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STREET WEEK SWEDEN LIVE in the United States For The First Time! Get Your All Access Pass To Drag And Drive Greatness Right Here!

That’s right folks, we’ve been talking about it for a few weeks but now is the time to sign up for your livestream from Street Week Sweden! I’ll be there, announcing, interviewing,...

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It’s Time For Buckeye Skips 2026! We’ve Got Photos Starting With Day 0 Right Here! Who Showed Up, and Who Are The Favorites?

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We just finished sharing our lost Buckeye Skips drag and drive photos from 2025 the other day, but we’re excited about 2026! Yesterday was Day 0, when everyone shows up...

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More Car Show Photos From Pueblo’s Biggest Father’s Day Event! The 2026 Father’s Day Car Show!

(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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Australian Drag and Drive Machine! This 1400hp HQ Ute was Built to Survive Drag Challenge. Street and Strip Greatness!

The Aussies are something special when it comes to hot rods, race cars, and especially their street strip machines. With all the restrictions they have on what you can do to a car or truck over...

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John Jackson visits Squeeg’s Kustoms: Shop Tour, Projects, an insane Dodge A100, and photographing the America’s Most Beautiful Roadster!

After missing it for a couple of years, it was good to be back at the Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona in 2025. It was especially cool because the field of cars that were in contention for...

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Loren Healy and the El Bandito Ford Bronco Take First in Ultra4 USA at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb! Race Day Onboard 2026

Loren Healy is no stranger to going fast, no matter what he’s driving, but he’s most at home behind the wheel of his Ultra 4 Bronco in the dirt. So what made him want to take the El...

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Pro Mod Action Photos: More Coverage From The Extreme Outlaw Pro Mods At Piedmont

(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – Yesterday we showed you the first of a couple great galleries of images from Benoit Pigeon’s recent visit to the legendary Piedmont Dragway in North Carolina....

This Chevelle Is On Two Wheels At Least 10 Times And Doesn’t Hit Anything!!!

This is one of the craziest things we’ve ever seen on a dragstrip, and we’re not going to even get into why, what, or any of that. We’re just going to watch this video for...

Hotchkis Autocross Takes Over At NMCA West Finals In Fontana

We got there at exactly the wrong time, as the lunch break was just about to start, but the Hotchkis Autocross was on like Donkey Kong this weekend in Fontana! While we were over running on the...

Extreme Outlaw Pro Mod Coverage: Big Dog $15K To Win At Piedmont Dragway!

(Words and photos by Benoit Pigeon) – Once again, the Extreme Outlaw Pro Mod organization was racing at Piedmont in North Carolina this mid October at the famous home of the Big Dog. This...

Holley Hydramat To Be Installed In Every Super Stadium Truck Immediately

We were literally the first outlet in the known universe to break the news about the Holley Hydrant and it happened at PRI last year. The unique fuel pickup system that lies on the bottom of a tank...

If Two Is Good, Four Should Be Great: Listen To This Mazda RX3 Tear The Air Apart On A Speed Run!

The only three and four-rotor Wankel engines ever created by Mazda were hustled into race cars. Period. Every street car, from the lowly front-wheel-drive Luce to the FD RX-7 made do with two rotors...

The Roughest Start Ever: One Part C4 Corvette, One Part Mooney Aircraft, And A Dash Of Dodge. Would You Dare Take It On?

As you know, the Rough Start budget is $5,000 unless I can find a way to argue my way around it. Normally I fudge the number a little for a car that is so close to the mark that a couple hundred...

eBay Find: This 1979 Dodge SE 300 Truck Is Mostly Stock With One Awesome Exception

There’s nothing overtly wrong with a bone stock 1979 Dodge SE 300 dually truck. They had great styling, they were tough as nails, they were rocking good axles, a Torqueflite transmission, and...

Cynthiana Rod Run 2015 Coverage: 1,500+ Cars and Almost Saw ‘Em All

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Fifteen hundred and thirty-three.  1,533 registered cars.  More showed up after registration.  By a large margin the 2015 edition of the relatively...

Jay Leno Gets The Rare Opportunity To Drive The Only Operable Mercedes C111 Sports Coupe

Question: What looks like the love child between the AMX/3 and the Maserati Bora, has come with diesel engines, V8s and Wankel rotaries, and has gullwing doors? Nope, not a Bricklin SV-1. Shame on...

Can Changing The Oil Be As Easy As Changing A Printer’s Ink Cartridge? With The Castrol Nexcel System, It Could Be! (VIDEO)

The oil change is that first maintenance step that most people deal with as a vehicle owner. Oil is the lifeblood of the engine, and has to be changed, and for decades that job fell to either a...

Sunday Nostalgia At Lancaster Dagway: Gas Attack! Check Out These Gasser Action Photos

(Photos by Mike Brooks) – I am of the (not too controversial) opinion that you can draw a theoretical dotted line from the gassers of the 1960s and early 1970s to the pro modified of today....

Unhinged: Two Wild Hours At The 2015 ADD Dragtoberfest Diesel Drags At US 60 Dragway

It’s been a busy few months at BangShift Mid-West. Ever since early August I’ve been splitting time between writing and playing Bob The Builder, fixing up the largest purchase I’ve...

Freaky Cool? Freaky Weird? You Decide What You Think About This 1965 C10 Cab Coupe

Here’s a build that will certainly polarize the audience! A hot rod shop took a 1965 Chevy C10 truck cab, gave it a severe chop, ditched all the sheetmetal ahead of the cowl, greatly narrowed...