Plumbed And Ready: Building The Hydraulic System For The Screw Tank Project
In my prior line of work regarding helicopters, I was an electrician, a technician, an armament tech, a vehicle maintainer, and just in case all of that wasn’t enough, I was responsible for the...
Nitro Time Machine: Let’s Relive The Time That Shirley Muldowney Pulled A Power Wheelie And Nearly Landed ON TOP Of Gary Ormsby
One of the most fun projects I’ve been working on so far in 2020 are these short videos that we’re calling, the “Nitro Time Machine” series. Basically they are all moments I...
Money No Object: A Revisit On The Dirt-Tracker AMC With This 1968 AMX?
In 2009, one of the earliest exploits of the fledgling BangShift.com involved a 1968 AMC Javelin that had been built into some kind of dirt-track race machine of some kind that had changed hands a...
Go Time: Tell Congress to Pass the RPM Act and Save Our Racecars! – DO IT HERE, IT TAKES 30 SECONDS
The RPM Act is in front of Congress as we speak and we need your help to make sure that this act is passed and the ability we have to hot rod our cars lives. This is a vitally important protection...
The Six-Door Ford Recovery, Part Two: Putting Finnegan’s New Milkshake Maker Back Together!
The damn truck is big enough to make two episodes without any problems along the way, you realize that, don’t you? I’ve seen smaller school buses…and no, not the short bus either,...
Big Aftermarket Industry News: Race Winning Brands Acquires Manley Performance
The industry-wide trend of brands consolidating under ever-larger roofs continues! This time it is Manley Performance being acquired by Race Winning Brands. If you are not familiar with Race Winning...
2020 National Farm Machinery Show Pulling Action: Our Last Blast Of High Intensity Action Photography!
(Photos by David Whealon) – Well, all good things have to come to an end and this happens to be the last photoset from the 2020 National Farm Machinery Show and the awesome invitational pull...
Rock Bouncing In Texas: Flying Free In Rough Hill Country
Texas is massive. You could fit ten European countries within the borders. You could have snow near the Oklahoma panhandle, tropical weather down near South Padre Island, and around Killeen, you can...
2020 Cincinnati Cavalcade of Customs Photo Coverage: Race Cars and Race Car Inspired Hot Rods Right Here!
(Photos and words by Doug Gregory) – Race cars, pace cars, Pro Street, and more. These are cars that parade, some that go around turns, and many that go quick in a straight line. There...
The Huracan Sterrato Is The Most Oddly Interesting Lamborghini Ever Built – 200 Car Production Run Already Sold Out
(Words by Tom Lohnes – Photos by the manufacturer) – You’d probably never think that the same company that made the record-setting Aventador SVJ, the car that shattered the Nurburgring...
Radical Overkill: Ryan Anderson Rules The Hoonigan Burnyard With His Monster Truck
We’ve shown you enough videos from Hoonigan’s burnyard at Irwindale Speedway that you probably know what’s there. Old RVs painted black, tons of shipping containers, a couple of...
eBay: This Vintage S.C.O.T Blower Is In Mind Condition, Comes With The Intake, and Is Ready To Boost Your Flathead Now!
We often (incorrectly) pin the use of Detroit Diesel blowers on hot rod engines as the real start of supercharging for the young hot rodders around the country. For the wealthier among them there...
Copart Cadavers: 1969 Hurst/Olds – It Doesn’t Belong Here
There’s no mistaking what you are looking at, layers of dust be damned. The twin mailbox scoops, the gold stripes from the fenders to the quarter windows, the rear spoiler you could use as a...
Y Block, Why Not? This Video Shows Master Engine Builder Keith Dorton Rebuilding And Improving A Legendary Ford Y-Block V8
The Ford Y-block was the company’s first overhead valve V8 engine, technically its first small block, and the engine that replaced the venerable flathead that had powered so many millions of...
