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Big Sky Race Week Video from the BangShift Billy crew. Day 5 at Hi-Line Dragstrip in Malta Montana Was Drama Filled!

Big Sky Race Week coverage continuos thanks to Bill and the crew at BANGshift Billy. This time it is their Day 5 video from Hi-Line dragstrip on Big Sky Raceweek.  Can Bill hang on and finish the...

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LIVE STREAMING | Race 1 and 2 | Misano | GT World Challenge powered by AWS 2026

It is endurance racing season, and boy is it in full swing! There have been more endurance races in the last few weeks than we could imagine, and there are even more to come. It’s summertime racing...

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IHRA F1 Powerboats Livestream: Round Round 5 – Alton Powerboat Nationals F1 Powerboat Showdown – Sunday

Boat racing is on! If you aren’t familiar with F1 boat racing, you’re in for a treat. This is side by side racing, “door handle to door handle” so to speak, and these drivers are giving it...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: CASH DAYS at The Hill with Happy and Limpy! KD Dragways Hosts One Hell Of An Event! Watch Here All Weekend!

It doesn’t matter whether you call it KD Motorsports Park, KD Dragway, or The Hill, everyone knows that some bad ass no prep races go on there and that it is one of the more unique drag strips in...

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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The ACE Triple $20,000 Races Are LIVE From Darana Dragway 42 – SUNDAY

The ACE Triple $20,000 Races are live this weekend from Darana Dragway 42 in Ohio, and we’ve got all the action coming to you live and free right here thanks to our friends at MotorManiaTV. Racing...

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Big Sky Race Week Video from the BangShift Billy crew. Day 4 Adventures Continue For All The Racers. And It Rains!

Big Sky Race Week coverage continues thanks to Bill and the crew at BANGshift Billy. This time it is their Day 4 video from a rain soaked highway somewhere.  Can Bill hang on to 1st place on Day 4....

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This Onboard Video Of Jim Clark Racing A Grand Prix Car In 1963 Is Breathlessly Awesome

Lest you think that I was going to turn this day of content into an entire day of drag racing stuff, I’ve found and shared this completely and utterly amazing footage from 1963 that shows Jim...

Would You Try To Paint Your Own Car At Home? Or Is The Thought Just Too Scary?

To build a car or truck at home you have to possess certain skills. Which skills depends on the depth of your project, with some requiring nothing but the ability to remove and replace parts. But...

Removing And Replacing The Door Skins On A Camaro Isn’t The Hardest Job Ever. Watch How To Do It Here.

We can think of a lot of bodywork jobs that are way way worse than taking the door skins off a muscle car and replacing them. With simple tools that any average gearhead has in their garage, you can...

Classic YouTube: The First Year Of The Boeing 707

When you observe commercial air travel and how it grew from it’s beginnings to modern day, you see it grow in steps. From a spare passenger on a small biplane, to the Ford TriMotor, to the...

Crankin’ Away: Waking Up A Minneapolis Moline M602 From It’s Long Sleep!

If you have never, ever driven a tractor…no, not a lawn tractor, we’re talking the real-deal, hay-cutting, bush hogging, lump of iron and steel that will drag a plow, tow a trailer around...

Force, Todd, Enders, Smith Killing It In Las Vegas! NHRA Qualifying Results And Video From Friday Is Right Here.

Brittany Force leads an all star cast of Pros who are killing it at the NHRA Nationals in Las Vegas this weekend. This group knows all about being on top and taking home a win, so they are all going...

The Challenger Revival, Part 5: The Rust Assessment – How Crispy Is The Derelict E-Body?

Dylan McCool’s 1973 Dodge Challenger project has been coming along nicely. That’s not too surprising…he’s genuinely been all over this car ever since he dragged it home, and...

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Here’s A Preview Of Some Of The Bad Ass Rides You’ll See At The SEMA Show Next Week! We’ll Get Photos Of All Of Them

With the 2019 SEMA Show in Las Vegas starting in just a couple days, you know that we are going to be running around and jamming tons of photos together for our coverage from this epic event. The...

The “WTF?!” Files: 1983 Toyota Celica GT, With About Four Times The Engine Inside!

You really can’t knock Toyota for copying American musclecars of the day. They were selling and Japanese manufacturers were looking for any kind of inroad into the American market. Datsun went...

A Dose Of LSJ: This Evil Kart Creation Is Proof That Light Is Right

On the whole, there isn’t much to enjoy about a Chevrolet Cobalt or a Saturn Ion coupe. Both cars espoused the things that were wrong with GM just before the economy made a noise surprisingly...

The 304 Holden Swap: This Kingswood Wagon Gains A Pair Of Cylinders!

Why is it that the more base-model cars are the ones that managed to survive decades relatively unscathed? Case in point: Go hunting for a Dodge Aspen R/T and you’re going to see more rust than...

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Morning Symphony: The Gillet Vertigo GT3 – Ride Along As It Rips Around Spa!

The one interesting thing about Gran Turismo video games is that it introduced players to cars that they thought had to be pure fantasy. I’ll admit, I was suckered. The Suzuki Escudo? Surely...

Unhinged: DeSotos And Fargos And Luminas – The Middle East Car Diaries

According to the paperwork that tracked every move I made in the Army, I spent the better part of two years in the Middle East. For that time, I was either in Kuwait or Iraq. And for the majority of...

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Money No Object: Dear Santa, This 1965 Dodge Coronet Ragtop Is All We Need!

Dear Santa, I am not writing to you this early because everybody seems to think that the Christmas season starts six seconds after Halloween ends. Hardly the case…there is still plenty of time...

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