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Flat-12 Ferrari Magic in Monaco | John Surtees’ Favourite F1 Car Makes ALL the Right Noises. Pure Bliss.

There are going to be some of the most epic Ferrari’s in Formula 1 history at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, and this right here is one of them. The crew caught up with this car...

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Randy Pobst’s Randit Suspension Overhaul: Episode 4 of 5 – Putting All This Freshly Installed Suspension To The Test On The Track!

Randy Pobst can wheel a race car, and on too many occasions to count we’ve seen him do it. But he also enjoys a quick and fast street car which means that upgrades are often in order. In this video...

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Our Final NHRA New England Nationals Photo Coverage: Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, Sportsman, and Pit Photos From This Sold Out NHRA National Event!

Heres our final gallery of photos from Richard Pasley’s coverage of the NHRA New England Nationals in Epping New Hampshire. If you missed any of the previous photos, use the link below to check...

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Lost Buckeye Skips Day THREE Drag and Drive Photos! Our Second Gallery of Day Three On Track Action and Checkpoints!

Here’s our second gallery of lost photos from Day 3 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos we’ve got a link...

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A Train Wreck! How DO THEY CLEAN ONE UP?! Watch Them Move These Locomotives On Site! Insane Lifting.

While we were on Rocky Mountain Race Week a couple of weeks ago, we passed a train derailment that had happened in the not too distant past. The tracks were repaired, and some of the train wreckage...

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The Dash COMES OUT! Vintage Air Installation – Installing Air Conditioning on this 1985 Mustang GT Build!

Vintage Air has been cooling hot rods, customs, and race cars for decades now and is continually reimagining and developing new systems. But that doesn’t mean they have forgotten their tried...

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Rough Start: This Rough Mustang II is A Perfect Candidate For A Rally Car!

I’ll straight-up admit it: seeing the Maverick playing in the gravel with a bunch of brick-like Volvos and Subarus at the Northwest RallySprint got my gears turning. I cut my teeth on...

This Twin-Turbo, Small Tire Impala SS Is A Beast! 4.81@161 In The Eighth Mile!

Is it weird for me to say that the B-body Impala SS is starting to become the forgotten performance car of the 1990s? I know that 260 horsepower isn’t squat anymore, but in 1994 it was a reason...

More Customs, Hot Rods, And Trucks From The Mooneyes X-Mas Party And Drags 2015

The Mooneyes X-Mas Party and Drags 2015 might be the last to be held at Irwindale Speedway since it’s impending close date is still up in the air. But the mood was not dampened by this...

More Hot Rods, Customs, And Lowriders Photos From The Mooneyes X-Mas Party And Drags 2015

We’ve got even more photos from the Mooneyes X-Mas Party and Drags 2015 and we figured we should share. If you’ve been looking at all the others that we posted this week then you know...

Gates Auto Salvage Tour: More Automotive Archeology From The Woods Of Vermont

Seeing the photos that Lohnes and Fitzgerald took at Gates Auto Salvage keeps bringing up the word “haunting” into my head. It’s not hard to see why: in amongst the thin trees, you...

Here Is The Answer, And Winner, Of Our “Guess What This Ridetech Shockwave Is Bolted To” Contest

ANSWER: A Pulling Tractor, specifically the TS Performance Pro Stock John Deere Pulling Tractor called “Young Buck”. It’s Brad Moss’s rig and it is one bad piece of machinery that...

Outlaw Mud Truck Fun – D.O.T. Legal Tires And A Heavy Right Foot Makes For Some Excellent Video!

Wide open throttle on a full-kill race vehicle isn’t something that is achieved often, and when it is the results are always spectacular. Mud trucks do a good job of converting the raw power of...

Question Of The Day: What Would You Do With This Twin-Turbocharged 1986 Ford Truck?

If there ever was a sleeper tuned to the readers of BangShift, this would be the second one I’ve seen…the first one, the 1980 Chevrolet “Farmer John” special, was snapped up...

SCTA El Mirage Final Meet Of 2015: More Photos From The Dry Lake Bed!

(Photos: Zane McNary) With the situation at the Bonneville Salt Flats becoming more and more questionable, El Mirage is looking more and more stable for land speed racing fans and competitors. With...

The PRI Show Is Like Toys R Us And Disneyland For Hard Core Racing Fanatics, And We’ve Got Photos

I’ve been going to the SEMA Show for 15 years and it’s awesome, but when I went to the PRI Show for the first time a few years ago I felt like I had died and gone to race car guy heaven....

Classic YouTube: Breaking In The New Dyno By Running A Nitrous-Sniffing Lawnmower On The Rollers!

You wake up early in the morning and prepare yourself for a long day of work. It will be worth it, you tell yourself. The new DynoJet will be done today. You will get all of your friends together,...

Rally Gallery: The Inaugural Northwest RallySprint At DirtFish Rally School In Snoqualmie, Washington!

(Photos: Tedrick Mealy via OpenPaddock.net) Winter doesn’t mean that every form of motorsports shuts down and returns to the garage until spring. The off-roaders have been romping in the fall...

Rough Start, International Edition: A Clean Chevrolet Opala From Mexico That Is Almost Cheap Enough For A Rough Start!

I’ll admit right off of the bat that I was way off of the deep end when I found myself pawing through Mercado Libre for cars. If you aren’t familiar with the site, it’s essentially...

This Is The New NHRA Pro Stock Induction System For 2016. Are They Doing It Wrong?

This is how most NHRA Pro Stock teams are going to be handling their induction systems for 2016, since they are now converting to EFI, but could they be leaving things on the table? Are they thinking...