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The Smallest Project We’ve Ever Covered: Here’s The Mini-Max – A Scale Model With A Twist

Readers of BangShift know the name Mike Casella from his awesome work at Then and Now Automotive in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Mike is the guy who makes stuff from scratch and saves unobtanium parts...

eBay Find: A 1967 Chevy C-10 That’s Really The Bomb!

No we really mean it, the freaking BOMB baby! With a 125-gallon gas tank mounted right behind the cab, a shortened up chassis, and some nice cab patina, this truck could become Sputnik’s cousin...

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Video: Watch A 1962 Ford Truck With A Twin Turbo Y-Block Motor Make 606hp At The Tire And More Than 700 lb/ft Of Torque!

Holy smokes! Who the hell needs a diesel when you can strap a couple of turbos on built, e85 fed 292 Y-Block Ford mill and make insane power and torque. Wrap this monster package up with the body and...

The AMX/GTO: 1969 AMX + 2006 GTO + Home Garage = BangShift Appproved Tire Melting Awesome

If you give a hot rodder three things: a welder, creativity, and time, you are guaranteed some type of cool result. Such is the case with my neighbor (literally about a 1/4 mile down the road) Scott...

eBay Find: A Turbine Powered 1984 Honda Magna Motorcycle – Runs And Drives…If You Dare!

We don’t know much about motorcycles, but we do know that this 1984 Honda Magna is way freaking cooler with a Boeing T50 turbine engine providing the power than it was with the twin or four...

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NHRA Releases 2013 Pro Mod Rule Revisions – Some Interesting Changes!

The NHRA has released the 2013 revisions to the rules in the Pro Mod category and while there is nothing crazy in what we saw, there are a couple of interesting tidbits in there to keep things...

Craigslist Find: A 1970 Chevelle Powered By Twin Oldsmobile Engines, One Up Front and One Out Back

Unlike the awful Oldsmobile we showed you yesterday, this 1970 Chevelle doesn’t have a ton of crazy and false claims behind it, instead it has a 455ci Olds engine behind it…and in front...

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eBay Find: An Adapter To Install A 12-Bolt Rear Cover On Your GM 10-Bolt Rear End – Who Does This?!

So our buddy Jon tipped us  off to this eBay ad which exists to sell an adapter that allows the user to install a GM 12 bolt rear end over on their 10-bolt rear end. There used to be a day that when...

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Best of BangShift – Insane Engine: A 12-Rotor – Twin-Turbo – 5,000 Plus Horsepower Monster

Over the coming days, you’ll see some stuff you have probably never seen before but few things will make your jaw drop like this thing. We caught up with the guys from Smith Power this morning...

eBay Find: A Dead Nuts Awesome KITT Replica With Two Issues – The Price and The Location

There’s nary a BangShifter among us who didn’t love them some hot KITT action during the 1980s. Sure, David Hasseelhoff was the headline talent, but it was the Trans-Am he drove that...

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Barnstormin’: Drag Week Scrambled My Brain and Other Memories From A Great Week On The Road

Oh what a difference eight years makes. Drag Week has certainly come a long way from the quaint little get together it was in 2005 when less than 40 cars pulled out of the now dead Kansas City...

The Top 11: Greatest Wheelstanders

When Chad and I settled on making a list of the top 11 Wheelstanders we knew it was an impossible task and that we’d get roasted for leaving off some hella cool cars. We had a list of nearly 30...

Ken Block’s Gymkhana 5 is LIVE and It Rules Pretty Hard!

The fifth installment of the DC Shoes/Ken Block Gymkhana series went live this morning and it is a great watch. The last one was kind of cheesy in our eyes but Block brought the high heat for this...

Question of the Day: Is Originality Important to You In A Car?

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – With that last blog item on the 1962 Chevy wagon that is pretty close to all original but isn’t, it made us consider how important originality is to us in...