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

(Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) The world’s largest celebration of the Blue Oval went down a few weeks ago in Central Pennsylvania and of course, we were there. The 2026 edition of the Carlisle...

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The Goodwood Festival Of Speed 2026 In Car Camera LIVESTREAM Coverage: This Is What It Is Really Like To Race Up The Road At Goodwood!

If you’ve ever seen them race up the “driveway” at Goodwood, you know that it is narrow, fast, and intimidating for drivers. There have been plenty who have ended up in the grass,...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 5 At SRCA Dragway – SUNDAY

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 5! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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FREE LIVESTREAM From The Santa Pod Summer Nationals 2026 – All The LIVE Racing Action From England You Can Stand! SUNDAY

It has been an epic season of drag racing in England this year. With amazing weather blessing nearly every event at Santa Pod, drag racing fans in the UK have been thrilled with all the action....

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BangShift Test Drive: 2019 Challenger R/T Scat Pack Widebody – 485hp, Fender Flares, Tire Smoke, and True Muscle Car Spirit

(Photos by Dave Nutting – Words by Lohnes, Sestito, Nutting) – For a guy who does not own a Challenger, I spend inordinate amounts of time in them. Between spending a week with...

The Bloodhound SSC Project Is Dead: Broke and With No Hope Of Funding, Car Is Being Dismantled, Parts Sold

The most ambitious land speed record project in history is dead. The Bloodhound SSC project, a near decade long undertaking to design, engineer, and build the first car capable of going 1,000mph has...

Money No Object: One Bad, Black Goat – This 1971 Pontiac GTO Is Sublime!

It’s no Tri-Power car, it isn’t a Judge, and it isn’t a even the “right year” for the GTO, whether you believe that’s 1964, 1967, 1969 or 1970. It’s not 100%...

AutoMeter Hot Rod Holiday: EVERYTHING Is On Sale, Literally Everything! Check This Out

Many manufacturers run great sales around the holidays and they typically have some great deals to take advantage of. AutoMeter has taken this concept to the next level with their Hot Rod Holiday...

The Bumper Doesn’t Count As A Wheelie Bar! This Nitrous Small-Block Malibu Launches Hard!

The first time your racing machine tries to make the move from horizontal to vertical and nearly succeeds is the point where wheelie bars should really be considered. You can be forgiven if...

2018 PRI Show Photo Coverage: More Cars, More Power Plants, More Cool!

(Photos by the author) – We’re continuing on with 2018 PRI show photo coverage today with a collection of images that starts to give a pretty good idea of the cross-section of mechanical...

Cheap Racing LUV: Broke Bastard Garage Is Building A Chevrolet LUV For The Zip-Tie Drags!

If you didn’t know, Chevrolet LUV pickup trucks are a strange little kink around BangShift. Chad’s son Cole is building a monster out of one and I’ve got a pretty strong history...

2018 Pumpkin Run Nationals Coverage: Our Last Photographic Blow Out From The Fall Show!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – This is the last of our series covering the 2018 Pumpkin Run Nationals in Southwest Ohio.  This gallery consists of those machines that either look like...

Final Pomona Swap Meet Of 2018: Western Metal Rust-Belters Can Only Dream Of

Recently, I saw a comment about how looking at the cars that filled up the lots at the Pomona Swap Meet qualified as “cheating” because it’s desert metal. Just to make sure I...

eBay Find: Have We Actually Reached The Era Of A $55,000 1988 Jeep Grand Wagoneer?

It is the constant debate when we look at everything automotive on eBay. How bad do you want it? How much money do you have to spend? How rare is it? How tough is it to find? These are the things...

Rough Start: Another Clean Oldsmobile Omega? Hey, It’s Christmas…Treat Yourself!

Five thousand dollars…that’s the entirety of the budget that the Rough Start series gets to work with. That’s not purchase price of the car, that’s the entire budget to start...

Thunderstruck: Cleetus’ Auction Corvette Has One Hell Of A Backstory! Hear How The Truck-Engined C6 Came To Be!

Every car has a story. Someone built it, someone bought it as a brand-new car and from the moment it rolled out of the dealership, the chapters unfold. Some cars have nice, boring lives of just...

Watch Tim O’Neil, Owner Of Team O’Neil Rally School Artfully Drift His F-450 Dually

Dave Nutting and I spent what is likely the most memorable day of our automotive lives at the Team O’Neil Rally School up in Dalton, NH a couple of summers ago. That was the day that we got to...

PRI 2018 Photo Coverage: We’ve Got A LOAD More Images To Share With You

(Photos by the author) – Well, the 2018 PRI show is officially our rear view mirror now. After a few chilly days in Indianapolis we came away with a much better understanding as to where the...