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The RideTech Report! Race Results, Video, Customer Cars, Even Great Stuff For Your Truck!
This time of the year when the air cools down, horsepower ramps up and so doesn’t the rapid fire string of events that gear heads try to jam in before the season closes and trade show time...
This 1967 Mercury Cougar Looks Awesome, Runs Hard And Is Going To Piss Off A Lot Of People…
Even before the start of Holley’s 2015 LS Fest, I knew what I was looking for above all else: any car that would add rocket fuel to the fire of the torches of the anti-LS movement. It’s...
The Bentley Continental GT3-R: Priced Like A House, Weighs As Much As A Diesel Dually, And Can Be Heard From Three Counties Over!
Normally, most BangShift attention directed at Bentley is towards their racing efforts in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Otherwise, for the most part, a Bentley is for someone who wants the premise...
Unknown Parts Counter Guy: The “In Case Of Emergency” Action When All Else Has Failed – Lawyer Up?!
In the time that I’ve been writing, I have touched on what I feel is every possible part of the job that makes a counter clerk grind their teeth: the customers who think they are God’s...
Killer Video: Check Out This Profile Film Of The World’s Fastest Street Legal Rat Rod – 197mph ECTA Certified!
There’s cool and then there is COOL and when we first saw Aaron Brown roll into an ECTA meet with “The Uncatchable” a 1939 Ford truck rat rod we knew that this was a dude with a...
Top 11: Late-Model Concept Cars – Vehicles That The Manufacturers Used To Toy With Us
I love concept cars. I love the idea that one of the major manufacturers is so willing to test a future thought, or an unconventional layout, is even just nice enough to unchain the designers that...
The Tianjin Port Explosion And Nitromethane – Internet Chatter, No Facts To Back It Up (W/Video)
The videos and story surrounding the latest industrial calamity in China, forever known now as the Tainjin Port Explosion verge on the unbelievable. The footage of the mammoth fireball and the...
We Think You Could Tube Chassis This Opel And Run 7’s For Less Than $20,000.
Nope, we are not smoking the crack. Of course we are talking about you doing the work yourself, or having buddies help, although if you find the right deal on a few things you might be able to pay...
Unknown Parts Counter Guy: Aww, You’re So Cute When You Bark Orders Like Patton’s Five Year Old Kid!
In the military, the officer rank O-1 (Second Lieutenant for the Army, Air Force and Marines, Ensign for the Navy and Coast Guard) has a bit of a bad reputation. When you have E-1s (enlisted), they...
Weekend Race Results: Denver, Memphis, National Trail, Sonoma, Joliet, Cordova and More!
Want to know what was going on the drag racing community last weekend? Here are results from some of your favorite tracks! If you want results from your track to be included in one of our Weekend...
In Memoriam: This Incredible Retrospective On The Life Of Jeff Jahns Tells The Story Of An Legendary Hot Rodder’s Life And Times
(By Scotty Gosson – Photos: Gosson/Jahns Collection) – We were pitted next to each other at the drags. I needed to borrow some tool I’d forgotten to bring, and went over to...
Swap Meet Madness: Check Out What We Found While Bargain Hunting!
(Story and Photos by Tony Sestito) Recently, I paid a visit to the annual Automotive Swap Meet in Mansfield MA. While many areas of the country have awesome monthly or even weekly swap meets,...
The Green Needle: Four Days With A 2015 Challenger Hellcat Has Us Addicted To 700hp Blown Hemi Fun
(Photos by Dave Nutting) – If I had never considered speed or horsepower drugs before getting four days with a 2015 Dodge Challenger Hellcat, I sure as hell do now. It is everything I have in...
Dyno Video: Testing The Thing That Never Was – An LT-5 Prototype Engine Designed (But Never Used) In ZR-1 Corvettes
You know the name Scott Clark. His handiwork has helped MANY racers of all different stripes go faster, be more consistent, and make more power. Scott is a professional engine tuner and he works at...