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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 2013 Hot Rod Riot Hosted by South Texas Performance – A Car Show Gallery Extrodinare!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Last weekend, Charles hopped in his car and traveled about two hours from home to capture come photos at the 2013 Hot Rod Riot car show in Victoria, Texas. The...

BangShift Question of the Day: What’s the Best Road Trip You’ve Ever Been On?

Pounding the pavement is a fundamental element of being a BangShifter. From logging short haul scenic drives to epic cross country adventures, road trips are one of the great joys of the car hobby....

The Wenrick Motorsports 1969 Camaro Hammers The Dyno With More Than 800hp Of Supercharged Small Block At The Wheels! (Video)

Those creepy, inappropriate noises you hear are likely coming all the way from BangShift western world hq because Chad just laid eyes onto the Wenrick Motorsports ‘Maro getting its violence on....

Video: The PSI Blown, Killer Buick Small Block Lives On The Drag Strip!

A couple of weeks ago we showed you what may be the most powerful Buick small block ever built. Based off of a Rodeck block and topped with some very rare billet Dart Buick cylinder heads, the engine...

The SEMA Cars Are Coming! The Rendering Of This Pure Vision/HRE Wheels Camaro Is Neat!

We’ve got a feeling that SEMA is going to really be rocking and rolling this year. Not that the show is ever dull, but the renderings of SEMA cars are starting to roll in at a heavier pace than...

The Bizarre Connection Between Two Pro Mod Racers That Suffered Eerily Similar Crashes, Thousands Of Miles Apart

We’re pretty sure you have seen the wild video of Adam Flamholc’s mega pro mod wreck at St Louis last weekend, but have you seen the near mirror image crash that happened in England...

Goodguys Texas Road Tour Adventures: Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, Indy Cars, In N Out Oh My!

(Photos and Text By Bret Voelkel/Ridetech) RideTech’s own Bret Voelkel is on the Goodguys’ Texas Road Tour currently traveling from Goodguys’ headquarters in Plesanton, California...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s the Strangest Thing You’ve Ever Done A Burnout In?

  With our motorhome burnout videos up on the site this morning, it seems only fitting that our BangShift Question of the Day be about doing burnouts in whacky or strange things. Not  that the...

Videos: Motorhome Burnouts!!! Can Your RV Do This?

You know how much I love old RVs, Campers, Trailers, Motorhomes, whatever you want to call them all. I love them. I want one to restore, one to jump, and now one to do burnouts in! So when Layne...

Video: 345 Feet Of Bumper Dragging Wheelstand In A Pinto! We’ve Got Two Videos Now!

Last week we ran on car video of a 345 foot wheelstand by this bitchin little yellow Pinto and have watched it 15 times since. The driver of the car, Cory Heckenlaible, sent us an email Saturday...

Wally’s World GTO Project Update: Wilwood Provides Serious Whoooaa! For The GTO

This Wally’s World GTO project update is all about Whoa! Stopping that is, which is no easy task in a 4000lb hot rod that spends a lot of its time jamming along at triple digit speeds....

Video: Is This The Ugliest Pro Mod Crash In History? Adam Flamholc Lives, But The Camaro Doesn’t.

We know Adam Flamholc through Benoit “The Frenchman” Pigeon, who is one of our BangShift Contributors and Pro Mod addict extreme, and are absolutely amazed at how completely he destroyed...

Video Bonanza: When the Wheels Literally Fall Off

Of all the types of failures race cars and high performance cars in general can have, losing the wheels ranks pretty high up on the list. We’ve seen race cars sheer off wheel studs and send...

Holley Documentary Short: The Story Of Pugly, A Bitchin’ 1941 Ford COE Truck That Has A Ton Of Custom Touches!

As they did last year, the guys at Holley shot a series of documentary style shorts at the 2013 NHRA Holley National Hot Rod Reunion. The first one they rolled out features a totally killer 1941 Ford...