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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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The CHEAPEST Hemi Swap EVER Hits the Road! Will This Body Swapped Dodge Actually Survive The Drive?

He’s back at it, and because I’ve done a similar type of chassis swap myself, I can’t fault him for the idea or the execution. Would I do some stuff different, sure. But I guarantee...

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

(Photos by Richard Pasley) – When the NHRA brought National Event Drag Racing back to the northeast a few years ago, the crowds at the New England Nationals in Epping were off the hook. More...

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Wind Noise, Water Leaks, And Horrifying Electrical Issues: This Review Of The 1979 Chrysler New Yorker Fifth Avenue Perfectly Explains The Malaise Era!

Due to my age, I don’t see the issues with cars made between about 1974 and 1985 like some older readers do. “Malaise Era”…sure, I know all about the emissions restrictions,...

Ever Wonder Why Californians Say “The 101” or “The 405” When They Refer To Their Interstates And Highways? Here’s The Reason Why!

Roaming the country, as we do, we become accustomed to the vernacular used by people across the land for certain things. We are able to map the difference between “you guys”,...

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It’s Big, Green And Can Clip The Nines In The Quarter – This Holden One Tonner Rules!

Have you ever looked at a Chevy El Camino and thought, “That is still too car-like?” No? Of course not…the selection of trucks available in America pretty much ruled that out,...

Jay Leno Gets To Roll Around In A Lamborghini LM002 – Italy’s Rambo Lambo That Catered To The Stars Instead Of The Military

Lamborghini’s LM002 was born out of several failed attempts to bring a vehicle to the military to replace the venerable Jeep-based vehicles. Think about that for a moment: Not GM. Not Ford....

eBay Find: This Weird Little 1942 Crosley Liberty Is One Of The Most Rare American Cars Ever

We have often beaten the drum around here that rarity does not necessarily convert into desirability or value. In the case of the otherwise embarrassingly under powered 1942 Crosley Liberty, the...

Top Fuel Horsepower: This Video Provides A Definitive Power Number – Have The Guesses Been Right?

The number has almost always been a guess. Back in the 1970s the number was 1,500hp…then it became 2,500hp, and then 5,000, 7,000, up to today’s commonly thrown out 10,000hp estimate for...

More Australian Goodness Running The Strip – Twin Turbo Ford Cortina In The Sevens!

As Brian and Chad freeze in Las Vegas and I freeze in the middle of nowhere, we all are wishing for a warmer climate. You know, like the Land Down Under. It’s warming up to summertime...

Random Car Review, The Turkey Edition: The Only Turkish Sports Car Made, The Anadol STC-16

With Thanksgiving fast approaching and the smells of a kitchen at full tilt infiltrating the nostrils of the suddenly hungry everywhere, it is no surprise that turkey is on the brain. Smoked,...

Ebay Find: Beauty And The Beast For An AMC Fan – Two 1972 AMC Matador Coupes, One Perfect, The Other…Well…

Taking the different path can have some excellent benefits. AMC Matadors aren’t on most anyone’s radar, unless they have AMC leanings, but a two-door large-displacement coupe from the...

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What A Weekend! More Action Photos From The 2015 PSCA Street Car Super Nationals!

We’re still trying to figure out what day it is and where we are after a long and exciting weekend in Las Vegas at the 2015 PSCA Street Car Super Nationals. This thing delivers every year....

SCSN 2015: Pit Photos – Get Up Close and See Some Of The Hardest Core, Gnarly Cars That Are Here

The action on the track has been wild and the reason is that the cars at this event are so freaking nuts. From top to bottom there is cool stuff. Power adders in every form you can imagine. From huge...

SCSN 2015 Saturday Action! Wheels Up, Fire Belching, Big and Small Tire Craziness

If you have been watching our LIVE streaming broadcast from the 2015 Jeg’s Street Car Super Nationals present by Chris Alston’s Chassis works you know that it is has been completely...

Caption This: Apparently “Thou Shalt Not Buy A 4WD With No Intention Of Using It Properly” Isn’t Mentioned Anywhere In That Book…

If there is anything that will make you question whether or not you have pissed off an entity much higher than yourself, a well-aimed lightning strike ought to do it. On the average, your odds of...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: GT-R Delay, Ford’s Drugged Suit, And Fiat Going Rallying?

It’s official: the temperatures have sank like a brick. Here at BangShift Mid-West, just in the course of two hours, the temperature dropped thirty-five degrees, turning the outside air from...