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BangShift Top 11: Decal GT, Round Two! More All Show, Not Much Go From The Seventies!
I’ll crack my knuckles, sit down in the chair, and proceed to once again embrace the weirdness that I will be remembered for. I grew up with everyone owning cars that had visual punch, but...
BangShift Question Of The Day: How Far Gone Is Too Far Gone For You?
Between Brian, Chad and myself, we’ve got a list of winners that have been dragged home and propped up as a financially responsible, perfectly safe mode of transportation…or, at minimums,...
This Trans Am TA4 / NASA American Iron-Prepared Dodge Challenger SRT-8 Is Absolutely Lust-Worthy!
The Trans-Am race cars of 1970 were royalty, and that statement holds up when you look at the values of each version of the Over 2-Liter class. Ford Mustang Boss 302, American Motors Javelin,...
BangShift’s Class-By-Class Preview of Hot Rod Drag Week 2016
Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week is the most intense form of street-car racing in the world. The competition pits street cars, some of which really push the boundaries of that phrase, to run...
Top 11: The Best “Decal GT” From The 1970s – When Looks Mattered More Than Performance!
It’s a new phrase in my lexicon: “Decal GT”, coined by Jim Wangers, the guy better known for Pontiac performance, but is responsible for some of the most well-known examples of...
SEMA 2015: The Rollout After-Party And SEMA Ignited! From The Parade Out To Drifting And A Cacklefest, This Is Where The Show Lets Loose!
The end of the main show at SEMA on Friday afternoon has fluctuated between awesome (picture a monster truck Chevy and a Lexus LF-A sitting next to each other at the intersection of Paradise Road and...
They Nearly Stole The Show: How The Gray Ghost 1964 Pontiac Tempest Nearly Humiliated Factory Teams In Trans-Am Circa 1971
There are people who defy convention by necessity. There are people who do it for fun, and then there are those that do it to prove a point, no matter how costly the potential victory may be. Drag...
This Blown, Ground Pounding 1973 Gremlin Has A Hairy 401 And An Awesome Past – Tough Stuff!
Hot rodders have had a good formula for about the last 80 years and that is to grab a cheap car that may be largely unloved and turn it into something that they can scorch the Earth with. They did it...
The Humbler: Five Buddies Built This Cheap Turbo Jeep To Go 12s And Destroy On The Autocross
(Photos by Dave Nutting) – This could be the most BangShifty vehicle we have ever featured before. Built by a group of five smart friends and raced at the Grassroots Motorsports $2,000...
Sideways with Rodney Prouty: Remember Where You Came From
(Words and Photos by Rodney Prouty) Every day I walk into work at a speed shop where I see black and white images of our racing legacy. We have tattered old posters of racing events at historic...
Ford Ramp Truck Ebay Find: Ford Fans Start Bidding!
“I am in LUST….!!!!” wrote Joe Grippo when he sent this one in to us. I can’t argue with that sentiment. This cool 1971 Ford F350 Ramptruck is cool in our book. The fact that...
AMC Gallery: The Kenosha Homecoming 2011
BangShift member and Wisconsinite Mikes343Sharpstick is a dude who loves his own bitchin’ AMC Javelin and has recently picked up an old IMSA racer AMC project as well. When he let us know that...
Event Gallery: The Tri-Cities Drag-Way Reunion – Endicott, NY
We’re officially in the era of the drag strip reunion. If you are a “glass half empty” person you see it as being sad because it reminds us of just how many strips have closed down....
eBay Gurney-Driven Trans Am Mustang: Not All It Seems? Here’s The Rest of the Story
While all the automotive internet has been aflutter with the announcement of a restored “Dan Gurney” 1969 Mustang Trans-Am racer for sale on eBay, we’ve been scratching our heads a...