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BangShift Project Files: Building The Mother Of All Lemons To Take On The Lemons Rally! This 1959 Edsel Is Being Built To Cruise The Southwest This Year!

The LeMons Rally, aka the LeMons Hell On Wheels Rally ’16, looks to be an absolute riot. There isn’t so much a price limit, as there is on typical LeMons racing, but instead the idea is...

Use Caution In Direct Sunlight: This 1980 Plymouth Trail Duster Has The Most Trick Paint Job We’ve Seen In A Long Time!

Plymouth’s carbon-copy of the Dodge Ramcharger on it’s own was a pretty cool rig, but even if you found a restoration-perfect example, complete with BF Goodrich All-Terrain white-letter...

Ford’s Quick Preview Video of The Upcoming 2017 F-150 Raptor Is Pretty Awesome

After a brief hiatus from production, the a modern legend is set to return to the Ford lineup and that is good news for those truck fans out there who like to have fun. The 2017 F-150 Raptor...

Not One, But Two Opel GT’s For Sale Cheap: Make One A Drag Car And One A Street Machine!

If you don’t dig little Opel GTs on the dragstrip then there is something wrong with you. With that said, we’ve always thought that someone needed to do one just a little bit different....

This 1977 Porsche 911 Chevrolet V8 Conversion Is SEXY!!! Porsche Handling With American Power

I LOVE V8 Porsche conversions. Seeing a small block Chevrolet oil pan hanging down from underneath one of the classic 911 bodies is just awesome. And they haul ass! This one here is super clean and...

Buy This 1971 GMC Suburban, Formerly Part Of Vic Phillips Racing’s Top Alcohol Dragster Operation

Whenever we see cars or trucks with racing team insignia on them, you look to see if it is genuine. And in the case of probably half, or more, of the stuff you see on Craiglist or eBay, it’s...

On The 30th Anniversary Of The Accident That Ended Group B Rally, A Retrospect On Henri Toivonen

Auto racing is a dangerous sport. That hasn’t been contested since the automobile appeared, and certainly not after the first auto racing fatality. The addiction to speed, the desire to succeed...

Check Out This Creepy Introduction To A Historical British Police Special, A Rover 3500!

Here in the States, we have our historical cop cars: the Chevrolet Caprice 9C1, the Ford Crown Victoria P71, the Dodge and Plymouth 440-powered Pursuits, and more. In England, they have this: the...

Kentucky’s Lake Cumberland Dragway Is For Sale – Concrete Eight Mile Strip Needs A New Owner

(Lead photo credit: IHRA.com) – Wanna buy a drag strip? While the Sealy, Texas track is selling for millions, we found an awesome little eighth mile strip for sale in Kentucky that has an...

Another Track Gone: The Nl’Akapxm Eagle Motorplex In British Columbia Has Shut Down

We never like to hear about another track lost for whatever reason, but unfortunately we find ourselves having to report that the Nl’Akapxm Eagle Motorplex drag strip near Cache Creek, British...

Crash And Burn: See How Burnouts Go Bad In This All-Aussie Compilation!

There isn’t one engineer at any OEM manufacturer on the planet that is able to prepare parts that truly hold up to the stresses, heat, and violence of an Australian burnout competition. No...

Sanctioned Street Fun: Ten Races From The Coffeyville Street Drags In Kansas!

From our perspective, the fact that the town of Coffeyville, Kansas even allowed something like a 1/8th mile drag race on the streets is pretty awesome, but that they let it happen with fans...

Watch Dale Jr. Lose The Steering Wheel In His Race Car And Handle It Like A Boss

I have never had a quick release wheel come off in my hands during an event or even when driving in the pits of anything. One of the more entertaining stories I have heard in the racing world is the...

This Volkswagen Single-Cab Is Legit! Almost Three Liters Of VW Flat-Four Power Running Deep 13s!

The best way to judge just how far along your project has come is to compare notes to an original, stock example of your ride. Case in point: a 13.2 second quarter mile for an Australian ride...