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Big Sky Race Week Video from the BangShift Billy crew. Will Ultra High Temps Cause Trouble For Competitiors?

There has been a lot of weird weather in the last 12 months and it doesn’t seem to be getting any less crazy. With heat waves and storm fronts moving all over the country, you are seeing areas...

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Buckeye Skips 2026 Drag and Drive Photos Continue! Here’s Our First Day 2 Racing Gallery from Darana Dragway 42 in Ohio

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We’ve got Buckeye Skip’s drag and drive photos right here! We already shared photos from Day #1’s checkpoints and racing, but now it is time for Day #2...

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The World’s Largest All Ford Show And Swap Meet! Swap Meet And Car Show Photos From The Carlisle All Ford Nationals In Central Pennsylvania

Here’s our second gallery of photos from Carlisle, but if you missed the previous photos you can find them all at the link below. (Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) The world’s largest...

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More FJ40 Custom Fabrication! This Beast Gets An ECM Install, Branik Links, Custom Cooler Mounts, and A Stereo Install.

When you start making real headway on a project the jobs get smaller and smaller, but no less significant. Shannon and Jess are back at it on the cool FJ40 project and that means many small things...

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This Is The Ultimate Call Out Challenge! We’re Talking 3,000 Horsepower Diesel Trucks Battling It Out For Bragging Rights And More!

The 2026 Ultimate Callout Challenge was epic. The meanest, nastiest, and most no-holds barred diesel trucks in the country  gathered in Indy to do battle on the dyno rollers, on the drag strip, and...

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Video: The West Coast’s Largest All Ford Truck Show – The F100 Western Nationals 2026 Coverage Starts Here

We figured that if we were going to start sharing our Carlisle Ford Nationals photo coverage today, which is the largest all Ford show in the world, we might as well share the largest classic Ford...

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2015 U.S. Nationals Extra: Wofford Captures Awesome Mopar HEMI® Challenge Victory!

Words by MOPAR Motorsports Photos by Mike & Jeff Burghardt   The 15th anniversary edition of the Mopar HEMI® Challenge at the 61st annual National Hot Rod Association U.S. Nationals saw a...

2015 U.S. Nationals Extra: Beckman Wins Traxxas Nitro Funny Car Shootout – DSR Runs The Table!

Words by NHRA Communications Photos by Mike & Jeff Burghardt and Ron Lewis courtesy of John Force Racing   Jack Beckman earned a $100,000 payday with his victory in the Traxxas Nitro...

Quick Gallery: The Re-Opened Skydome At The National Corvette Museum

Re-opening the Skydome exhibit at the National Corvette Museum is the closing of a strange and sad chapter for the curators: the sinkhole that opened up in the karst formation underneath the display...

2015 U.S. Nationals Extra: Antron Brown Pockets $100,000 Traxxas Payday!

Words by NHRA Communications   Antron Brown raced to victory in the Traxxas Nitro Shootout on Saturday of the Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals, earning a $100,000 payday! Brown, the 2012 Top...

What Goes Up…Watch As “Plowboy 2” Driver Richie Keith Go For The Heavens!

Rock bouncer driver Richie Keith has a reputation for his balls-out driving style among his peers…in a motorsport that requires that kind of style just to be competitive. His...

The Yamaha YXZ1000R UTV Might Be The Closest Thing To A Rally Car You Can Buy: Four-Wheel Drive, A High-Winding Engine And A Sequential Five-Speed!

Let’s say, for a moment, that you were offered the chance to buy a high-performance off-road vehicle. It will come fully ‘caged with seating for two. It will be extremely light compared...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-worthy News: This Week, New Teslas, Stormtrooper Chargers, And Sergio Wants A Hug…

The calendar says September, but it’s still hot enough outside that we could throw all of the news scraps into a frying pan, stick them on the roof of a car, wait all day, and have dinner...

Watch Ferdinand von Habsberg Take Flight At Silverstone During A Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 Race!

Cars are not supposed to fly, period. No matter what Terrafugia, AVE or The Dukes Of Hazzard taught you, automobiles were not intended for flight. But that doesn’t stop certain individuals from...

This 1931 Ford Is Powered By An Old Diamond Rio Truck Motor and Has A Frame Made Of Old Light Poles – We Dig (Video)

Mike Musto’s show “Big Muscle” on the YouTube Drive channel is a good watch. Every week he finds himself beating the stuffing out of a cool car in some part of the country. The cars...

Watch Billy Glidden Suffer A Massive Manifold Explosion And Hood Scoop Launch At The 2015 NHRA US Nationals

There are twice as many pro mods here than can fit in the actual qualified field. Know what that means? It means that this every single round of qualifying is a street fight. Even before...

Watch NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle Racer Joe DeSantis Go Down Hard At The 2015 US Nationals

It was an auspicious start to pro stock motorcycle qualifying at the 2015 Chevrolet Performance NHRA US Nationals yesterday when on the first pair of motorcycles down the track, rider Joe DeSantis...

Unknown Parts Counter Guy: The “In Case Of Emergency” Action When All Else Has Failed – Lawyer Up?!

In the time that I’ve been writing, I have touched on what I feel is every possible part of the job that makes a counter clerk grind their teeth: the customers who think they are God’s...

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LS Fest Preview! This Converted Mitsubishi Eclipse Was One Of The Most Eye-Catching Cars At Last Year’s Event, And Running Deep 10s Isn’t Bad Either!

In less than a week, Bowling Green will be invaded by swarms of vehicles packing late-model power under the hood. LS Fest, the full-on celebration of the Generation III/IV Small Block Chevrolet, was...

Check Out This Time-Lapse Video Of The Restoration Of The 1 Millionth Corvette – From Sinkhole To Stunner!

Once the team from the National Corvette Museum had extracted all of the Corvettes that were swallowed up by the sinkhole, the task began of determining what cars would and would not be restored. The...