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Will These Replica Classic Car Bodies Reshape The Car Industry? Juncheng Vehicle Co. Is Replicating Icons In China

Several years ago the restoration body parts business went to a whole new place when companies started offering complete bodies for our favorite American classics. 1969 Camaros were one of the first,...

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Use This 3 Step Secret to GLASS FLAT Paint! Kevin Tetz Shares Decades Of Experience That Will Make Your Paint Job A Success

We’ve shared plenty of Kevin Tetz videos over the years around here, and I can tell you that Kevin sure knows what he’s talking about. The number of TV and YouTube personalities that have...

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SUPPORT SURGES FOR LENO’S LAW AS CAR CULTURE DEMANDS COLLECTOR’S RIGHTS: Letters Pour in from California’s Lowrider Community and International Car Rreservationists in support of California SB 1392

We’ve talked about California SB 1392 in the past, and are thrilled that despite not making it to a vote in 2025, the bi-partisan group of California law makers who support it are still pushing...

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How To Fab Headers: Follow Along As The Iron Trap Garage Crew Build Custom Stainless Headers For The Ardun Powered 1933 3 Window!!

Headers are one of those fabrication projects that seem to intimidate a lot of people, and for good reason. If you go at them from the wrong direction, don’t have a game plan in place to start...

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Steve Magnante’s Daily Junkyard Crawl: THIS RARE FIREBIRD FORMULA 350 HAS HAD A HOD ROD LIFE! COME SAVE IT!

It’s time for another Daily Junkyard Crawl with Steve Magnante, and this time it’s another really cool Pontiac. How about a real deal 1987 Pontiac Firebird Formula 350 that has had a few good go...

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Wild Ride at the May 2026 El Mirage California SCTA Meet – The Spirit of AutoPower III Comp Coupe Hits A Bump at 228 MPH!

The Spirit of Autopower Comp Coupe is a pretty radical machine, and a staple in the land speed racing community. This thing is based off a little tiny first generation Honda Civic, but the rest is...

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2013 Houston Autorama Gallery: From Wild Lowrider Trucks To LS Powered Rats, This Gallery Has ‘Em! (Bonus Gene Winfield Action!)

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – If cars are an extension of their owner and their owners culture than car shows should be the same thing, right? This gallery from the 2013 Houston Autorama is a...

The Wally’s World GTO Gets A New Hurst Shifter And Centerforce DYAD Clutch Setup

One of the most iconic parts in any stick shift muscle car is the Hurst Shifter. And if you are going to be building big power and ripping on that shifter, you are going to need a good clutch like...

Here’s An Actual Photo Of The 2015 Mustang – Is Your Opinion The Same?

Here’s an actual photo of the car that was revealed by TIME Magazine today, most likely because Ford was freaked at the craptastic quality of the cell-phone shots of a copy of Autoweek that...

What it Looks Like When a 4700ci Caterpillar Mining Dump Truck Engine Explodes

We received a tip e-mail from BangShift reader John Rasmussen that contained a series of photos that literally stopped us in our tracks. The photos, according to the text in the e-mail show a...

The Aussies Do Group Burnouts To Start Off Their House Parties! The Rest Of Us Suck

Seriously, I’ve never actually thrown a house party before. Or at least not the way the Aussies do it. This video shows that Aussies do group burnouts to start their house parties. Or at least...

Eargasm Video: Is the BRM V16 The Best Sounding Race Motor of All Time?

The idea of a 1.5L V16 seems hilarious by modern racing standards, especially to us in the land of BangShift where 900-cube V8s are prowling drag strips. That being said, in the world of Formula One...

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BS Exclusive: A Collection Of New Car Newspaper Ads From 1925! Neat History!

Recently, I have been helping my pop clean out the home of my late grand-father. Like all men in the Lohnes bloodline, keeping stuff was a priority for him. There have been some finds that stopped us...

Watch More Crafty Russians Zip Line A Station Wagon Over A Raging River In Siberia With Rope And….Well, Rope!

So we showed you the video of Russian dudes pulling a sunken SUV out of a lake last week with rope and some logs. Matt Cramer tipped us off to this video of Russians again at work to do something...

MORE: MISC, Videos

Criagslist Find: This Big Block Powered 1974 Nova Has Rake For Days!

With 1970s and early 1980s style street machines being en vogue right now, the “arse up” look is sorta kinda in. Back in the day people accomplished this by juicing their air shocks to...

Watch A Top Fuel Hydroplane Power “Wheelie” Over Backwards At The Hit!

While this video maybe a couple years old, the footage is all time in our book. When you see a top fuel hydroplane literally “wheelie” itself up and over backwards at the hit of the...

2013 Houston Autorama – More Great Photos From The Huge Show

(Photos by Charles Wickam) — We promised you a week’s worth of images from the 2013 Houston Autorama and by God we’re going to give them to you. This is our second big gallery from...

Autoweek Leaks Photos Of 2015 Mustang Ahead Of Ford Reveal – Here It Is!

December 5th was the planned reveal of the new Mustang, Autoweek managed to leak photos of it today. Someone blasted photos of a copy of the magazine and leaked the photos. We’re guessing Ford...

Nitrous 101 Videos: How It Works Both Wet And Dry. The Basics From NOS.

If you want the crash course on nitrous, in an easy to understand format that doesn’t treat you like an idiot, you need to check out these videos from NOS. Be warned that if you let your 12...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Would It Actually Be Cool To Have A Personal Race Track Or Would It Be A Big Pain In The Rump?

So the blog item on the tiny and private Ruby Speedway being up for sale in South Carolina got us all lathered up about the idea of owning a “private” race track that unlimited access to...