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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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Alex Is Building a Hot Rod to Roadtrip! 🔥What Does Newbern Have To Do With This All Steel 1934 Ford Tudor Sedan?

I’m a big fan of the Tudor sedans and I love that Alex recently got this one for a fun driver project. If you want to know what is in store for this project, you’ll find out a bit in the...

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JUNKYARD 6.0L LS INTAKE TORQUE TEST-TRUCK VS TBSS (WHO IS THE REAL TORQUE KING?) FULL DYNO RESULTS!

We love us some 6.0 junkyard LS dyno testing around here and where can you get more of it than from Richard Holdener? In this test he’s checking out the Trail Blazer SS intake vs the Early...

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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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Cool New Product: Auburn Gear’s ECTED MAX Trick Selectable Locker

Off road guys have been beating the crap out of selectable lockers for many years now. With the ability to cruise around on an open differential while on road and then having the awesome traction of...

Dates for 2011 NHRA National and California Hot Rod Reunions Announced

We loves us some nostalgia drag racing here at BangShift.com and two of our very favorite events are the NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion and the NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion. Tony, Greg and the...

Auto Trader Classics Find: A Gorgeous 1938 Lincoln With a Custom Coach Body

If you dig past our love of monster trucks, weed whacker pulling tractors, header flames, and wheelstanders, you’ll also see that we’re suckers for the elegant machines that wealthy folks...

Great Read: How Ford Got Their Mojo Workin’

The story of how Ford dragged itself out of a death spiral and back to being profitable will fill the text books of business schools for decades to come. At base, it really seems simple. Design...

Cool New Product: New ’40 Ford Bodies From Drake Reproductions

The 1940 Ford is a totally iconic car in the world of hot rodding. From the era of the bootlegger running ‘shine through the back woods with a muscled up flattie to the gasser era at drag...

Incredible Wreck Video: In Car With Danny Thompson When His Mustang Flies at 260mph!

This is some amazing footage. We’re riding along with Danny Thompson in his Mustang as he hauls the mail down the Bonneville Salt Flats. Things are going along really well until he crests...

SEMA 2010: The Ugly, the Bad and the Totally Tasteless

As we finally begin to run out of photos and stuff related to the 2010 SEMA show, we thought that showing you the underbelly of the experience was necessary. For every totally bitchin’ car at...

Racing Junk Find: The Craziest Freaking Project We Have Ever Seen

We were happily searching RacingJunk recently when we navigated into the exhibition drag racing vehicle section. We expected a jet car, wheelstander, or some other vehicle along those lines. Instead...

BangShift Question of the Day: What’s More Fun?

We’ve been thinking of something since we departed Las Vegas last week. The question that has been running through our feeble mind is pretty basic. It actually cuts right down to the core of...

Barnstormin’: My Top 10 Favorite Cars and Trucks from SEMA 2010

With about a week to reflect on it and literally thousands of photos to pile through, I thought it would be a peachy time to glue together my top 10 favorite vehicles from the 2010 SEMA show. It...

Car Show Gallery: The 2010 Pumpkin Run at Fleming’s Junkyard

Since you’ve just checked out the gallery dedicated to the residents at Fleming’s Auto Parts in Egg Harbor, NJ, we thought that we should show you the other 250 photos from the 2010...

Junkyard Gallery: A Look at Fleming’s Junkyard in New Jersey

Intrepid BangShift photo contributor Joe Grippo recently attended the infamous Pumpkin Run car show which takes place in the totally awesome Fleming’s Junkyard located in Egg Harbor, NJ. He...

BangShift Book Review: Hot Rod Magazine All the Covers

If you are a fan or collector of old car magazines, this is one that needs to hit your shelf in a hurry. Hot Rod: All the Covers by Drew Hardin and the editors of Hot Rod Magazine tells the tale of...

SEMA 2010 Question: Crazy or Cool?

Would you buy or build your kid a half scale monster truck? While junior dragsters, quarter midgets, and small racing karts have a cute factor, this Baby Huey has a fright factor. As you can see by...