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Steve Magnante’s Daily Junkyard Crawl: This 351, 4-SPEED, 3.50:1 TRACTION LOCK 1971 TORINO GT Is Cool!

It’s time for another Daily Junkyard Crawl with Steve Magnante, and this time it’s another really cool Ford. How about a real deal 1971 Torino GT with a 351, 4-speed, and a 9 inch with...

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Derek is Taking A 1,600 Mile Journey To Trade One Of Vice Grip Garages More Popular Trucks For The Ride He Sold And Instantly Regretted It

We’ve all traded or sold a car or truck and then regretted it. Sometimes that regret is as soon as the deal is done and sometimes it takes a week or month or year to realize that you just...

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1972 Chevrolet Crash Test Video: Watch A 1972 Chevrolet Vega Crash Head On Into A 1972 Chevrolet Impala For Science

Everyone thinks of a Vega as being super small, because it was a compact car back in the day, and that an Impala is super huge because at the time they really were and especially when compared to a...

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Build Your Own Vapor Blaster At Home With A Harbor Freight Blast Cabinet, Including a Full Parts List!

Vapor blasting, or wet blasting as many people call it, is a media or sand blasting method that uses water and sometimes an added detergent. The water and abrasives combine to clean and slightly...

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Dirthead Shed Tire Testing: Putting Avix Trailtek R/T Tires To The Test As Butter Jeep Takes On Tough Moab Trails

Dirthead Dave is back at it, with the newly LS Swapped and running Butter Jeep out on the trails in Moab for a bit of tire testing. Dave has been wheeling Jeeps and everything else under the sun for...

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WATCH FREE LIVE Streaming Drag Racing From Santa Pod RIGHT HERE! The Festival Of Power Is ON This Weekend!

This weekend at the famed Santa Pod Raceway in England, there’s a big drag race called the Festival of Power going on, and all the action is LIVE right here! This event is a pre-cursor to the...

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Car Show Gallery: The Sultans Car Club Benefit Car Show

Chad was a busy dude last weekend. He jumped straight from the Poncho show, right on over to the Sultans Car Club of Long Beach Benefit show. This event was raising money for the Long Beach K-9...

Car Show Gallery: The So Cal Pontiac Club’s All Pontiac Car Show

From Ohio, we zip out to California and the the all Pontiac car show put on by the So Cal chapter of the POCI (Pontiac-Oakland Club International). The POCI is a big organization who is still going...

Event Gallery: The Canfield, Ohio Swap Meet

For more than 20 years, there’s been a large by huge swap meet in Canfield, Ohio. This meet, like so many others, has managed to survive the encroachment of online sales giants like eBay,...

The Parting Shift: Banging Gears in a 1964 Galaxie Wagon Packing a 428 and Doug Nash Five Speed!

We’re capping off the week in grand style, with some in car video from a very unique drag machine. The car that we’re riding in by watching this video is an old Galaxie station wagon that...

Trevor Bayne Released From Hospital, No Date Set on Racing Return

NASCAR’s Trevor Bayne is living through one of the most manic years in the history of humankind. Of course it began with his improbable win at the 2011 Daytona 500 for Wood Brothers Racing,...

eBay Find: An Original 427 Cammer Powered A/FX Mustang Drag Racer

Talk about cool! This 1965 Mustang has been a race car since day one, and it wasn’t just some flim-flam stocker with a little 289. Instead it was a beastly A/FX machine sporting one of the...

Boss 302 Crate Engines Now Available From Ford Racing

The 444hp Boss 302 that powers the recently released Boss Mustang is now available as a crate engine from Ford Racing. The Boss 302 is the highest performance variant of the 5.0L engine that powers...

Drag Bike Wreckage Video: A Full-Tilt Nitrous Busa Throws It’s Rider at High Speed

When it comes to high performance motorcycles, the Suzuki Hayabusa seems to be the unrivaled champion amongst modern iron. We’ve seen these things tear up drag strips with blinding numbers, run...

Video: BangShiftChad Drives Ridetech’s 1969 Mustang at the 2011 Goodguys Editor’s Challenge Autocross

I’m normally known for being the fatest mouth at an autocross event, and as the announcer for the Goodguys Autocross Series, I get to see everyone else being the fastest shoe. As a driver, this...

Video: 2011 Goodguys Del Mar Nationals

When the Goodguys Rod and Custom Association rolls into Del Mar California each spring, hot rods from all the western states and beyond flock to the Del Mar Fairgrounds for some of the finest weather...

Ford Racing Announces Creation of Cobra Jet Showdown, Event Slated for August

This is the start of something totally cool. Ford Racing has announced the creation of the Cobra Jet Showdown, a heads up drag race amongst the owners of 2008-2012 Mustang Cobra Jets. Much like the...

Drag Race Fail Video: This Rider is a Bad Racer and a Worse Stunt Jumper

One time when we were interviewing EJ Potter, he told us about the bad rap motorcycles had at the drags during the 1960s about the time he came out with his V8 “Widowmaker” motorcycle. He...

BangShift Question of the Day: What’s Your Least Favorite Automotive Task?

Even the most talented gearheads have at least one task that they don’t like. Ours is wiring. We’re ham-fisted as it is and when you combine that with the need to work in tight spaces and...

Racing Junk Find: A Hermetically Sealed, Pro Street AMX Time Warp

With the 1980s vibe starting to come back into the world of hot rodding with a force, this pro street AMX is the ticket to coolville. The seller does not say when the car was built, but he does...