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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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FREE LIVE Streaming Video: Radial Revolution Lights Out 4. Wheel’s Up Small Tire Racing!

There are two things you will find in abundance at South Georgia Motorsports Park anytime Duck and Jim put on an event… Bad Ass small tire drag cars, and egos. And this weekend is the put up or...

Craigslist Find: A 1979 Olds Cutlass That Bridges The Gap Between Trar And Donk – Not That It’s A Good Thing

For so long we’ve seen trars and donks exist on slightly different planes. Now a brave individual has decided to bridge the seemingly impossible gap between a trar and a donk with this 1979...

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Video: Are You Faster Than A Redneck Premiers TONIGHT! 7PM Pacific/10PM Eastern On SPEED!! Tune IN!

Tonight at 10PM Eastern the new SPEED channel series, “Are You Faster Than A Redneck?” premiers and we’ll be watching. You should tune in as well. We’ve seen a preview of the...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Engine Swap Would Be The Ultimate Sacrilege?

Last night on PowerShift LIVE, Brian and I discussed some crazy engine swaps and was was wrong and/or right about them. Swaps like the 426 Max Wedge Engine that was found in the Barn Find ’57...

NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Returns To ESPN2 For 2013

The NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, aka NHRA Sportsman Drag Racing, will once again be televised on ESPN2 this year. Featuring NHRA Top Alcohol Dragsters and Funny Cars, along with highlights from...

Turbo-Gasm: A Vintage Mustang Fastback: Small Tires, A Big Damn Turbo – Sexy Fabrication!

I stopped by Tube Chassis Designz yesterday to annoy and derail the productivity of my buddy Jon Sandahl and to check on the progress with the Fat Lane t-bolt build that we’ve been following....

Video: A Hairy Big Block Powered 1976 Chevelle Hangs The Tail And Smokes The Tires On The Edge Of The Arctic Circle

BangShifter Arild Guldbrandsen hails from Norway and he’s had the same 1976 Chevelle for going on 20 years now. Over the time he has had the car, Arild has installed any number of engine combos...

Dead Drag Strip File: The Mysterious And Overgrown Footprint Of Milton Speedway – Milton, Vermont

So I am a little bit of an obsessive guy. As soon as Greg Rourke’s story on the long lost Seneca Drag Strip ran I immediately went into dead New England dragstrip mode. Yesterday I told you...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: Hot Girls In Love – Loverboy (1983)

BangShift reader Vinni DeLuca tipped us off to this video starring a hot rod Ford coupe and a dreamy blonde, oh and the guys from Loverboy as well. Their 1983 tune Hot Girls In Love was a hit for the...

LIVE TONIGHT: PowerShift With Chad and Brian – Our WEEKLY Live Show Is BACK! 9PM Easterm – 6PM Pacific!

After a one week break to handle some off-air stuff, we’re back and better than ever with a fresh new episode of PowerShift our weekly romp through the worlds of racing, motorsports,...

Wreckage Video: A Flat Track Motorcycle Crash That Sends Riders Flying And Snaps A Bike In Two

First off, everyone involved in this awful crash is OK and has since returned to racing. We lead with that because when you see this clip from the Lucas Oil flat track motorcycle race on the famed...

eBay Find: An Absolutely Perfect 1955 Studebaker Three Quarter Ton Pickup – Neat As Hell!

Studebaker trucks don’t get the due that they deserve. The trucks were well styled, powered by strong, reliable engines, and were built as tough as any other truck line in the country. From...

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NOS Releases Dry Pro Race Fogger Systems For EFI Equipped Engines

Nitrous has been hot rodding’s best friend for a long, long time and as the hot rods have advanced and evolved so have the nitrous systems that feed that horsepower making gas into their guts....

Hellacious Burnout Video: A Tire Smoldering 330-Foot Smoker From Tony Boss Bynes

There was a time when showmanship was a very large part of the deal in drag racing. From paint to wild crew uniforms, to back up girls with all kinds of appendages hanging out in the breeze, and...