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2020 Modern Street Hemi Shootout At Kentucky Dragway – Friday Afternoon’s Track Rental Testing
The last few days around BangShift Mid-West have been a whirlwind. One vehicle to paint. One vehicle hauled up to a detail shop. Get the rental vehicle ready. Sell the econobox. Mow the property,...
Moonshine Dreams: 1974 Pontiac LeMans GT – A Street-Brawler In The Making
I have to wonder what the meeting was like the moment the civil war between the horsepower freaks and the European/Luxury types at Pontiac kicked off. Look at the entire Pontiac lineup from 1973...
The Small Shop With The Big Secrets: We Return To Short Street Rod Shop For A New Look-Around!
Four years ago, after I shot a feature on a 1964 Rambler that had been converted to a straight-axle car, I was invited out to a small garage in the middle of Kentucky. I was told that there were a...
Ford-Faced, GM-Powered: This Homebuilt RV Is Perfect For Chad’s Freak Mobile Home Files!
“You know what? I think I want to build my own motorhome from scratch!” …said nobody, ever. Think about it: you are going to make a street-legal, human-occupied rolling brick that...
Watch This Wild Video Of A Train Cruising The Streets Of Chicago
(By Greg Rourke) – Chicago has always been a railroad town. Lots of railroads congregated here, and many still do. Railroads often had branch lines and industrial spurs to service businesses...
Run, Rabbit, Run: This 1979 VW Rabbit Is A 3.8L Freakshow!
What in the absolute hell is this thing?! I might be a magnet for the weird and strange, but this 1979 VW Rabbit might be the weirdest and strangest thing I’ve come across yet. At first glance,...
Out Of This World: This 1973 Trans Am Is A Completely Bonkers Take On A 70’s Street Machine!
If there’s a car that’s been especially hot in the resellers market in the past few years, it’s the 1970-81 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am. Early cars, especially the 1970-73 Trans Ams,...
Counterattack: Chad Liked That Slammed Yukon, But This Pro Street Stepside Is More His Jam!
Chad’s tastes in cars and trucks is fairly simple and straightforward: GM, Camaro based for cars, square-body trucks, but anything can be looked at positively. For example, the two-door GMC...
First Drive Video: A Big Block, Pro Street Chassis, and NOTHING ELSE
There’s nothing cooler than the first drive of a new project. Most of the time that drive comes when you are far from done with the car or truck. It comes when the thing has been running for...
Best of 2018: An Inline-Eight Ford Tempo? That Happened! Check This Freak Out!
Why is a Ford Tempo on BangShift? It’s not a former drag car, or an old Pro Street build. It’s not one of our cheap-car race car ideas, and it certainly isn’t a Rough Start find....
eBay Find: This 1986 Dodge Daytona Is Retro Perfection – Going Pro Street? Go ALL IN!
We live in a world where people are often afraid to fully commit these days. This is especially true when it comes to cars. Guys want to build cars and trucks that are good at everything. They want...
Power Tour Veterans’ Car Show At VFW 1298: The Forum Freaks Get Together!
This was a project half a year in the making and I’m glad to say that I was a part of getting the ball rolling. In January a call was put out via the Power Tour board in the BangShift forums...
This Judd Indy Car V8 Engine Is A Different Kind of Boosted Bullet – Good Freaky Hot Rod Engine!
We’ve showed you Judd V8 engines before, mostly in videos featuring road racing and endurance type stuff. The dual overhead camshaft pieces are screamers and this one that we found on eBay...
Pre-Mustang: This 1963 Mercury Comet S-22 Is A Fun Little Freak Of A Car!
When the Edsel brand was binned in 1959, a project for a smaller vehicle that was originally supposed to be an Edsel branded car got thrown into limbo. Called Comet, the model initially was an orphan...