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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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Monday Time Killer: The Mexican Shelby Mustangs

We have to thank BangShift.com forum member Joes66Fury2 for the great tip on the DarkHorseRacing website telling the story of the Shelby Mustangs from South of the Border built from 1967 to 1972....

Engine Carnage from the BangShift Forums

This is the type of wreckage you don’t see every day. BangShift.com member BigBuds1 had his LT1 Camaro in full tire-fire mode when the engine gave way. He says he broke the crank, and that shot...

Cool or Not: You Decide

So we’re conflicted. Normally we dismiss weirdo, human powered, pod-like vehicles milliseconds after seeing them. This one is a special case, though. First off, it’s amphibious, and...

Racer and Cool Shirt Inventor Schafer Dies in Racing Accident

Here’s sad news from the world of racing, as we have learned that avid racer and the inventor of the Cool Shirt, Rich Schafer was killed in as accident while participating in a hill climb event...

Friday Excuse to Go Home Early and Drink: America Still Builds Some Bad Ass Stuff

Many of us often opine that America doesn’t make anything anymore. While it’s true we have shipped off a lot of manufacturing business to both our southward neighbors and to Asia,...

Connecticut Junkyard Owner in Hot Water

We can’t imagine being in the junkyard business these days. It cannot be easy. For decades it must have been pretty straightforward. Score a big tract of land way outside of town, put up a...

Oddball Barris Creation in Canadian Collection

We’ll be up front in telling you that we had no idea George Barris’s shop turned out anything other than the occasional beautiful kustom mixed among a majority of semi-garish stuff. We...

Great Read: A Look At Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Trucks

The Lucas Oil Off Road Racing series picked up where CORR left off. It’s a series featuring race trucks that weigh in at two tons and pack nearly 1,000 hp. The courses are winding, bending,...

Craigslist Pick of the Week: Oddly Painted VW Racer

Back in 1979, BMW had Andy Warhol paint an M1 race car that was to be run at Le Mans. Dubbed the “art car”, the machine went on to finish six overall at the race. It was the only time it...

Barn Find Wild ’70s Custom Road Runner for $3,000!

We picked up on this one via CarDomain via Chevelles.com. It’s the incredible story of a Road Runner that was parked since 1982, and that just sold for $3,000! It has a 383 and a four-speed,...

Bullpen Cars: A Short History

It’s Fall and that means one thing: Major League Baseball Playoffs! Hate sports you say? Don’t be so fast to take off. As we were watching some baseball we thought about a great story we...

Three New Hampshire Mechanics in Big Trouble Over Flubbed Emissions Tests

Three New Hampshire mechanics and the company they were formerly employed by are in big trouble with state authorities after admitting to cheating nearly 100 cars through the state’s emissions...

NASCAR Tells Driver Brad Kaselowski to Back Off Racing So Hard!

It has come to light that NASCAR racer Brad Kaselowski, a non-qualifier for the “Chase,” was warned by NASCAR on Sunday to essentially back off of racing Juan Pablo Montoya so hard during...

King of the Trars: 850hp 1966 Galaxie Mud Bogger

Well, this one should put people in two distinct camps. You’ll either love it or absolutely hate it. “It” is a 1966 Ford Galaxie sporting an 850hp big-block Chevy motor, huge axles,...

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