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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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Photo Gallery: Great Car Show at a Better Junkyard!

Once again, our eastern contributor Joe Grippo has delivered the goods with two big photo galleries from a great car show held November 7 at Fleming’s Auto Parts in Egg Harbor Township, New...

BangShift.com’s Five Favorite Street Rods from SEMA 2009

It should come as no surprise that the SEMA Show in Las Vegas is always a hot spot for debuting some of the coolest street rods on the planet. After all, whether you call them street rods or hot...

Carnage Video: Crazy Catastrophic Engine Failure Now in High Def

The engine explosion of the European Maid pulling tractor has graced this website a time or two, but never in high quality television footage. This is the one where the motor explodes and the block...

BangShift.com’s favorite Mustangs from SEMA 2009

One of the biggest surprises for us at the 2009 SEMA Show was the number of cool old Mustangs. We were expecting nothing but late models, but much to our delight, we found Trans Am racers, Cammer...

BangShift.com’s Top Five 2010 Camaros from SEMA 2009

Public opinion going into the 2009 SEMA Show was that the 2010 Camaro was going to be the car of the show, even if Ford was the sponsor this year. The public was right. There were literally dozens of...

BangShift.com Members Get Exclusive Discount at Speed Shop!

BangShift.com forum member and speed merchant extrodinaire Rich Dodrill (SpeedJunkee on the forums) has taken up residence at a new speed shop in the greater Indy area. He’s now employed at the...

Bangshift.com Picks Our Top 5 Street Trucks of SEMA 2009

There were a huge amount of trucks being displayed at the 2009 SEMA show. They ranged from slammed down mini-trucks, to humongo, high-riding, blinged out monsters. We’re fans of stuff that...

Event Coverage: 2009 Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational

BangShift.com was there for the 2009 Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational on November 7, but yours truly was jamming hard announcing the event and could not get out there and take photos or video....

Roadside Find: A Laid Out 1998 Chevy Truck

The weekend before we headed off to the SEMA show, we were running errands on a Sunday morning and crossed paths with this bad ass, totally laid out Chevy truck. We’re thinking it is a 1998 as...

Ebay Find: The World’s Quickest 1960 Chevy Bel Air

Hey! We know this car! This 7-second monster belongs to BangShift.com forum member Mike Casella. He’s been having tons of fun with its big 707ci, nitrous fed Donovan motor for a few years now...

Book Review: Motion Performance, Tales of a Muscle Car Builder by Martyn Schorr

Motion Performance is rightfully known as the wildest of the specialty muscle car builders of the 1960s and early 1970s. With the infamous Phase III Camaros and Corvettes, Joel Rosen and company...

Ridetech’s SEMA 2009 Experience: Awards, Drama, and More!

Longtime BangShift.com sponsor Ridetech seems to be everywhere at all times, and the 2009 SEMA show was no different. Ridetech not only launched thier incredibly trick new line of Select Shocks and...

Video: The 40th Anniversary Ignition from MSD

Earlier in the week, BangShift.com showed you the new MSD 40th anniversary 6AL ignition box in a cool retro-style look. Power TV was also there in the MSD booth and got this video of our friend and...

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Event Coverage: SEMA 2009 Friday Photo Bonanza

Here’s our last big gallery from the 2009 SEMA show. This one was shot on Friday and looks at some parts and lots of cars and trucks. One of the neatest parts of the show is the major traffic...