aline, Oklahoma — A Dreamscape Of Iron We Want To Save
First, a little inside baseball. The way my daily routine works at Drag Week is as follows. Wake up early and post stuff on the site, meet in the lobby of the hotel, head to the track with Freiburger...
