.

the car junkie daily magazine.

.
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...

Read more

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...

Read more

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...

Read more

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...

Read more

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...

Read more

 

Breaking News: The East Coast Timing Has Officially Landed a New Home at Wilmington Air Park!

Just a couple of hours ago, the East Coast Timing Association was given permission to hold land speed racing events at the Wilmington Air Park in Wilmington, Ohio for the 2012 season. This includes...

Drag Video: The Baddest Dodge D-100 Truck in History

If you follow the NHRA’s Get Screened America Pro Mod series, there’s not doubt you are familiar with the name Peter Farber. He runs the immaculate Dodge Charger Daytona Pro Mod that...

Barnstormin’: A Drag Week Question Answered

When Larry Larson made the first six second lap in the history of Hot Rod’s Drag Week last year, I gulped a little. While the individual performance was amazing and noteworthy on many levels, I...

Racing Junk Find: A Blown 1963 Dodge 440 Wagon!

The styling department at Chrysler gets whizzed on a lot for their designs that hit the streets in the early 1960s. Virgil Exner led the unit and gets most of the criticism for the odd looking cars,...

History! Poteet and Main Speed Demon Runs 462-MPH at Bonneville!

It is being reported by multiple sources that the Poteet and Main “Speed Demon”, powered by a Kenny Duttweiler built, twin-turbo, 347ci Chevy on alcohol ran the fastest speed ever...

Sprint Carnage Video: A Winged Sprint Car Fights the Roughest Track in History…an Loses

Who knew qualifying could be so hazardous?! Chad’s notes: Wow, this sucks for this dude. If I didn’t know any better, I would say that the staff at Heartland Park Topeka must have prepped...

Question of the Day: Matt Hagan Makes First Three-Second Nitro Funny Car Run of the 1000-Ft Era – Do you Care?

Taking full advantage of the mine shaft air and hard biting track at zMax Dragway in Concord, North Carolina, Matt Hagan and his team became the first to break into the three-second zone on a 1,000ft...

Grunt Force Trauma: The Recovery of Project Brutus – Our 1968 Chevy C50 Wrecker!

Well, I can check the bucket list box that reads, “buy an old heap sight unseen, show up and drive it home 500 miles,” now. The mission to go out and get Brutus, the newest addition to...

Caption This Drag Week Photo: Why the Long Faces?

BangShifter John Gatliff send us the photo you’ll see in large form after the jump and it struck us as funny for a couple reasons. The first, of course is because Chad’s mouth is closed....

Great Tech Video: Detroit Speed’s GM A-Body Suspension Components

BangShift sponsor, Detroit Speed makes suspension components for a variety of Detroit’s finest iron. We’ve ridden in a couple of Chevelles packing their parts and on the last such ride,...

MORE: TECH, Videos

Drag Week 2011 Wrap Up: Winners, BangShifters, and Rain

Gear Vendor’s Drag Week 2011 is over and, as usual, racers around the world are scheming up their newest dream racecar to take down Larry Larson, Todd Maschmeier, or Tim Reed at Drag Week 2012....

LIVE Streaming Video of Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week Awards Ceremony NOW

We have live streaming video of Drag Week 2011, right here. Visit us daily to see all the coverage right here at BangShift.com including Hot Rod’s Live Coverage, photo galleries, 1320video, and...

Breaking News: Larry Larson Wins His 4th Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week Unlimited and Overall Title!

Larry Larson has claimed his fourth Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week title by fighting his way down the Heartland Park drag strip this afternoon in 7.56 seconds. That run, while not a record breaker in the...

Even More 1320Video from Drag Week 2011: Day 4 Tulsa Action

Day 4 of Hot Rod Drag Week 2011 had all the drama you expect from an event that has put competitors through rain, heat, hills, wind, oil, “challenging” track conditions, and more. Our...