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Route 66 to The SEMA Show 2025: How A First-Year Road Trip Turned into Something Bigger Than Anyone Expected

(Words and Photos by Cole Quinnell, Photos by Patrick Hill) There are roads that get you somewhere, and then there are roads that mean something. Route 66 is firmly in the second category. It’s not...

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FREE LIVE Drag Racing From The 11th Annual New Year Nationals At Bradenton Motorsports Park – Monday

There are only a couple of races happening before the clock strikes midnight on Sunday to ring in the new year and while we’re sure 2026 is going to be awesome, 2025 isn’t done yet! Our last big...

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Tony Angelo Gave All His Guys CORVETTES For Their CHRISTMAS BONUS! You Will Want To See This!

I’m a big fan of a good Christmas bonus, but I’ve never known anyone that got a Corvette for theirs! Have you? When I was at Tony’s shop a couple of months ago we were eating pizza...

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Have You Ever Wondered How They Clean And Flush A Radiator? This Cool Video Shows The Whole Process.

When I lived in Southern California, we used Victor’s Radiator Service, an awesome radiator shop that we used all the time to clean and reseal radiators. They also cleaned and resealed heater...

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NEW WORLD RECORD! This VW 20VT Powered Bantam Altered Breaks Into the 6s At Santa Pod!

Water-cooled VWs may not have the same sex appeal as a vintage air-cooled VW does, but they are still really capable and racers have been pushing them to their limits in all kinds of ways for...

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Street Weekend Drag and Drive 2025 – The Movie! Racing Action From England’s Second Drag and Drive

With the success of Hot Rod Drag Week, which started in 2005, other Drag and Drive events started popping up around the world. While nobody in the United States wanted to put one on in the early...

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BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s Your Favorite Factory Steering Wheel?

There are three absolutely vital control input devices that you have in the car. There’s the brake pedal, your ability to stop motion that’s unwanted. There’s the ignition switch,...

More Pomona Swap Meet Photos Full Of Rust Free And Clean California Iron

Be jealous all you want, but we don’t want to hear about it. There are thousands of planes and dozens of highways that will bring you to California for the Pomona Swap Meet so you can...

Monster Energy’s BAJA 1000 Prep And Race Recap Video Will Make You Crave The Dirt!

There is no off-road race like it. None. Period. Sure there are plenty of other awesome off-road races, including some in Baja, but none compare to the 1000. This is THE race of all races, and the...

Rolling Rich: This 1972 Cadillac Fleetwood Series 75 Will Make You Feel Like Real Old Money!

It’s official: the Cadillac Limo, a.k.a. the U.S.S. d’Elegance, has met it’s demise. Feel like pouring one out for another barge gone to the crusher? Don’t. It wasn’t...

This Willys FC 170 Jeep Truck Is Super Rare And In Really Great Shape. You Can Build This One Into A Bad Ass

We rarely see these Willys FC trucks, but when we do we love them. They are weird and quirky and fun. The FC stands for Forward Control, which in Jeep speak means Cab Over. They were sold to be used...

Here’s One More Blast Of Photos From The 2018 PRI Show In Indy. Race Cars And Parts Galore.

(Photos by Author) Yep, we’ve still got PRI photos to share. Asphalt and Dirt Oval, Road Racing, Drag Racing, Off-Road, Boat Racing, Tractor Pulling, Diesel Racing, and so much more is...

McLeod Clutches’ Krista Baldwin Acquires Nitro University A/Fuel Dragster Team

(Photos and words by Krista Baldwin Racing) – Krista Baldwin has acquired the Nitro University A/Fuel dragster team for the 2019 season. Baldwin, grand daughter of legendary nitro pioneer;...

Traveling Al Frisco: Petrolicious Looks At A Truly Cool 1971 Porsche 911 That Has Lived A Couple Of Lives

Those of us that love cars talk about them as if they were somehow human in many ways. We look at their features, their foibles, we think about their strain and toil when they are driven hard. Long...

2018 East Coast Indoor Nationals Photos: Big Horsepower, Cool Cars, And A Refuge From The Cold

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – The East Coast Indoor Nationals have been going for nearly 30 years now and each winter hot rodders in the Mid-Atlantic part of the county know that the Timonium...

Morning Symphony: Coffeyville Street Drags Action – Legal Meet-Ups On The Street!

It used to be that the only way you saw two cars race on a street was to be in the loop of information. You had to know what intersection was going to be the starting line, you had to know when the...

Great Video: This Profile Of Mark Micke, Jason Carter, And The World’s Most Bad To The Bone 1978 Malibu Rules!

Paul Bunyan had Babe, his trusty blue ox. Jason Carter and Mark Micke have their blue 1978 Chevy Malibu, which stands as the baddest Radial vs The World car in the history of the class and one of the...

Hazing The New Guy: Introducing The NASCAR Mustang, Drifting With Vaughn Gittin, Jr.!

It’s official: the Ford Fusion is out and the Ford Mustang will be in for NASCAR, and not just in the Xfinity Series, either. The full-deal, top-tier Cup car will become the Ford Mustang for...

Holley Introduces New Brawler Street and Race Carbs In Black With A Red Billet Color Combo

Holley’s Brawler line of carbs has been embraced by hot rodders and racers across the country as they are made of quality aluminum, they feature all the great tuning features that one would...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Does Newer Technology Really Matter In New Cars?

(Photos: FCA) We’re sure you need no introduction to the Dodge Grand Caravan. Built more or less the same since the current model was introduced in 2008, it’s been a steady seller for...