Who Does This? Here’s The Most Beat Down Grand National For Sale In America Today
Get a load of this sad sack SOB of a Grand National? If there is a more worn out, beat up, tired ass looking GN for sale in the continental USA we’ve never seen it. This car appears to have...
Accidental Treasures: Stuff I Found in my ’79 Blazer
Over the last few weeks, I’ve published a few stories about the work I’m doing on my ’79 Blazer. You’ll read more about it every Friday for the next few months. I really got...
Tom Medley Dies At 93 – Original Hot Rod Magazine Staffer, Cartoonist, Publisher, and Hot Rodder
(Photo Credit: Hot Rod Magazine) – The story of Tom Medley is like so many stories surrounding the early influencers of the hot rodding world. He was a smart, talented, driven, funny guy who...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Most Dangerous Production Car Ever Built?
We realize that this kind of an odd question because like guns, a car in itself is not inherently dangerous. It is when said car is placed in the hands of a human being that all bets are officially...
Gas-Tastic Video: This Promo Video For The Nostalgia AA/Gassers Group Is All Thunder, Smoke, And Action
As we told you last week, there are a ton of cool things happening in the sport of drag racing, especially if you dig the old stuff. From the explosion in popularity of nostalgia drag racing in...
Craigslist Find: A 1989 Camaro Is Being Parted Out One Questionable Decision At A Time
Third generation Camaros seem to be in an interesting time with regard to people’s opinion of them. They have moved from the “open mockery” phase to the “kind of cool”...
eBay Find: This 1964 Ford F-250 4×4 Is Pretty Rare, Really Awesome, And Totally Something We Need
Listen, I know that I have a problem. I should be stalking eBay and getting the flop sweats for big block Chevelles, worked up first gen Camaros, and wild hot rods with huge motors and way more power...
Friday KABOOM: Watch An A/Fuel Dragster Blow Up Like There’s A Nuclear Device Inside The Engine
I’m thinking of starting a new recurring Friday blog item called simply, “Friday KABOOM”. Not to go too in-depth with you here, but these would largely consist of videos featuring...
Bottom Dollar Blazer Project – Episode 3: Starting the Bodywork
When last I wrote and you read, I had fixed up a bunch of the mechanical issues on the ’79 Blazer, to make sure it ran ok, and could stop safely without killing myself and all those around me....
eBay Find: This Early 1950s Drag Car Made From A 1948 Crosley Is Absolutely Awesome – Time Capsule!
Canadian BangShifter Dave Pelissier gets full credit for finding and sending us this startlingly cool 1948 Crosley that was made into a drag race car in the early 1950s. The top of the car was lopped...
One Of World’s Largest Private Military Vehicle Collections To Be Auctioned This July – Tanks, Trucks, A Flippin’ SCUD! Over 100 Vehicles
Over the course of his life and especially over the last 20 years or so, Californian Jacques Littlefield accumulated one of the greatest and largest private collections of military vehicles in the...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Ever Had Your Day Made By Seeing “That Guy” Get What He Deserves?
Today’s BangShift Question Of The Day is inspired by an old video that I found while rummaging through the hard drive of one of the computers that I have lying in various states of disrepair...
Retro Gallery: A Look At The Incredible 2013 March Meet Funny Car Field….Bigger This Year? Maybe
Perhaps the single greatest thing that attending the March Meet affords you is the opportunity to scoff at a drag racing old timer bragging on the old days about seeing 32-funny cars at old timey...
eBay Find: This 1949 Dodge Power Wagon Is Almost (and we mean ALMOST) Perfect
Look at this awesome hunk of steel, would you? Is there anything finer than a classic Dodge Power Wagon? Honestly, if you can lay our eyes on this truck and not get any sort of a gearhead tingle than...
