Craigslist Pick of the Week: Perfect Muscle Truck Starter Material
This whole recent interest in muscle trucks has us thinking that we’d love to have one. In typical fashion we want to go a slightly different direction than the stuff we’ve seen on the...
Breaking News: That Was Quick! Cash for Clunkers Program So Successful it’s Broke and Will be Halted Tomorrow
The Department of Transportation has directed dealers to stop taking “Cash for Clunkers” applications at midnight on Thursday, July 30th, as the program was so well received it has run...
BangShift.com Welcomes Cherry Bomb as a Sponsor
OK, now it’s a party. BangShift.com is happy to announce that Cherry Bomb Exhaust has joined our growing family of sponsors. One of the most well known brands in all of the high performance...
Cool Old Press Photo: 1957 Dodge Custom Royal Sedan
With the recent crappy news about Chrysler forsaking its historical archives and allowing people to literally walk out of the building with pieces of it, we decided to feature a vintage Chrysler from...
It Came From the Fab Shop: How to Hop Up A Ceiling Fan
(By Loren Krussow) – When an upstairs bedroom in our home became unused, we chose to do something we’d always dreamed of and build a game room. We painted the walls a dark “bar...
Jeremy Mayfield Says of his Stepmom, “She’s Basically a Whore. She Shot and Killed My Dad.” Lawsuit Ensues.
According to stories reported on Yahoo! Sports and at ESPN.com, Jeremy Mayfield now finds himself in a civil suit with his stepmother. Why? Because, after she testified against him in NASCAR’s...
Video of the Week: LSX V-8 Motor Swapped Into a Subaru WRX!
Well, this is certainly a swap we never saw coming. This Subaru WRX, which formerly was sporting a flat four, is now packing some very healthy sounding GM LSX V8 motorvation. There’s nothing...
Great Photos of Harry Miller’s Race Cars
We have to thank KNN (The Kris News Network) for the tip about this awesome coverage of an event held at the Milwaukee Mile featuring many of the famous race cars built and influenced by Harry...
Potential New Drag Strip in Washington State Appears to be Dead in the Water
We figured that we should cap off a junky day of news with another piece of junky news. A group of drag racers in Forks, Washington, has been seeking a location where they can build a drag strip....
Bastards! Thief Steals ’69 Mustang; Crashes with Owner Hanging Out Window
We realize that this has been a downer of a news day, but hey, that’s how the cookie crumbles sometimes. This is the most depressing story we have read for quite some time. If you’ve ever...
Honda Creates Program to Support Grassroots Racing Efforts of Customers
We sure as hell wish we could be reporting this news was coming from a domestic manufacturer, but we’re guessing with the whole governmemt control thing, racing is looked upon with a stink eye....
Lohnes’ Pic of the Week: 880ci on the Garage Floor
I hate heat waves. We’re locked into a miserable one here in New England currently. Temps over 90 degrees and humidity to match, it’s like we’re in bayou country. The flipside of...
Chrysler Archives Raided; GM’s Historical Documents at Risk of Destruction?
TheTruthAboutCars.com published an editorial recently that nearly drove us to tears. Apparently Chrysler has forsaken a large portion of its historical archive, to the point of allowing employees to...
Site of the Week: National Sand Drag News
Sand drag racing is an interesting deal. The equipment runs, like in asphalt racing, from stockers right up to blown nitro-burning dragsters. They throw rooster tails that could bury buildings if...
