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Big Sky Race Week Video from the BangShift Billy crew. Will Ultra High Temps Cause Trouble For Competitiors?

There has been a lot of weird weather in the last 12 months and it doesn’t seem to be getting any less crazy. With heat waves and storm fronts moving all over the country, you are seeing areas...

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Buckeye Skips 2026 Drag and Drive Photos Continue! Here’s Our First Day 2 Racing Gallery from Darana Dragway 42 in Ohio

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We’ve got Buckeye Skip’s drag and drive photos right here! We already shared photos from Day #1’s checkpoints and racing, but now it is time for Day #2...

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The World’s Largest All Ford Show And Swap Meet! Swap Meet And Car Show Photos From The Carlisle All Ford Nationals In Central Pennsylvania

Here’s our second gallery of photos from Carlisle, but if you missed the previous photos you can find them all at the link below. (Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) The world’s largest...

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More FJ40 Custom Fabrication! This Beast Gets An ECM Install, Branik Links, Custom Cooler Mounts, and A Stereo Install.

When you start making real headway on a project the jobs get smaller and smaller, but no less significant. Shannon and Jess are back at it on the cool FJ40 project and that means many small things...

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This Is The Ultimate Call Out Challenge! We’re Talking 3,000 Horsepower Diesel Trucks Battling It Out For Bragging Rights And More!

The 2026 Ultimate Callout Challenge was epic. The meanest, nastiest, and most no-holds barred diesel trucks in the country  gathered in Indy to do battle on the dyno rollers, on the drag strip, and...

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Video: The West Coast’s Largest All Ford Truck Show – The F100 Western Nationals 2026 Coverage Starts Here

We figured that if we were going to start sharing our Carlisle Ford Nationals photo coverage today, which is the largest all Ford show in the world, we might as well share the largest classic Ford...

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Old Farm Trucks Rule: Waking Up A Dentside Ford After Years!

If you’ve driven anywhere between the Rocky Mountains and …oh, let’s say Ohio, where rust and rot become absolutely plague-like, you’ve probably seen the old truck sitting off...

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Unhinged: Holiday Traffic And The Angry Human Being

Ok, is it just me or did everybody lose the ability to properly operate a motor vehicle shortly after Thanksgiving? That’s not one of my normal rhetorical questions, I really want to know,...

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Money No Object: Grumpy’s Toy VIII – Find A Badder Second-Gen Camaro, We’ll Wait.

How do I write this one up without turning into a groveling, slobbering mess of a human being? This isn’t just a 1970 Chevrolet Camaro. This isn’t a re-creation. This is the real-deal,...

Ride With Bobby Marriott In The Shockwave AA/FA As It Blows Up, Knocks Him Out And Whacks The Wall – Driver OK

When we’re talking about the craziest cars that you will ever see on a drag strip, you can keep your radial cars, you can keep your pro mods, you can park your top fuelers, because there has...

Buy The Burma Jeep: This Old Bomb Service Burma Jeep Is Mostly There, Is Pretty Rare, and Would Be A Fun Project

The GTB622 1.5-ton truck was manufacturer in New Jersey from 1942 through the end of WWII and had a solid run of 15,000 units. There were a few variants of these babies made but the most popular ones...

Pro Mod Action: Ride Along With Melanie Salemi In Her Pro Mod At The Yellow Bullet Nationals

We love the family aspect of drag racing, especially when the family name is one that is highly respected and really successful. Such is the case with the Salemi family who hails from one of the best...

Here’s Footage Of The Tunnel-Rammed Gran Fury Cop Car Getting Wild During Lahti Cruising

A couple of days ago we showed you this 1977 Plymouth Gran Fury ex-cop that has made the trip across the pond to the Scandinavia area. While we are still unsure of where the car is based out of, we...

Rough Start: 1976 Oldsmobile Cutlass – Those Graphics, Though!

Another day, another hypothetical $5,000 burning a hole in your pocket, another reason to start trolling the classifieds to see what’s out there. Unloved 1980s ride…meh. Rotted 1960s car?...

Ow, My Spleen: Brutal Tough Truck Action From The Clark County Fair

Tough truck competitions started out honest enough: whose truck was capable of man-handling an off-road course of bumps, jumps and other assorted obstacles. The goal was to be the fastest, and to not...

Red Sled: 1971 Ford LTD 429 Convertible – Merry Christmas, Indeed!

It’s December, for all that’s holy. Ten days away from the Winter Solstice, colder than a cheating ex-wife’s heart, and here we are, presenting a glorious red droptop Ford LTD with...

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Unveiled: 2021 Chevrolet Tahoe and Chevrolet Suburban: Independent Rear Suspensions, Diesels, And Another Lease On Life!

(Photos: General Motors) While any new vehicle launch means a ton of money invested and even more hoped to return for a manufacturer, the sport-utility market is currently the one category where...

America’s Most Insanely Clean 1980 Chevy Citation Is Up For Auction In South Dakota – Bidding At $180

We have to thank BangShifter Ryan Roossnick for the tip off on what has to be one of the zaniest auction items we have seen in years. It is one of those weird zombie cars from the past that should be...

New Product Bonanza: This Video Shows COMP Performance’s Group’s New For 2020 Products! Cams, Valvetrain, EFI, Induction, Heads, More!

When you are the COMP Performance Group and you are rolling out new parts by the truckload each year, you need to take advantage of technology to tell the world about ’em all in a cool and...

Vintage Speed: This Eddie Meyer Flathead Ford Intake Is The Real Deal And It Rules

Eddie Meyer’s name may not be on the tip of the tongue of every hot rodding enthusiast out there but his role in the development of the speed industry and many of the hugely talented people in...