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FREE LIVE DRAG AND DRIVE COVERAGE! Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Starts Today And Will Hit The Mountains Once Again!!

It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and we’ll be live each race day afternoon and into the night so you can follow all the great racing action. We’ll start LIVE at SRCA Dragstrip...

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Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Two Video | Great Bend, KS to Kearney, NE | Kearney Raceway Park

Here’s the Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Two video and boy is it a fun one. We’re talking on the road, on the track and more! It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and...

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The $5,000 LS Swap Challenge: Is a Budget LS swap Still Possible? We’ll Find Out, as Hagerty is Building the Ultimate Sleeper Barn Find!

The $250 LS engine. It sparked a movement that has out paced even the experts biggest expectations, and has created an entire group of new companies in the automotive aftermarket. On top of that, it...

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Touring Car Icons Reunited for the Heritage Touring Cup Round 1 at the Spa Classic by Peter Auto Le Mans Classic

Every spring, the Spa-Francorchamps Circuit becomes what they call “a living theater of automotive history.”Classic cars, classic engines, and some of the finest historic and vintage car...

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Turning This Old Farm Truck into a Killer Street Machine Using Scrapyard Ford Parts! Bumpside Ford Goodness Part 3!

It’s alive! Here’s the Part 3 video in the series, and that means actual driving! Yes, this thing is going down the road in this one and showing off all the bits underneath. I love donor...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Sheet Metal Madness – The FJ Gets A Glove Box, Floor Mods And Doghouse Fab

Shannon is back at the fab work on the FJ40, with the roof and dash coming along, as well as the pedals and steering in a second video. There is a lot more going on as well, but that’s the fab...

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Mark Rebilas Has Published His Best Of 2015 Crash And Burn Photos – Must See!

(Photos by Mark Rebilas) – I have the good fortune to see Mark Rebilas on more weekends than I don’t between the months of March and November. While Mark shoots all kinds of stuff like...

Front-Wheel-Drive Violence: Furches Performance’s Turbo LS4 Monte Carlo Running The Strip

I’ve owned a lot of cars over the years, but the list of cars I miss that I would have again is rather short. One of the top pics would be the LS4-powered Monte Carlo SS that I ran ragged for...

Winter Rally Madness: The Action And Carnage From The Jari-Pekka Junior WRC Rally In Finland

As I type this, snow is dumping on BangShift Mid-West HQ for the third time in two weeks, and just as the last of the second storm had melted off. It’s no secret that I’m not a winter...

Rough Start: Taking The Road Less Traveled With A Sweet G-body Grand Prix

For the budget-minded gearhead, GM G-bodies are still a very affordable option and are an excellent car to consider. They offer the best of two worlds: they have the basic old school setup of a...

eBay Find: A Homebuilt 1996 Dodge Ram VTS Project, Complete With Built V-10 And Cage!

In 1996, high on the successes of the Viper, Dodge took the super car’s V-10 powerplant and jammed them into the equally successful Ram truck, creating the Ram VTS concept. Concept or not, it...

Smack Talk Smack Down: Keith Haney Backs Up Claims With Monster 3.89 Pass At Lights Out 7 (Video)

(Video credit: TheRacingVids YouTube channel) – Keith Haney is a man of his word and he rocked the Earth tonight with a monster first qualifying pass in his brand new Larry Jeffers built...

Roadtrippin’: Being In The Moment And Nearly Missing It… My Day With The Unsers

(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) One of the car shows I went to this past summer was the Goodguys “Day In The Hay” that was held in Lincoln, Nebraska in July. I found out about the...

eBay Find: This 1940s Style Bonneville Belly Tanker Mock Up Is Just Plain Awesome

With all the controversy and yelling that has been going on over the last couple of weeks regarding the EPA, the future of grassroots racing, hot rodding, and enjoyment with cars, it might be the...

Question Of The Day: Real Or Fake? You Make The Call On This Mangled Craigslist Mustang

Ok, readers, I need your opinion in regards to what is supposed to be a 2007 Ford Mustang. Am I off of my rocker for thinking that this is a joke and a severely Photoshopped car, or is this a...

Unknown Parts Counter Guy: If I See Cupid Inside Of This Store, I’m Gonna Shoot Him.

It’s been long enough since I worked at the store that I think I can tell this story. When I signed on at The Store, there were three women that worked behind the counter: two college-age...

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BangShift Project Files: A 1995 Chevrolet Caprice 9C1 Winter Beater That Is Missing The “Beater” Part Of The Equation

When I hear the phrase “winter beater”, I picture a car that is just barely acceptable for public roads, prepared just enough to survive plowing through snow, slush and all of the crap...

Another Ice Racing Camaro: 454 And Spiked Dual Tires At All Four Corners!

Apparently mid-1970s Chevrolet Camaros are the vehicle of choice to blast around the frozen lakes of Finland. Who knew…around the U.S. they are either the poor man’s split-bumper Camaro...

Jay Leno Gets A Taste Of Humble Pie After Getting Behind The Wheel Of A Jaguar XJ220 – How Is The Big Cat To Drive? Check This Out!

You could keep your Ferrari F-40 and Lamborghini Countach and Diablo posters…for yours truly in the early 1990s, this was the supercar to dream about, and I didn’t know jack squat about...

Racer Scott Tucker Arrested – Made Billions, Plowed 67-Million Into Racing, Charged With Nine Counts In Federal Court

The high flying, fast living, live on the edge lifestyle of racing attracts a certain type of person and over the years these “certain types of people” have (on occasion) proven...