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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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This Abandoned Ford Galaxie Sat For 30 YEARS – Let’s See If It Can Be Saved! This One Might Take Some Extra Work

I’ve revived plenty of old cars, but there have been a few over the years that fought me. Some from start to finish, and others after making you think everything was fine and going to be good....

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Chrysler to Auction Historical Collection Vehicles, Not the Good Ones

Whenever we hear of a domestic auto manufacturer auctioning off parts of their company historical collections we kind of freak out. When the news broke that Chrysler was going to sell some of their...

Fire Video: A Chevelle Cooked Medium Rare

There’s good and bad in this video. The bad is the obvious nitrous pop which blows the hood scoop off the nice looking red Chevelle and then turns into a raging inferno shortly afterward. The...

Dyno Video: Twin 91MM Turbos, 534ci of Big Block Chevy, Whole Bunches of Horsepower

It wasn’t that long ago that nitromethane-burning engines were not making 2,000 hp. As you’ll see in this video, that magical number can be breached on gasoline in a hurry using a pair of...

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Hollywood Hot Rods Tapped to Build Raybestos Brakes Roadster Pickup

Troy Ladd and the fine fellows at Hollywood Hot Rods have been given the green light by Raybestos Brakes and Chassis products to build a pretty kick ass 1932 Ford roadster pickup. The build will...

Craigslist Find: A 1966 Mustang Rat Rod Even Barris Would Not Admit To

Joe Grippo should be a name familiar to regular BangShift.com readers as he regularly supplies us great photos from drag races, car shows, and the like. Joe worships at the Ford alter and he sent...

Historic Carnage Monday Edition: Truck Burning, Cars Flying, Driver Hanging Off of a Bridge

We’re back again with another load of scans from our grandfather’s scrap books of old wrecks, crazy photos, and gearhead history from the late 1940s and early 1950s. This time we’re...

More Killer Stunt Video: 1956 Chevy Promo Film Featuring the Joie Chitwood Stunt Drivers

We were a little harsh on the Joie Chitwood stunt show earlier, relaying our last memory of the program as relating only to the fact that they were driving Toyota Camrys. It wasn’t always like...

New Product: Annular Nitrous Nozzles From Induction Solutions

With the explosion of small-tire drag racing, Top Sportsman, and Pro Modified, nitrous oxide research and development has never been pushed as hard as it has been in recent years. Steve...

Cool Old Video: The Marathon Oil Hurricane Hell Drivers

Stunt and precision driving shows ain’t what they used to be. Scratch that, they are exactly what they used to be, except now they don’t do the truly death defying stuff like jumping cars...

RacingJunk Find: A Massive Pro Street 1967 Ford LTD

We love Pro Street cars. It’s not something we’re planning on apologizing for any time soon. This 1967 Ford LTD that we found on RacingJunk.com hits our personal perfect formula right...

Event Coverage: Show and Cruise photos from the 9th Lonestar Roundup

Spring in Austin Texas means it’s Lonestar Roundup time, and BangShift.com members Charles Wickam, BOOGHAR on the BangShift forums, and Chris Maynard, R&D guru at MSD Ignition, are making...

Event Coverage: Hundreds of Photos from the 2010 Goodguys Del Mar Nationals

It’s summer show season, and we’ve got Goodguys show coverage from the 10th Del Mar Nationals in Del Mar California. For all of you who are sitting in snow or rain covered areas of the...

Dyno Video: A Turbocharged 1938 Harley LSR Bike on the Chassis Dyno

Land Speed Racing is undoubtedly the last bastion of pure mechanical expression. Weird, arcane engine combinations are used without apology to set records and do things they were never originally...

MORE: MISC, Videos

Spectre Performance Announces Cool Top Speed Prize at Pro Touring Events

Our pals and sponsors at Spectre Performance have come up with a kick ass Top Speed prize that they will award to the competitors who achieve the highest speed (as measured by a radar gun at a...