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The Martin Lundqvist Racing Street Week Sweden Drag and Drive 1969 Camaro Project Continues! The 8HP and LS Get Custom Mounts!

I can’t wait to see Project 508 in person in Sweden in a few weeks! This project is in full swing and we are super excited about what is going on with this machine. We’ve got another couple...

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Our Final Gallery of Lost Buckeye Skips Day One Drag and Drive Photos! We’ve Got On Track Action and Checkpoints, and More From Day 2 Coming!

Here’s our third gallery of lost photos from Day 1 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos...

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All The Racing Action From This Weekend’s SCTA El Mirage Flying Mile. 200 MPH Plus On Dirt! Watch Right Here.

While Bonneville gets most of the attention in Land Speed Racing, because it clearly is home to the biggest and baddest land speed racing events of the year, most land speed racers will tell you that...

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Dirt Daily with Fred Williams. His Barn Find 1989 Land Cruiser FJ-62 gets a Dissent Off Road Rear Bumper!

Years and years ago I built a 1987 Toyota FJ-62 for my buddy Sean and I loved it. We painted it, lifted it, improved a bunch of suspension and drivetrain, and then he drove the hell out of it. It was...

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Larry Chen AWD K24 Turbo EG & Drift S13 Feature Video: Indonesia’s Top Tuner Show Produced These Two Amazing Builds!

These things are siiiccckkkkk. Yes, I love the EG hatch a bit more than the S13, but that’s because I have one at home. This one here looks absolutely insane and I love it. But so does the S13...

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Have They Successfully Turned This Old Farm Truck into a Killer Street Machine Using Scrapyard Ford Parts! Bumpside Ford Goodness Part 4!

In Part 3 of the series, this beast went for its first test drive. Now it’s actually being put through its paces! Here’s the Part 4 video in the series, and that means actual testing!...

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Drag Gallery: NHRA Division One Sportsman Action! From Nitro To Stock Eliminator HERE!

(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) – Memorial Day Weekend here in the Northeast is traditionally the weekend all the hitters from the NHRA Division 1 region come to duke it out at Maple Grove...

Project Buford T Justice Update: We Finally Give Our 1987 9C1 Caprice A Cheapo Nose Job!

Finally, our long national nightmare is over and we solved it for a shade more than $60! So I finally caved and fixed the missing bumper filler situation on the nose of the BangShift project Buford T...

eBay Greatness: The Rolling Chassis From A Factory Backed Chevette Funny Car! Seriously!

You think we’re making this up, but we really aren’t. Back in the early 1980s, Vauxhall (think English Chevrolet) actually commissioned the construction of two Chevette funny cars...

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PowerShift Is LIVE AND FREE Tonight At 6pm Pacific and 9pm Eastern – Money Back Guarantee!

Tune in right here tonight at 6pm Pacific/9 pm Eastern for PowerShift LIVE with Chad and Brian where we are going to talk about the new Camaro Hot Wheels Edition, Magnante’s Bad Seed, NASCAR,...

Major Improvements Continue At New England Dragway As NHRA National Event Looms Large In Just A Couple Of Weeks

Normally we have the crappy duty of reporting on when a drag strip closes, changes ownership, gets in trouble with local government, or runs afoul of their customers…not today. We’re here...

Video: A Mini Cooper Does A HUGE Backflip In The Snow. This Rules, We Want To Try It!

Guerlain Chicherit is a certifiable bad ass. He’s a pro skier, rally driver, and more, plus he’s the dude driving this mini while it’s flipping over backwards. Watch the video,...

Nostalgia Drag Gallery: Gassers, Hot Rods and Bad Fast Street Cars at Drag Bash

(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Memorial Day weekend is always packed with activities, so Tommy Lee Byrd hit the road to the small town of Maynardville, Tennessee, which is just north of...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Fastest You’ve Ever Gone In A Car?

Speed is one of the universal appeals of the hot rodding world. No matter what types of cars that you are into, the one thing we can all agree on is that going fast in them is fun. This question came...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Magic Bus” By The Who (1968)

Check this one out. As a kid, I grew up listening to The Who, The Beach Boys, and The Rolling Stones. Those were my Dad’s favorites. In fact, I saw each of them in concert at least once before...

Barnstormin’: Missing The Great “All Or Nothing Races” and Celebrating The Few That Remain

Last Sunday I was one of the millions of Americans who planted their asses on the couch upon waking up Sunday morning and didn’t leave until nearly midnight, watching different forms of racing...

Gallery: Hemmings Musclepalooza 2013 – Great Photos From The Pits! Muscle Galore!

(Photos by Johnny Gaudette) – For 13 straight years, not a drop of rain had visited the vaunted Hemmings Musclepalooza event at Lebanon Valley Dragway in New York…and then 2013 happened....

Rocket Racing Wheels Adds Black Lug Nuts To Wheel Accessory Lineup – Spiff Up Your Stuff!

As any good BangShifter knows, the devil is in the details when building a car. Hell, you’ll see tomorrow in a Buford T Justice project update just how drastic a difference a small cosmetic...

Ebay Find: A Vintage 1954 Anderson Travel Trailer That We Would Love To Own

Vintage travel trailers and motorhomes rule, and we are always lusting for some project online, just like we do for hot rods. Well, this is one of the nicest travel trailers we have ever seen....

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Gallery: More Killer Photos From the SoCal Bob’s Big Boy Cruise Night! Awesome Iron!

(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) – Bob’s Big Boy in Toluca Lake has sponsored a Friday night cruise since the early 1990’s when it was saved from a developer intent on bulldozing...