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FREE LIVE DRAG AND DRIVE COVERAGE! Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Starts Today And Will Hit The Mountains Once Again!!

It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and we’ll be live each race day afternoon and into the night so you can follow all the great racing action. We’ll start LIVE at SRCA Dragstrip...

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Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Two Video | Great Bend, KS to Kearney, NE | Kearney Raceway Park

Here’s the Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Two video and boy is it a fun one. We’re talking on the road, on the track and more! It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and...

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The $5,000 LS Swap Challenge: Is a Budget LS swap Still Possible? We’ll Find Out, as Hagerty is Building the Ultimate Sleeper Barn Find!

The $250 LS engine. It sparked a movement that has out paced even the experts biggest expectations, and has created an entire group of new companies in the automotive aftermarket. On top of that, it...

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Touring Car Icons Reunited for the Heritage Touring Cup Round 1 at the Spa Classic by Peter Auto Le Mans Classic

Every spring, the Spa-Francorchamps Circuit becomes what they call “a living theater of automotive history.”Classic cars, classic engines, and some of the finest historic and vintage car...

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Turning This Old Farm Truck into a Killer Street Machine Using Scrapyard Ford Parts! Bumpside Ford Goodness Part 3!

It’s alive! Here’s the Part 3 video in the series, and that means actual driving! Yes, this thing is going down the road in this one and showing off all the bits underneath. I love donor...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Sheet Metal Madness – The FJ Gets A Glove Box, Floor Mods And Doghouse Fab

Shannon is back at the fab work on the FJ40, with the roof and dash coming along, as well as the pedals and steering in a second video. There is a lot more going on as well, but that’s the fab...

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This Is Not The Correct Way To Load Your Big Rig On The Trailer – Near Disaster Caught On Tape

We’ve all had issues loading a car onto the trailer at one time or another, right? I once drove a car onto and nearly straight off the front of an open trailer after the owner told me that the...

Death Wish? We Have The Craziest Looking Thing We Have Ever Seen – V8 Snowmobile

We know a bunch of guys from Wisconsin and those guys are some of the hardest core hot rodder, partiers, and lovers of life that we have ever run into. Why? Because for lots of the year Wisconsin is...

eBay Find: 1942 Autocar U-7144-T Rig – This Thing Comes With The Killer Trailer Too

When we talk about old Army trucks normally visions of Power Wagons and other iconic stuff like that will pop into our heads. Today we’re stepping up the brawn program by showing you an awesome...

NSRA Nationals Coverage: Trucks, Trucks, And MORE TRUCKS In Louisville!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) –  Whether its just used for cruising or hauling, all these trucks carry smiles where ever they go.  We snapped photos of everything from huge car haulers...

Gravelrama 2015 Coverage: Action Photos From The Big Eliminator Hill!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) –  The event that most people look forward to at Gravelrama 2015 has a cool name – the Big Eliminator Hill.  It’s a massive pile of un-compacted pea...

This Turbo-Four Eagle Talon Is A Monster That Can Hold It’s Own Against Turbo V8s

I had all sorts of Mitsubishi-related jokes lined up. “Danger to Manifold”. “Dude, I almost had you!” “See crank walk. Walk, crank, walk.” Fine…we all saw...

Cruisin’ For A Cure 2015: Our Last Blast Of Photos From The Huge SoCal Show

Sunny skies, green trees, and cars galore. That was the case at the 2015 Orange County Cruisin’ For A Cure recently and we have been showing you some of the coolest cars and trucks from the...

Official Footage Of The Upcoming 2017 Ford Raptor Playing In The Sand – Will This One Be As Good As The Last One?

My first introduction to the Ford Raptor was pretty memorable: I got in, shook hands with one of Ford’s official drivers, strapped in, and enjoyed a quick trip that involved running over a ton...

Ever Wonder How A Corn Combine Works? This Video Will Show You How!

As I write this from the newest BangShift Mid-West location, I’m watching the owners of the field behind my property line harvest the acres of corn. It’s the first absolute sign of fall...

New Video Build Series: In The Shop With Emily Transforms A 1964 Impala SS – Part 1

With all of the cool internet video that is popping up for gear heads we thought we would share the start (and the ensuing episodes) of a build series that will see the resurrection, modification,...

First Look: The First Concept For The DeltaWing GT Road Car – A Street-Legal Dart Based On The Race Car!

When DeltaWing claimed that they were going to create a street-legal and sellable version of the controversial DeltaWing race car, a few eyebrows raised but it was fairly difficult to believe. Don...

eBay Find: Evel Knievel Stratocycle From The Viva Knievel Movie Is For Sale – Actual Bike Used In Film

If there was a public last gasp of publicity for Evel Knievel it came in the form of the 1977 movie Viva Knievel. The fictional action plot put the motorcycle jumping daredevil in the middle of a...

Edgewater Drag Strip Hot Rod Drags: More Photos From The Huge Car Show At The Event

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Edgewater Sports Park is a very active dragstrip under NHRA sanction.  Over the years its been host to many large events and saw many big time...

Volkswagen Fallout: The Dow Jones Just Removed VW From The Sustainability Index

When we said that the effects of Volkswagen’s diesel cheat scandal were gonna be huge, we weren’t kidding, we weren’t exaggerating, we weren’t even hyping it up. Unlike other...