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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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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...

BangShift.com Photo Galleries: 2010 NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion at Famoso

Along with the awesome live video feed you can watch all weekend long, BangShift will also be posting killer photo galleries from the track and the pits at Famoso Raceway throughout the...

Nitro Video: The Cacklefest from the 2010 Holley National Hot Rod Reunion With a Bonus Don Garlits Interview

By the time you read this, we’ll be headed for Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, California to set up our scaffolding rig in preparation of our live broadcast of the entire 2010 NHRA California...

Life of Joaquin Arnett to be Honored at NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion

Pioneering drag racer Joaquin Arnett’s life will be honored during the 19th Annual California Hot Rod Reunion this weekend. Arnett’s contributions to the sport go far beyond the machinery...

BangShift Gallery: A Tour of the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum

One of the primary reasons that the NHRA Heritage Series and the great Hot Rod Reunions exist is for the benefit of the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum. Located in Pomona, California, on the same...