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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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Guerilla Power Tour Coverage: A Quick Look at the International Towing and Recovery Hall of Fame

The tow truck. It’s both a dreaded enemy and a welcome friend in the world of the BangShifter. Dreaded because it means your junk is broken when riding in one, and welcome when it saves your...

Not Shocking: Bobby Rahal Thinks that Vintage Racing Could be Popular

Bobby Rahal and a couple of partners have started up a new vintage road racing series called Legends of Motorports. They seem to think that they have stumbled upon some amazing thing that no one else...

Cops Bust Big Rig and Honda Street Racing, Honda was Losing

Police in Slidell, Louisiana recently stopped and cited two drivers for street racing. They were not in the normal hell-raising chariots. In fact, they were in a big rig towing an empty gasoline tank...

Video: BangShift.com and Ridetech present BBQ Bologna Bash 2010 for the Forum Freaks!

  Check it out! Video from the First Annual BangShift.com Ridetech Forum Freaks BBQ Bologna Bash! You’ll dig it.  

Power Tour Guerilla Coverage: The Cherry Bomb Guys Fight Their Truck…and WIN

The guys from Cherry Bomb have been battling day in and day out this week. The van cooked some of the wiring in the engine compartment, rendering it a trailer specimen, the dudes with the rat rod...

Power Tour Guerilla Coverage: Keys in Cars, Hanging with Rocky and Jim

Earlier this week we ran a bunch of stories of people heading to the starting point of the 2010 Power Tour. There are still people hooking up with the tail end of the tour, and as everyone knows,...

Power Tour Guerilla Coverage: More Bologna, Tickets, and Bumper Stickers

The 2010 Power Tour is raging on and the BangShift reading population has kicked their submissions into high gear. There were fines, keys locked in cars, and rain drops, but spirits remain high and...

Killer Vintage Drag Video: The Ford Drag Team Circa 1969

This is one of the most awesome vintage drag videos we’ve ever seen and that’s no exaggeration. It’s old footage of the 1969 version of the Ford Drag Team with Hubert Platt, Ed...

Power Tour Day 4 includes cars, fire, and meat. Well sorta…

Day 4 of Hot Rod Magazine’s Power Tour was event filled for the BangShift and Ridetech crews. We had a new group of cars coming in to finish the tour, 150 Forum Freaks to cook for, and...

Good News: It’s Not Just Americans Who Pay Stupid Money for Cars at Auction

Andrew Bogut is an Australian basketball player who pulls home serious coin as a starter for the Milwaukee Bucks. He’s also a car guy. Recently, he was at an auction and got into a bidding...

Ford Drag Team to be Featured at 2010 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion

Ford formed their Drag Team in 1963 and in doing so stated their intentions to win the hearst and minds of hot rodders and horsepower obsessed kids on drag strips across America. Chrysler and GM soon...

Pat Musi Back in Action with NHRA This Weekend

Soft spoken New Jersey native Pat Musi will be racing this weekend at Englishtown at the NHRA SuperNationals. The last time Musi suited up at an NHRA national event he was racing in Pro Stock, now...

Angry Elephant: Dyno Video of Lee Sicilio’s Hemi Daytona LSR Car

Our buddy Scott Clark, known as DieselGeek on the BangShift.com forums spends some of his free time tuning fuel injection setups on all different kinds of machinery. He’s messed around with...

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Coverage: First Annual BangShift.com Forum Freaks Bologna Bash

When Ridetech decided to partner with us here at BangShift.com, in an effort to support our own Forum Freaks during Hot Rod’s Power Tour, we all knew it was going to be a good time. And when we...