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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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eBay Find: An Original 354ci Hemi Powered 1959 Dodge D700 Rig – Former Navy Truck!

We were tipped off to this totally awesome ex-Navy big rig on eBay by a well meaning BangShift reader. The problem is that his tip has caused loss of sleep, uncontrolled sweating, dry mouth, and...

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Jeff Teuton Bringing Two Mopars to ADRL Houston for SuperCar Showdown – One Equipped With V10 Rumored to be Factory 850hp Drag Race Engine

The hits just keep on coming with respect to the ADRL’s new SuperCar Showdown category. We’ve been unabashed fans of this whole thing since the initial announcement and we continue to be...

Snake and Mongoose Biopic To Be made – Lead Actors Chosen to Fill Roles of Prudhomme and McEwen

There are a bunch of cool racing movies that are in the production pipe coming from Hollywood. Between the move about Caswell, the James Hunt picture, and the 1966 24 Hours of LeMans based Go Like...

Watch Denver Schutz’s High Speed March Meet Wall-Banger From the Top End – Wild Footage!

Denver Schutz’s high speed encounter with the wall at Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield during the March Meet sure was scary. We ran a killer sequence of photos from the incident here on the blog,...

Cool New Tool From TCI: Adapter Converts Most Normal Floor Jacks Into Transmission Jacks

We’re admittedly clumsy. This normally translates itself into minor bloodshed in the shop or worse than that broken or mangled stuff. Have pulled and swapped more than a few transmissions in...

Caption These Photos: Scrub-a-dub-dub A Sprint Car in the Tub

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – We’re thinking about renaming our Texas based photographer Charles Wickam “ironman” after hearing his story of a 17-hour BangShifty Saturday. Over...

Chad Head Named Winner of March Meet After Boychuck Disqualified – Top Fuel Finalist Rick White Also DQ’d

In shocking news that hit the wires late last week, Tim Boychuck who was awarded the Wally for winning the March Meet was disqualified after his fuel pump was found to be outside of the class specs....

Chris Holbook Becomes First Entry For ADRL SuperCar Showdown Class – Will Campaign Cobra Jet

We thought that some heavies would enter the ADRL SuperCar Showdown but we didn’t know that one would be the first man to officially enter the class! Michigander Chris Holbrook, a former IHRA...

Car Feature Re-Run: An Original-Owner 1987 Buick GNX

Gary and Pam Beineke have a stable of awesome cars. We invaded their privacy to shoot and video several cars a couple of years ago and we featured those cars a while back. Most of the cars in their...

Ford Announces Base Pricing of 2013 GT500 – Shockingly Matches the Camaro ZL1

Ford has released the base pricing for the 2013 Mustang GT500 and the 200+ mph, 650hp beast will available to the general public for the base price of $54,995. While that is not chump change,...

Registration is Open for Hot Rod Drag Week 2012!

Ok boys and girls it is time to put your money where your mouth is and get yourselves signed up for Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week Version 2012. We’ve announced the tracks (this year the...

Follow Our Mission to Bring Project Buford T Justice Home LIVE!

By the time you read this, the fun mission to drive our new 1987 Caprice 9C1 project car from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts will have begun. We’re cruising down to PA today, collecting up the...

Event Gallery: Hotchkis Sport Suspension Mopar Open House 2012

(Photos by Elana Scherr) – Hotchkis makes great handling parts for all kinds of classic and modern muscle cars and every year they host some fun events at their California HQ. They’ve...

Event Gallery: More Photos From the 2012 Run to the Coast

(Photos by Elana Scherr) – The rave reviews and fun stories continue to come in from last weekend’s “Run to the Coast” pro touring event, held at the old El Toro Air Base in...