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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Stage 9 Racing Action! The Dunes, The Rocks, And The Mountains Try To Knock Them All Out!

It’s Stage 9, and after running hundreds of miles through the desert on Stages 7 AND 8, there’s a few hundred more in store for all these racers as they get into Day 3 of the 2nd Week of Dakar....

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Are These The Weirdest Monster Trucks Ever Produced: Taking A Look At Monster Jam Trucks, Big Foot Trucks, And More!

I’m old enough to remember when Monster Trucks just ran over parked cars, and didn’t fly through the air. Hell, back then nobody would have ever imagined they would be doing backflips and...

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The Best Rolex 24 at Daytona Finishes of All Time! IMSA Shares Their Favorite Finishes Of All Time!

IMSA’s Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona is coming up in just over a week, with the Roar Before the 24 coming this weekend. If you aren’t familiar with everything that goes on during the month of...

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Larry Chen’s 240Z Final Gets Much Needed Suspension and Interior Upgrades, Plus Other Cool Stuff!

Larry Chen has some fun rides, but his 240z is “the one”. What I mean by that is that this is his forever car, the one that will never get sold and sent on its way to a new home. Larry...

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King of the Hammers 2026 Is Coming! Watch Hammertown Come Together With This Streaming Camera From Johnson Valley.

That’s right, it’s January and that means that King of the Hammers is coming! King of the Hammers 2026 officially starts on January 22nd and will continue for more than two weeks. It...

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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Stage 8 Racing Action! Why Not Add A Few Hundred More Miles Through The Dunes!

It’s Stage 8, and after running hundreds of miles through the desert on Stage 7, there’s a few hundred more in store for all these racers as they get into Day 2 of the 2nd Week of Dakar. This...

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MAHLE Is Speed – World’s Fastest Nissan GT-R Relies On MAHLE PowerPak Plus Pistons!

(Photo by Epik Productions) – We often talk about the quality, variety, and engineering that all surround MAHLE Power Pak Plus pistons and that’s all well and good but at the end of the...

RacingJunk Find: This 2007 GMC C5500 Kodiak Monroe Conversion Truck Needs Nothing (But Larger Tires!)

If you are going to tow, you may as well tow in style, right? This is one way to do it and boy are we loving the whole program here. You are looking at a 2007 GMC C5500 Kodiak Monroe Conversion rig...

Morning Symphony: The Saleen S7-R – America’s Original Hypercar

“America’s Original Hypercar”? Really? I’ll stick with that statement. Look, Cobras and Corvettes and radical, winged Chrysler products nonwithstanding, a hypercar has to be...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Should Be Done About Sideshows?

The San Franscisco-Oakland Bay bridge is the last place on Earth I’d want to be ripping donuts in a twenty-year-old Mustang. Nevermind that nice drop to the water below, nevermind the hoards of...

Oldest Trick In The Book: Will Tons Of Banana Peels Spin Out An Audi? Hoonigan Testing Continues!

Be it a comic pratfall, a cartoon cliché or the most annoying thing in Mario Kart since Luigi’s “Waaaaaa…!!!” noise, the joke is the same: you slip on a banana peel and you...

Adding The First Few Miles: Leno Drives A Schuppan 962CR, A Car That Had Nothing On The Clock Until Recently!

It isn’t everyday that I see the shape of a car and I find myself reclining in my chair, looking at the screen, left muttering, “WTF?” to myself. The shape is a combination of early...

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Rough Start: Never Pass On A Properly Lifted Ford Explorer…They’re That Good!

Back in 2009 I had the opportunity to purchase a lifted Ford Explorer that had been passed around some of the guys I worked with in the Army. Forest green and tan, a mild lift kit and 33s, and...

UNFC Championship & Spokane Win To Bobby Cottrell!

(Photos by Annette Barton and Kim Fuller) – The inaugural season of the United Nitro Funny Cars Championship Series presented by Good Vibrations Motorsports is now complete with the fifth and...

Creativity Knows No Bounds: Anyone Want A Mud Truck Made From A Crown Victoria?

Ever since moving to Kentucky at the tail end of 2013, I’ve been quick on the draw with jokes about the state. Some aren’t deserved. Some are just quick jabs, like the Kentucky Fried...

Street Beast: This Volkswagen Corrado Is One Of Many Monster Builds 1320Video Is Checking Out In Germany!

The Volkswagen VR6 is a funky engine. The design is brilliant…it produces a six-cylinder engine that is compact enough to fit where a transverse four-banger once sat, offering up the power...

Watch The Sportsman Final Rounds From The 1978 US Nationals – Some Of The Weirdest Combos Ever!

Monday at Indy is the stuff of legend. It is the end of a long, long road of drag racing. It is the day when people have their hearts broken and their dreams realized. It is a day that I lay awake at...

Rough Start: The Nicest Vega GT We’ve Seen…Ever! Still All Original!

The Chevy Vega is a car whose reputation is solidified and earned. A car that General Motors had envisioned would be the machine they could use to turn the tide against a sea of Volkswagens and...

Unhinged: The Crossovers and SUVs That Want To Be Cars

The end of the car is coming. The sky is falling, too, if you haven’t heard the rampant digital ink screaming from every corner of the Internet over the last few years. It’s true that...

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Project Malibuuhoo: The International-Effort Drag Week Malibu Has Been Getting Updates For 2018!

“I will leave the garage unlocked for you. You’re welcome to back it out for better photos.” That is what Andy Warren texted me as I was driving to his house to check up on Project...