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2026 PDRA East Coast Nationals Photos Start Right Here! Big Power, Big Smoke, And A Big Show At GALOT.

(Photos by David Whealon) The PDRA East Coast Nationals at GALOT Motorsports Park were some badass drag races and for good reason. This is one of the coolest dragstrips in the country, and when the...

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12 VOLT ELECTRIC AIR CONDITIONER UPGRADES. Cotten Is Fixing The A/C In His Hemi Monte Carlo!

Last fall we shared video of Cotten installing electric air conditioning in his HEMI powered Monte Carlo, a car that was already polarizing before the A/C install. He liked the electric A/C, and...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Indianapolis 500 Open Testing Is On! Watch It All Live Here! INDYCAR SERIES

We’ve got a few weeks until the start of all the official Indy 500 festivities, including official practice sessions, qualifying, etc, but that doesn’t mean that teams aren’t...

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Manual Cars Shouldn’t Be THIS FAST! 6-Second Stick Shift Drag Racing At Street Car Takeover In Rockingham.

I grew up in a stick shift drag racing family, so anything with a clutch pedal is near and dear to my heart. There is something about a stick shift car that just makes it more fun to drive, and even...

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Check Out The Record Breaking Ford GT Mk IV Lap Around Nürburgring! 6:15 Is The Quickest Internal Combustion Vehicle Ever On Track!

Before anyone starts yelling that there are quicker cars that have been around the Nurburgring, remember that there are only two of them and both of those cars had electric assist as a power adder....

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Buy Your Dream Apartment Condo At Texas Motor Speedway! 2 Bed, 2 Bath, 9th Floor Outside Turn 2 At TMS!

I’ve been fortunate enough to be at a couple of parties in the condos outside turn 2 at Texas Motor Speedway and can tell you that they are pretty cool. I went to a party in one of them where...

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Unhinged: The Keke Challenge?! Quit Dancing In The Streets, You Idiots!

The National Transportation Safety Board has actually had to issue a plea to the general public to not open the door of a moving vehicle, hop out of a moving vehicle, dance like an imbecile, and...

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Rumor Mill: Courier Reborn? Ford Is Looking At A New, Unibody Pickup For The Future

So Ford has quit the car game, minus the Mustang and whatever the Focus Active is supposed to be. Purists weep, gearheads point fingers and make arguments and the public continues to eat up anything...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: If The DMV Clerk Is Sleeping, Can You Smack Them Legally?

July is almost gone? That leads up to August, and the month that we travel the most! We have plans, we have events, we have flying miles to accumulate and at least one of us has a garage full of...

Here’s Why People At The Hot Rod Reunion Love Vintage Cars

Holley’s National Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green Kentucky is one bad ass event and is full of enthusiasts, fans, and families. This video is cool as it follows one of Holley’s many in...

Rough Start: A Neat Little Toyota Truck Hiding A Secret Under That Hood!

Surely you can have some fun for five grand with a bit of Craigslist hunting, right? Of course you can! You might not get the LS6 Chevelle of your dreams, but you can get something that you can drive...

SEND IT! Mega Trucks Earning Their Wings At Maximum Power Park!

If there was ever a legitimate reason for building a Mega Truck, it’s long gone to history as far as we’re concerned…to us they are the middleman between a street-legal lifted beast...

Morning Symphony: The Stick-Shift Class At Street Car Takeover Charlotte!

You know what makes a turd like a 1989 Hyundai decent to drive? A manual transmission. Same goes for a Ford Festiva, a Dodge Ram 50, an early 1990s Beretta, and many other cars we’d love to...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Is There Any Kind Of Racing You Won’t Do?

By and large, I’m more than willing to take on a challenge if it involves racing. I’ve drag raced, road raced, autocrossed, canyon-carved on roads with Wile E. Coyote drops on the side,...

Our Blue Suede Cruise Drag Racing Coverage From Norwalk Continues

(Photos by Martin Libhart)  Thanks to Martin, we’ve got several galleries worth of photos from Norwalk’s Blue Suede Cruise and race event. There were tons of cool gassers and period correct...

Money No Object: It Might Not Be The Street Racer Special, But This 1959 Chevrolet Biscayne Is Still A Hot Ticket!

Last year I found footage of what I believe to be this very car running…and the noise alone it makes is worth it. Could it be a cop car? Who knows. For all anyone knows, there was just a hot...

Classic YouTube: Car And Track’s Review Of The 1969 Avanti II – Of Course A Blown 327 Was Going To Be Fun!

Studebaker had been dead for three years when this Car and Track test took place. The car, an Avanti II, had roots that dated back to 1962 and had been in and out of production…Studebaker...

The Full Kit: A Solid Old Land Rover That Has Everything You’d Ever Need

Land Rover and Jeep have both followed similar paths: war horses turned off-road legends…that somehow morphed into luxo-tanks that people spend stupid money on. Look at vehicles like the Evoque...

A Supercharged 1978 Cadillac Seville! Yes! This Is So Wrong It Might Be Right!

Thank you Rocco for this one!!! When was the last time you saw a centrifugally supercharged 1978 Cadillac Seville, powered by the Olds 350? Yeah, that’s what we thought. We can’t make...

The Swan Song: The Corvette ZR1 Is The Final Form Of The C7 Platform

The ZR1 is the final form of the C7 Corvette. GM admits this freely, though they won’t say squat about what’s coming down the pike. (The tours through Bowling Green Assembly are still a...