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Finnegan’s Drag and Drive Cadillac Project Continues: Fabricating Custom Floors In Preparation For Custom Interior.

Mike and Joe are back at it, working on the Cadillac to get it on the road this year. There is a lot to do, but they keep chipping away at it and in the video below it’s time for the floors to...

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For Sale: The Coolest Ramp Truck Ever? Like A Toterhome And A Ramp Truck Had A Baby, Only WAY Cooler.

I love vintage RVs, and especially eyebrow Winnebago RV’s. I know several people who have built custom versions of these, and also love them when they are just a survivor or restoration. But...

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3 DAY Custom Truck BUILD! Puddin’ Scores A 1984 S10 From Marketplace And Proceeds To Build A Simple, Clean, & Budget Friendly Mini Truck.

Everyone loves a big elaborate custom build, but I have to say that I also really love the simple, quick, and budget friendly builds like this one from Puddin’s Fab Shop. I wish more of my...

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Pro 275, Limited Drag Radial, and Radial vs The World Racing Action From The Shakedown at U.S. 131

US 131 has been throwing one hell of a drag race with both the Mid West Drag Racing Series and Radial Outlaws Racing Series during the Shakedown at US131. Both sanctioning bodies on the grounds for...

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Dyno Video: This 427 cubic inch LS3 8-Stack Injected Beast Sounds AMAZING! But How Much Power Does It Actually Make?

It is kind of amazing how differently engine combos can sound at full song.You can take the same long block and top it with five different induction setups and get some very different sounding...

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Southeast Gassers At Shadyside! Tommy Lee Byrd, The Hot Rod Hoarder, Catches All The Wheels Up Gear Jamming Gasser Action!

If you are regular around here then you know that we really dig the Southeast Gassers Association. I mean, what’s not to love? Big rpm, big burnouts, wheelstands, gear banging shifts, and heads up...

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Event Coverage: Mass. Cruisers Gillette Stadium Cruise Night September 2009

The Mass. Cruisers car club recently started an every-other-week cruise night at Patriot Place, the complex in Foxboro, Massachusetts, where Gillette Stadium, home of the New England Patriots, is...

Just Dashes Can Now Restore Gauges and Panels

They call the place Just Dashes, but they do way more. Any interior restoration you need, they have it covered. The comany is known for repairing wrecked old-car dash pads, and they can also restore...

Event Coverage: 2009 Cruisin’ for a Cure Charity Car Show

We gearheads are known for doing lots of good stuff. Charity work is on that list. Cruisin’ for a Cure took place at the Orange County Fairgrounds in So Cal last weekend and raised a ton of...

Radical Variable-Valve-Timing Engines from Mast Motorsports

We met the guys from Mast Motorsports at the GM Performance Parts LSX Shootout in Memphis last year, but we just checked in on the company web site and we’re amazed at how far they have come....

Video: Spectacular Vintage Drags Film From the 1969 NHRA Nationals

One of the greatest things about the Internet is the preservation of a bunch of old film clips, which can presented for new generations to see. Below are three videos that comprise a Hurst movie...

World Products Aluminum Mopar Big-Blocks

Did you know that World Products makes aluminum Mopar blocks? They are available for big-blocks and Hemis. The regular iron and compressed graphite versions are also available. Click here to see the...

World Products Aluminum Block for Big Mopars

Did you know that World Products makes aluminum Mopar blocks? They are available for big-blocks and Hemis. The regular iron and compressed graphite versions are also available. Click here to see the...

2009 Goodguys Chicagoland Event Coverage at Ridetech.com

If we worked at Ridetech instead of just having the company as a site sponsor, then we’d get to go to nearly every Goodguys show, like those guys do. When the Ridetech staff is on site they...

Video: SUV Crashes Through a Bakery Store!

We have to thank CarDomain for showing us this one, because it’s freakin’ unbelievable. The video is one thing, with a Toyota 4Runner not only crashing through a bakery store (seen from...

Cherry Bomb Voted Into the Speed Parts Hall of Fame and You Helped

A short time ago we asked for your help in voting for one of our fine sponsors, Cherry Bomb Exhaust. The original Cherry Bomb muffler was on the list of nominees for the class of 2009 inductees into...

Carnage Video: Nastiest Engine Explosion Ever, Part Two

One of the most popular video blogs ever here on BangShift.com is the one with the tractor-pull rig exploding its engine is such spectacular fashion that the tractor drives over the cylinder head....

New Models Allowed for Bathurst 12 Hour Event

The Bathurst 12 Hours is one of the neatest production car road races in the world. The Bathurst course itself is the stuff of legend and most of the world’s great racers have made laps on the...

Legal Manuvering Continues in Mayfield Case

There have been some small developments in the saga of NASCAR versus driver Jeremy Mayfield for his alleged use of methamphetamine. Now we’re seeing some interesting stuff starting to happen...

2010 Camaro Body in White

It was announced in February that GM Performance Parts is offering 2010 Camaros as a body in white (just the sheetmetal, nothing else, including the main body, doors, fenders, hood, and trunk lid)...