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Will These Replica Classic Car Bodies Reshape The Car Industry? Juncheng Vehicle Co. Is Replicating Icons In China

Several years ago the restoration body parts business went to a whole new place when companies started offering complete bodies for our favorite American classics. 1969 Camaros were one of the first,...

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Use This 3 Step Secret to GLASS FLAT Paint! Kevin Tetz Shares Decades Of Experience That Will Make Your Paint Job A Success

We’ve shared plenty of Kevin Tetz videos over the years around here, and I can tell you that Kevin sure knows what he’s talking about. The number of TV and YouTube personalities that have...

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SUPPORT SURGES FOR LENO’S LAW AS CAR CULTURE DEMANDS COLLECTOR’S RIGHTS: Letters Pour in from California’s Lowrider Community and International Car Rreservationists in support of California SB 1392

We’ve talked about California SB 1392 in the past, and are thrilled that despite not making it to a vote in 2025, the bi-partisan group of California law makers who support it are still pushing...

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How To Fab Headers: Follow Along As The Iron Trap Garage Crew Build Custom Stainless Headers For The Ardun Powered 1933 3 Window!!

Headers are one of those fabrication projects that seem to intimidate a lot of people, and for good reason. If you go at them from the wrong direction, don’t have a game plan in place to start...

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Steve Magnante’s Daily Junkyard Crawl: THIS RARE FIREBIRD FORMULA 350 HAS HAD A HOD ROD LIFE! COME SAVE IT!

It’s time for another Daily Junkyard Crawl with Steve Magnante, and this time it’s another really cool Pontiac. How about a real deal 1987 Pontiac Firebird Formula 350 that has had a few good go...

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Wild Ride at the May 2026 El Mirage California SCTA Meet – The Spirit of AutoPower III Comp Coupe Hits A Bump at 228 MPH!

The Spirit of Autopower Comp Coupe is a pretty radical machine, and a staple in the land speed racing community. This thing is based off a little tiny first generation Honda Civic, but the rest is...

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Photo Tour: Inside the NHRA Motorsports Museum

The Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum produces the California Hot Rod Reunion vintage drag race event that BangShift.com will be covering with live video the weekend of October 16-18, 2009, so the...

Event Coverage: 2009 Hershey AACA Car Show & Swap Meet

BangShift.com forum member Joe Grippo has contributed yet another bunch of photos, these from the massive Antique Automobile Club of America event held every fall in Hershey, Pennsylvania.  Joe...

2009 Hot Rod Drag Week Wrapup

OK, so it’s like weeks after the end of the 2009 Hot Rod Drag Week, presented by Gear Vendors. After covering the race for a solid week, I’ve almost caught up on sleep. Probably not. But...

Event Coverage: 2009 Jax Wax Show and Shine, Michigan

BangShift.com member Joe (Joe Lopez) gave us a photo gallery of the 2009 Jax Wax show and shine held October 9 at the Dawg House Restaraunt in Clinton Township, Michigan. There seems to have been a...

Carnage Video: 13 Crashes in 13 Months as Trucks Smash Themselves Topless Under a Low Bridge

There exists a rail road trestle in Durham, North Carolina. Said trestle only has 11 feet, 8 inches of clearance. Lots of trucks are 12 feet high and taller, so this presents a large problem. The...

Meet the Record Holding Infidel Streamliner: 330 MPH With a Cadillac Engine

Boys and girls, say hello to the record holding AA/BGS (Blown Gas Streamliner) Infidel streamliner run by the guys and girls at Spectre Performance. It’s powered by a twin-turbocharged 529ci...

Australian Cops are Confiscating Cars at a Record Pace

Police in the city of Werribee in Australia have confiscated more than 60 cars in the last nine months due to driving violations. We’ve blogged before about the stringent road laws down under,...

Can Racing Go Green?

We ran across an interesting editorial at Just-Auto.com that looks at how racing is starting to adopt some “green” tendencies and how the increased demand and awareness of hybrids and...

Opinion: JC France Drug Arrest Shouldn’t Be Mocked

The recent arrest of JC France, grandson of NASCAR founder Bill France Sr., has made for big conversation all across the Internet. As could be expected, most of the comments have not been all that...

Video of the Joyride Fail Du Jour: Kid Drives Daddy’s Porsche Off a Cliff

We caught wind of this wild story through our pals over at the CarDomain blog and we had to share it here. Yesterday it was the 15 year old kid getting his parent’s Blazer stuck in a mud hole....

Advice: Don’t Get Drunk and Steal an Ambulance

We’re on a joy ride kick with our blog items lately. So sue us. Some of these incidents are just too good to skip over. Take this one for example: A college kid in Kansas heads out for a night...

Site of the Week: TradeMe.co.nz, like CraigsList for New Zealand

We’ve got to thank BangShift.com forum member Hairy for the tip to this pretty cool New Zealand based website. Think of it like CraigsList for Kiwis. We honed into the specialty vehicle section...

The New York Times Covers the Antique Automobile Club of America Fall Hershey Meet

The Antique Automobile Club of America’s Eastern Division National Fall Meet, held in Hershey, Pennsylvania, since 1975, was last weekend, and the New York Times, of all media outlets, was...

Epic Joyride Fail: Kid Gets Stuck in Mud and Rescue Teams Are Involved

We’ll admit to once taking our dad’s four wheel drive truck out for a spin in the mud when he was on vacation with our mom years back, but we had a license. Oh yeah, and the fire...