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BangShift Tech: Making Big Block Mopar Headers Fit a Small Block Chevy Powered 1965 Impala SS!
(Words and photos by Scott Liggett) – This technical, how-to, blog was not in the plans. It just came about by accident. One of our project cars had small 1 5/8 inch primary tube Hedman...
Bangshift Mini-Feature Re-Run: Bigfoot
Every BangShifter out there has one vehicle that strikes at the heart of his gearhead self. For us, that vehicle is Bigfoot 1. Unbeknown to us, Bigfoot 1 and a 35th anniversary Bigfoot truck were on...
Project Car Update: Stage1Scott’s Sublime ’67 Fairlane Sedan Gets the Mighty FE Engine Installed
BangShifter “stage1scott” has been building his killer Sublime 1967 Ford Fairlane Sedan for the past 22 months and is getting really close to big smokey burnouts. Scott started with...
BangShift Christmas Wish List Pick of the Day: A Gear Vendors Under/Overdrive Equipped Lenco
Back at SEMA, Gear Vendors President and CEO Rick Johnson did the impossible. He made us crave a Lenco transmission even more than before! With the engineering and release of a Gear Vendors...
Car Feature: The (Formerly) Hack Job General Lee
If Cooter Davenport had the budget and parts, this is the General Lee he would have built for the Duke boys. He would have started with an old wreck and pieced the car together until he had a...
Racing Junk Find: Two Piles of Pontiac Power
We were doing a logical thing the other day, shopping for engines that would be perfect for vehicles we don’t own. Eschewing the Chevrolet and Ford families, we were looking for something weird...
Drag Week Tuesday Update: Larson Leads, Cline’s in the Beach, Yost in the 8s
The racing portion of Tuesday on Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2010 Presented by Gear Vendors Under/Overdrive has ended and the cruise has begun. As with all good drag races there was some drama on the...
Car Feature: Gary Harris’s Killer 1965 Ford Falcon
When we were prowling the pits at Beech Bend Raceway looking for feature cars during the Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion, one of the first cars we needed to find was this 1965 Ford Falcon owned...
The Paddock to Liquidate All Assets at July 29th Auction
The Paddock, a company that supplied parts for muscle cars of all varieties for more than 40 years has closed and will sell off all of it’s assets at a July 29th auction to be held at the Avon,...
eBay Find: A Huge Stash of Pro Stock Motors and Parts
Woah, mamma! We hit the engine stash jackpot with this crazy eBay find. The seller is offloading four complete 500ci Pro Stock Hemi engines as well as a Grumpy Jenkins Chevy Pro Stock mill and piles...
Barnstormin’: All in the Family
Recently my wife Kerri and I had occasion to road trip with her parents down to the lovely burg of West Chester, Pa for a family party celebrating the upcoming wedding of my sister in law to her...
Hollywood Hot Rods Tapped to Build Raybestos Brakes Roadster Pickup
Troy Ladd and the fine fellows at Hollywood Hot Rods have been given the green light by Raybestos Brakes and Chassis products to build a pretty kick ass 1932 Ford roadster pickup. The build will...
Kid Crashes Camaro, Gives Cops Flimsy Story, and They Seem to Buy It
When we read about two high school kids in a Camaro wiping out a fire hydrant in California we thought the kids were in for it legally. We then read the story that they gave the coppers about the...
John Rains Sets Mustang Cobra Jet Top Speed Mark At Mojave Mile Event
a name that may be familiar to you if you follow the worlds of land speed racing or NHRA drag racing. He runs a killer ’68 Hemi Dart SS/AH car in drag racing competition and has hauled...