Car Show Gallery: 2011 Goodguys Chicagoland Nationals
We’re totally pounding you with galleries today, but we suspect that isn’t much of a problem. After all, it is hump day and work sucks, so what better way to kill a day is there than...
Wednesday Bonneville Video Bonanza: More Cool Video From Speed Week 2011!
Yesterday we brought you the freshest video we could find from Bonneville Speed Week 2011. Today, we’re back with the same thing because the sweet video footage keeps rolling in from the...
Swap Meet Gallery: The August 2011 Pomona Swap Meet – Cars Galore!
George Cross and Sons have been putting on the Pomona Swap Meet for decades. Their radio ads say they are, “The Southern California Original”. The swap meet’s size and reach are...
Update: The Hot Rod Magazine Special Camaro With a Supercharged Two Cylinder Big Block Chevy Runs 32.414 MPH – Qualifies for Record
Well this is oddly cool! When Keith Turk and Hot Rod Magazine’s David Freiburger fragged the 1100hp blown big block Chevy in their Camaro at Bonneville, all hope seemed lost for the week. The...
Goodguys Ohio Nationals Bonus Gallery: Shots from the Show and the Autocross!
While Chad was screaming into the mic as the announcer of the autocross at the Goodguys Ohio Nationals, countless hot rodders thrashed on their junk with varying levels of success between the cones....
BangShift Tech: How to Repair the Kickdown Switch in a Turbo 400 Transmission
Nearly every automatic transmission has some kind of kick down apparatus and they are all different. TH350s use a cable connected to the carb linkage, 700R4’s use TV cable, Ford...
Update: 2011 Bonneville Galleries, the Tuesday Two Banger, and Jimmy Shine
Chad hit the salt running on Monday zapping photos and glad handing with hot rodders and gearheads he’d not seen since least year’s running of Speed Week. Tuesday he helped make a 2...
Bad Ass Chevelle Sleeper For Sale: Buy a 10-Second Car That Looks Like a Barge!
A couple years back, a sleepy, twin-turbo 1970 Chevelle started making the rounds on the internet. The car is truly one of the coolest Q-ships we have ever seen. It sports a twin turbo LQ9...
Bonneville 2011 Video Bonanza: Launches and Fly-Bys (Some Featuring the Handiwork of BangShifters!)
The videos are starting to roll out of Bonneville now, and we’ve scooped up a bunch of them to show you. Most are long distance fly bys but man, the sound is totally worth the price of...
Tuesday Time Killer: The Awesome Story of a Dude Who Built and Raced His Own Monster Truck in the 1980s and 1990s!
There are awesome message board threads and then there’s this, the story of Jeff Strand and the Thunder Beast monster truck, a machine that he bought as a young man, built, rebuilt, jumped,...
Cool Video: Dr Jamie Meyer of GM Shows Six Significant Performance Cars From Chevy’s History
Chevrolet turns 100 this year and the company plans to celebrate that fact loud and proud during the 2011 Woodward Dream Cruise in and around Detroit. In this video, Dr. Jamie Meyer, one of the...
Mega Gallery: The 2011 Goodguys Ohio Nationals – Columbus, Ohio
The Goodguys Ohio Nationals went down last weekend and the place was packed wall to wall with some of the coolest cars in the nation. From traditional rods to the wild morphed Chrysler Imperial of...
Humongous Parts Photos: What A Valve From a Container Ship Looks Like
We’ve all gotten that infamous e-mail forward with photos of a massive container ship engine going together. There are photos of guys standing in the cam bearings and pistons the size of a two...
Pro Mod Disaster Video: The Tindle/Cagle Uber Wreck
There are drag racing crashes and then there are drag racing CRASHES. This is the latter. The wreck involves the blown Mustang Pro Mod of Tim Tindle and the nitrous Camaro of Tori Cagle. From the...
