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The Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle, Which May Or May Not Have Made An Appearance At Jeff Smith’s Party, Is For Sale!

When David Freiburger said that we were going to party at Jeff Smith’s house, for his birthday, back in 2007 or so, I was thrilled to death. I mean Jeff Smith is a legend in the magazine world...

Paul Lee Picks Up Global Electronic Technology As Major Sponsor Of NHRA Nitro Funny Car Team

The NHRA news is coming hot and heavy this week as the season opening Winternationals are set to take over the headlines next week. Today it’s Paul Lee dropping some knowledge on a great new...

Historic Charge: Watch Dean Marinis Make The First Nitrous Pro Mod Run Into The 5.50s! 5.57/255 – Insane

We have talked about Dean Marinis here at BangShift plenty over the years. The guy has been an absolute killer in a multitude of drag racing classes, most famously X275 with his orange Mustang, but...

2019 NHRA New England Nationals Photo Coverage: A Sunday Sportsman Photographic Spectacular

(Photo by Dave Nutting) – Yeah, yeah, we know that the mountain motor pro stock cars are not by traditional definition “sportsman” machines but we’re including them in this...

The Velocity Camaro Is Up For Auction TODAY At Barrett-Jackson!

When Bret Voelkel and the crew at Ridetech built Velocity in 2008 it set a new bar for fit and finish on a pro touring machine, and it can be yours! It is for sale TODAY at Barrett-Jackson. With...

For $1,500 This Hard Top Camaro Is A Runner You Could Do Awesome Stuff With!

I love a good 3rd Gen Camaro, and the most desirable ones are the hard top cars. Especially hard top stick cars. Well this one is NOT a stick car, but it is a hard top and the price is amazing when...

10 Questions With Bret Voelkel – Here’s A Great Look At The Past, Present and Future of Ridetech

There’s always something interesting about getting the backstory of the movers and shakers in the hot rodding industry straight from their ow mouths, right? In this case we have Bret Voelkel...

This inside Look At McLaren’s Colossal Indy 500 Failure Is Jaw Dropping – Comedy of Errors

They didn’t have a steering wheel. Seriously, McLaren boss Zak Brown was trying to find a proper steering wheel of the company’s Indy 500 race car a handful of days before qualifying was...

Classic YouTube: The Last Run Of “TV” Tommy Ivo And The Four-Engined Wagon Master

Far as I’m concerned, there isn’t a more impactful sight that the four Buick V8 engines attached to the four wheels of “TV” Tommy Ivo’s magnum opus. Originally known as...

2019 Cavalcade Of Customs Photo Coverage: All The Cool Stuff, None Of The Boring Junk!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Indoor car show season is in full swing.  When we went to the Cavalcade at the Duke Energy Center in Cincinnati it was one of the first events in the...

45 Hours, Coast to Coast, In A Custom Dodge Van? This Is The Four Ball Rally

(Words and Photos by Jim Smoot) Boston, Massachusetts – June 2, 1984… In the early morning hours, in the pouring rain, more than a million dollars worth of exotic automotive machinery &...

More FM3 Road Trip Photo Coverage Is Coming Your Way!

(Photos by Cole Reynolds) The FM3 RoadTrip: Cars and Cones is a really bitchin event and we’re so thrilled to have been a part of it again this year. We’re lucky as hell to have driven...

The FM3 Road Trip 2018 Is On And We Are Having So Much Fun! Take A Look At Our Photos

The FM3 RoadTrip: Cars and Cones is a really bitchin event and we’re so thrilled to be a part of it again this year. We’re lucky as hell to be driving Ridetech’s original 48-Hour...

Win This Supercharged 2017 Challenger In The AVS SUPERCHARGED ALL-AMERICAN CAR SWEEPSTAKES

When the guys at Lund and Auto Vent Shade decided they were going to put together a giant flare package for the new 2017 Dodge Challenger and then do one up to give away, there were tons of people...