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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: It’s Time For The Twin 50’s Big Money Bracket Races In St. Louis! Wednesday 64 Car Shootout

It’s time for some more big money bracket racing and that means not one, but TWO $50,000 races going on this weekend in St. Louis! Racers across the mid west get ready, it’s time for another...

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NORRA Baja Livestream: The National Off-Road Racing Association Takes On The Mexican Desert May 1-7!

The National Off-Road Racing Association has been putting on races since 1967 and is known for their Baja race that is a little less hardcore than SCORE’s BAJA 1000. Not that the racing...

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Drill Press Meets Fab Table: Jason From Fireball Tools Built the Drill Press He’s Always Wanted!

Have you ever walked into someone’s shop or garage and seen a tool that got you excited because you realized it is something someone customized? I’ve done it too many times to count, and...

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Free Drag Racing Livestream: Wednesday Testing from the IHRA Outlaw Nitro Nationals at Darana Raceway in Hebron Ohio

If you are fired up about the 2026 IHRA Outlaw Nitro season, you are not alone! The first two events of the year have been awesome, and this weekend is going to be race #3 from Darana Raceway...

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Chassis, Suspension And Rocker Work On The Martin Lundqvist Racing Fabrication Swedish Drag and Drive 1969 Camaro Project!

Project 508 is in full swing and we are super excited about what is going on with this machine. We’ve got another couple videos to share below and will be bringing you more in the coming weeks...

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Rio Heat Show: John Jackson Heads South for the Loudest Show in the Rio Grande Valley! Plus BBQ Joint Visits!

John Jackson is back at it, this time in our home state of Texas as he visits the Rio Grande Valley for the Rio Heat Show. And not only did he capture awesome cars and custom trucks, but also made a...

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It’s Just A Little Rusty, It’s Still Good: Waking Up An Old Chevy That Hasn’t Run Since 1989!

Our boy Derek at Vice Grip Garage is at it again. He’s gotten word that a Chevy truck from the mid-1960s is up for grabs. That would be a dream score…but this is a truck that has been...

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Spintires IRL: This Off-Road Mud Race In Estonia Is An Absolute Slogfest!

“Spintires” is a video game reference. Put simply, it’s an off-road simulator that encourages you to push through some of the most intense off-road situations you can dream of....

From The Bones Up: Watch As Another Psychotic Power Wheels Kart Starts To Take Shape!

For a while now we’ve shown you the brilliant little over-powered go-karts that Grind Hard Plumbing Co. make using ordinary Power Wheels bodies. It’s effectively a way of realizing a...

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The Mobile Mansion: This 1983 MCI MC-9 Bus Conversion Is RV Awesomeness!

On trips into downtown Colorado Springs, the younger version of myself loved it when my grandfather would wheel his Chrysler E-Class down Weber Street towards the Greyhound bus station, where fleets...

There’s A Hoe In The Back: Take A Ride In The World’s Fastest Shed

Kitschy art-cars usually suck. They’re more about visual gags than anything else, and half of them only run long enough to be moved from the garage to the trailer, to the spot on the grass...

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One Piece At A Time: Who Knew A Volvo 360 Could Be So Wicked?

Remember the old Johnny Cash tune, “One Piece At A Time”? The premise sounds something like this: instead of going into debt buying a new, long and black Cadillac of his dreams, the...

BangShift Question Of The Day: The Air Force Is Having Trouble Moving Dodge Chargers. What Would You Do If It Was Your Problem?

(Lead photo: SrA Jake Carter/USAF) It’s the dream job for a gearhead who wants to serve their country: to be one of the chase drivers that is responsible for helping the pilots of the U-2 spy...

Unhinged: Roast The Late-Model Driver Nanny Of Your Choice!

In a study conducted by J.D. Power, drivers of newer vehicles with features like lane-depart assist are more annoyed than anything by them. One of the figures cited was the amount of people...

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Bitchin’ Video: Gassers at the NHRA US Nationals in the Late 1960s

This video is a spectacular example of what the height of the gasser wars looked like on the strip in and in the pits. The infamous gasser wars of the mid to late 1960s were fueled by provocative...

Rough Start: 1973 Ford Maverick – Make Your Very Own Tijuana Taxi At Home!

Have you seen that one meme: “If you park your car and don’t look back at it as you head inside, you have the wrong car”? That’s the feeling I’m getting with this 1973...

Money No Object: 1971 Pontiac GTO – Simpler Is Better, Right?

My dad Robert wasn’t exactly a car guy. He drove trucks for a good portion of his life, had a Jeep kick for a bit, and if you ever asked him about one particular red Ford stepside, he’d...

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Ride Along Video: Jim Pace Hauls The Mail In A Porsche 962 At Road Atlanta!

As a kid, I LOVED the IMSA GTP series. There were exotic looking cars, exotics sounding drivers from all over the world, and the best road courses in the country were their playgrounds. In this video...

Classic YouTube: The 1971 Michigan 400 Presented By Car And Track

We always like a good look into the past, especially if the knowledgable tones of Bud Lindemann are right there to explain what we’re seeing. The old Car and Track footage is great for seeing...

Watch Tommy Ivo Assemble His Dragster At His Home Shop Circa 1965 – Awesome Video

(Video credit: Tony Williams/DragTimes2 YouTube) I like to break my pal Keith Turk’s chops from time to time because he describes things as being “magical” and that cracks me up....