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LIVE Big Money Bracket Racing: The West Coast Bracket Races Southwest Showdown Is LIVE Right Here All Weekend Long!

It’s that time of year again, when racers from the western states and beyond show up at Tucson Dragway for what has become the premier event of the West Coast Bracket Races series. The Southwest...

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Toronto Motorama Car Show Photos: Hot Rods, Customs, Muscle Cars, Race Cars, And More! Doing It Up Canada Style!

(Photos by Mike Brooks)  Continuing with his Toronto Motorama traditions, Mike Brooks has visited the great white north for the Toronto Motorama again this year. We’re used to seeing Brooks...

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Ultimate Street Car Season Begins With Racing In Texas! Here’s Why Running Early In The Season Matters For Championship Pursuits

(Words by Jim McIlvaine, Photos by Kaleb Kelley) The 2026 season of OPTIMA’s Ultimate Street Car series officially kicked off at G2 Motorsports Park in Anna, Texas. When the grid lined up, the...

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Our 2026 NHRA GatorNationals Action Photos Just Keep Coming: Funny Cars, Top Fuel, Sportsman Door Cars, Pro Mods, Pro Stock Bikes And More!

We’ve shared a few galleries of photos from David Whealon already but now we’re getting into some of the photos from Richard Pasley too. Check them all out below by using the link to all...

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Drill Taps: Are These Self Tapping Drill Bits The Tool You’ve Been Missing? Are These More Useful Than Any Other Drill Bits?

I’m a big fan of a good drill bit, like anyone else who’s having to drill holes. But there are some serious differences in bits, regardless of the price. With all the different coatings,...

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Vice Grip Garage Interior Rehab: Derek and His Wife Jess Restored Their Darts Interior On A BUDGET! Here’s How

Just because the parts are available doesn’t mean that doing an interior restoration on your favorite project is going to be cheap. With lots of options, from “custom” bolt in...

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Tiny Car Times Huge Blower Plus LS Power Divided By Australia Equals Tire Smoke

Modern day top fuel cars do burnouts like a prepubescent boy in mom’s hatchback when compared to what the crazy bastards in Australia will do. And no car is safe from becoming a burnout king...

The Snowblind 1967 Camaro Is Pro Touring Greatness You Can Buy

The first time we saw the Snowblind 1967 Camaro, which was built by the gang over at East Bay Muscle Cars, we were impressed as hell. There isn’t anything untouched on this car, and some...

This 1984 AMC Eagle Deserves To Be Built Into An Off-Roading Badass – It’s Fought A Bear, How Much More Do You Want?

It proceeded the sport-utility vehicle, crossover, and the soft-roader by decades. It was rolling proof that American Motors could take a shoestring budget and stretch it to the ultimate, yet still...

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This 1949 GMC 3100 Is Laid Out Patina’d Perfection

I can’t tell whether it’s the patina, the stance, the artillery wheels, or the combination of all three, but what I can tell is that this truck is a bad ass. On the ground thanks to...

Not The Fastest, But The Wildest: Watching The Trapnell’s Monaro Is Unforgettable!

It doesn’t matter if you saw this Holden Monaro sitting still, blazing the tires off or launching off of the line in it’s infamous and iconic style…you’ll know that this is...

It’s Over: Elite Motorsports and Mopar Part Ways – Enders and Coughlin Expected To Be In Chevrolets

After two seasons of pro stock championship efforts, Elite Motorsports ventured into unfamiliar territory in 2016 and the results were not what they or their corporate partner Mopar wanted....

One Of The Coolest Jeep CJ-5 Renegades We’ve Seen Is Up For Sale! You Have To See This Thing!

A couple of years back, Jeep brought back the legendary nameplate Renegade to their lineup as an entry level vehicle to open the door to all things Jeep to a new generation of buyers. Many die hard...

One of Craig Breedlove’s Rocket Cars is Up for Sale on eBay

I won’t pretend to know much about this car, but most of you will know who Craig Breedlove is. One of the pioneers of rocket-powered cars in land-speed racing, Breedlove and his first pair of...

The Monaro From Hell: Watch As The FEAR Holden Monaro Turns Into A Sociopathic Flamethrower At Burnout Boss!

For many people, watching an Australian burnout contest elicits some rather disdainful thoughts: the waste of a perfectly good car, perfectly good tires, and perfectly good fuel all for what amounts...

Watching This 1980 AMC Eagle Play In The Snow Is The BangShift Way Of Reminding You Winter Is Almost Here!

It’s official: any vestige of summer is long gone. The leaves are coming down like rain around BangShift Mid-West, the weather has taken a turn for the cooler, the sunset can be seen at a...

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Big Mover: This 1978 Ford LTD II Is Encouraging Us In Bad Ways…

It’s a strange phenomenon: Whenever I see slot mags on a mid-1970s Ford, the inner stunt driver starts going psychotic. And what’s even stranger is that voice of reason, the one that...

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The Final Thrash: Time-Lapse Videos Of The Finishing Touches Of Finnegan’s Drag Boat!

Every year, when it’s getting close to the first week in November, you’ll start to hear a lot of talk about “the SEMA crunch”. What it means is that for the past year or so, a...

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Never Meet Your Heroes: Regular Car Reviews Gets To Drive The “Defiance” Dodge Charger!

The only reason I know of the video game “Defiance” or the television show that followed is this one car. It looks exactly as it’s supposed to: a post-apocalyptic monster of a...

Begging To Be Romped On: This Five-Speed, 5.4-Swapped Ford Crown Victoria Is The Barge Of Our Dreams!

The Ford Panther platform has been dead for five years now, and most people only acknowledge it’s loss when they realized that they needed to start memorizing another set of headlights to...