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Blank Canvas: How Would You Build This Minty 1975 AMC Hornet?

Here at BangShift, we are not shy about our love for AMC’s. These quirky cars from Kenosha always stand out in the crowd, and better yet, they can be built into serious speed machines. But...

Question Of The Day: How Would You Build This Dirt-Cheap Mercury Mountaineer?

Hot rodding is all about taking what is old and unloved, the throwaways of the automotive world, and turning them into something that is awesome, performs better than even the factory could have...

Are Ford GTs Really Worth $400,000? Doug DeMuro Checks One Out To See Why

We aren’t supercar guys around here, it’s just a fact. It has something to do with real-world incomes and that we could scare most of them off with a Dodge sedan if the need truly arose...

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We Found Five Cars, For Under $1000, That Would Make Great Drag Cars

I do searches on Craigslist for all kinds of cars and trucks. But often times I just put in a dollar value that is the max I want to look at. I started doing that because I had no money and...

Theoretical Build: This 1969 Dodge Charger Looks Like A Plucked Chicken, But It’s Got Every Body Panel And Parts In Boxes. How Would You Finish It?

Finding a 1969 Dodge Charger that is complete enough to make a running and driving car out of for under $10,000 in any condition is like finding the golden ticket in your chocolate bar…stupid...

Is This “Strange Camaro Week”?! Check Out This 1968 Camaro Custom Build – Front-Flip Hood And A Chopped Roof!

Tony Sestito’s purple-people-eater Camaro/TrailBlazer hybrid from yesterday was just horrifying. The plum-colored paint, the kit bashed appearance, and the questionable V8 under the hood all...

Here’s A $160,000 Camry That You May Want To Own And Could Be The Buy Of The Century

Put your weapons down. Drop the torches, the pitchforks, whatever that other thing is, and the bazooka. I have not lost my mind. I have not sold my soul to the devil, but what I have done is stumbled...

GALOT Motorsports Park Battle Of The Engine Builders 2016 – A Nitrous Throwdown For The Ages

(Words: Benoit Pigeon – Photos: David Whealon and Benoit Pigeon) – The 2nd Battle of the Engine Builders 2016 edition, a one off, unique event sponsored by Drag Racing Best News took...

A Project Car For $75,000?! That’s What This Real Hemi Roadrunner Will Cost You.

Maybe it’s just me, but since I’ve never owned a $75,000 car I certainly can’t imagine spending $75,000 on a project. I’m not saying this real Hemi Roadrunner isn’t...

Track Time For Hot Rod Garage’s “Bonemaro” Budget Turbo LS Build! Will The Ragged F-body Run 10s?

Take a $10,000 budget, buy one royally clapped out $800 1979 Chevrolet Camaro, one junkyard 5.3L LS V8, an eBay turbo kit meant for a Chevrolet Silverado, and then proceed to hack, weld, bodge and...

A Complete, Untouched, Still In The Truck, 1948 Ford Flathead V8: Asking $1000

A complete Flathead Ford V8 with transmission, in almost virgin condition, for $1000 sounds like a screaming deal to us. Anyone out there looking to build a tradition hot rod, restore a truck, or...

Train Wreck Tuesday: A Rat Rod Truck Build That You Really Have To See To Believe

There are times when we get tips from BangShifter out there that read the site every day, run across something, and just have to tell us about it. There are other times when guys that we know through...

Question Of The Day: Are Car Show Project Builds Tainted Goods? Would You Ever Want To Own One?

This week, two Gas Monkey Garage builds crossed my desk in my “For Sale” searches. One was the lime-green 1989 Shelby Dakota that Richard Rawlings couldn’t be bothered to even...

GM Just Opened Up The Baddest Engine Building Center On Planet Earth – Powertrain Performance and Racing Center

So GM has just opened up the Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory of Horsepower in Pontiac, Michigan. We’re not kidding when we say that this is likely the baddest performance and race engine...