Damned Yankees: Watch The Semis and Finals Of The 1982 NHRA Winternationals From The British Show World of Sport!
This right here is a good watch. Why? You are going to see some killer classic drag racing and you are going to see it with an intro from the BBC show “World of Sport”. This seems like...
Embrace The Modern: Uncle Tony Deep-Dives The Third-Gen Hemi
When I first started hanging around Tony DeFeo, naturally I couldn’t wait for him to experience the Angry Grandpa Chrysler. This is the guy whose printed words were legend, whose presence on...
Rough Start: 1978 Dodge Magnum XE – The Last Gasp Of The Muscle Charger
Looking at the title, I’m sure that many of you quickly got that look on your face that precludes you diving into the comments section with, “What in the hell are you talking...
Buy The Boss: This Complete Boss 302 and Toploader Package Is A Dream Come True For The Mustang Restorer
Don’t tell the Boss 429 guys but around here, we kind of believe that the Boss 302 was the coolest Mustang of the 1969/1970 era. The Boss 429 certainly had shock value and that incredible...
This Day In History: The Isle Of Man TT Race Is First Run In 1907
Among the fallouts that occurred on the inaugural Isle of Man TT race, held on May 28, 1907, Jack Marshall fell off of his Triumph, Frank Applebee, Jr. had a tire puncture, Stanley Webb’s...
Surprise, MF! Rear-Engined Integra With A Turbocharged V6 In Texas!
Okay, let’s think about something for a moment: If you’re playing the game out in the wild, “going for broke” usually means you’re boosting an engine to the moon, or...
Yeah, We Made A Flying Saucer: The Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar Prototype
Have you ever dealt with one of those real-deal tinfoil hat types that believes without a doubt that we’re holding aliens hostage somewhere in New Mexico, and that we’re...
NHRA Insider Podcast: Jason Line Talks Engine Building, Don O’Neal Talks Top Sportsman With A Factory Stock Showdown Engine
A couple of good dudes joined me on the NHRA Insider podcast recently and we had some wide ranging conversations covering everything from engine building to how one takes a factory stock showdown...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s Your JDM Ride Of Choice?
It was easy to talk crap about Eclipses, CRXs and just about any thing that looked like it was a background car from an early Fast and Furious movie, but over the years, I’ve developed an...
How It’s Made Video: Follow A Cam From Core Selection To Finish Product At The COMP Cams Factory!
This is an awesome video that shows us some amazing stuff about one of the aftermarket industry’s truly important names. Yes, we are going inside the COMP Cams factory in Tennessee to see how a...
Random Car Review: 1986 Pontiac Grand Prix 2+2 – The Half-Assed Homologation Special
By the time the ax fell in 2009, Pontiac was a mess, known best for bringing in plastic body cladding by the tons and the Aztek. It was quite a fall from grace for the brand that also brought out the...
Porsche Has Released The Specs On The All-New 992 Targa – Big Horsepower, Big Performance, Big Money
(By Tom Lohnes) – This week has been so far so good on new car releases with the Toyota Venza coming back and the Sienna minivan taking some styling cues from the Supra, but one in particular...
The American Powertrain Wednesday Shift: 10,500 RPM Chip, 296ci, And A Five Speed Make This Corvette Fly
Virginia based racer Randy Snoddy was a guy who could regularly be found at IHRA events up and down the eastern seaboard in the 1980s. His 1966 Corvette was the kind of car that you see once and...
