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Book Review:The Street Machines Idea Book by Sue Elliot
The latest in Motorbooks’ popular “idea book” series, Street Machines: classics, muscle cars, and modern, by Sue Elliot touches all the bases in the current world of street machines...
Barnstormin’: In With the Outlaw
A recent trip to the Tampa, Florida area gave me the chance to visit a drag strip I had never been to before. The strip is Lakeland Dragway, an eighth-mile track that runs as an outlaw, or...
Bill Simpson’s Impact Racing sold! Now MasterCraft Safety.
MasterCraft Safety, builders of some of the finest off-road safety equipment, announced today that they have purchased Bill Simpson’s Impact Racing. Impact Racing by MasterCraft Safety gear...
Ancient Tech Video: A WWII-Era Training Film on Hydrovac Truck Brakes
We spent the weekend in two places basically. The first was parked in front of our computer monitoring the live video feed from the 2010 Street Car Super Nationals in Las Vegas that we broadcast and...
Auto Trader Classics Find: A Gorgeous 1938 Lincoln With a Custom Coach Body
If you dig past our love of monster trucks, weed whacker pulling tractors, header flames, and wheelstanders, you’ll also see that we’re suckers for the elegant machines that wealthy folks...
Auto Trader Classics Find: A 1968 McLaren Can-Am Racer
When the great book of bendy racing is written, two classes of race cars will sit atop of the heap of the nuttiest ever to turn right and left. Those two classes are the Group B rally machines of the...
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...
Vintage Commercial: When Shelby Was Selling Chryslers
The early 1980s was a dark time for fans of domestic high performance cars. Yes, the automotive world was gradually pulling itself out of the performance abyss known as the 1970s, but the rollicking...
Wild Video: Helicopter Touch and Go Landings…on Lake Tahoe!
This is some of the craziest footage we have ever seen. It was saptured by tourists visiting Lake Tahoe. A pair of helicopters hover just above the water and then they both actually set down in the...
Place Your Bets! Hot Rod Drag Week Finals Tonight!
The exciting final round of racing for Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2010 happens tonight at National Trail Raceway in Hebron, Ohio. After a grueling week that saw all manner of breakage, close calls...
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...
Get There: Lead East 2010 Happens This Weekend (W/Photo Gallery)
Lead East, the rollicking car show created by Terry Cook, and known as the “World’s Largest 50s Party,” is kicking off as you read this in Parsippany, New Jersey. The show is...
Video Bonanza: Steam Tractors At Play
It has been too long since we attacked you with some good ol’ fashioned tractor action. Our open love of tractors is shared by a good portion of the BangShift universe, so when we were tipped...
Crashed WWII Dive Bomber Raised From San Diego Resevoir
A crashed Curtiss SB2C Helldiver, one of the most ill-handling, short lived planes of the WWII-era was recently recovered intact from the bottom of a San Diego, California resevoir. The outline was...