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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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BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Two Black Cadillacs” by Carrie Underwood 2012

Carrie Underwood is one of the most successful American Idols ever, and has become an ultra huge country and pop star. Her latest single, “Two Black Cadillacs”, is a great song with a...

Car Show Gallery: The First Annual DICE Alliance Car Show – Prescott, Arizona – All Kinds Of Neat Stuff!

(Photos by Bryan McTaggart) – If there’s one thing we love it is all inclusive shows and cruises. While everything that rolls in may not be our taste, we dig the vibe that everyone is...

Breaking News: TCI And Ridetech Announce Exciting Deal BangShift Has First!

BangShift has learned that on Wednesday TCI and Ridetech will announce a deal that brings these two icons in the hot rod industry together like no other suspension companies in our industry. It will...

LSR Gallery: The East Coast Timing Association April 2013 Meet – Fun On The Ohio Mile!

(Photos by Tony Maffini) – The East Coast Timing Association started its 2013 season in grand style with a big meet at its Wilmington, Ohio home. More than 175 racers competed last weekend in a...

Wild Video: Watch A Lakester Spin Off The Ohio Mile At 170MPH – In Car Video!

One of my favorite cars at the ECTA’s season opening meet at the famed Ohio Mile in Wilmington was the belly tank lakester of Ron San Giovanni. Powered by a flathead V8 that appears to be...

Celebrity Car Death Match: Violently Dead Mopar Edition – Kowalski’s 1970 Challenger VS The 1969 Charger From Dirty Mary Crazy Larry

Today we’re probing some sore wounds on the Mopar side of the fence by pitting two cars that died violent cinematic deaths, the 1970 Challenger R/T of Kowalski in Vanishing Point and the 1969...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Who Has Or Had The Coolest Nickname In Racing?

Names like Bill “Grumpy” Jenkins, Glen “Fireball” Roberts, Warren “The Professor” Johnson, Ivan “The Iron Man” Stewart, Don “The Snake”...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Hot Rod Poppa” by Marsha Hunt 1969

This is one funky song and we dig it. Anthony Castillo sent us this suggestion, and it’s cool as hell. The song was written by Marc Bolan, of T.Rex, who is known for being the glam rock god of...

Celebrity Car Death Match: The Monkeemobile VS The Munster Koach

So I am writing this after a marathon 15-hour drive home from the ECTA meet in Wilmington, Ohio. The idea came to me as I was watching the sun rise in some state east of the Mississippi. I honestly...

Car Show Gallery: The 26th Annual City Of Seal Beach, California Classic Car Show

For nearly 30 years the city of Seal Beach, California has been holding a yearly car show on their picturesque main street. This year, hundreds of cool cars attended the show which gets the local...

BangShift Question Of The Day: How Bad Did It Turn Out When You Didn’t Listen To Mom And Dad?

Everyone’s Mom and Dad has told them at some point not to go street racing, or cruising, or whatever. And while we all got away with it most of the time, there were those times where the cops...

BangShift Daily Tune Up And Great Video: “Ballad Of Thunder Road” By Robert Mitchum 1958

Like Steve Earle’s “Copperhead Road”, “The Ballad of Thunder Road” is about running moonshine and is the theme song from the 1958 movie titled “Thunder...

Check Out Jet Hot’s Double Down 1932 Ford Project At Fuller Hot Rods – Boss 429 Power and All Wheel Drive!

One of the craziest projects that is being built in the country today is the “Double Down 1932 Ford roadster that Bryan Fuller is building for Jet Hot High Performance Coatings. This is a steel...

Gallery: Hot Rods, Thunderbirds, 1960s Muscle, and 1950s Classics From Fabulous Fords Forever!

Well, this is our final gallery from the 2013 Fabulous Fords Forever show that was held at the famed Knott’s Berry Farm amusement park in California last weekend. In this gallery we have...