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A Weekend At The Drags with Joe Grippo: Racing, Photos, And Fun From Darana Raceway Park Maple Grove in Pennsylvania.

(Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) Arguably the biggest bombshell news story that came out of last year’s PRI show was the legendary Pennsylvania drag strip Maple Grove Raceway being acquired by the...

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Pueblo’s Biggest Father’s Day Event Is The Father’s Day Car Show! We’ve Got Photos Right Here!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) Billed as the biggest Father’s Day event in Pueblo, the Father’s Day Car Show at the Pueblo Christian Center is in it’s 8th year and fills up fast on show...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Making Fiberglass Doors Actually Fit, And Making The Steering Work Properly!

Doors that shut and wheels that turn might not sound super exciting, but they require fabrication and time in order to be right and that’s what we dig. This project has been fun to follow, and...

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PDRA Drag Racing Video: Pro Nitrous and Pro Boost Round 1 North vs South Shootout Qualifying from Maryland International Raceway

We’ve shared some live track testing going on at Maryland International Raceway where PDRA’s top teams were on hand to see what kind of improvements they can make as they got ready for this past...

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Extended Highlights from the CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa | GT World Challenge powered by AWS 2026

We share all kinds of live racing action from the 24 Hours of SPA this weekend, but if you missed any of that we’ve got great highlight video below that shows the best racing action from the...

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IMSA 6-Hours of Watkins Glen Endurance Racing Highlight Video Is Right Here! Only The Best Racing Action!

Here we go again! The 2026 IMSA Racing season is in full swing and this weekend the series was visiting Watkins Glen in New York which is one of the most famous race tracks in the country! There was...

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Carnage Video: Here’s Seven Nasty Drag Racing Wrecks In High Definition

It has been a little while since Urban Hillbilly Action Videos brought us a straight up carnage-fest but here it is. A collection of seven crashes that highlight almost seven completely different...

Question Of The Day: The Dodge Challenger GT-AWD – Would It Sell Or Is It Simply A Beautiful Gearhead One-Off?

This was the car I was gunning to see at SEMA. Not so much the high-dollar builds, not so much the parade of metal outside of the convention center that would leave me constantly desiring...

Judging The 2015 Gran Turismo Awards At SEMA – We Had The Gloriously Impossible Task

About a week ahead of the 2015 SEMA show I got a call from the people at Gran Turismo and they asked if I would be interested judging the Hot Rod class of the 2015 Gran Turismo awards at the event....

Rumor Mill: Jeep Red Rock To Make It To Production? Yes And No…They Are Making Some, But You Better Get In Line Now…

One of the more interesting vehicles in Mopar’s display at SEMA was the Jeep Wrangler Red Rock concept. Sitting on 35″ tires and looking for all intents and purposes like an...

Watch The New Roadster Shop ColoRADo Truck Get Thrashed In The Desert After SEMA

The Roadster Shop has proved over recent years that they can literally build anything and do it as well as the best in the world do it. Last year their insane Camaro known as Rampage was the talk of...

Force Fed: The New MSD Atomic AirForce LS7 Intake Makes Big Power Gains On The Dyno!

Top dog in the normally aspirated LS engine family, the 427-inch LS7 is an impressive performer. Forget all the 427 big blocks of yesteryear, the modern small-block version offers both more powerful...

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BangShift Project Files: A Land Speed Racing Pontiac Firebird That Intends To Take On Several Records

Are we fans of land speed racing around here? Hmm…that is a resounding yes. We love Bonneville, Maxton, Wilmington, El Mirage. Lohnes has his hands in the East Coast Timing Association, and...

This International Metro Ice Cream Truck Had The Whimsical Hot Rod Vibe Nailed At SEMA

Truth be told there are always about a dozen vehicles you see at SEMA that are totally awesome, brilliantly done, and about as useful as a slotted spoon in a soup eating contest. This International...

Rough Start: Take On Your Own Cheap Truck Challenge With This 1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee!

Watching the Cheap Truck Challenge video inspired me: how hard would it be to find a useable 4×4 that is trail capable yet could possibly be used in an everyday manner in line with the ideals of...

eBay Find: This 1943 Clark CA-1 Airborne Crawler Tractor And Scraper Are Awesome WWII Pieces

This would have been perfect to run yesterday on Veterans Day but I found this gem a day too late. Either way it certainly warrants being shared because it is BangShifty in every way. The fact that...

When Moving A Locomotive, The Shortest Distance Between Two Points Is The Easiest Route. But What If There Is No Track? Just Make One!

The locomotive you are seeing is an EMD F-7A, one of the most iconic shapes for a locomotive to ever exist. Built between 1949 and 1953, one of the F-unit series of locomotive prime movers, was a...

Powermaster Performance Rolls Out New Looks, Products At SEMA 2015 – Late Model Engines Covered

If there’s one thing that we can tell you about the team from Powermaster it is that they must not have slept much during the 2015 year because they had a bunch of cool new products at the SEMA...

Mopar Muscle: A Load Of Photos From The 2015 Carlisle Chrysler Nationals

(Photos by Ryan Severance) – The annual Carlisle Chrysler Nationals stand as a massive gathering of virtually every generation and style of Chrysler automobile and truck you can dream up. From...

Cheap Truck Challenge 2015! Watch As A Flatfender, A CJ-5, A W-200 And A Kia Sportage Hit The Trails In Arizona!

Anybody who tells you that Arizona is nothing but sand and cactus is full of it. Head north…anywhere past the Mogollon Rim, the drop-off that separates Northern Arizona from the Mojave and...