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Rocky Mountain Race Week Registration Opens January 16th and January 17th! Get Ready For One Of The Greatest Drag and Drives!

Rocky Mountain Race Week is back for 2026 and we’re excited to be heading to the mountains, crossing the plains, and having one kick ass time at some awesome race tracks. If you want to see...

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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Stage 10 Racing Action! The 2nd Half Of Marathon Stage 2 And The Biggest Dunes YET!

Super soft sand and the biggest dunes of the race, all after spending the night in the middle of the desert in tents and working on their own rides, means Stage 10 is going to be a tough one. Speed...

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What Happens When You Take A Couple Of F1 Drivers And Tell Them They Have To Race 100 Years Of Ford Cars?

If you are used to driving modern Formula 1 cars, and someone throws you into a Model T Ford, you are probably scratching your head and wondering who thought to design things so backwards compared to...

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The LIWA Festival 2026 Hillclimb Was Epic As Always! The Rooster Tails, Stunts, And Carnage Start Right Here!

Well, it’s that time of year where the LIWA Hillclimbs are happening. This is some really fun stuff, where folks come from all over to race up an epic dune in Dubai. Located not far from the Liwa...

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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 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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Big Wheels, Big Power, Big Body: A Look Back At The “Kut Da Check” Chevrolet Caprice

Building a monster out of a 1977-90 Chevrolet Caprice isn’t anything new. It seems like it, but it isn’t. Lohnes has had Buford T. Justice for six years now, and those in the know have...

Wanna Buy A SEMA Truck? This 2017 6×6 SEMA Jeep Truck Thing Is For Sale

As we have often told you, SEMA vehicles lead weird lives. They are often built in an insane thrash, then they are lionized at the show in Las Vegas and often, like this one, they are sold to the...

Rough Start: A Clean-Bodied Malibu Is Getting Hard To Come By…

If there is one high point of vehicles made at the turn of the 1980s, it was that manufacturers were forced to learn how to package together light and lean versions of vehicles in an effort to make...

Stevie Fast Video Autobiography Part 2: Jackson Tells Of His Trials and Tribulations In The Early 2000s

We’re back with part two of the Stevie Fast video autobiography and this one covers the years of 2001 through 2010. This time period was when Jackson really started to feel his oats and grow in...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Can You Tolerate The Idea Of A Ford “Mach 1” Performance EV SUV?

One of the major announcements from Ford, aside from the new Bullitt Mustang (which we totally approve of), the unveiling of the “lost” original GT390 Mustang used in the actual movie,...

Olcott Beach Car Show Photo Coverage: Our First Look At The New York Event

(Photos by Mike Brooks) –  Ahh, a costal setting, cool cars, sunlight, and likely a breeze. This looks like a dream world at the moment as compared to the frozen hell of our Eastern World HQ...

Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale 2018 Is On And We’ll Be Here All Week: Here Are Our First TWO Galleries Of Photos

If you haven’t been to Barrett-Jackson in Scottsdale during Auction Week you are missing out on one hell of a cool spectacle. And when I say spectacle, I mean it. This is part car show, part...

Unveiled: 2019 Ram – An All-New Truck To Compete In The Heated Marketplace!

Ram, like Dodge before the split, refreshens trucks on a glacial scale. The current generation has been on sale since 2009, and while that isn’t nearly as long as the D/W-series’...

My Kinda of Dually: This 2003 Chevrolet Is A Duramax Powered, Single Cab, Stick Shifted, Unicorn Of A Truck

Dualie trucks have been all the rage around here recently with Chad having scored a vintage 1980s big block crew cab version for himself and both McTaggart and I scouring the internet for other cool...

This Preview Video For The 1935 All-American Soap Box Derby Is Awesome!

This preview video for the 1935 All-American Soap Box Derby is really fun to watch an it gives us a look back at the wide open nature of an event at its beginnings. The first ever All-American Soap...

It Means “Summer”: This 1973 Chevrolet Veraneio Is A South American Rarity!

That doesn’t look like any 1973 Chevrolet you’ve ever seen roaming the streets in the States, does it? Not in the least. There are hints to it’s GM origins…the taillights look...

Cythiana Rod Run Photo Coverage: Trucks, Trucks, and (Mostly) Only Trucks!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) –  Trucks big and small.  Trucks wide and tall.  Trucks old and new.  Trucks for me and you.  I used to teach 2 and 3yr-olds Sunday School.  Some of...

Unveiled: 2019 Ford Ranger – The Midsize Ford Is Back And Better Than It Ever Was!

The Ford Ranger pickup truck had a strong production run in it’s 29-year history. They were small, efficient, and birthed one of the most noteworthy vehicles of the last thirty years in the...

Rally At The Ridge Photo Coverage Part 2: From the Bluesmobiles To Pro Street This Show Ruled

(Photos by Mike Brooks) – We’re back with another photo coverage installment of the Rally at The Ride show as shot by Mike Brooks. We told you the other day that we lost the handle on...