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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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It’s Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Week! AFCO Is There Supporting Racers – MavTV Is There Getting Ready To Broadcast It Live!

There’s nothing like the famed “Chili Bowl”. For nearly 30 years, racers from all over the county have been gathering in Oklahoma in the dead of winter to race for days on end,...

Footage From The 1972 Super Stock Nationals – Nitro, Pro Stock, Super Stock, More!

While we’ve never run into a video featuring old drag racing footage we’ve disliked, some are certainly head and shoulders above the rest. This one is about 16 feet above the rest and it...

Craigslist Find: This Steel Bodied Fiat Is Exactly As It was Built And Raced In 1959 – Amazing Old Drag Machine

We have to thank Johnny Gaudette for the tip on this amazing old Fiat Topolino drag car that he found while goofing off in study hall or something yesterday. The steel bodied cars was built in 1959...

The Uraidla South Australia Car Show: An Aussie Hot Rodding Extravaganza

(Photos by Darryl Daniels) Every year Darryl Daniels sends us photos from Uraidla Australia’s bitchin car show and cruise, and every year it makes us want to come to Australia and bring some...

Bangshift Question Of The Day: The 2015 Z06, Love It Or Hate It?

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last month or so (If that is the case, Welcome back!), it’s been pretty difficult to avoid all of the fanfare and hoopla around the new...

The Top 11 Cars You Thought Should Have Been On Chad’s Top 11 From 1972, But Weren’t

Last week I did the Top 11 Cars from the year I was born, which was 1972, and while a ton of you agreed with me, there were just as many who raised their hands via the comments, email, PM, text...

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Watch Dennis Anderson Freestyle The King Sling On Three Wheels After One Falls Off – This Man Is Our Kind Of Lunatic

Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina was never the same after Dennis Anderson showed up. The man who brought forth the Grave Digger monster truck into the world and then parlayed that into an...

Dodge and Mopar Coolness At The 2014 Detroit Auto Show — Also, Rumor Mill Has Chrysler HQ Leaving The USA?

We showed you some cool stuff from Chevrolet in the form of the 2105 Corvette Z06 yesterday and from Ford with the new F-150 and the 2015 Mustang so today we get to shine the light on the Chrysler...

2015 Mustang And 2015 F150 Are Ford’s Big Stories At Detroit Auto Show – Photos Here

Our photographer on the scene of the 2014 Detroit Auto show continues to send us dispatches from the bustling show floor as hordes of media swarm to whichever display is pouring the free drinks...

2015 Corvette Z06 – Our Photos From The Detroit Auto Show Unveil!

Just a couple hours ago the 2015 Corvette Z06 was unveiled for the assembled press in Detroit. The bad news is that we weren’t there first hand. The good news is that we had someone in the...

Gallery: The 2014 Austin AutoRama – A Huge Collection Of Awesome In Texas

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – It was a busy weekend for BangShift’s Charles Wickam as he traveled to the wilds of Austin, Texas and covered two events in two days. We’re going to...

1000 Horsepower LS Turbo Getting The Headers Cherry Red. A Sneak Peek On Our LS 383 Turbo Project.

Last week we gave you Part 1 of our Cool G: 1000 Horsepower Turbo LS engine build and told you all about how the naturally aspirated combo went together. We’ll be showing you the completed 1000...

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Is This The Quickest Big Rig In The World? The Beast Goes 10-teens!

So this should rile the troops up because for the first time in your lives you’ll find yourselves embroiled in a debate about what a “real” big rig is. Like the never ending,...

Project Violent Valiant Update: The Floor Comes Out And The Cage Starts Going In

With the holiday season behind us and arctic temps settling in around Hot Rod Chassis and Cycle in Illinois, work has resumed at a feverish pace on Project Violent Valiant. In this update we’re...