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Grand National Roadster Show Photos: George Barris “King Of The Kustomizers” And Epic Trucks

(Photos by Darr Hawthorne) – The 75th annual Grand National Roadster Show demonstrated that the world of hot rodding and custom cars is as innovative and popular as ever. A record-setting...

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Is This The Fastest Car You Can Buy For Less than $20,000? Jimmy Dale Seems To Think So, And I Say We Find Out.

I’ve been saying for years that a C5 Corvette is the best bang for your buck street/race car you can get. With a set of tires and an alignment, they are insane on the autocross and road course....

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Freiburger Got THE DEAL OF A LIFETIME and HIT THE ROAD! Even He Has To Admit This Might Be Too Nice For Him.

When a viewer and fan offers you a really cool truck, at a really cool price that you’d never get otherwise, you jump at it if you can. I know I would! And Freiburger is no idiot, so he surely...

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Featured Product: BEST INVENTION of 2025? The New ANTI-RATTLE Hitch Invention from etrailer.com is Awesome, But Do You Need This?

There are a ton of anti-rattle trailer hitch products out there nowadays, and according to the folks at Big Truck and RV this is the best one yet. You’ll see why in the video below, but before...

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Frozen in Time: Block House Racing (Hoonigan Racing Division) Shop Tour – Larry Chen Shows Us Some Bad Ass Machines

Larry Chen gets to see some of the coolest stuff, and while he’s no stranger to Ken Block’s Hoonigan racing machines, the chance to go see them all at the Block House is pretty cool....

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30 Minutes Of Nothing But Big American V8s Battling It Out at Goodwood: Big Power, Big Cars, And Big Fun

There is something about seeing old American cars racing in England that just makes it even cooler than if they were at home. I guess it’s because we expect to see old MGs and Jaguars and stuff...

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Tales from the Gearhead Toy Box: The Kenner Red Line

While we were rummaging around with dad looking for photos of his old race cars to throw up on our message board we stumbled onto an old toy that had once kept us both occupied for hours at a time....

FREE Shipping on Any Order from Ridetech through 6pm Monday!!!!

Ridetech is offering a killer black errr Cool Friday free shipping special from 6pm Wednesday November 24 to Monday November 29th at 6pm. Buy ANYTHING that they sell and shipping is free. Literally...

Not BangShift Approved: DeLorean Themed Sneakers From Nike

When BangShift reader Remy-Z tipped us off to the announcement from Nike that they would be producing a limited edition “DeLorean Inspired” shoe, we looked for the punchline. Turns out,...

Ford Taurus Police Interceptor Beats All Comers in LA Sheriff’s Office Testing

The blue oval boys clearly have their mojo workin’ these days. They’ve managed to get their business in order, they’re building stuff that people are interested in buying and...

Bangshift Approved New Product: Forged Pontiac Cranks and Stroker Kits From Eagle Specialty Products

While pressing our schnoz up against the glass display cases at the SEMA new products showcase we spent more than a couple minutes drooling over the new Pontiac competition stroker kit from Eagle...

Auto Trader Classics Find: A 1964 Cadillac Hearse

Hearses have their place in the history of hot rodding. 1960s drag racers used them as tow vehicles and mobile apartments during stints on the road with their race cars and their engines have been...

Caption this Photo: Knaus and Johnson together on the beach…at sunrise

Public relations and advertising people come up with the swiftest ideas. After Jimmy Johnson and Chad Knaus had won their fifth NASCAR title in the a row, someone at a desk in a far away city...

Bill Caswell Baja Video Bonanza:Beating on the Baja Bimmer

It wasn’t all suck time for our man Bill Caswell in Baja. As we told you yesterday, Caswell made the start of the race by the skin of his teeth and managed to haul ass in the desert for a...

eBay Find: A 1948 Ford F-5 Cab-Over Wrecker

Talk about a cool truck! This 1948 Ford F-5 COE wrecker is one of the neatest pieces of Ford iron we’ve ever seen. The cab over truck has a 292ci V8, and a three-speed manual transmission....

Barnstormin’: The Real McCoy

A short while back, I started a thread on the BangShift forums letting people know I had mounted new Firestone tires on my truck Goliath. I included some sneak peek photos before the...

Video: JPC Racing Makes 800hp on the Rollers With an Internally Stock (New) 5.0L Mustang

The name Justin Burcham of JPC racing is no stranger to the pages of car magazines or the internet. Justin has been on the bleeding edge of Ford and Mustang performance for years. We remember him on...

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New England Dragway Completes First of Several Major Track Upgrades

One of the NHRA’s newest member tracks, New England Dragway has completed the first of several major upgrades to the facility in order to prepare for a Full Throttle Series event a few years...

Ancient Tech Video: A WWII-Era Training Film on Hydrovac Truck Brakes

We spent the weekend in two places basically. The first was parked in front of our computer monitoring the live video feed from the 2010 Street Car Super Nationals in Las Vegas that we broadcast and...

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Event Gallery: Hot Rod Revolution 2010 – Austin, Texas

For the first time in the history of the event The Hot Rod Revolution was held in Austin, Texas this year. After gaining a great reputation in Southern California, event organizers decided to switch...