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Ultimate Street Car Season Begins With Racing In Texas! Here’s Why Running Early In The Season Matters For Championship Pursuits

(Words by Jim McIlvaine, Photos by Kaleb Kelley) The 2026 season of OPTIMA’s Ultimate Street Car series officially kicked off at G2 Motorsports Park in Anna, Texas. When the grid lined up, the...

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Our 2026 NHRA GatorNationals Action Photos Just Keep Coming: Funny Cars, Top Fuel, Sportsman Door Cars, Pro Mods, Pro Stock Bikes And More!

We’ve shared a few galleries of photos from David Whealon already but now we’re getting into some of the photos from Richard Pasley too. Check them all out below by using the link to all...

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Our 2026 NHRA GatorNationals Action Photos Just Keep Coming: Funny Cars, Top Fuel, Door Cars, Pro Mod And More!

Here’s our last blast of photos from David Whealon, but we’ve got more galleries coming still! Use the link below to check out any of the photos you might have missed so far! (Photos by...

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TX2K26 Day 5 From The Texas Motorplex: The CRAZIEST TX2K ENDING Anyone Has Seen In YEARS! $36,000 To Win This Race

Here’s the Day 5 video from The Texas Motorplex and TX2K26! If you missed any of the previous videos, just click the link below to check them out too. With the sale of Houston Raceway Park three...

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How Dangerous Is A 10hp Belt Grinder? The Fireball Tools 5HP Go Kart Belt Sander Is A Scary Machine Now!

The Fireball tools go-kart belt sander is something special, that’s for sure, and with 5 horsepower you’d think that it could hog away any material needed. And it does. But more power is...

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Painting Raised Letter Valve Covers Can Be A Pain, But When Done Right The Results Are Worth The Steps Taken

We’ve all owned a set of valve covers or a timing cover or some other automotive part that has raised letters on them. And sometimes they have a different color of paint on those raised...

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Flamin’ Nightmare: Watch This Power Stroke Ford Go Down In Flaming Glory On The Dyno

Modern diesel performance is an amazing thing to behold and like all aspects of the aftermarket, people like to push the boundaries of what is possible. In the case of this video the guys who own...

Long-Roof Life: 1994 Chevrolet Caprice Wagon With A Six-Speed And Drag Week History

Oh, was it so long ago that the station wagon was the butt of jokes? Too large, too unwieldy, too much woodgrain appliqué, too much fuel going down the throat of a V8 that had all of the cylinders...

Carburetor vs. EFI On An LS, Which Works Best? Westech Tests Both Of Them!

It might be the best technical competition out there. On one hand, you have the modern fuel-injection systems, computer-controlled, well past the mystery days of early EFI systems. They are simple,...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s Your Best Speeding Ticket Story?

On this day in 1896, one Mr. Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, England, earned himself a place in the history books as the first individual to be convicted of speeding. Actually, Arnold had...

Morning Symphony: 1950 Oldsmobile Running The La Bufa Section Of La Carrera Panamericana

Here’s a race that I don’t think about anywhere near as much as I need to: La Carrera Panamericana. Originally a border-to-border road rally that ran the Pan-American Highway in Mexico,...

BangShift Project Files: Re-Working The Hood Of A Plymouth Arrow Properly

Ok, here’s a fun question for you: how much butchery did you perform during your early days messing with cars? We’re talking high-school level stuff here, so if you want to raise your...

Unhinged: Who At Ford Was Championing This Particular 1980 Mustang Look?!

From the first photo I saw of it, I knew that the 1980 Mustang Ghia that we refer to as the Great Pumpkin Mustang was…how to say this nicely?…unique. I’ve seen just about every...

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Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Them Duke Boys Got Fancy!

x 1. Tell the Duke Boys to try harder. The current jump for distance for a four-wheeled vehicle is Tanner Foust’s 332 foot launch and the longest attempted to date would have been 360 total...

Winter Workshop: Building The Frame For Grind Hard Plumbing Co.’s Four Wheel Drive KTM Jeep!

As winter progresses and Idaho remains nice and cold, work progresses on Grind Hard Plumbing Co.’s latest pint-sized and overpowered endeavor, the four-wheel-drive KTM-powered Jeep build. There...

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Would You Rather: Perfect Restoration Or Solid Pro Touring? Make The Call!

There’s nothing like standing between two great choices and being told it’s either one or the other. And today, we aren’t making it any easier on you, because you are getting two...

Black Beauty: 1986 Ford LTD – A 460-Powered Anti-Taurus!

Ford was playing with the whole bank on the line in 1986. The Ford Taurus program was either going to make or break the company, but Ford had to do something…after years of disastrous results...

Random Car Review: 1994 Dodge Venom – The False Start Or Testing The Waters?

In 1994, Chrysler was really stepping out into some wildness. After Iacocca had been sent on his way, Bob Eaton had taken the top billing at the company and Bob Lutz was having a ball moving concept...

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Why It Broke: This Simple, And Cheap, Fix Can Make Your LS Build Last Forever Instead Of Wiping Out The Cam

When Richard Holdener does testing, he does it at a level nobody else in the industry can keep up with. He’s likely to test up to a dozen combos in a day, he never spends just one day on the...

Ancient Brute: 1924 Mack Model AC – The Origin Of The Bulldog

Running or not, we have to wonder how a 1924 Mack AC is being sold for just a few thousand dollars. Was this a museum pieces that hasn’t been exercised enough? Is the 45-horsepower 471 cubic...