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Lone Star Throwdown 2026 Photo Coverage Continues Right Here! We’ve Got Hundreds More Awesome Truck Show Photos For You!

(Words and Photos by Chad Reynolds) I hit the Lone Star Throwdown in Conroe Texas this weekend and as usual was blown away by the turnout of great trucks. When I arrived at the just after it opened,...

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Why Are There So Many Coolant Colors? How did it get to THIS? Green Is Not The Only Color Anymore!

Why the heck are there so many colors of engine coolant nowadays? I mean was there really a problem with green? And if the colors matter so much, why can you buy coolant that will work with any of...

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Lone Star Throwdown 2026 Photo Coverage Starts Right Here! We’ve Got Hundreds Of Awesome Truck Show Photos For You To Check Out Right Here!

(Words and Photos by Chad Reynolds) I hit the Lone Star Throwdown in Conroe Texas this weekend and as usual was blown away by the turnout of great trucks. When I arrived at the just after it opened,...

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FREE LIVE NHRA Divisional Racing Action: Division 7 Lucas Oil Drag Racing At Firebird Raceway – Sunday

Free live drag racing starts here and continues all weekend long from the NHRA Regional at Firebird Raceway in Arizona. We’re talking all kinds of Sportsman Drag racing which means wheels up Stock...

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Have You Considered Getting One Of Those Harbor Freight Overhead Gantrys For Your Shop? Watch This.

I can’t remember the last time I was in a Harbor Freight and didn’t look at the gantry cranes longingly. Sure, I cherry picker is a great thing that we all need in the shop, but man these...

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2026 SCCA Hoosier Super Tour LIVESTREAM From Buttonwillow Raceway Park- Sunday Coverage LIVE, Saturday Replay

It’s time for the 9-race Hoosier Super Tour to start and that means racing at Buttonwillow Raceway Park in central California. There is a lot of qualifying and racing both today and tomorrow,...

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Ebay Find: A 1966 Dodge Coronet That Speaks To The Dark Side In Us

Not every car needs to be pretty. The paint does not need to shine, the interior only needs to care for the driver, and whether or not other people like it is irrelevant. For those who do not see a...

Listen LIVE: ECTA Land Speed Racing Audiocast! Tractors, Steam Cars, 250mph Bikes, More!

Thanks to the crew at LandRacing.com you can listen to a live streaming audio cast of the ECTA’s September Ohio Mile land speed meet today and tomorrow. This broadcast will start at 8am EST...

eBay Find: This 1979 Jeep Golden Eagle May Be The Nicest One On Earth In The Weirdest Place

While cars of the late 1970s were generally soul sucking crap wagons, the trucks of the era were all pretty cool. No, they did not have today’s horsepower, but they did have good looks and...

2015 NSRA Nationals Photo Coverage: Go Fast Stuff! Gassers, Pro Street, More

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – This group of cars is made of up of Pro Street, gasser, and race-type vehicles typically of the wider rear tire variety.  Nearly everything in here is...

Tony Pedregon Will Race NHRA Maple Grove With Micro Strategies and Resource 1 On His Car

In the cutthroat world of NHRA nitro funny car racing, it is tough to keep a team going through a 24 race season. No one knows that more than the Pedregon Racing crew who work and scrap week in and...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-worthy News! This Week: The Fallout From Dieselgate, The Batmobile, And More!

Wow, what a hell of a week it’s been in the automotive world. If I was working for Volkswagen Group, I’d be brushing up my resume toot-suite and preparing for the worst, but things look a...

2015 Hot Rod Hullabaloo Coverage: More BangShifty Cars And Trucks From The Show

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Shelby’s Speed and Kustom is at the center of the Hullaballoo event.  Located on Contract St. in Lexington, KY.  The mission of the shop is ‘to give...

Here’s One Of The Few Ways BangShift Will Feature A Kia Van: When It’s Dropped From A Crane!

A Kia Sedona on BangShift. “Wow…you guys are reaching a new low today,” you’re probably muttering at your computer. And you’re right for the most part. Called the Grand...

PDRA Dragstock Coverage: More Killer Doorslammer Action Photos From Rockingham

(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – Yesterday we showed you some great images from PDRA’s famed Dragstock event that was held a short while back at Rockingham Dragway in Rockingham, North...

A Polaris On Nitrous And A Bounty Hill Called “Blue Holler”…Any Guesses On What Happens Next?

Have you ever seen the episode of The Simpsons, where Homer finds himself halfway across Springfield Gorge before falling like Wile E. Coyote, bouncing off of every possible rock ledge before hitting...

Roadkill! The Hellcat-Powered General Mayhem, From The Start Of The Build, Through The Internet Hate, To The Race With [NAME REDACTED]

If there was one automotive deal this year that wore out nerves across the landscape of the Internet, it was the giant maelstrom of screaming involving Roadkill, Gas Monkey Garage, and Dodge. For the...

Magnificent Magnesium: This Old School Magnesium Crower Injector And Scoop Is Killer (and expensive!)

There’s nothing quite as cool as old race car stuff, right? The other day we showed you an intake manifold that was kind of a sneaky limited edition piece produced by Mercury for use on their...

PDRA Dragstock XII Action Photos: The Slugfest At Rockingham Ruled And We Were There

(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – There are just some events you NEED to attend and every sport has them. In drag racing, there’s a list that could be made of big ones across the country that...

Car Feature: This 1966 Chevy II Has A Killer Retro Vibe And It Could Be Yours…Seriously!

(Words and photos by Kaleb Kelley) – Cars are a special bond between fathers and sons. There is no better bonding than handing tools to your dad and learning how to work on cars. Shaun...