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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: Evening Edition

    The Tuesday evening submissions are rolling in! There’s action at Beech Bend Raceway tonight with lots of Power Tour participants thrashing on their junk, the...

Guerilla Power Tour Coverage: Busted Cars, Superman, and Deer Heads

    The hits just keep on coming! Tomfoolery and fun seemed to be the big theme of the photo submissions today as Power Tour participants made their way toward Bowling Green, Kentucky....

Event Coverage: Billetproof Texas 2010

We’re bringing you another monster gallery today, this one from Billetproof Texas 2010. These photos, like the cruise photos from earlier today were shot by our Texas rogue photo agent Charles...

Event Coverage: Sins of Steel 2010

Todd Ryden, our pal and one of the great dudes over at MSD Ignition attended the Sins of Steel show held in Davisburg, Michigan last weekend. This show was formerly known as Billetproof and was...

Guerilla Power Tour Coverage: One Dead Van….One Dead Matt?

    We received the following photos from an unnamed source on the Power Tour trail. They show the totally sweet Cherry Bomb Dodge Van on a trailer, and apparently, it ain’t coming...

Cruise Gallery: The Kemah, Texas Cruise, June 2010

We’re going to assault your eyeballs with galleries today. Sure, the Power Tour is raging, but that doesn’t mean every hot rod in the world is on it! Out Texas photo maven Charles Wickam...

Guerilla Power Tour Coverage: Drag Racing at I57, Americana, and Waffle Repellant

    The images from the front lines of the 2010 Power Tour are raining in hot and heavy tonight. With drag racing action happening at I57 dragway, some cool road side attractions, and a...

Guerilla Power Tour Coverage: Cooked Spindles, Big Tires, and High Pants

      As the Power Tour rolls across America we’re getting cool and hilarious installments from Power Tour participants from the road. In this installment of our Guerilla Power...

Hot Rod Power Tour Day 3 Coverage Part 1

Day Three of Hot Rod Magazine’s Power Tour started with us trying to thread the Ridetech Tour Bus through the incredibly tight gates here in Du Quoin Illinois. The grounds are full of hot rods,...

Memphis Motorsports Park on Sale for $6-Million

Memphis Motorsports Park, a former NHRA national event stop, as well as NASCAR Nationwide Series and Camping World Truck Series venue has been closed since October of 2009. Rumors have been running...

Hot Rod Power Tour: A good hot rodder always carries his own spare.

Well, we knew it was unlikely we would make it through Hot Rod Magazine’s Power Tour 2010 without doing some kind of repair. We were hoping we were done after applying some tape to a piece of...

Hot Rod Magazine’s Power Tour 2010 Day 2 Show Coverage

Day 2 of Hot Rod Magazine’s Power Tour was just what we expected. After having a perfectly smooth uneventful first day, many folks, including ourselves, got comfortable with the trip, headed...

Guerilla Power Tour Coverage: A Huge Stash of Power Tour Photos

    Bangshift.com forum member Louich is out of the Power Tour jamming along with our Forum Freaks and all the other crazies hamming it up on the week-long cruise. This collection of Power...

Cherry Bomb on the Power Tour Trail

One of the coolest parts of the Power Tour is the fact that there are so many companies involved, and not just involved by throwing money at the event, but actually cruising their own junk! Matt...