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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Chassis Fabrication: Back In The Shop With Shannon Campbell For A New Build

Shannon Campbell is back at it after King of the Hammers in California, and despite breaking some stuff during the Race of Kings, he’s ready to get back at it with some new projects at the...

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Leah Pruett Makes Her Dodge TSR NHRA Top Fuel Return After Two-year Hiatus, Teams Up with Four-time Champ Matt Hagan at Season-opening NHRA Gatornationals

Leah Pruett makes her NHRA Top Fuel return, after a two-year break, at the upcoming NHRA Gatornationals on March 5-8 in the nitro-burning Tony Stewart Racing (TSR) Dodge dragster Pruett, a 12-time...

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Can Ryan Make This Fairmont Run 6’s In The 1/8 For Under 6K? How About Naturally Aspirated With A 5.0?

I love budget builds. Hell, everything I own is a budget build. But sometimes I think folks are just trying to make things harder on themselves. I mean Ryan’s mismatched Fairmont is a GREAT...

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Lights Out 17 Testing Livestream And Video: It’s Time For Radial Revolution 2026 At South Georgia Motorsports Park

It’s time for Lights Out 17, Winter’s favorite radial race, and thanks to NC Promoder we can all watch testing and highlights as Monday and Tuesday had teams doing shakedown hits to see...

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Save $800 With This Harbor Freight Tool Box Hack! Build Your Own Custom Big Box On The Cheap

Harbor Freight is now the largest retail tool store in the country, and for good reason. They have been offering tools at cheap prices for decades, but in recent years took full advantage of the...

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First Round Radial vs The World Qualifying From Lights Out 17 at South Georgia Motorsports Park

If you haven’t been watching the livestream here everyday, you might have missed RVW qualifying from yesterday so here’s a highlight video you can check out to see all the action and...

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Thanks VW: EPA Expands Emissions Testing To Include On-Road Driving – This Is All Your Fault

Ever have a friend that always screwed everything up? Maybe it was when you were in high school and you had found a hangout that would let you and your car loving buddies gather and bench race until...

Ebay Find: This One-Owner 1974 Datsun 620 Is A Simple, Honest Truck That Has Us Weak In The Knees

One of the bigger vehicles in my automotive background was a Datsun like this…ok, kind of like this: it was a 240Z-swapped mini truck that was a kind of reddish-purple and would do burnouts for...

Video: Steve Caldwell’s 1972 Pontiac Ventura Is All Poncho And A Wheelstanding Bad Ass

When BangShifter Doug Miller sent me an email telling me about his buddy Steve Caldwell’s 1972 Pontiac Ventura the photo was of this thing with the wheels sky high on a little tire and I knew...

Rough Start: Throwing The Buyer A Bone With This Built 4.3L Chevy-Powered Celica

Holding five grand and being forced to make do with what you have doesn’t have to suck. Sometimes, a little luck and a lot of patience can work to your advantage. There are plenty of well-worn...

Ultra Rare: This 1970 Ford Motorhome Has An Air-Cooled Deutz Diesel and Overdrive Conversion!

I love old RV’s, Motorhomes, Travel Trailers, Campers, etc. And when I see them I get excited and want them all, just like hot rods and race cars, but when I saw this thing I about flipped....

SEMA 2015: Mercury Racing Has Insane Crate Engine Offerings – DOHC LS7?!

Mercury Racing is coming into the LS crate engine market in a way no one else has even thought of to this point. The company that has made its name building high performance engines on the water and...

This Boss 429 Powered, Highly Whacked Out Jaguar XKE Is Like Nothing We Have Ever Seen

So one day back in 1967 over in Coventry, England a beautiful XKE rolled out under the sunlight, err, it rolled out of the factory. Because it is sunny for like 15 minutes a year in England it may...

It’s A Four By Four And A Church Bus…Motorweek Takes A Look Back At A 2000 Chevrolet Van Converted By Quigley!

Ah, the cargo van. With the demise of the Ford Econoline, the full-size American cargo van has finally disappeared into history, but not so long ago the Chevrolet Express, GMC Savana, and the...

Here It Is, A 500 Horsepower, 10-Second EcoBoost Mustang – You Can Hate The Exhaust Note, But You Can’t Argue Against The Performance!

Love it or hate it, Ford’s turbo-4 Mustang for the modern era can and does haul the mail when properly tuned up, and Watson Racing, in a collaboration with Revolution Automotive, can do just...

This International Metro Food Truck Would Make A Cool Gearhead Mobile Hangout

While this particular International Harvester Metro van is cool and in very good shape as it’s been recently restored, I’m using this find as an excuse to educate you on the overall...

Aussie Rebellion! New Professional Level Drag Racing Series In Australia Now Sanctioned By IHRA

So if the Australian drag racing world could be described with an American term, “screwed up” would be about it. The end of the ANDRA (Australian National Drag Racing Association) in 2014...

Ebay Find: A 1974 AMC Javelin That Has Survived The Decades As A Clean Cruiser

Too often we tend to get hung up on high performance, top speed, ultimate handling, the pinnacle of perfection. We strive for the ultimate thing on four wheels. Is that a good thing? Unless you have...

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Watch This Guy Get Beat Up By An Automatic Car Wash – The Brush Has It In For Him

For this week’s edition of “this guy’s day sucks way worse than yours” we take you to an unnamed automatic car wash and the security camera that captures a moment in time that...

Del Worsham Fulfills His Funny Car Championship Dream!

Photos by Mike and Jeff Burghardt   A twenty-six-race schedule is a grind for any race team, but when a team hits their stride going into the playoffs, often it’ll end up in a shootout with...