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It Came From the Fab Shop: Build Your Own Roll Back Tow Truck
(By Loren Krussow)Fortune, we hope, will smile upon us on days we venture from our garages and neighborhoods to take out our hot rods.The wheels will steadily spin, the fluid in the cooling system...
Poteet and Main Speed Demon Streamliner runs 387 at Bonneville Speedweek 2009
When we arrived at Bonneville Speedway on Saturday for the start of the 2009 SCTA/BNI Speed Week, it was no surprise that the team of Poteet and Main had the first car on the line to make a pass....
Friday Excuse to Go Home Early and Drink: Lebanon Valley Dragway is Literally Under Water
Lebanon Valley Dragway, located in West Lebanon, New York, is a strip that has served the western New England hot rod scene for decades. Today it is literally a lake after being overrun by massive...
It Ain’t All Bad: GM Opens New Testing Facility in Yuma, AZ
We’re not quite sure how the math works on all this stuff, but somehow GM just opened a new $100 million desert proving grounds in Yuma, Arizona, despite the fact that the company has no money....
It Came From the Fab Shop: Loving Louvers
(By Loren Krussow)-Louvers are among the curiosities of automotive styling features. A cut-and-formed shape pressed into sheet metal, a louver creates enough of an opening in a solid panel to enable...
Late Breaking News: Chrysler Keeps Viper; Will Not Sell Brand
We’re still hard at work here at the BangShift.com news desk and that’s a good thing because Chrysler just laid a press release in our paws that says they will not be selling the Viper...
Cool Old Press Photo: The 1957 Butter Face Lincoln Premier
Recently we showed you an old press photo from our personal archive of the stunning 1957 Lincoln Mark II and the not so stunning 1957 Lincoln Premier. That shot did not give the full fledged view of...
Website of the Week: TyroneMalone.net
We live in a gearhead world where the idea of a high-performance diesel-powered truck is second nature, but such was not always the case. Tyrone Malone can rightfully be called one of the pioneers of...
Barnstormin’: Dollars and Sense
I pride myself on having a very even temperament, decent analytical skills, and the ability to make sound decisions about stuff. The problem is that all those things go out the window the second a...
It Came From the Fab Shop: The Handmade Jeep
(By Loren Krussow) – This column is usually more about having fun than getting work done. We don’t want to forget to make some of the free time around the shop fun. Whether pressing...
Car Feature: Stunning 1955 Chevy Nomad, With Video!
Chevy Nomads are one of the few cars that will be eternally cool. Maybe that’s why Robert “Nick” Nichols wanted one and was willing to wait for it—for 50 years to be exact!...
It Came from the Fab Shop: The MF’er of Invention
(By Loren Krussow) – A short while back I got to thinking it would be nice to get out my old ’70 El Camino and perhaps cruise it to the Big Bear BangShift get-together in June. I had...
See The Veale/Brown BangShift.com A/Fuel Dragster at Schepel Motor Group This Saturday
This weekend the Veale/Brown Motorsports A/Fuel dragster, which flies the BangShift.com colors loud and proud, will be appearing at their primary sponsor’s yearly car show. The show, being held...
That’s a Wrap: Veale/Brown Motorsports NHRA Joliet Divisional Wrap Up
The two-week-in-a-row marathon at Joliet, Illinois’ Route 66 Raceway is finished for 2009. Both Jeff and Andrew Veale stayed at the track in between events, buttoning up some things on the...