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Magnante’s Junkyard Crawl: Today’s Ride Is A Real Deal 340 Duster, WITH A 4-Speed! This Is Muscle Car Goodness Right Here!

Magnante is back baby, and this time with a 340 Duster that came with a 4-speed behind it! Magnante is the king of the junkyard crawls and is always finding cool stuff. And speaking of cool,...

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STUBBY BOB, the LIMO TRUCK, FREIBURGER, FINNEGAN, and a Big Road Trip That Sets A Gas Mileage Record! What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

They’ve got the band back together once again, but this time Freiburger and Finnegan are getting MULTIPLE youtube hero vehicles together as both the Limo Crew Cab dually AND Stubby Bob will be...

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More I-24 Lebanon Dragfest 2026 Photos! This Indoor Drag Racing Showcase Features Some Amazing Race Cars, History, And More!

(Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) Here in the northeast section of the country we are in the deep freeze so most of the fun stuff moves indoors. We took a break from off season race car upgrades and...

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Holley Pro Spotlight: Alan Johnson Talks About How They’ve Built 30 Years of Craftsmanship at Johnson’s Hot Rod Shop

I’ve known Alan Johnson for a while now. I’ve realized lately that whenyou get my age, in this industry, it means that you get to know people for way longer than you ever expect when you...

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New Jump Pack Battery Tech: Are They Worth It? Testing These New Little Jump Packs To Find Out If Any Of Them Are Worth Owning

I have to say that I have only had a couple of jump packs ever, but the one I have now does work pretty good. I haven’t put it through anything ultra tough, but when I’ve needed it to get...

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This Clean 1962 Chrysler Imperial is Road Trip Greatness! Buy This Thing And Haul All Your Friends On Power Tour Or Rocky Mountain Race Week!

When a buddy of mine saw this thing on Facebook Marketplace, and shared it to a group chat, I took one look at it and thought that a smart person would buy this thing, bag it, and then road trip the...

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Show Gallery: The 2013 Keels and Wheels Coucours D’Elegance – Incredible Variety Of Cars!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Charles Wickam was our man on the inside of last weekend’s Keels-n-Wheels Concours D’Elegance in Seabrook, Texas. This is one of the coolest car shows...

Video: Watch A Drag Racing Photographer Nearly Get Decapitated By A Flying Hood!

Drag strips are generally leery about letting people shoot photos on the top end of the track. Just about every experienced photographer that has shot big end photos can tell you a harrowing story of...

Gallery: The Connecting Rods Car Club Cruise Night – May 2013

Last Friday night, the Lohnes clan loaded into Buford T Justice and headed south to attend the first of the weekly Connecting Rods cruise nights of the 2013 season. This is a Friday night tradition...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Show, Cruise, or Race? What’s Your Favorite Thing To Do With Your Junk? Why?

So last week was a good one in the life of ol’ Buford T Justice, our BangShift 1987 Caprice project. I think I drove the car about 500 miles over the course of the week. I hit two cruise nights...

Gallery: 9th Annual MSD Employee Car Show – Tons Of Cool Cars And Trucks At MSD HQ!

(Photos by Justin Oney) – There are certain signs that you work for a cool company. One of those signs is that the business shuts own for a whole day so that the employees can all show up with...

Freiburger And Finnegan Are RoadKillin’ Again – This Time In The Biggest Friggin’ Death Trap We Have Ever Seen

Finnegan and Freiburger have been one some wacky fun adventures since they started the Roadkill series on YouTube some time ago. They’ve wrecked cop cars, driven to Alaska, driven to the bottom...

Celebrity Car Death Match: The Car From The Wraith VS The Hardcastle and McCormick Coyote X

It is 1980s goodness day here at Celebrity Car Death Match world HQ because we’re putting the effin’ Coyote X from Hardcastle and McCormick into the death match ring with the weirdo car...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Trampled Underfoot” by Led Zeppelin 1975

Led Zeppelin’s “Trampled Underfoot” is all about cars. Or love. Hmmmm. Or is it? The song was supposedly written during a jam session sometime in 1972 and then later recorded on the...

VIDEO: GIMMICKY TRUCK ADS NEVER GET OLD

Before the modern day towing and payload capacity wars between truck makers, the big selling point was how good the trucks rode. All kinds of different “tests” were use to illustrate this...

EFFING AWESOME VIDEO: A VINTAGE AUSSIE XY GT FALCON RALLY CAR IN THE HEAT OF BATTLE

If this video doesn’t spin your crank, go ahead and leave your badge at the door on the way out! The car featured here is the XY GT Falcon of Aussie racer Dave Thompson. It was a rally car from...

WRECKAGE VIDEO: A DRAG CAR BURNOUT GOES VERY WRONG – CAR EATS WALL

When you see a high powered drag car completing a burnout at the strip, especially one with a short wheelbase, realize that the person behind the wheel is busy working to keep the car in a straight...

CRAZY VIDEO: A RUN AWAY GOLF CART WIPES OUT A CROWD OF PEOPLE!

This video is totally insane. When you press play, you’ll see a driverless golf cart flying through Cowboy Stadium, ultimately smashing into a crowd of football coaches and officials after a...

VIDEO BONANZA: PEOPLE FAILING AT LOADING MOTORCYCLES INTO TRUCKS AND TRAILERS

There are lots of reasons that neither Chad or I own a motorcycle. Both of us are roughly as coordinated a David Hasselhoff after an all-night drinking binge, in Chad’s case, no one makes a...

Dyno Video: Watch An Aussie Mitsubishi Scorpion With A 420ci Ford Cleveland Small Block Make Nearly 600 N/A Horsepower At The Tires!

Big motor plus small car always equals fun but when the small car is a cool little old school Japanese job and the engine is a 420ci Cleveland headed  Ford small block, we’re talking real fun!...