Mondo-Roto Video: More New Footage Of The 12 Rotor Engine On The Dyno – The Sound Is Good
As we told you the other day, the 12 rotor engine made initial, low RPM dyno runs and survived so now the mill is back at home to be pulled apart, inspected, upgraded with EFI and prepared for its...
BangShift Question of the Day: What Historical Automotive Figure Would You Pluck From the Past Into the Present?
Every time we post a cool video, document a racing accomplishment, or revel in the pure awesome of a video we found on the interwebs we end up thinking that Mickey Thompson should have been there to...
Hacks of the Week from Reddit’s JustRolledIntoTheShop
Sometimes it’s DIY gone wrong, sometimes its a catastrophic failure at a shop full of trained mechanics. Either way, they’re hilariously awful, and that’s why we call them the Hacks...
How A Classic Camaro Changed My Life – One Woman’s Battle With “The Mistress” Turns Into An Interesting Threesome
(Words and Photos by Suzy Bauter, Intro by Rodney Prouty and Chad) I first met Suzy Bauter in a hotel parking lot after her and her partner in crime, and Sideway’s author, Rodney Prouty...
Car Show Gallery: The Tuscon Classic Car Show, BBQ & Blues Festival – Fun In The Arizona Sun!
(Photos by Joe Haber) — How about an awesome trifecta of stuff! BBQ, Blues, and old cars sound like the gearhead holy trinity to us and BangShifter Joe Haber was there to partake in all of it...
DeJoria, Brown, and Johnson Win NHRA Wallys In Phoenix. Plus We Have All The Sportsman Stuff!
(Words by Darr Hawthorne. Photos by Bob Snyder, Jeff Burghardt, and Alexis DeJoria Racing) Alexis DeJoria raced to her first career Funny Car victory Sunday at the CARQUEST Auto Parts NHRA Nationals...
Photos: Brian’s Top 20 Favorite Cars From The 2013 March Meet
(Being that we are one week and one day away from the beginning of the 2014 Bakersfield March Meet at Famoso Raceway, we’re going to start getting you pumped up by running some of last...
Gallery: Monster Trucks Invade And Occupy The Shop At MSD Performance!
(Photos by MSD Performance) – When your job is to maintain 10,000+ trucks that routinely jump 20-feet in the air and land on cars, buses, RVs, and concrete floors fixing stuff is pretty much a...
RacingJunk Find: This 1948 Willys Pro Street CJ2A Jeep Comes With A Twist…Literally
This 1948 Willys CJ2A Jeep done in the pro street style looks like a life sized version of a muscled up die-cast car. The complete lack of a wheelbase, the huge meats crammed together under the back...
Our Last Blast Of Cool Cars, Hot Rods, Trucks, And Stuff From The 2014 Big 3 Swap Meet
Here’s our final gallery from the 2014 Big 3 Swap Meet which was held last weekend in the parking lot of Qualcomm stadium in San Diego, California. This gallery, like the others has a pretty...
More Photos From The Whittier Area Car Show In Southern California, Charity Never Looked So Good
(Words and Photos by Darr Hawthorne) Whittier is a small part of the greater Los Angeles/Orange County area, but in that part of town there’s a particularly awesome collection of hot rods, cruisers...
Unknown Parts Counter Guy: A Top 10 List To Help Me, Help You…..And Advice On Personal Hygiene
It’s Spring! For at least a couple of days until the temperatures sink faster than the Titanic, but for now, the warm weather has got people buying car wash stuff at a record pace and has every...
Electric Swamp Rat 37 Nearing Race Trim – Garlits And Team Shooting For First 200mph Electric Quarter Mile
We’re not usually hot on electric cars as they just aren’t really our jam around here, but one that Don Garlits is involved with, required the use of Bad Hadman to build its chassis, and...
It Lives! The Crazed 12-Rotor Engine Makes Initial Runs On Dyno – We Have Video, Sheets, And Power Numbers!
It was late January when we told you about Tyson Gavin’s wild 12 rotor engine that has the potential on paper to make multiple thousands of horsepower when fully sorted out. At that time, Tyson...
