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2026 PDRA East Coast Nationals Photos Start Right Here! Big Power, Big Smoke, And A Big Show At GALOT.

(Photos by David Whealon) The PDRA East Coast Nationals at GALOT Motorsports Park were some badass drag races and for good reason. This is one of the coolest dragstrips in the country, and when the...

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12 VOLT ELECTRIC AIR CONDITIONER UPGRADES. Cotten Is Fixing The A/C In His Hemi Monte Carlo!

Last fall we shared video of Cotten installing electric air conditioning in his HEMI powered Monte Carlo, a car that was already polarizing before the A/C install. He liked the electric A/C, and...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Indianapolis 500 Open Testing Is On! Watch It All Live Here! INDYCAR SERIES

We’ve got a few weeks until the start of all the official Indy 500 festivities, including official practice sessions, qualifying, etc, but that doesn’t mean that teams aren’t...

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Manual Cars Shouldn’t Be THIS FAST! 6-Second Stick Shift Drag Racing At Street Car Takeover In Rockingham.

I grew up in a stick shift drag racing family, so anything with a clutch pedal is near and dear to my heart. There is something about a stick shift car that just makes it more fun to drive, and even...

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Check Out The Record Breaking Ford GT Mk IV Lap Around Nürburgring! 6:15 Is The Quickest Internal Combustion Vehicle Ever On Track!

Before anyone starts yelling that there are quicker cars that have been around the Nurburgring, remember that there are only two of them and both of those cars had electric assist as a power adder....

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Buy Your Dream Apartment Condo At Texas Motor Speedway! 2 Bed, 2 Bath, 9th Floor Outside Turn 2 At TMS!

I’ve been fortunate enough to be at a couple of parties in the condos outside turn 2 at Texas Motor Speedway and can tell you that they are pretty cool. I went to a party in one of them where...

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More Coverage From The 2016 Redneck Rumble! Rods, Rats, And Rumbling Eights Aplenty!

There is nothing like hearing an Oldsmobile engine with a huge cam prowling at near-idle, with the occasional blip of the throttle (and resulting bark of protest from the tires) to break up the quiet...

Stop Guessing: Racepak Continues With Their Series Talking About Data Loggers – Watch Here

Here’s a trio of videos that could change the way you go racing. Why? Racepak has embarked on a comprehensive series of videos that start at ground level and explain what data loggers do, how...

BangShift Goes Racing! Transforming A Cheap Street Car Into A 24 Hours of Lemons Racer!

Welcome to Bangshift Goes Racing! This is a multi-part series that gives a look into choosing, building, and racing a car on the cheap. Here, you’ll see the misadventures of my friends and I as we...

Check This Thing Out: The Nocturnal Motorworks Coyote! Nissan Power, 1,001 Pounds, And Tail-Happy!

We could tell you who we could blame for the recent run of tube-frame, engine-seats-rollbar cars that have started popping up like weeds around the country, but the story of the Vette-Kart is on...

What Would It Look Like If Ford Built A No-Rules Test Mule? Jay Leno Takes A Look At Steve Strope’s 1967 Ford Fairlane!

In the mid-1960s, Ford and Chrysler were at war, period. GM might have been working the field too, but on the banked NASCAR tracks and on the NHRA drags trips, the Blue Oval boys and the gang from...

Top Fuel With Doors? Scott Palmer Is Going To Give It A Shot At Sikeston! Video of Nitro With Doors!

NHRA top fuel racer, top fuel hyrdroplane racer, and all around bad ass Scott Palmer will be bringing a very unique brand of nitro racing to Jeffers Motorsports Park when he’ll make test hits...

Unhinged: The Most Exotic Thing I’ve Ever Spun A Wrench On, A Lancia Scorpion

(Lead photo: Hemmings) It’s safe to say that most “exotic” cars are safely kept away from me in some form or another. I’ll probably never own a Lamborghini or a Ferrari, let...

Curb Feeler: Watch This Camaro Climb A Curb And Mow The Grass At Speed – Yikes!

It is not very often we talk about a drag car getting off into the weeds during a run anymore but that’s because drag strips have all but eliminated that possibility. There was a time way back...

eBay Find: This 1964 Mercury Park Lane Is Cool But The Four Speed And SOHC Make It The Coolest!

While loads of people really geek for the 1964-1972 era muscle cars that really defined the era, I am more enamored with the 1964 and down stuff going down into the late 1950s. There were some really...

Air Muscle: Watch a classic helicopter do some low-margin heavy lifting among the high-rises of downtown Chicago

During a recent weekend trip in Chicago, I heard the tell-tale drumbeat of helicopter rotors early on a Saturday morning. It was not entirely out of the ordinary, though, since helicopters fly tours...

Major Imapct Video: Touring car piledrives track barriers after a tire failure at Spa

In just his third weekend racing in the TCR International Series, Attila Tassi—who has an excellent racing name, we might add—found out the hard way the problems that a front-tire puncture can...

Highway Creepers Car Show 2016: Our Last Blast Of Edsels, Rat Rods, and Muscle!

(Photos by Scott Liggett) – We have to thank our pal and OG BangShifter Scott Liggett for his awesome torrent of photos from the 2016 Highway Creepers Car Show that was held in Nebraska...

Event Gallery: More Old-School Cool From The 2016 Redneck Rumble!

The demolition derby might have been cancelled, but with all of the rides to see at the 2016 Redneck Rumble, it really wasn’t missed by a first-timer. Rows upon rows of some of the most...

The Gas Hopper! This 1961 Falcon Ranchero Gasser Is Completely Awesome And For Sale!

Oh wow. That’s exactly what we said when we first saw this hunk of magical goodness on the pages of eBay. What you are looking at is a 1961 Falcon gasser that is called the Gas Hopper. The car...