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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 Gallery: Canadian Mopar Fest 2009

This gallery of the 2009 Canadian Mopar Fest comes to us by way of BangShift.com member “Fast Ed” Nicholson. Ed’s one heck of an open-minded hot rodder. He owns a VW Bug that he...

It Came From the Fab Shop: The Cheapo Mid-Engine Car Conversion

(By Loren Krussow) – Among those projects that we keep around but don’t make much steady progress on are a couple that are serious back-burner dwellers. They either have little pressing...

The Dweebs Dig It: Consumer Reports Picks Mustang Over Camaro, Challenger, and Others

Consumer Reports has picked the 2010 Mustang as the best sports car or coupe available per its testing, Reuters News Service has reported. It beat out the Camaro, Challenger, Hyndai Genesis, Subaru...

Good Read: The Interesting Tale of Scott Speed

Scott Speed’s name does not come up in a conversation about racing drivers without strong reaction from those involved. Some will strongly defend him as a talented driver who has had some...

The Cash for Clunkers Scam By the Numbers

We’ve been crying over this Cash for Clunkers deal since day one and now that there is a contingent of people proclaiming the mess a “great success” we’re really up on the...

The Catallo Coupe; Beach Boys Album Car Stays in the Family

The Catallo Coupe, a 1960s customized Deuce, is one of the iconic hot rods of the era. Featured on the album cover of the Beach Boys “Little Deuce Coupe,” the car has a neat story and a...

This is What It’s All About: Original Owner of 1963 Galaxie Tells His Story

Here’s one that will make you smile. This is a story by the San Francisco Chronicle about Norm Grib and the 1963 Galaxie his dad bought him in 1963. Grib has driven the car across the country a...

eBay Pick of the Week: Former Car Craft Cover Car Nova

It’s always neat to see cars formerly featured in the print mags hit the auction block on eBay. This particular Nova from a recent Car Craft cover shoot is one tough customer. It’s...

Street Racers Say Detroit Needs a Drag Strip

Street racing in Detroit is apparently alive and well, so much so that the street racers themselves are asking for a drag strip. As is to be expected, no one is paying any attention to them. In a...

Historic and Controversial Mustang On Sale for Massive Money

If you have $5.5 million burning a hole in the bottom of your super yacht, you can own the first 1964 Mustang ever sold to the general public, at least that what’s it is according to...

Monday Time Killer: Everything You’d Ever Want to Know About the Ford 9-Inch

By nature being a gearhead lends itself to being a little geeky. We’re all into part numbers, VIN tag numbers, axle ratios, cubic inch displacement, basically lots of stuff no one else cares...

Wall Street Journal Looks at Internet Automotive Websites, Forgets Us

Our tongue is firmly planted in our cheek with that headline. Click here for an interesting story from the Wall Street Journal that talks about the number of automotive websites that have sprung up...

The LA Times is Out to Crush Your Hot Rod: This Story Will Make You Mad

Daniel Strohl over at Hemmings posted an item on their blog last week regarding an LA Times story that went after the pre-’85 exemption for the Cash for Clunkers program. It’s a maddening...

MSD’s Cash for Cruising Ends Monday: Buy Now and Save NOW

MSD’s Cash for Cruising program is the perfect foil for the worthless Cash for Clunkers mess. It rewards you, the hot rodder, with solid rebates for purchasing and using high quality MSD...