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Big Sky Race Week Video from the BangShift Billy crew. Will Ultra High Temps Cause Trouble For Competitiors?

There has been a lot of weird weather in the last 12 months and it doesn’t seem to be getting any less crazy. With heat waves and storm fronts moving all over the country, you are seeing areas...

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Buckeye Skips 2026 Drag and Drive Photos Continue! Here’s Our First Day 2 Racing Gallery from Darana Dragway 42 in Ohio

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We’ve got Buckeye Skip’s drag and drive photos right here! We already shared photos from Day #1’s checkpoints and racing, but now it is time for Day #2...

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The World’s Largest All Ford Show And Swap Meet! Swap Meet And Car Show Photos From The Carlisle All Ford Nationals In Central Pennsylvania

Here’s our second gallery of photos from Carlisle, but if you missed the previous photos you can find them all at the link below. (Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) The world’s largest...

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More FJ40 Custom Fabrication! This Beast Gets An ECM Install, Branik Links, Custom Cooler Mounts, and A Stereo Install.

When you start making real headway on a project the jobs get smaller and smaller, but no less significant. Shannon and Jess are back at it on the cool FJ40 project and that means many small things...

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This Is The Ultimate Call Out Challenge! We’re Talking 3,000 Horsepower Diesel Trucks Battling It Out For Bragging Rights And More!

The 2026 Ultimate Callout Challenge was epic. The meanest, nastiest, and most no-holds barred diesel trucks in the country  gathered in Indy to do battle on the dyno rollers, on the drag strip, and...

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Video: The West Coast’s Largest All Ford Truck Show – The F100 Western Nationals 2026 Coverage Starts Here

We figured that if we were going to start sharing our Carlisle Ford Nationals photo coverage today, which is the largest all Ford show in the world, we might as well share the largest classic Ford...

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How About A Four Turbo LS Camaro For Fun?! This Car Is Neat And The Kid Is Having Fun!

If the ultimate goal of hot rodding is to have fun and build yourself a fast car, the kid who built this four turbo LS Camaro is winning on all fronts. This footage from 1320Video pretty much proves...

This Bobbed M35a Deuce And A Half Won’t Fit In Your Garage…But It Rules

We LOVE big M35a Deuce and a Half trucks. The 6×6 is a trademark of big truck coolness, but it also is one huge ass truck that is hard to take into a lot of areas because of it’s sheer...

Two Minutes Of Non-Stop Flying Truck Destruction – The Magnum Opus Of Redneck Truck Jumping

A week or three ago, we showed you video of several basically stock trucks making huge leaps at Dennis Anderson’s off-road park. Well, the guys at Busted Knuckle video have outdone themselves...

Roadside Find: A Peculiar Pair Of Prime Pinto Cruising Wagon Examples

(By Greg Rourke) – I’ve been known to drive long distances for dumb things. Being a Foodie there is often a diner or dive bar as the destination. Recently in search of burgers I drove 30...

Want Some Different Heads On Your Small Block Ford? These Gurney Eagle Pieces Will Do The Trick!

If you are building a small block Ford engine and are looking for a way to stand out from the crowd, we think that this incredible set of Gurney Eagle heads may be just the ticket for you. Rare,...

This 1980s USHRA Compilation Will Rocket You Back To Your Childhood

Ok fine, if not all the way back to your childhood, at least about 30 years in the past. So my kids were off from school all last week and we did some fun stuff that I’ll be blogging about here...

Vintage Crash Testing Video: It Is A Darned Good Thing That They Don’t Build ‘Em Like They Used To

Crash testing has been an integral part of automotive design for decades. It was GM who developed their own crash dummies in the 1950s and then continued to advance the technology through today were...

2016 East Coast Indoor Nationals Coverage – Street Freaks, Hot Rods, Muscle, and More!

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – For nearly 30 years the East Coast Indoor Nationals have provided great winter respite for car freaks, racers, and lovers of all things with wheels. The show is held...

Morning Symphony: Watch and Listen To A Pair Of Thundering Pro Nitrous Machines Run Side By Side 3.80s – Crank It Up!

When drag racing fans hear the names Travis Harvey and Shannon Jenkins announced as being on the starting line next to each other, they run to the fence to watch. Why? Jenkins is one of drag...

Ride Along In An AMA Grand National Ice Race – Sideways On Two Wheels!

The Grand National Ice Race in Michigan is one of the American Motorcyclist Association’s stand-alone events that tests rider and rig on the frozen surface of Lake Pontiac. Basic premise: take...

The Best Of World Rally Championship 2016 – These Drivers Are Completely Mental

World Rally Championship competition was as hot and heavy in 2016 as it has ever been. While Ford is the only name that fans of domestic cars would likely recognize in the series, that does not...

Aerospace Components Pro Eliminator and Pro Terminator Shifters – Nail The Gears With Style And Precision Quality

The world of sportsman drag racing is now one of surgical precision. Cars that are so refined and so well built that they can repeat run after run within a couple hundredths of a second or less. Know...

Late-Model Restomod: A 1989 GMC Jimmy With A Vortec 4.2 Inline-Six!

As much as modern engines have improved in the last twenty years, it is kind of surprising that we aren’t seeing more of what we are about to show you: in this case, forum member Tardis454...

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Best of 2016: Vintage 1970 Video From The Merrill Ice Drags Is Great!

We talk a lot about the Merrill Ice Drags which has been a Wisconsin institution since 1965 and that’s because they still personify the spirit of drag racing in its purest form. Maybe it sounds...