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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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Great Read: Proving That Drag Racing is the World’s Loudest Sport

Bangshifters certainly know that nitromethane powered drag racing vehicles are the most bone chattering loud cars on Earth. Others outside the realm of straight line fever don’t, however. ESPN...

SEMA Gallery: The Friday Afternoon Show Vehicle Exodus

One of the neater parts of the whole SEMA experience is watching the myriad of cars, trucks, race vehicles, hot rods, kustoms, and other SEMA show vehicles pour out of the Las Vegas Convention Center...

Not BangShift Approved: The Corvette Body Kit to End All Corvette Body Kits

Just when you thought it was safe to go outside, we’re dropping this on you. Yesterday we showed you the body kit to convert your 2010 Camaro into a 1969 “looking” Camaro,...

BangShift Approved: MIT Kids Build Space Camera For Pocket Change

One of life’s great ironies is that simple solutions to problems are often determined by brilliant people. Such was the case when two MIT kids came up with an idea for a cheap, and we mean...

SEMA 2010: Horsing Around

Lots of serious business goes down at the SEMA show every year. Hell, we conducted some of our own. That being said, by the end of the week virtually everyone is looped out on a lack of sleep,...

Project Goliath Update: We Install All Six of Our New Firestones!

After picking our freshly refurbished wheels and newly mounted Firestone tires from the tire shop, we hot footed to the airport for SEMA 2010. Having not installed them before we left on the trip,...

Dyno Video: Everything Was Fine Until He Hit the Gas

This dyno video starts with lots of promise. Seeing what looks to be a Pro Mod style car with twin turbos bolted to the front of it guarantees some type of entertainment. There’s lots of...

SEMA 2010 Question: Is this Cool or Lame?

A company named Innovation Retrokits had two vehicles on display at the 2010 SEMA show. Both were 2010 Camaros. One wore the nose of a 1969 Camaro standard nose and the other wore that of an RS....

BangShift Approved: New Air Boxes in the Spectre Performance Pro Fab Line

The Spectre Performance booth was busier than all Hell last week at SEMA. The Speed by Spectre streamliner was on prominent display as was the huge display trailer…still connected to the big...

SEMA 2010 Video: We Tour the Cherry Bomb 1968 Disturbing the Peace Camaro

When Cherry Bomb’s Matt Graves told us about the company’s “Disturbing the Peace” Camaro at SEMA 2009 we were cautiously optimistic. Matt told us that there were several...

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Event Coverage UPDATE: SEMA 2010 Thursday Show Car and Truck Gallery

We’re here, we’re working, and we’re reveling on what looks to be a mighty good 2010 SEMA show. Everyone who is everyone is here at SEMA 2010, there are new parts and cars galore,...

Come on Down: We’re Welding With Bill Caswell on Friday at SEMA

Friday morning we’re going to be hanging out with our rally pal Bill Caswell on Friday morning at the 2010 SEMA show. There will be welding involved, so it may be worth a visit. Caswell has...

Detroit Speed and Engineering Collects Great Award, Thrashes to Get Car Repaired

BangShift.com pals Kyle and Stacy Tucker at Detroit Speed and Engineering collected the prestigious Business of the Year award from the Hot Rod Industry Alliance at their annual Industry Awards...

Bangshift Approved: Moroso’s New LS-Series Water Pump Adapter

We spent some time with the boys in the Moroso booth and they showed us some really cool new stuff. Our favorite new product in their arsenal is the new LS engine series water pump adapters. These...