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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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Wreckage Videos: Doorslammer Carnage From Shakedown at E-Town

The 2010 Shakedown at E-Town produced a raft of amazing performances as well as some truly scary wreckage. The most major crash involved Benny Alphonso who was on a solo run and impacted the wall at...

240 plus Photos from the 2010 GoodGuys Lonestar Nationals

The 2010 GoodGuys car show season continues this weekend with hot rods, muscle cars, street machines, street rods and trucks cruising the grounds at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas. The...

The Parting Shift: Wheels Up and Screaming at Atco, NJ

We’ll leave you this week with some great footage from Atco, New Jersey. The two cars featured are super stockers sporting small block engines and crash boxes. The vintage Corvette is pretty...

Paris Auto Show 2010 Coverage – A Super Light Hybrid Shocks the Crowd

While recovering from injuries suffered during a police beating while in Montreal, we caught wind of another significant automotive related surprise that was to be released on the general public in a...

Twin Cacklefests Shaping Up to be Epic for the 2010 NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion

Aside from the awesome racing that will be had during the 2010 NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion coming in just a couple of weeks to Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, California, the event will now...

Wind Tunnel Video: Gary and Pam Beineke’s 1971 Superbird at A2

Gary and Pam Beineke’s names are no strangers to the electronic pages of BangShift.com. We’ve featured several of their cars, highlighted the amazing work they did on a recent project to...

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Not a Joke: VW Talking With Penske on Potential NASCAR Involvement

Calling all metro-sexuals! You soon may have a new weekend activity to participate in if your beloved VW brand makes a move into NASCAR, as the company is reportedly considering. VW is actually...

Paris Auto Show 2010 Coverage: 2011 Ram Trucks Revealed

With our coverage of the 2010 Paris Auto Show in full swing, we looked over our shoulder at the other guy’s covering this show and realized that they are in the wrong place. Apparently they...

Great Site: The Automotive Art of Nate Grice

We were told to check out the work of automotive artist Nate Grice while out on Drag Week 2010. Since we move at the speed of slow molasses, we finally got around to doing so. Plain and simple, Nate...

Paris Auto Show 2010 Coverage – Our Favorite Special Edition Mustang Yet

We had no sooner gotten over praising the new Jeep Wrangler when our phone rang with a hot tip on a press conference Ford was going to hold in Paris, Illinois. As it turns out they were announcing...

Vintage Commercial: When Shelby Was Selling Chryslers

The early 1980s was a dark time for fans of domestic high performance cars. Yes, the automotive world was gradually pulling itself out of the performance abyss known as the 1970s, but the rollicking...

BangShifty Bling: Engine Rings – Not Piston Rings, Engine Rings

Well this is a first. Of all the hundreds of items we have ever published here at BangShift.com we have never written anything about jewelery, until now. We were tipped off to the existence of...

Paris Auto Show 2010 Coverage – We Spy the Next Generation Jeep!

After our ground breaking coverage of Diamond Reo truck earlier today, we had to search far and wide to top ourselves and keep this Paris Auto Show momentum rolling. We received word from a shabbily...

Wild Video: Helicopter Touch and Go Landings…on Lake Tahoe!

This is some of the craziest footage we have ever seen. It was saptured by tourists visiting Lake Tahoe. A pair of helicopters hover just above the water and then they both actually set down in the...

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