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RacingJunk Find: An 8V92T Detroit Diesel Powered 1979 Kenworth Drag Truck! With Tire Shredding Video!

Behold the most perfect thing you have ever seen in your life. Ok, it is the most perfect thing I have seen in MY life and that’s saying something because I have seen and loved some whacked out...

Bill Overstreet, One Of The Great American Heroes Of WWII Has Died At 92 – Flew Under The Eiffel Tower In Dog Fight….Seriously, He Did

When the history of huge wars is written, credence is given to many things. There’s tactics, training, equipment, and strategy, but along with all of those things there are always singular...

Barrett Jackson’s Preview Video Featuring The Snake And Mongoose Haulers Is Awesome

By now you know that the Snake and Mongoose haulers are the major item of the 2014 Barrett Jackson Scottsdale auction in a couple of weeks. These two trucks were found and restored and have been...

Bitchin’ Museum Gallery: The Eastern Museum Of Motor Racing – Motors, Cars, Memorabilia

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – The Eastern Museum of Motor Racing in York Springs, Pennsylvania is one of the great automotive gems on the east coast. The museum is full to the rafters with engines,...

Video Bonanza – Here’s a Collection Of Videos Featuring Cars With Big Cams Idling Roughly – Ford, GM, Mopar, AMC, All Here!

We know, we know, just because some rig comes rolling by you at a car show with a stumbling, rumbling idle from the world’s biggest camshaft doesn’t mean it makes lots of power or is very...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The One Driving Event You Most Want To Attend This Year?

Yesterday’s BangShift Question of the Day asked what modifications you most want to make to your car this year, and one of the responses struck me as particularly interest. The Varmit said...

The 2014 Hangover Nationals At Dragway 42 – Snow Plows and Big Strip Improvements!

(Photos and captions by Dawn Mazi-Hovsepian) – The 15th running of the vaunted Hangover Nationals at Ohio’s recently reinvigorated Dragway 42 was a smash hit with 150 cars and trucks...

Korean Rocket: We Cruise The $70,000 Hyundai Equus – Old School Luxury With Big Power

When the question begins with, “Interested in driving…”  I usually cut the person asking the question off and blurt out yes before they can finish. That’s what I did when the...

You Could Win $500 From MSD Just By Taking THis Survey — Other Great Prizes, Too!

Boy do we have a great deal for you. Spent literally five minutes taking this survey from MSD Performance and be entered to win $500 or a prize package of cool MSD schwag, or a hat! The survey asks...

Funny Video: Watch A Pair Of Canadian Rednecks Flip a Mini Into A Ditch!

Canada. America’s Hat. Land of moose, Pamela Anderson, a maybe not-so-surprising variety of beers, and people that remain polite and courteous to a fault, even when they are busy wrecking a 2002...

Quarter Aces Drag-O-Way For Sale – Own A Historic Eighth-Mile Track For Less Than Half A Million!

Did you receive a big windfall of cash for Christmas? Do you want to own a drag strip? Are you a fan of fun? Then boy do we have a deal for you! Become the newest member of the drag strip...

Nitro Burning, Header Flaming, Ass Kicking Top Fuel Motorcycle Run As You’ve Never Seen Before!

One of the most significant and significantly under reported occurrences in drag racing during the 2013 season happened late in the racing year. Said moment was the final round match up of...

Canadian Tire Commissioned A Functional Ice Truck And They Used It To Break A World Record….This Is A Thing That Happened

They’ve gone and done it now. Those rabble rousing sons-a-bitches at Canadian Tire have pushed the world to the brink of war with their latest attention seeking, headline making, world record...

Check Out This 1948 Ford COE Ramp Truck We Found On Craigslist!

Our pal, and epic BangShifter, Dannie Pinard sent this ad for a 1948 COE Ramp Truck to us yesterday with nothing more in the email than “I want this ramp truck…”. We couldn’t...