Author: Chad Reynolds

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Fun With Cars & Car People at the Track: OPTIMA’s Ultimate Street Car series visits Sebring International Raceway

(Words by Jim McIlvaine, Photos by Kaleb Kelley) A full moon glided over a clear Florida sky, making way for a warm sunrise and the start of the 11th season of OPTIMA’s Ultimate Street Car series. While most car guys were still in mid-Winter hibernation, competitors in this series converged on Sebring International Raceway, like […]

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The Most Expensive Engine Mortske Has EVER Bought! Bitchin Supercharged Small Block Chevy! But Will This Project Actually Run?!?

Mortske is usually buying barn finds and old hot rod projects, not supercharged combos like this. I mean this thing looks like it’s nearly ready to race! Okay, so maybe it’s not a hard core race car, but it is the most expensive and bad ass engine combo that he’s ever bought, and definitely the […]

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The New Season of FASTER with Newbern and Cotten Is On! And Here’s Some Fun Behind the Scenes Action From The Boys!

It’s time for a new season of Faster: with Newbern and Cotten and we’re super excited. If you haven’t been watching the show, you need to catch up because these two goofballs are building fun and weird and extreme things in order to race them and have fun while doing it. There is never a […]

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Pinstriping 101 – Hot Hues Urethane Pinstriping Paint: Hot Rod Jen Gives Us A Guide To Get Started.

We’ve featured some of Hot Rod Jen’s work here on BANGshift lately and appreciate her cool videos that show how to pinstripe, her work flow, and her process for practicing and perfecting designs. This video here is the latter, where she is just doing some practice work to see how the design in her head […]

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Iron Trap’s Hidden 1938 Ford Convertible Hot Rod: Installing A Fresh Front Axle To Slam The Front End Of The 1938 Ford Convertible

In today’s video on the 1938 Ford Convertible, the front end gets lowered to match the rear so it has the perfect hot rod stance! In a previous video we shared the 1938 Ford Convertible Hot Rod that the guys at Iron Trap Garage found stashed away in an old garage, gave a first wash, […]

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Who Makes The Best Hand Cleaner? We’ve All Got Favorites, But Which One Works Best? GoJo, Snap On, ZEP And 8 Others Tested To Find Out!

When I was growing up in my grandpa’s auto shop, there were two things I remembered about washing up. One was that he had a Tupperware shaker of dry abrasive hand soap that you shook out and mixed with water on your hands along with a second liquid cleaner that was blue and less abrasive. […]

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Lone Star Throwdown Photos 2024: More Custom Trucks, Cars, And More From This Bad Ass Must Attend Show.

More Lone Star Throwdown Truck Show photos baby! And if you missed the previous photos we’ve got a link below to check them out too. (Words and Photos by Chad Reynolds) I hit the Lone Star Throwdown in Conroe Texas this weekend and as usual was blown away by the turnout. Lone Star Throwdown, or LST […]

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Welding Tips and Tricks: Welding Steel Plate To Cast Steel The Right Way. Will It Still Crack?

Video Description: Here is a fun project! I show my tips and tricks when it comes to welding tabs, brackets, and most importantly , How to weld Steel plate to Cast steel. Tools used: Harris super Missile welding rod https://www.airgas.com/product/Weldin… Miller Multimatic 220 ac/dc multiprocess welder https://www.millerwelds.com/equipment… Hobart Nickel99 welding rod https://www.hobartwelders.com/consuma… Barnes 4wd super […]

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Mastering Hot Rod Basics: SETUP and LOUVERING a 90-Year-Old Hot Rod With 270 Louvers!

One of hot roddings most visually iconic body mods are louvers, and boy are they cool. I own a couple things with louvers and can tell you that they look awesome and get everyone’s attention. They aren’t difficult to do, as there isn’t anything super complicated about a louver press, but laying them out and […]

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Steve Magnante Truck Week Junkyard Finds Continue. Truck Week Feature #24 – The Ford Courier That Proved Who Was Smart

Here’s the twenty fourth video of Steve’s Truck series! This time it’s all about the cute little Ford Courier, a rebadged Mazda B-Series that proved there were some smart people handling imports for Ford and Mazda. Magnante found a cool one and is going to explain why this little truck is so smart. Watch and […]

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