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We Tour The Pomona Swap Meet With Our Friend Dane from The Burndown Channel! Check it out!

There are many things that I miss from living in Southern California, and one of them is the Pomona Swap Meet. Unless I was out of town at a race, I was there with Crosby and Jay and the crew, window...

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Turning a Survivor 1950 Pontiac into the Perfect Cruiser. It’s Easier Than You Think and the Results are Awesome!

1950’s American cars have historically been the basis of the majority of true customs, and for good reason. The lines flow, the shapes lend themselves to chopping, sectioning, and frenching,...

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THE VAULT: Exploring Hot Rod & Racing HISTORY Underneath the Petersen Museum. You Gotta See This!

Our friend Tommy Lee Byrd recently got the chance to visit the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, and the very special section, underneath this HUGE space that is called The Vault. It’s...

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4th of July SALE! Visit Ridetech.com Between Now And July 7th for 10% Off Late Model Suspension During July 4th Weekend Sale!

That’s right gang, if you are looking for some real savings this 4th of July weekend, to celebrate 250 years of American pride, then now is your chance to save 10% off your late model...

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Free Live Streaming Drag Racing: 20th Annual World Footbrake Challenge Big Money Bracket Racing – Sunday

The 18th Annual World Footbrake Challenge is the bracket race event for all you folks who don’t like a trans brake, delay boxes, etc. and we are thrilled to be bringing you all the racing action...

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LIVE: LARIS Motorsports Insurance $100K Presented by Vintage at Beech Bend Raceway Park – Sunday

Watch the Motormania LIVE Coverage from the TB Promotions Laris Insurance $100k at Bowling Green. This is going to be some great racing with a $25K race, two $50k races, and the big $100,000...

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Legendary 1964 Magazine Head to Head Comparison Test Set for 2010 Rematch

The year was 1964 and Pontiac was hot on promoting it’s new GTO. The car now credited with officially ushering in the muscle car era was flying off of dealer lots and into the hands of hot...

NASCAR’s smash ’em, crash ’em season finisher in Florida

Denny Hamlin kept his word and wrecked Brad Kaselowski during the NASCAR Nationwide race on Saturday last weekend. This ended the season, but kept the streak alive of Hamlin and Kaselowski crashing...

Historic Video: The First Fastest Street Car Shootout

With all of this week’s talk about Larry Larson’s 6-second Nova, easily the fastest regularly driven street car anywhere, we thought it would be interesting to look back at the first...

Winner: Worst Appropriation of a Car-Guy Term

Here’s a total buzz kill. The “young voters demanding bold action on climate and energy in 2009” have ripped off a perfectly good car-guy term in naming their web site:...

1967 Mustang Currently Leading East African Rally

How cool is this? Ian Duncan, at the wheel of a 1967 Mustang packing a 351 and a four-speed, is currently leading the 2009 East African Safari Classic Rally. From the looks and sounds of it, the...

Camaro May Outsell Mustang By Year End

It hasn’t happened since the mid-1980s, but there is a chance that the Chevy Camaro might actually outsell the Ford Mustang this year. Even Chevy executives are a bit suprised how well the car...

Book Review: The Corvette Factories by Mike Mueller

Mike Mueller’s latest work, The Corvette Factories: Building America’s Sports Car is a cool look back, not just on the history of the Corvette, but on the history of how we build cars....

US Soldiers Get VIP Treatment at Qatar Unlimited Hydroplane Race

It wasn’t just the drag racers making big horsepower in Qatar last weekend. The unlimited hydroplane guys got invited over by the Sheik to compete for the first time in the country’s...

Great Thread: Cars on the Ocean Floor

The Internet is an amazing place to find all sorts of automotive stuff you may never have thought of and that’s really fun and entertaining. Like this: how about a bunch of photos of cars at...

Video: RM Auctions General Lee Delivered to New Owner, Upside Down!

Here’s a video you thought you’d never see: a car from a high-end auction sale delivered on its roof. This is one of the cars used in the 2005 Dukes of Hazzard movie, and it’s...

National Dragster Vintage Drag Photos Column, Part 2

A little over a week ago we posted an item about a column that National Dragster editor Phil Burgess had written about how vintage drag photos tend to circle the Internet. The best part of the column...

eBay Pick of the Week: 1951 Kaiser Henry J

This week’s eBay pick has us in a bit of a quandry. Is a 1951 Henry J, admittedly unhacked, but without an engine, is it worth $4,000? It is the perfect foundation for a Gasser project, and...

Wisconsin Mopar Guy Indicted for Fraud and Money Laundering Through Car Sales

Sometimes you have to wonder where all the money comes from in high-stakes muscle car buying and selling. In this case, it may have all gone into a big shell game played by Fred Englehart of...

Jeremy Mayfield Interviewed During Auction of His Property

BangShift.com member Bobby Kincade tipped us off onto a great interview with ousted NASCAR driver Jeremy Mayfield that was actually done while his personal property was being auctioned off last week....