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Drag Racing with CHRISTMAS TREES! Racing Action From Cleetus McFarland’s XMAS Tree Drags 2025 At Bradenton Motorsports Park

Cleetus’ Christmas Tree Race 2025 was a very special race. The race has become kind of a big deal since starting a few years ago, and has some pretty simple rules. You must race with a Christmas...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: The 4th Annual Christmas On The Coast Jr. Dragster Races From Gulfport Dragway – Saturday

With big money bracket racing going bigger and bigger each year, it’s about time the Jr. Dragster races start stepping up as well. This race here, in it’s third year, has big money up for grabs...

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Dear Santa: Jet Boat Please! I Built a Hot Rod Jet Boat! Check Out The Build On This One! 5.3 LS, Candy Paint, Headers, And Custom Interior!

Sometimes I see boat projects and think they look a lot easier than car projects. I know I’m fooling myself of course, but like all hot rodders I look at a project car or boat and think it...

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Dirt Daily: 4xFred Williams Is Fixing Stuff And Fitting 42’s on his Summer Camp Jeep. Is Bigger Really Better? Yeah, We Know.

42 inch tall tires are the norm in the rock crawling world nowadays, and if you aren’t running them you are considered to be on small tires. I remember when 44 inch tall tires were only found...

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Burnouts! In Vantaa, Finland American V8s, Tire Smoke, And Crowds Rule at Vantaa’s Big Cruises

Until “The Man” got too serious about having fun at car shows and cruises, folks used to rev engines and do burnouts and it drew crowds of folks ready for fun. Nowadays you have to find...

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Check Out All The Gravel Throwing Action From Gravelrama 54’s Unlimited Class! Will Records Fall?

Gravelrama is a hell of an event, and we dig it. With hillclimbs, gravel drag racing, tough truck races, and so much more, there is no shortage of action going on at Gravelrama so it is no wonder...

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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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Unhinged: Supporting Selfless Service And Saving A Dodge Truck

If you’ve seen any of the Summernats 33 coverage, you probably have a pretty solid idea on just how hellish Australia is right now. If not, here’s a basic layout: on the eastern side of...

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4 Teams, 4 Junkyard Trucks, $6,000, And 1 Week To Buy A Truck And Build It Into The Ultimate Off-Road Machine In Pursuit Of The $10,000 Prize.

The Horsepower Wars Junkyard Challenge presented by K&N is the ultimate test of 4 man teams in an effort to build the ultimate low buck off-road machine. Each team has been given $2,500 to buy a...

Want To Become A Carburetor Guru? Learn From The Guys That Build Them! Holley Announces New Holley Carburetor 101 Classes

Everyone seems to have EFI the brain in recent years, and we understand and love them for it, but carburetors are still way more plentiful in the hot rod and racing world and we still get asked about...

BangShift Tune-Up: “Red Barchetta” by Rush (Live In Montreal, 1980)

Automobiles and music, they go oddly hand-in-hand with each other. Pick a car, understand the feeling that it gives you when you drive it, and the music will eventually line up to what you listen to,...

Roadtrippin: Exploring Our Favorite Closed Up Junkyard And Drooling Over A 1965 409 Impala SS

(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) Whenever our buddy Liggett has a free moment he’s either working on his hot rods or exploring something cool and historical and car related. He has more...

Best 1990s Sleeper Ever: The 1996 Volvo 850R Sportswagon – Prove Us Wrong

Yeah, 20 years on and I still want one of these things. I remember chewing up every car magazine that came to my house when I was 16 years old and every single one of them lost their mind over this...

Not Too Forward: 1958 Chrysler New Yorker – Almost Sedate For The Fifties

1958, in the automotive world, was the year where fins and chrome seemed to jump the shark. Every car suddenly sprouted four headlights. Buick sprouted a nightmare for those who hated polishing...

Lawn Mower Mudding – You Needed A New Mower Anyways, Right?

I was not expecting to hear my father-in-law say that he was going to bring out the lawn mower the other day. The area around BangShift Mid-West is currently a toss up between muddy and just about...

Classic YouTube: The 1955 Southern 500 at Darlington, Courtesy of Purolator!

Prior to the infamous 1979 Daytona 500, there were very few ways to see the entirety of a stock car race. Obviously, you could go in person to a track and watch as drivers battled it out for...

Rough Start: 1975 Mercury Bobcat – Enough Rolling Bomb Jokes!

Over thirty years of Pinto jokes later, can we look past all of that? Please? They’ve aged out of normal use. You find me someone using a Pinto as a daily driver that isn’t on it’s...

American Powertrain Parting Shift: Watch This H-Pattern Shifted Mustang Run 7s!

Lots of time when we show you a hardcore competition car as part of the American Powertrain Parting Shift it is not being H-pattern shifted. Maybe it has a sequential shifter or a Vertigate type deal...

Hitting The Dusty Trail: Take A Tour Of This Converted TopKick Ambulance!

When I was a teenager, I dreamed of a setup like this: a large truck, a big box on the back to sleep in, and no reason to deal with anybody on the planet anymore. It made sense in my head, but...