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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 To Mount And Balance Your Own Tires At Home! Part 2: Manual Tire Changer And Balancer How-To Right Here!

Here’s Part 2 of the changing tires at home series and you are going to want to watch the videos below. If you missed Part 1, we have a link below so you can see more about this manual machine,...

Is A Solar Generator Right For You? Should You Have Bought A Solar Generator Years Ago?

Have you seen these Solar Generators lately and wondered if they were worth having? They are a battery pack, available in multiple sizes, with an inverter built into them so that you can run both 12v...

OPTIMA’s Ultimate Street Car Invitational Las Vegas: More Photos! Here’s How The Race Results And Season Points Shook Out

Here’s our second gallery of photos from the Ultimate Street Car Invitational in Vegas! (Words by Jim McIlvaine, Photos by Kaleb Kelley) OPTIMA ran their Ultimate Street Car Invitational...

Sexxy Red: The ’63 Chevy Impala That Ate SEMA 2024. Love It, Hate It, Or Both. The Most Talked About Car Of The 2024 SEMA Show?

Sexxy Red. It’s amazing how one 1963 Impala lowrider could make such a splash, especially when you consider that it was parked outside next to a huge selection of brodozers and a handful of...

Camaro, Chevelle, And El Camino Enthusiasts Rejoice! Classic Muscle Parts Has Holiday Deals And Free Shipping Specials!

I love the holiday season, because no matter what week it is there are specials and sales going on that entice me to stock up for the build season. Our friends at Classic Muscle Parts are growing...

Maple Grove’s Dutch Classic Was Off The Hook, And We’ve Got The Drag Racing Photos To Prove It! Wheels Up Action From The Last National Open Of The Season.

Check out the sixth gallery of Dutch Classic drag racing photos right here and if you missed the first one you can use the link below to see them as well. And as always, if you click on a photo it...

Truck Feature: Project Lockjaw – Big Tire Garage’s M715 Custom Rock Crawler

At the 2024 SEMA Show in Las Vegas, the number of Bro Dozer style trucks in attendance was insane. This show truck trend has been around for the past few years, and because I’m a you do you...

TURBO LS PORTED HEAD TEST. HOW MUCH ARE PORTED HEADS WORTH ON AN LS3, 408 STROKER OR TURBO 4.8L?

Richard’s latest series is all about what a particular bolt on can be worth on your LS engine build. It started off with a video on oversize throttle bodies, then went to intake manifolds, and...

This Old Hot Rod Traditional Style Drag Car Project Part 7: The Vintage Dragster Gets A Mid-Plate And Comes Off The Chassis Table!

It’s about to get exciting!!! In this video update on the Vintage Dragster project, it gets a mid-plate and then comes off the chassis table to sit on the ground for the first time! Plus the...

Vintage USA vs New China: Which Sledgehammer Will Survive A Giant Hydraulic Press!

Everyone is always going on about how Chinese products are junk when compared to American, and especially when compared to good “old” American products. The phrase, “They...

Freiburger’s Job Is Over! Here’s How He Got Started, Some Advice For Newbies, And A Reminder That He’s Not Dead Yet

I feel like all the doom and gloom that has come around over the last week or so, following the news that Motortrend was no longer going to produce the shows we all know and love, makes it sound like...

The CarCapsule Folks Have Come Out With The PaintProStation Professional-Grade Mobile Inflatable Paint Station!

Over the past couple of years we’ve seen all kinds of inflatable paint booths come to market, but most of the ones that I have seen have been aimed at the DIY crowd and don’t look all...

When You Take 16 Chainsaws, Build A V16 Out Of Them, And Swap Them Into A Lada, What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

If you don’t follow the Garage 54 crew on YouTube, then you are missing out on a level of crazy you just can’t understand. These guys are in Russia and certainly know how to have fun...

OPTIMA’s Ultimate Street Car Invitational Las Vegas: Who Wins And Why? Here’s How The Race Results And Season Points Shook Out

(Words by Jim McIlvaine, Photos by Kaleb Kelley) OPTIMA ran their Ultimate Street Car Invitational (OUSCI) at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas for the 17th time and Bob Sobey’s 2013 Nissan GT-R emerged...