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Project Angry Grandpa: Putting Old Skills To New Uses (Or, How To Love Fixing Wiring Connectors)

The problems for the Angry Grandpa Chrysler started on the last day of the PRI show. As Lohnes and I were getting our cars warmed up in the morning before heading over to the convention center, two...

Rough Start: Bending The Budget On A Clean Cadillac Hearse…Just Imagine The Attention You’ll Get!

By the 1990s, station wagons were all but done. Outside of a couple of small holdouts like the Ford Escort and the final B-body wagons from GM, the sport-utility craze had all but killed off long...

Best Of BangShift 2017: 1990 Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R – We Finally Take On Godzilla

(Bucket list item, checked. -Ed.) A couple of weeks ago, we checked out Roadtrip Motorcars’ selection of Japanese-market vehicles (which you can see HERE and HERE) and I made mention that there...

25,000 – This Is The 25,000th Blog Item That BangShift Has Published Since November 21, 2008

No balloons fell from the ceiling and the coldly computerized mind of our content management system did not offer me a handshake or a high five. Nothing really happened or will happen when this...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Buy Your Car From The Cat.

The songs. The shopping. That creepy-ass elf doll on the shelf that you forgot to move for the last three days. The risk that some big-boned, white-bearded man in 1970s pimp velour is going to just...

BangShift Truck Tech: We Install A Ridetech Level Tow System On A 2015 F250 Super Duty

(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) – When I took delivery of my 2015 F250 Super Duty a few years ago and immediately put it into service as a tow vehicle for my race car, the first thing I...

The 50th Running Of The Baja 1000 Finished Today. Here Are The Results And Some Interesting Quotes

The Baja 1000 remains one of the coolest automotive racing events I’ve ever attended, and it pains me that I haven’t been able to go see it again for several years because it happens to...

SEMA 2017 Coverage: FCA And Mopar At SEMA – Jeeps And Hellcats And Hemis For Everyone!

FCA has been quite busy in their engineering bays, design studios, and out with the people who buy their products, especially through their Mopar channels, and they’ve been working a...

The Top 11 Most Ill-Fated Drag Cars Of All Time – A Spooky List For Halloween

Today is Halloween so we decided to go on the spooky and macabre side of things for this Top 11 list. Throughout the history of drag racing there have been great innovations, great innovators, and...

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Sema 2017 New Products: RideTech Is Bringing The Heat This Year – Loads Of New Stuff 

Each and every year at SEMA RideTech seems to unveil new products that both advance and change the game in terms of high performance handling for multiple vehicle platforms. This year the company has...

The SEMA Show Officially Starts Tomorrow, But Here Is A Spotter’s Guide To Some Stuff We’re Excited To Check Out In Person

The SEMA Show is one hell of a car show…or at least that’s what a lot of people think. In fact, if we had a quarter for all the times we’ve heard someone tell us that they know...

Photos And Fun From Our Daphne Reynolds Memorial Drag-o-Rama Trip, With More To Come!

On September 22, 2017 my wife Daphne, and mother to Cole and Peyton, passed away after a year long battle with cancer. It was her 50th birthday. She was one tough chick, and for most of that year she...

Project De La Vega Is Turning Into One Bad Turbocharged Machine! This Is Going To Be One Of The Baddest Vegas Ever.

(Words by Kaleb Kelley, Photos by David Carroll) It’s been a long time since David and I have graced you with an update on the glorious Project De La Vega… I promise it isn’t...

Watch This Billet Hemi Headed Small Block Ford Make 800+ NA Horsepower On Pump Gas!

Ford fans, you may need a moment along after watching this video. You may experience an odd tingling in your leg, you may grab the woman next to you and plant one on her, you may actually weep...

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