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Will These Replica Classic Car Bodies Reshape The Car Industry? Juncheng Vehicle Co. Is Replicating Icons In China

Several years ago the restoration body parts business went to a whole new place when companies started offering complete bodies for our favorite American classics. 1969 Camaros were one of the first,...

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Use This 3 Step Secret to GLASS FLAT Paint! Kevin Tetz Shares Decades Of Experience That Will Make Your Paint Job A Success

We’ve shared plenty of Kevin Tetz videos over the years around here, and I can tell you that Kevin sure knows what he’s talking about. The number of TV and YouTube personalities that have...

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SUPPORT SURGES FOR LENO’S LAW AS CAR CULTURE DEMANDS COLLECTOR’S RIGHTS: Letters Pour in from California’s Lowrider Community and International Car Rreservationists in support of California SB 1392

We’ve talked about California SB 1392 in the past, and are thrilled that despite not making it to a vote in 2025, the bi-partisan group of California law makers who support it are still pushing...

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How To Fab Headers: Follow Along As The Iron Trap Garage Crew Build Custom Stainless Headers For The Ardun Powered 1933 3 Window!!

Headers are one of those fabrication projects that seem to intimidate a lot of people, and for good reason. If you go at them from the wrong direction, don’t have a game plan in place to start...

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Steve Magnante’s Daily Junkyard Crawl: THIS RARE FIREBIRD FORMULA 350 HAS HAD A HOD ROD LIFE! COME SAVE IT!

It’s time for another Daily Junkyard Crawl with Steve Magnante, and this time it’s another really cool Pontiac. How about a real deal 1987 Pontiac Firebird Formula 350 that has had a few good go...

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Wild Ride at the May 2026 El Mirage California SCTA Meet – The Spirit of AutoPower III Comp Coupe Hits A Bump at 228 MPH!

The Spirit of Autopower Comp Coupe is a pretty radical machine, and a staple in the land speed racing community. This thing is based off a little tiny first generation Honda Civic, but the rest is...

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Score Ridetech’s New 130-Page Catalog FREE!

We got word on the executive tip line that our buddies at Ridetech are offering their brand new 130pg catalog for free to anyone who requests one. There are no strings attached and just a simple...

eBay Find: A Factory Supercharged 1954 Kaiser Manhattan

Believe it or not, the 1954 Kaiser Manhattan was the first car to offer a factory supercharger after WWII. While that sounds sexy and exciting, you have to realize that the blower was forcing air...

Watch Hot Rod’s Rob Kinnan and His Lemons Team Finish Their Car at Craftsman Experience Live

Hot Rod Magazine editor Rob Kinnan (seen in the photo snoozing on the salt in 2008) will be at Chicago’s Craftsman Experience with his 24 Hours of Lemons team wrenching on their car to get it...

Website of the Week: A Massive Collection of Race Driver Biographies

We’re unrepentant racing history geeks here at BangShift and we know lots of you out there in reader land are too. We got tipped off to the most incredible collection of stories and biographies...

Vintage Flopper Video Bonanza: 1980s Funny Car Racing From Englishtown and New England Dragway

Dean Papadeas is a name that many avid drag racing fans don’t know but they should. Papadeas was the man who single-handedly changed the way that drag races were filmed and presented on...

Car Show Gallery: The Space City Cruisers Fall Extravaganza 2010

From the Long Beach, California area, we now whisk you to League City, Texas, where our Texas photo contributor Charles Wickam attended the Space City Cruisers Fall Extravaganza car show. This was a...

Event Gallery: The Long Beach Swap Meet – September 2010

Our intrepid West Coast correspondent Scott Liggett dragged himself out of bed in the pre-dawn hours a couple of weeks back to hit the September version of California’s vaunted Long Beach Swap...

Freakshow Video: A Monster Truck and a Jet Dragster Duke it Out on the Strip

When Berserko Bobby Doerrer called us up and said that he was helping out with a jet car that had just matched raced a monster truck at Palm Beach International Raceway, we asked him to place his...

Auto Trader Classics Find: A 1968 McLaren Can-Am Racer

When the great book of bendy racing is written, two classes of race cars will sit atop of the heap of the nuttiest ever to turn right and left. Those two classes are the Group B rally machines of the...

Barnstormin’: Spoiled Rotten

Sitting here in the East Coast BangShift World HQ, I’m still trying to wipe the perma-grin off my face from our weekend broadcast of the 2010 NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion. Tens of thousands...

British Virgin Islands Hires Consulting Firm to Study Possible Drag Strip Project

The British Virgin Islands (BVI) government recently hired New Direction Consultancy to conduct a feasibility study on whether or not the BVI should have a drag strip. That company has contacted the...

In the Books: We Post Every Single Car Record From SCTA/BNI Speed Week 2010

Insane Carnage Photos: A 10.5 Tire Mustang Meets Its Maker

There’s wreckage and then there’s wreckage. The driver who piloted this thing that used to be a Fox-bodied Mustang was ok, but the car looks like someone pushed it out a cargo plane at...

2010 NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion Video and Photo Coverage

The 2010 NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion vintage drag race was October 15-17, at Auto Club Famoso Raceway, and BangShift.com had a free live video feed from all three days of racing. Stay tuned to th...