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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...
Just When You Thought We Couldn’t Find a New Reason that Cash For Clunkers Sucks…
This dead horse just keeps kicking. The latest news on the effects of the colosal fail of Cash For Clunkers has been reported by Aftermarket News. It seems that another backfire of the program was...
Video and Feature Story: Larry Larson’s 6-Second Drag Week Nova Cruising the Vegas Strip
Last week we brought you video of Larry Larson’s incredible, Hot Rod Drag Week winning 1966 Nova running its first ever 6-second pass at the The Strip in Las Vegas, which is amazing for a...
New Truck Class at Goodguys Street Challenge Autocross
Earlier today we announced the Goodguys 2010 show schedule, but then we were looking at the Goodguys web site and noticed more news. There will now be a class for pickup trucks at the Street...
Friday Excuse to Go Home and Drink: Drinking Leads To Inventing Stuff
For years we’ve bought into the theory that drinking does not exactly increase your level of smarts. There have been a couple incidents involving injuries and fire to back up that line of...
Event Coverage: Hot Rod Drag Week, Day 4, Hebron, Ohio
Day 4 of Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week 2009, presented by Gear Vendors, can be summed up with three words: misdirection, breakage, and teamwork. The event, which takes competitors and their cars...
Car Feature: Jet-X, The 1972 Plymouth GTX that Mopar Never Built
Here’s a car from the cover of the October 2009 Mopar Action magazine, and one that’s being debuted at Chryslers at Carlisle, July 10-12, just as this is being posted at BangShift.com....
A/Fuel Tech Part 3: Inside the Short-Block
So far in the A/Fuel tech series we’ve introduced you to the world of injected Fuel racing and shown you a little about the hardcore intake setup on these naturally aspirated Fuel Hemis....
The El Mirage Racing One-Week Wonder
In between race cars is a place where some guys are not happy to be. After shutting down his XF/PP (flathead-powered production pickup) Bonneville truck from the last couple years and handing...
Video of the Week: Naked Pro Mod Burnout, on the Street
We’ve heard old timers tell us a million stories about working on their race cars at the local gas station and making the occasional trip up main street to try out their latest parts or tuning...
Gearhead Destination: The Half Moon Bay Drag Strip Reunion
On April 26, 2009 at the Half Moon Bay Airport, the Pacific Coast Dream Machines show will take place. The airport, located about 20 miles of San Francisco, was once home to a legendary drag strip of...
All About the Intermeccanica Car Company
Many guys wonder what it would be like to build a car from scratch—to give it the look, the power, the name they want. A few have done it and in the modern era that includes a man named Frank...