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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Indianapolis 500 Open Testing Is On! Watch It All Live Here! INDYCAR SERIES

We’ve got a few weeks until the start of all the official Indy 500 festivities, including official practice sessions, qualifying, etc, but that doesn’t mean that teams aren’t...

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Manual Cars Shouldn’t Be THIS FAST! 6-Second Stick Shift Drag Racing At Street Car Takeover In Rockingham.

I grew up in a stick shift drag racing family, so anything with a clutch pedal is near and dear to my heart. There is something about a stick shift car that just makes it more fun to drive, and even...

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Check Out The Record Breaking Ford GT Mk IV Lap Around Nürburgring! 6:15 Is The Quickest Internal Combustion Vehicle Ever On Track!

Before anyone starts yelling that there are quicker cars that have been around the Nurburgring, remember that there are only two of them and both of those cars had electric assist as a power adder....

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Buy Your Dream Apartment Condo At Texas Motor Speedway! 2 Bed, 2 Bath, 9th Floor Outside Turn 2 At TMS!

I’ve been fortunate enough to be at a couple of parties in the condos outside turn 2 at Texas Motor Speedway and can tell you that they are pretty cool. I went to a party in one of them where...

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Proper Vintage F1 Racing in Monaco: The 2026 Monaco Historic Grand Prix Did Not Disappoint! Awesome Racing Action!

I’m not a die hard Formula 1 fan that follows all the racers and points and such. But I appreciate the cars and the racing and all the technology that is present in that world nowadays. With...

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LIVE REPLAY: Circuit of the Americas GT World Challenge America powered by AWS 2026

Here we go again! We’ve got GT World Challenge Racing going on live right here, and we dig road racing and who doesn’t love the World Challenge series? This weekends racing is coming to you live...

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Best of 2019: SCCA Trans Am Racing At Road America In 1977!

Trans Am racing from the late 1960s and early 1970s is often remembered as the scene where pony cars battled it out for supremacy on road courses. Cougar GTs, Javelins, Cuda AARs and Challenger T/As,...

Best of 2019: Watch Tommy Johnson Jr Drive An Exploding Funny Car To A Round Win Like A Boss

What makes a good funny car driver? Solid reaction time? Getting the parachutes out on time? Keeping the car in the groove? All important but we think that the single most important attribute a funny...

Best of 2019: The Hellcat-Swapped Miata Goes Full Aussie Style At Hoonigan’s Playpen!

The Mazda MX-5 Miata is going to go down in history as one of the high points in small cars. A Japanese love letter to British roadsters of the past, the Miata and it’s staying power are...

Best of 2019: Even A 1974 Oldsmobile Omega Looks Like A Riot To Wheel Around

So a subject has come up in the BangShift forums about whether or not a hot rod has ever been cheap. There’s always been those who can squeeze the last drop of blood from a stone to make their...

Best Of 2019: The Messerschmitt Me163 Komet – Strapping A Rocket To Your Ass In The Literal Sense

Nazi Germany wasn’t a fearsome enemy just because of the brutality of the regime, but because of the intelligence of the people behind the scenes. Rocketry, jet aviation…both owe heavily...

This Two-Door Tahoe Would Be An Epic Daily Driver, You Never Find Them This Clean

Two-Door Tahoes are something you don’t see every day. I still think of them as a “Blazer” and wish that is what Chevrolet had called them, but regardless of the name they are cool...

Best of 2019: This 1971 Plymouth Satellite Wagon Blends Muscle Car And Family Car Beautifully

When I was working in the yard, we tore down and ultimately scrapped out a Chevy Kingswood station wagon simply because it had a big-block under the hood. Any say I would’ve had in the matter...

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More Drag Week Bonus Photos: We Bring You More Cool Stuff From Cecil County

(Photos by Joe Grippo) Drag Week has long been one of our favorite events, as we were on the first one and many since, and we love running photos from the event’s many stops. When Grippo decided to...

Best of 2019: Ever Heard Of The Corporate Concepts Lieutenant Truck?

While it might not appear to be an issue when you look at what prowls the Interstates of America, one issue that is a problem for many truck owners is length. While lately it seems that the problem...

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Junkyard Tour, Race Cars, Hot Rods, Trucks, And More Cool Stuff From Fleming’s Pumpkin Run

(Photos by Joe Grippo) If you missed our previous photos from Fleming’s show, then click the link below to see them too. This is a great photo gallery of awesome stuff that we really can’t wait...

More Muscle Cars, Hot Rods, Classics, And Trucks From The Mecum Auction In Harrisburg

(Photos by Joe Grippo) Mecum Auctions have been growing by leaps and bounds the past few years. In a time when automotive auction houses find themselves battling for the biggest and best collections,...

Best of 2019: The First Off-The-Chain Chrysler 300C Burnout Machine We’ve Seen!

When we brought Angry Grandpa, our 2006 Chrysler 300C, into the project limelight, it wasn’t to do anything really radical with it. The point of hopping up a Linen Gold Metallic early-bird...

The Small Shop With The Big Secrets: We Return To Short Street Rod Shop For A New Look-Around!

Four years ago, after I shot a feature on a 1964 Rambler that had been converted to a straight-axle car, I was invited out to a small garage in the middle of Kentucky. I was told that there were a...

More Never Before Seen Photos From Fleming’s Pumpkin Run – Race Cars, Junkyard Stuff, Trucks, Muscle, And More.

(Photos by Joe Grippo) If you missed our previous photos from Fleming’s show, then click the link below to see them too. This is a great photo gallery of awesome stuff that we really...