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Lone Star Throwdown 2026 Photo Coverage Continues Right Here! We’ve Got Hundreds More Awesome Truck Show Photos For You!

(Words and Photos by Chad Reynolds) I hit the Lone Star Throwdown in Conroe Texas this weekend and as usual was blown away by the turnout of great trucks. When I arrived at the just after it opened,...

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Why Are There So Many Coolant Colors? How did it get to THIS? Green Is Not The Only Color Anymore!

Why the heck are there so many colors of engine coolant nowadays? I mean was there really a problem with green? And if the colors matter so much, why can you buy coolant that will work with any of...

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Lone Star Throwdown 2026 Photo Coverage Starts Right Here! We’ve Got Hundreds Of Awesome Truck Show Photos For You To Check Out Right Here!

(Words and Photos by Chad Reynolds) I hit the Lone Star Throwdown in Conroe Texas this weekend and as usual was blown away by the turnout of great trucks. When I arrived at the just after it opened,...

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FREE LIVE NHRA Divisional Racing Action: Division 7 Lucas Oil Drag Racing At Firebird Raceway – Sunday

Free live drag racing starts here and continues all weekend long from the NHRA Regional at Firebird Raceway in Arizona. We’re talking all kinds of Sportsman Drag racing which means wheels up Stock...

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Have You Considered Getting One Of Those Harbor Freight Overhead Gantrys For Your Shop? Watch This.

I can’t remember the last time I was in a Harbor Freight and didn’t look at the gantry cranes longingly. Sure, I cherry picker is a great thing that we all need in the shop, but man these...

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2026 SCCA Hoosier Super Tour LIVESTREAM From Buttonwillow Raceway Park- Sunday Coverage LIVE, Saturday Replay

It’s time for the 9-race Hoosier Super Tour to start and that means racing at Buttonwillow Raceway Park in central California. There is a lot of qualifying and racing both today and tomorrow,...

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Good Jams and Cool Hot Rod – Lords of Nitromethane Short Film

This is a fun short film to show you on a Friday. Made by the Lord of Nitromethane which appear to be out of Germany it captures cruising, horsing around, and wrenching with on a cool and pretty...

Watch Peter Xiberras’ Top Fuel Crash At Sydney Dragway – Lots Of Fire!

Peter Xiberras’ second-round run at the Santo’s Summer Thunder event at Sydney Dragway was certainly less than desirable. Shortly after launch the bullet in Xiberras’ Top Fuel...

Watch Daddy Dave Comstock Reach For The Sky At Lights Out 8!

(Video by Johnny Lee Roberts – RaceBarn Motorsports YouTube Channel) – This place is packed to the gills with the best radial cars and door slammers in the world. This place being South...

Hot Ride: Go Onboard For A Few Laps Around Phoenix International Raceway Onboard JR Hildebrand’s IndyCar!

Is it a good or bad sign when the GoPro gets tunnel vision? We don’t normally pay all that much attention to IndyCar, and when we do, it’s usually for the wrong reasons altogether. But...

Funny Cars! Here’s A Collection of Nitro Funny Car Photos From The 2017 NHRA Circle K Winternationals

(Photos by Wes Allison) – We’ll be back with more sportsman racing photos tomorrow from the 2017 NHRA Circle K Winternationals but today we’re burning some nitro! Here’s a...

Challenger Demon Video: This Week Features A Wrinkled Drag Radial And Torque!

This week’s Challenger Demon video is a quick one at only :15 seconds. It is called “Multiplication” and it features the Nitto drag radial tires that the car will be equipped with...

Rough Start: Can An Attitude Adjustment Make A Cheap 1996 Ford Thunderbird Worthwhile?

Lohnes’ hatred of pretty much any Ford Thunderbird that isn’t a two-seater with fins is legendary around here. He’d like to see every last one driven off of a cliff, lemming-style,...

BangShift What’s In The Shop Series: We Visit The Legendary Roadster Shop

(Words and photos by Bob Chiluk) – With the BangShift Windy City in the grips of middle winter and outdoor car stuff non existant,we venture out in search for more of our “What’s...

Classic YouTube: Pushing A Jeep Grand Cherokee Too Far In A Tough Truck Competition

Ford had Eddie Bauer and Jeep had Orvis. The moss-green color of this ZJ-era Grand Cherokee is a giveaway that this was one of the Orvis Edition Jeeps, which was basically a unique paint job, an...

BangShift Project Files: A Denali, A C3 Corvette, And A Second Chance At Building A Hot Stingray!

BangShift forum member SuperBuickGuy is one of those people who always has a ton of projects going on in his shop. The man swings from build to build like George of the Jungle swings from vine to...

2017 NHRA Circle K Winternationals Action: Top Sportsman and Top Dragster

(Photos by Wes Allison) – Top Dragster and Top Sportsman racing were featuring at the NHRA Circle K Winternationals for the first time in 2017. These two classes became part of the NHRA...

Question Of The Day: What’s The Worst You’ve Mangled Yourself While Wrenching?

What a freaking day it’s been. Today has been my first attempt at spinning wrenches in honest effort on the rollover Explorer that was drug home as an engine donor for the Great Pumpkin...

Make Way! This Seattle Street Turned Into A Life-Sized Slip and Slide Disaster

Winter is here folks, and about three quarters of the country will likely have to deal with snow and ice at some point over the next few months. What’s that you say? You have anti lock brakes,...

Just Peachy: This 1982 Chevrolet Camaro Pro Street Build Could Be A Budget-Friendly Way To A 1990s Time Machine

This 1982 Chevrolet Camaro could’ve been just about any cover car from any magazine I was reading in grade school. It fits the bill in every possible form for a Pro Street build, and more so...