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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling Million! Big Money Bracket Races From Las Vegas – $30,000 Saturday!

It’s time to finish off the Spring Fling Million in Las Vegas, after one heck of a Million Dollar Friday!!!! It’s that time of year folks, when the country’s big dollar bracket racers head...

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WATCH FREE LIVE Streaming Drag Racing From Santa Pod RIGHT HERE! The Festival Of Power Is ON This Weekend!

This weekend at the famed Santa Pod Raceway in England, there’s a big drag race called the Festival of Power going on, and all the action is LIVE right here! This event is a pre-cursor to the...

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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling Million Dollar Main Event! Big Money Bracket Races From Las Vegas – Million Dollar Friday!

It’s Million Dollar Friday!!!! It’s that time of year folks, when the countries big dollar bracket racers head to Vegas for one of the biggest big-money bracket races in the world, the Spring...

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$43,000 to Win!!! Cleetus’ AWD vs RWD Shootout At Bradenton Motorsports Park was INTENSE, Fun, And Surprising! Who Took It All?

When Cleetus first put up the challenge to pit the best two wheel drive no prep rides up against the best all wheel drive no prep rides, the world lost its mind. The arguing, smack talk, bragging,...

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Stories N’ Steel: Rick Lefever – From a small town to becoming one of the countries most sought after fabricators.

Our friend Brad King, an amazing pinstriper and letterer, is back with another Stories N’ Steel episode where he is interviewing another legend of the hot rodding world. This time it’s...

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ROAD TRIP GOLD with David Freiburger and an AMAZING SURVIVOR 1961 Plymouth Belvedere

Man these cars are something. Ugly? Kinda. Weird? Absolutely. 100% Mopar? You ain’t kidding. There is something about the 1950s to mid 1960s Mopars that makes them really stand out. Styling...

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This Seven-Year-Old Can Wheel A Turbocharged RZR Up A Slick Hillclimb Just Fine!

I watch the rock bouncers and hill climbers with admiration. To some, it might appear that the only reason these guys go out and hit some of the most wicked locations in the country is simply to...

Cruise Coverage: Filling The Streets Of Paris, Kentucky With Everything From Muscle To Fire Trucks!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Little history.  Kentucky was once part of the commonwealth of Virginia.  One of the counties was ‘Bourbon’ county which encompassed nearly the...

This 1968 Mustang Is Pro Touring Cool, With A Nod Toward California Special Greatness

According to the seller this car is a real J-code 1968 Mustang, but it doesn’t say whether it really came as a California Special or not. We like California Specials, and my favorite body style...

Question Of The Day: Have You Started To Plan Out Your Winter Projects Yet?

Can someone please explain to me when, exactly, September 1st became Pumpkin Spice Everything Day? The wife and I just did our grocery shopping and we weren’t just assaulted with everything...

Rough Start: This 1972 Ford F-100 Needs…Nothing More Than A New Home!

Ok, the Rough Start schtick is pretty much set in stone: find something on Craigslist that might be BangShift-worthy…sometimes not…and proceed to explain in so many words just how far you...

2016 Woodward Dream Cruise: Our Final Gallery From The World’s Largest One-Day Auto Event!

I saw one part of Woodward Avenue: the intersection of Woodward and Orchard Park in Pontiac, just north of the Amtrak station. That’s it. I did not see Detroit. I did not see the eight-lane...

This 1985 Bitter SC 3.9L Needs To Be Built, But How Would You Do It?

Bitter Cars. Doesn’t sound much like a manufacturer, sounds more like a punchline to a joke long forgotten. But Erich Bitter Automobil GmbH exists (more or less) and really, isn’t so much...

No Cheese With This Whine: The Blower On This Top Diesel Engine Sounds Extra Nasty

Not all superchargers are created equal and when you’ve got your blower sitting atop a diesel drag-racing engine, you really ought to make sure that it sounds capable of reversing the earth’s...

Dare To Be Different In The Dirt: Check Out This Mud Dragging Bradley GT!

Between the mid-1960s and the point in the late 1970s when the drugs ran out, there were a ton of kit cars made, most of which seemed adapted to giving the Volkswagen Beetle a look that didn’t...

Hate it or Louvre It: This 1978 Dodge Aspen Super Coupe Checks All the Malaise Era Boxes

The life of Chrysler’s F-Body was short-lived. With emissions and fuel consumption pressures changing the nature of the auto industry in the mid-to-late 1970s, Chrysler downsized from the...

Money No Object: This 1983 Ford Ranger Prerunner Only Exists To Have A Blast In!

A prerunner truck…a true pre runner, not some hacked-up truck with fiberglass panels…only serves two purposes: it’s a riot of a four-wheeled toy and, as far as I’m concerned...

Check Out This Huge Compilation of V8 Supercars Incidents From the Series’ Endurance Races

Australia’s Virgin (formerly V8) Supercars Championship is just about to head into its annual three-race Pirtek Endurance Cup, a trio of races that tests the patience of not just the regular...

Watch Donovan Stott Make The Drag Racing Save Of The Year In His White Trash Gasser!

When it comes to popular drag racing stuff these days, the Southeast Gassers are among the top draws in the country. The group founded by Quain Stott and stacked up with awesome period correct...

We Can’t Get Enough Of The Twin-Turbo Allison V12 In This Hydroplane

While the majority of the hydroplanes in H1 Unlimited have installed helicopter turbines to propel their boats more than 200 mph, a few hold-outs have hung onto piston engines. Go 3 Racing from...