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Will These Replica Classic Car Bodies Reshape The Car Industry? Juncheng Vehicle Co. Is Replicating Icons In China

Several years ago the restoration body parts business went to a whole new place when companies started offering complete bodies for our favorite American classics. 1969 Camaros were one of the first,...

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Use This 3 Step Secret to GLASS FLAT Paint! Kevin Tetz Shares Decades Of Experience That Will Make Your Paint Job A Success

We’ve shared plenty of Kevin Tetz videos over the years around here, and I can tell you that Kevin sure knows what he’s talking about. The number of TV and YouTube personalities that have...

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SUPPORT SURGES FOR LENO’S LAW AS CAR CULTURE DEMANDS COLLECTOR’S RIGHTS: Letters Pour in from California’s Lowrider Community and International Car Rreservationists in support of California SB 1392

We’ve talked about California SB 1392 in the past, and are thrilled that despite not making it to a vote in 2025, the bi-partisan group of California law makers who support it are still pushing...

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How To Fab Headers: Follow Along As The Iron Trap Garage Crew Build Custom Stainless Headers For The Ardun Powered 1933 3 Window!!

Headers are one of those fabrication projects that seem to intimidate a lot of people, and for good reason. If you go at them from the wrong direction, don’t have a game plan in place to start...

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Steve Magnante’s Daily Junkyard Crawl: THIS RARE FIREBIRD FORMULA 350 HAS HAD A HOD ROD LIFE! COME SAVE IT!

It’s time for another Daily Junkyard Crawl with Steve Magnante, and this time it’s another really cool Pontiac. How about a real deal 1987 Pontiac Firebird Formula 350 that has had a few good go...

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Wild Ride at the May 2026 El Mirage California SCTA Meet – The Spirit of AutoPower III Comp Coupe Hits A Bump at 228 MPH!

The Spirit of Autopower Comp Coupe is a pretty radical machine, and a staple in the land speed racing community. This thing is based off a little tiny first generation Honda Civic, but the rest is...

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Classic Footage Of “Diesel Louie” Kenworth Wheelstander At Work!

We love wheel standers. We love big rigs. Wheelstanding big rig? Don’t worry, we will have someone check on Lohnes to make sure he is alright. What you’re looking at is...

Barnstormin’: Drag Week Scrambled My Brain and Other Memories From A Great Week On The Road

Oh what a difference eight years makes. Drag Week has certainly come a long way from the quaint little get together it was in 2005 when less than 40 cars pulled out of the now dead Kansas City...

CraigsList Find: A One of None 1988 Caprice Two Door Wagon! Optimistic Pricing Inside!

BangShift reader Rich Hintze tipped us off to this custom built 1988 Caprice wagon for sale on CraigsList. The car is located in North Carolina and it seems as though it may stay there for a while...

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Test Your Gearhead Knowledge: Name The Application For This Mechanical Fuel Pump

Yesterday, I had occasion to drop in on my pal Mike Casella who was hard at work in the machine shop at Then and Now Automotive in Weymouth, Massachusetts. We’ve done some neat stuff with the...

Gallery: The 38th Annual Lyon Farm Car Show – Yorkville, Illinois

(Photos by Greg Rourke) – Grippo was not the only guy pounding the pavement with his camera last weekend, Greg Rourke ventured out to the 38th annual Kendall County Historical Society Lyon Farm...

Gallery: More Great Photos From the Rodders Journal Vintage Speed and Custom Revival – Total Coolness

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – As we said yesterday, Grippo went whole hog at the 2012 Rodders Journal Vintage Speed and Custom Revival with his camera and this is the second of SIX galleries...

Video: The 2012 Engine Masters Challenge Is ON and Comp Cams Is There to Cover The Action! Learn the Ins and Outs Of The Competition Here!

Popular Hot Rodding’s Engine Masters Challenge has become the defacto yearly slugfest for professional and otherwise hardcore engine builders every year. This year the folks at Comp Cams TV are...

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Video: Chasing The Dream: Dick Eytchison Does More With More… Doors That Is…

We’ve been watching Dick Eytchison drive his super cool Crew Cab Chevelle for the last couple years, and if you pulled up next to this thing on Mulholland while driving something Italian,...

Video: Autocross Action From Indy – Watch The Jet Hot Chevy II Get Thrown Around

Nobody on the planet sees more autocross action than we do, but we still love it. When we were at the Indy Goodguys show we thought the course was great, and even drove a rental car around it a few...

Gallery: The Rodders Journal Vintage Speed and Custom Revival – Gallery One

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Our man Joe Grippo attended the first ever Rodders Journal Vintage Speed and Custom Revival last weekend outside of Baltimore at the famed Pimlico Race Course. The...

Gallery: Muscle Cars, Street Machines, and Gassers From Goodguys Columbus

(Photos by Doug Garrison) – We’ve run a ton of Doug Garrison’s photos from the Goodguys Columbus show. If anything it highlights the total diversity of cars and trucks that show up...

Gallery: Classic Ford Hot Rods From Goodguys Columbus – Flatheads to Fat Fenders!

(Photos by Doug Garrison) – Since we last left you with a gallery dominated by Tr-Five Chevrolets last week, it only makes sense that we fire a salvo back for the lovers of the blue oval. This...

Not Good: Massive Fire At Methanol and Race Fuel Company In Winnipeg, Canada – Firefighters Battling Blaze

Canada’s fickle relationship with race fuel is getting more heated by the minute…literally. Speedway International, a supplier of racing gasoline and methanol to racers all across North...

Wreckage Video: Watch A 1930 Ford Drag Car Skid, Spin, and Flip at the 2012 Jalopy Showdown

Pal o’ BangShift Dawn Mazi-Hovsepian was at Beaver Springs Dragway recently to shoot photos and video of the 2012 Jalopy Showdown nostalgia drags. Being her normal awesome self, she got lots of...