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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Spring Fling Galot $50,000 Friday Is LIVE Right Here!

The Spring Fling at GALOT is LIVE right now with big money bracket racing! If you want to see great drag racing action from one of the nicest dragstrips in the country, then you need to watch the...

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Our Mud And Dirt Racing Photos Continue: The Lee County Darryl Jones Memorial Race Was Full Of Great Mud Slinging Action!

(Words and Photos by David Whealon) With the unfortunate passing from a courageous battle with cancer back in 2021 of famed and beloved mud racer Darryl Jones, pilot of the legendary “Scooby Doo”...

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Make It Kustom, HalfAss Kustoms Cab Over Ramp Truck Build! The 1971 GMC Fire Truck Ramp Truck Is Getting A Custom Build DIY Rear Swaybar

In this video from the Fire Truck turned Ramp Truck, where Make It Kustom and HalfAss Kustoms have gotten together to thrash on Karl’s Make It Kustom rig, you’ll see the rear suspension get some...

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MiniTruckin Nationals Photos From Maggie Valley North Carolina – Old School, New School, Mini’s And More!

I didn’t make it out to the 2024 Mini Truckin Nationals in Maggie Valley, but boy I can’t wait for next year. That’s because our friend Damon Steinke from E3Extreme hit the show and...

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Mud And Dirt Racing Photos: The Lee County Darryl Jones Memorial Race Was Epic And We’ve Got The Photos!

(Words and Photos by David Whealon) With the unfortunate passing from a courageous battle with cancer back in 2021 of famed and beloved mud racer Darryl Jones, pilot of the legendary “Scooby Doo”...

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BIG TIRES & BLOWERS – The Hot Rod Hoarder Hits Up The Spring Pigeon Forge Rod Run 2024 And Man There Were Cool Cars On Parade.

Pigeon Forge is a tourist destination, and home to several awesome car and truck events, in the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee. It’s a cool town full of restaurants, shops, hotels, Dollywood,...

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Watch The Congressional Hearing About The Proposed EPA Regulations And The RPM Bill That Fights Them

This is certainly the first time and we’re kind of hoping it will be the last when we post a video link to a congressional hearing around here but it is also the first time we have been engaged...

Old School 1949 Fiat Bodied Altered For Sale! Steel Body, History, Magnesium Wheels, Love

No form of motorsports in America benefitted more from the weird, sometimes foreign, cheap little cars that ended up in junkyards across the country during the 1950s and 1960s. From Willys coupes to...

What The Hell, Man!? Video From IndyCar Wild Season Opener In St. Petersburg, Forida

(By Eric Rood) – IndyCar season is underway and the season-opener on the streets of St. Petersburg proved an affirmation that races on temporary street circuits bring out some weird...

New FAST FireWire Spark Plug Wires – 8.5mm Of Spark Passing Fury!

Spark plug wires are among those parts of your hot rod that deserve more attention than they get. Most guys think that so long the spark is not arcing out of them and so long as they are not severed...

Sinking Like The Titanic: Watch As This Bounty Hole Swallows Up Huge Trucks For Fun!

It’s amazing just how far people will go for money and bragging rights…often, there is no stopping them until they hit the bottom. For a bounty mud hole, that is meant both literally and...

Rough Start: Going Dirt Cheap With A 5.0-Powered 1991 Ford Thunderbird!

Lohnes hates them, but I love ’em. The MN-12 era Ford Thunderbirds and Mercury Cougars are dirt-cheap platforms that have quite a bit going for them: they are roomier than a comparable Mustang,...

Ride Onboard A Legends Car As It Tracks Around Las Vegas Motor Speedway!

Legends racers are neat little screamers. What doesn’t sound fun about running a 5/8ths scale 1930s or 1940s car powered by a Yamaha bike engine running around a road course? Far as we are...

Craigslist Find: This 1950s Sand Rail For Sale In Texas Is The Grand Daddy Of Today’s 1,000hp Missiles

We have run a bunch of videos featuring modern “sand cars” that have massively powerful engines, can run across the dunes at like 150mph, and pull wheelies at an annoyingly frequent clip....

Jay Leno Checks Out Sung Kang’s “FuguZ” Datsun 240Z – This Skyline-Powered Beauty Is Worth Your Time, Trust Us!

It is easy to dismiss Sung Kang’s 1973 Datsun 240Z. It’s a Datsun with a Rocket Bunny body kit. It’s an import. It’s Sung Kang’s car…you know, Han from the...

Sweptline Goodness: This 1967 Dodge D200 Camper Special Has California Patina And A Heart Transplant

I was looking for old trucks on eBay the other day because I had 10 minutes and I didn’t want to do something actually productive. I saw lots of awesome stuff. Trucks with great paint, cool...

Craigslist Find: This 1973 Dodge Charger Is Packing A V-10 And Attitude For Days

Thank you, Joe Haber, for thinking of me when you sent the link to this 1973 Dodge Charger in all of it’s monochromatic black glory. Joe knows that I have a weakness for cars that look like...

Maximim Mini! Ride Along As This Vintage Mini Runs 156mph With A Crazily Hot Rodded Sub One Liter Engine At Bonneville

(By Eric Rood) – We’ve missed Bonneville the last couple years with the well-publicized problems of salt and poor weather, but suffice to say that if we can manage to squeeze in Speed Week...

Rough Start: Begin Your Own Anti-LS Campaign With This 460-powered Ford Fairmont Wagon!

So you are sick and tired of the “Ford Tough With Chevy Stuff” stickers? Hate the fact that we have Blue Oval products in a lot of the pictures from LS Fest? Have avoided YouTube videos...

Make Your Garage Great Again: This Ad For A 1982 Pontiac Trans Am Is The Best Craigslist Listing Ever

Our own Eric Rood passed this one up the chain and when I read it I knew that every BangShifter worth his or her salt would love it. Taking into account the current political scene in this country,...