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One has a Flathead, One a Blown Olds, But Somehow These Traditional Hot Rods Share the Same Soul

There is just something about a traditional styled hot rod that just makes people smile. Even folks that wouldn’t describe themselves as traditional hot rod fans somehow find themselves drawn...

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From Dirty Dozen to Unreal Adventure 2026 Invited Subscriber: Pete Meyer and his 1963 Willys Wagon Made The Cut!

A few days ago we shared the Unreal Adventure Dirty Dozen, those 12 rigs that came from more than 100 submissions to be chosen to participate in Unreal Adventure 2026. Out of those 12, 5 will be...

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Retropower’s Austin Allegro Build Is Restomod Greatness. But is it Hiding a Secret? You Bet Your Ass It Is!

This here is something special. It’s not that an Austin Allegro is at the top of my british car list, but it is certainly up there! And when you see what has been done to make this what some...

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Building A 1968 Camaro Drift Car In Autoshop, and Then Taking It To The SEMA Show AND PRI! This is Something Special!

When the Los Angeles Career Center decides to do something, they go all in. Given the fact that Southern California is the epicenter of hot rodding and racing, it makes sense that a project like this...

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Jay Leno Takes a ride in ONE of the TWO 1914 Knox Model 46s still in Existence: This is a 496 CI Overhead-Valve Monster From the Nethercutt Collection!

Sometimes we forget just how bad ass humans were 100-140 years ago. I say this because the amount of invention and ingenuity that was happening in the world was just insane. I mean people came up...

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The Russian GAZ-66 4×4 fills us with want. Watch this video and you’ll need one, too

I stumbled onto a cache of Russian 4×4 videos on YouTube, and now I’ve been killing many precious hours watching these rigs crawl through the mud to worksites in Northern Russia. A lot of...

Dynatech Headers Launches New Website – Super Easy To Use – Check It Out!

The peeps at Dynatech let us know that they’ve developed and thrown the doors open on a brand new website for the company just a few days ago and after checking it out ourselves, we’re...

The RV Go-Kart Lives And It Is AWESOME – Video Of It Being Built And Thrashed!

We told you that this was going to be totally fantastic and it is. On the last episode of his show Dirt Every Day Fred Williams bought an old motorhome and began to pull the whole thing apart with...

2001 Mallet Corvette Saved From Corvette Museum Sinkhole Is The Most Thoroughly Devastated Car We Have Ever Seen

The amazing effort to “save” all eight Chevrolet Corvettes that fell into the now famous sinkhole at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky is officially over with the...

Watch The Ultimate Monster Truck Fail Go Down – Grave Digger Thwarted By Junked Cars

What’s the ultimate monster truck fail, you ask? How about wrecking your truck when hitting the cars and failing to crush a single one. That’s what happens in this video and that pretty...

eBay Find: The Original Mickey Thompson Revelleader 1973 Pontiac Grand Am Body

One of the coolest funny car bodies of all time is for sale. Yes, it has a chassis, too but that chassis it not the original pipe, so we’re more gaga over the body than anything else. The 1973...

Watch Our Buddy James Crosby Attack The Autocross Course In The RideTech West Coast Camaro – No Dead Cones

Our pal James Crosby is a pretty neat guy. He’s one heck of a fabricator and hot rod builder, his whole life has been spent around racing and hot rods, and he’s the go-to guy on the west...

The PDRA Invades Rockingham – First Ever Race Is Big Success For Organization – Race Coverage and Photos here –

(Words and photos by Benoit Pigeon) – Great crowd large amount of competitors and high performances at the first stop of the PDRA series.  This year Nitrous and blown cars are entirely...

Here’s A Collection Of The Coolest Trucks We Saw At Goodguys Del Mar 2014

Trucks. We know ’em and we love ’em here at BangShift and that is why we took special care to shoot photos of the coolest, weirdest, wildest, and most interesting trucks at the 2014...

Watch Jeff Lutz’s New ’57 “Evil Twin” Chevy Make 2,140hp At The Tires On The Dyno! Nasty Stuff –

Let there be no question, Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week has officially entered into the “nuclear arms race” stage at this point in the game. In this video you will see the “Evil...

Out With Their Boots On: Ford Announces Final Falcon GT For Australian Market – We Lament It

(Words by Bryan McTaggart) – Ford of Australia has announced the final run of Falcon GT’s before they halt operations. The model, known as GT-F (the F being for “final”), will feature the...

Torture Video: How Ford Tests The F150 To The Brink Of Death In 10 Different Ways

Let’s be brutally honest here, The F150 is the single most important product that the Ford Motor Company makes. No single vehicle in existence puts more money toward the company’s bottom...

Crazy Collision Between A Minivan And A Cement Truck Caught On Dashcam!

There aren’t many Youtube videos that make me visibly flinch, but trust me, this is one of them. Watching a fully-loaded cement truck roll over and barrel towards the camera has been known to...

Rat Rods, Street Machines, Hot Rods, And Woodie Wagons At Goodguys Del Mar

This hit parade of photos from the 2014 Goodguys Del Mar show continues today with a gallery containing some really interesting freak cars. Not all of them are freaks but there are two jumping out at...