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Ford Taurus Police Interceptor Beats All Comers in LA Sheriff’s Office Testing

The blue oval boys clearly have their mojo workin’ these days. They’ve managed to get their business in order, they’re building stuff that people are interested in buying and...

Bangshift Approved New Product: Forged Pontiac Cranks and Stroker Kits From Eagle Specialty Products

While pressing our schnoz up against the glass display cases at the SEMA new products showcase we spent more than a couple minutes drooling over the new Pontiac competition stroker kit from Eagle...

Auto Trader Classics Find: A 1964 Cadillac Hearse

Hearses have their place in the history of hot rodding. 1960s drag racers used them as tow vehicles and mobile apartments during stints on the road with their race cars and their engines have been...

Caption this Photo: Knaus and Johnson together on the beach…at sunrise

Public relations and advertising people come up with the swiftest ideas. After Jimmy Johnson and Chad Knaus had won their fifth NASCAR title in the a row, someone at a desk in a far away city...

Bill Caswell Baja Video Bonanza:Beating on the Baja Bimmer

It wasn’t all suck time for our man Bill Caswell in Baja. As we told you yesterday, Caswell made the start of the race by the skin of his teeth and managed to haul ass in the desert for a...

eBay Find: A 1948 Ford F-5 Cab-Over Wrecker

Talk about a cool truck! This 1948 Ford F-5 COE wrecker is one of the neatest pieces of Ford iron we’ve ever seen. The cab over truck has a 292ci V8, and a three-speed manual transmission....

Barnstormin’: The Real McCoy

A short while back, I started a thread on the BangShift forums letting people know I had mounted new Firestone tires on my truck Goliath. I included some sneak peek photos before the...

Video: JPC Racing Makes 800hp on the Rollers With an Internally Stock (New) 5.0L Mustang

The name Justin Burcham of JPC racing is no stranger to the pages of car magazines or the internet. Justin has been on the bleeding edge of Ford and Mustang performance for years. We remember him on...

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New England Dragway Completes First of Several Major Track Upgrades

One of the NHRA’s newest member tracks, New England Dragway has completed the first of several major upgrades to the facility in order to prepare for a Full Throttle Series event a few years...

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...

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Event Gallery: Hot Rod Revolution 2010 – Austin, Texas

For the first time in the history of the event The Hot Rod Revolution was held in Austin, Texas this year. After gaining a great reputation in Southern California, event organizers decided to switch...

Baja Ate Bill Caswell’s BMW

The good news is that Bill Caswell actually made it to the Baja 1000 and started the race. The bad news is that the desert jumped up and bit the BMW, cutting the trip far short of the finish line....

2010 Street Car Super Nationals Final Results: Find Out Who Won!

Here’s the place we’ll be posting the most up to date and current results we can get our grubby mitts on from the 2010 Street Car Super Nationals held on The Strip at Las Vegas Motor...

Video Replay: Street Car Super Nationals in Las Vegas

BangShift.com is bringing you the biggest and baddest doorslammer drag racing action live as we broadcast the 2010 Street Car Super Nationals from Las Vegas November 20th and 21st. Lucas Oil, Chris...