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Lone Star Throwdown 2026 Photo Coverage Continues Right Here! We’ve Got Hundreds More Awesome Truck Show Photos For You!

(Words and Photos by Chad Reynolds) I hit the Lone Star Throwdown in Conroe Texas this weekend and as usual was blown away by the turnout of great trucks. When I arrived at the just after it opened,...

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Why Are There So Many Coolant Colors? How did it get to THIS? Green Is Not The Only Color Anymore!

Why the heck are there so many colors of engine coolant nowadays? I mean was there really a problem with green? And if the colors matter so much, why can you buy coolant that will work with any of...

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Lone Star Throwdown 2026 Photo Coverage Starts Right Here! We’ve Got Hundreds Of Awesome Truck Show Photos For You To Check Out Right Here!

(Words and Photos by Chad Reynolds) I hit the Lone Star Throwdown in Conroe Texas this weekend and as usual was blown away by the turnout of great trucks. When I arrived at the just after it opened,...

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FREE LIVE NHRA Divisional Racing Action: Division 7 Lucas Oil Drag Racing At Firebird Raceway – Sunday

Free live drag racing starts here and continues all weekend long from the NHRA Regional at Firebird Raceway in Arizona. We’re talking all kinds of Sportsman Drag racing which means wheels up Stock...

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Have You Considered Getting One Of Those Harbor Freight Overhead Gantrys For Your Shop? Watch This.

I can’t remember the last time I was in a Harbor Freight and didn’t look at the gantry cranes longingly. Sure, I cherry picker is a great thing that we all need in the shop, but man these...

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2026 SCCA Hoosier Super Tour LIVESTREAM From Buttonwillow Raceway Park- Sunday Coverage LIVE, Saturday Replay

It’s time for the 9-race Hoosier Super Tour to start and that means racing at Buttonwillow Raceway Park in central California. There is a lot of qualifying and racing both today and tomorrow,...

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BangShift Top 11: McTaggart’s Highlights From 2018!

As far as BangShift is concerned, 2018 is over in my world. The presents have been opened, the photos have been stored away onto the storage hard-drive and the work to prepare for 2019 has all but...

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We’e Got More Mooneyes XMas Party, Show, And Drags Photos!

(Photos by Cole Reynolds) If you are in Southern California during early December, then the must attend show is the Mooneyes XMas Party Show and Drag at Irwindale. After the track closed early this...

Best of 2018: Rocky Mountain Raceways’ Night Of Fire – Lighting The Candles One Last Time, Part Two

(Note: The Night of Fire event at Rocky Mountain Raceways was supposed to be a streamed event, but due to technical difficulties that didn’t happen. Instead, we shot galleries of the final...

Best of 2018: The 1967 Shelby “Little Red” Notchback GT500 – Factory Shelby Prototype!

(Photos: Craig Jackson) Until hours ago, this car officially had met the business end of a car crusher after it’s work as a prototype was over and done with. It was a myth, a legend, a phantom....

Cleetus McFarland’s Leroy The Savage Has An Injured Bullet! Turns Out Several Bald Eagles Were Not Carrying Their Weight.

Well, low compression can sure be the cause of low power issues, even on a boosted application like Leroy the Savage, Cleetus McFarland’s bad ass 7 second Vette Kart. This is one bad beast, but...

Project Mongrel: Here’s How To Convert A Quick Ratio Power Rack To Manual

The Mongrel Project is show how to do all kinds of cool sheetmetal and tube work, but it’s also showing how to change some mechanical components from street driven cruiser capable to more track...

This Is It! 2018’s Last Gallery Of Pomona Swap Meet Photos!

We’re done! There will be no more photos from the 2018 Pomona Swap Meet. This is our 10th and final gallery. But don’t let that worry you, as there is so much to see, and we’ll be...

Wanna See Some Cool Welding? Check Out The Tube Hurricane TIG Challenge

Welding is like therapy for me. It’s fun, it’s challenging, and when you are done you have something cool to look at or use. Whether building a chassis, welding up trophies, or just...

LIVE RACING VIDEO: The 4th Annual New Years Nationals From Palm Beach Florida

We’ve covered tons of live racing action from West Palm Beach Florida’s Palm Beach International Raceway, and I raced there plenty when it was called Moroso Motorsports Park back in the...

Best of 2018: Watch As “The Bee Man” Guts A European Hornet Nest Out Of An El Camino

I have made no effort to hide my genuine fear of just about any kind of insect that has two distinct capabilities: flight, and a stinger on it’s ass. While I’ve never had a problem with...

Project Car Update: The Mongrel Is Getting Much Closer To Done And It Is Awesome!

What else can be salvaged from the donor Mazda Miata, and what to do with the header and exhaust to make it look as good as it performs? These are the questions answered in the latest installments on...

Best Of 2018: The Footage Of The Power Driven Diesel Dodge Ram’s Runaway Explosion!

For the last couple of days, this green Dodge Ram has been all over my computer screen in various locations, all for the same reason: as you can plainly see, something severe happened under the hood....

We’ve Only Got One More Gallery Of Pomona Swap Meet Photos After This!

There are only a few more days left in 2018 to share our Pomona Swap Meet photos from the last swap of the year. We don’t need to tell you just how iconic the Pomona Swap Meet is, because everyone...

I Wish Santa Had Put This One In My Stocking For Christmas!

There are a million things that would be cool to get for Christmas but this Chevette is definitely the one I wish I had gotten this week! At $1,200, this is one affordable hot rod project and one...