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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Verge Motorsports Quick Outlaw Series – Beech Bend Raceway Park – Saturday Race 1

FREE LIVE DRAG RACING is going on at Beech Bend Raceway Park this weekend and it is going to be a hell of a busy one. With the Quick Outlaw Series running both 4.70 door cars and 4.50 dragsters,...

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Street Freak – Part 5: The Chassis Now Has A 25.2 6.0 Cert! This Thing Is Nuts! All Wheel Drive Swap And Lambo Power!

Here’s the fifth video in the series, and the tube work is done! The chassis in this bad boy is now certified to 6.0 which means it is going to be legal to haul ass! In the last episode some of the...

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Cool Movie Car History: Here Are 10 Cool Facts About Kenny’s 1973 Custom Vette From The Movie Corvette Summer

There was a time when I couldn’t stand the Corvette from Corvette Summer. I don’t know why, but back when flares were a thing, I couldn’t stand them. Now I kinda dig them actually....

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Classic Truck Drag Feature: “Uncle Jessie” This 1969 Ford Pickup is equipped with a MASSIVE Twin Turbo Big Block setup and it HAULS ASS!

Classic trucks are cool, and no stranger to the dragstrip, but something like this isn’t what you normally see at a No Prep race. They are either nice and clean S10 trucks, the occasional late...

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1,800 Miles Home! Will This Classic Ford Mustang RUN AND DRIVE From Arizona To Tennessee? Vice Grip Garage Part 2

We shared Part 1 of this whole Mustang II adventure last week and now it’s time for Part 2. Will it actually run and drive and make it all the way from Arizona to Tennessee? Watch to find out....

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Gassers At Shadyside! Southeast Gassers Association 2024 | A/Gas Eliminations | Shadyside Dragway

The Southeast Gassers Association puts on some of the most fun drag racing in the world. It’s an awesome series with old school gassers being driven like God intended and they certainly know how to...

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Drink This Up: All-Motor FWD Honda Running Eights

What’s the meme? “Your Honda has 1.8 liters. My Mountain Dew has two.” It’s a good cheap laugh, and back in the day it carried a bit of weight, but now you have to watch...

Classic YouTube: The Reason We All Sign Waivers At The Track!

If you haven’t had the thrill of being close by when a supercharger decides enough is enough and pops, allow me to explain in no uncertain terms what the experience is like when it’s...

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Ya Gotta Be Tough: Spills, Thrills And Carnage From Busted Knuckle Video!

The folks at Busted Knuckle Video get to some of the wildest off-roading there is in the States. Rockbouncers, hillclimbs, mega truck action, Formula Offroad-style time trials, bogging,...

Money No Object: 1973 Mercury Montego GT 429 LSR Racer

As of writing, the current bid on this 1973 Mercury Montego GT 429 is just above nine thousand dollars…and that is criminally under what this car is worth. And I’m not saying that as a...

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That’s Different: This Toyota 86 And It’s Supercharged 2JZ Hit Summernats 33 Like A Bomb!

One of the best known Japanese-based speed combinations is rooted around the Toyota 2JZ inline-six from the 1990s. You boost the thing to the moon and make sure that the head is tied down enough so...

Rough Start: 1985 Toyota Supra – Upgraded Engine, Manual Trans, Classic Looks

I’m all about balance in life. I want something sweet for breakfast and savory for dinner. I want loud rock music first thing in the morning and some easier listening electro kind of stuff on...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Next Expensive Auction Car?

The 1967 Ford Mustang GT 390 that was in hiding for decades, the car that was the subject of mythos and legend for years, and only appeared just a couple of years ago for the 50th anniversary of the...

The Original Bullit Mustang Sells For $3.4 Million Dollars! Watch It Go Across The Auction Block Here.

There is no doubt that every car guy on earth has seen Bullit and thought “I can totally do that!” Well you might very well be able to pull it off if you had the original Bullit Mustang...

Want To Go Nostalgia Drag Racing? Buy The Man-O-War Nitro Funny Car For Only $38,000

Actually you can probably get it cheaper than that! They are asking $38,500 for this beast that set the world on its ear when Paul Romine brought it out for NHRA’s Heritage Series and the March...

The Latest Project From Urchfab Has Only Two Wheels. Can This One Be As Much Fun As A 4-Wheeled Monster?

I’ve been wanting to put together an old small to medium sized motorcycle for some time. Something like a Honday CB350 or CB550, would be fun as hell to cruise around town on, and I have...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: E-Scooters Are Dangerous? No…

Welcome to 2020! Another year of mayhem lies before us, but before we get to the fun of cars, fuel, racing, and wrenching, we have to get through the sloppy mess that is early January weather....

The 2020 Dakar Rally Is On And Man Is It A Beast! Saudi Arabia, And It’s Crazy Variety Of Terrain And Sand, Is Home To This Historic Spectacle

I first started really watching the Dakar Rally back in the late 1990s and couldn’t believe just how cool this race was to watch on TV. For years I looked forward to it and thought it would be...

The Mongrel Project Is Getting Some Paint! Watch How To Paint The Engine Compartment, How Not To Paint A Cage, And Then How To Pain The Cage!

Sometimes stuff just doesn’t go right on a project car build. It’s just one of those things when you are talking about building something from scratch and with mostly one off and custom...

The Challenger Revival, Part 8: The Crispy Frame Rail And More Sheetmetal Rot Removal

Seeing that the floorboards had rotted out of the Dodge Challenger that Dylan McCool has been grinding on for a while now isn’t a shock. Not that Chrysler products aren’t known for...

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