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Dirt Track Racer Charged With Assault After Ramming Other Car In The Pits: On Track Contact Leads To Race Rage Incident and Ban From Racing.

Every racer and fan knows that in the heat of competition emotions and adrenaline run high. We’ve all seen it, when a couple of drivers bump and bang and then it continues off track. But...

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Punish the Pad New Zealand Burnout Competition Video: Destroying Tires, Lighting Fires, and Entertaining The Masses!

Australians get all the credit for big burnout competitions, but their neighbors the Kiwis also know what they are doing when it comes to creating big tire smoke. With huge “Australian...

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Land Speed Racers Chasing Speed at El Mirage: Here Are The 2025 Southern California Timing Association Season Highlights!

While Bonneville gets the most fame and attention, and is the most iconic land speed racing location on earth, the dry lake bed at El Mirage is home to land speed racing and arguably the toughest...

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Why Is Torx So Bad And So Good At The Same Time? Testing Torx Bits And Explaining How They REALLY Work.

Anyone that works on cars and trucks is familiar with Torx fasteners and bits, as are anyone who’s done any DIY, deck, fence, or construction projects in recent years. There are some big...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Custom Fender Flares Built For Punishment! Truly Custom Fabrication.

Shannon is back at the fab work on the FJ40, with the rear bumper done, it’s time for fender flares. But these aren’t just any flares, as they will tie into the bumper out back for...

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Marketplace Find: This Survivor 1985 Chevrolet Suburban 2500 Is Big Block Powered Gold! Big Block, TH400, 3.73, And 68K miles!

Wow what a score this one will be for someone. With less than 70,000 miles on the odometer, and interior and paint that look near mint, this big block 2500 Suburban will make a great family cruiser...

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Funny Car Chaos Photo Coverage: Singleton & Jackson Conquer Funny Car Chaos Season Finale in Texas

(Words by Chris Graves. Photos by Wes Ramsey, Steve Scott, Russell Brown, Paul Fields, Steven & Dallas Wilson, Ken Bennett, Jason Bryant) The fourth and final event of the 2018 Funny Car Chaos...

Drive Angry: Competitive Racing From The Land Of Touring Cars!

If you were to compare racing to fighting styles, drag racing is like a one-on-one boxing match. Two fighters enter, one leaves, and generally, you know how it’s going to work out. The NHRA is...

LIVE Half Mile Racing From New Orleans: 200 MPH Street Cars?

The number of half mile and mile land speed races going on around the country just keeps growing. But seeing this kind of racing live usually requires you to actually go to one of the races in...

A Funkier Mopar Vibe: This 1962 Chrysler 300 Has A Ratty Feel That We Dig!

So long as you aren’t asking for my choices, Mopar fans are set in their ways. They like Cudas and Challengers, Coronet R/Ts and Chargers, Darts, Demons and Dusters. Everything else fits a bill...

Here’s How You Build Your Own Simple Chassis Jig. Build Your Own Chassis At Home!

We’ve been working on our own simple chassis jig to build Cole’s LUV truck on recently, and came up with something simple and easy that should work just fine for what we’re doing....

Hot Take: Kye Kelly Selling All Of His Stuff And John Gaydosh’s Departure From NHRA Pro Stock Are Ironically Linked

(Submitted by Frank Welsh) – Editor’s note: Reader Frank Welsh sent us this well crafted editorial with a look at the recent announcement that Kye Kelly is selling all of his stuff and...

The Grimy Climb: Racing For The Cash On A Muddy Hill In Tennessee

The dry gravel and sand that I encountered at Gravelrama earlier this year might have been tricky to handle, but a hill composed of slimy thin mud, chunky, dusty earth underneath the slime, tree...

Classic YouTube: The Lap 148 Battle During The 2007 Bathurst Race Was One For The Books!

Rain falling on the track in certain areas, many cars on slicks, and everybody wanting to drive the front splitter square up the rear bumper of the guy in front of ’em. It’s Australian...

Rough Start: Will This 1977 Chevrolet Camaro Buff Out Well Enough?

Love makes people do stupid things. I love watermelon, so I plant seeds, till the ground and wind up growing fruit the size of my next-door neighbor’s kid…so much of it, in fact, that I...

Unhinged: Witnessing The Final Farewell Of A Track

The Uber driver dropped me at the gate a few minutes after seven in the morning. I was at least an hour earlier than I needed to be, but for some reason I felt that I had to be there and I...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Do You Still Scour Swap Meets Or Has The Internet Taken Your Parts Dollars?

I’ve often wondered if the guys who have been grizzled swap meet veterans for decades on end have seen some kind of decline in the quality and quantity of stuff at meets now that eBay and...

If You’re Gonna Break Stuff, Break It As Bad As Cleetus Broke The Rearend!

How many times have you found the weak link in your vehicle the good old-fashioned way? Let’s see…I shattered three U-joints in my old four-speed Diplomat, roasted a transmission out of...

Is It Weird That I Want To See A Hot-Rodded 1989 Buick Reatta Now? Daily Driver Or Psychotic Left-Field Choice?

It isn’t everyday that my véhicule du jour choice leaves me wondering if today is finally the day that I’m forced to admit that I’m cracked in the head. But here we are, the 1989...

Gutsy Driving Video: Here Are The Top Five Passes From The 2018 Goodwood Revival

The most exciting move in racing is the pass. The ability to out wit, out muscle, or simply out drive your opponent is an awesome spectacle to watch and it has kept racing fans glued to their seats...