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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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In Memoriam: Dick Guldstrand – The Man Known As “Mr. Corvette”, LeMans Racer And Auto Builder

It is kind of fitting that the 21st annual celebration at the National Corvette Museum kicked off this weekend. As fiberglass enthusiasts from all over filled the parking lots of the museum, a...

This Polaris RZR’s Backflip Antics At Dunefest 2015 Are A Hit…And A Miss…And A Rollover….

The backflip. There is something about it that awesome as a spectator and terrifying as all hell for the one in the middle of the action. On the ground, it’s a graceful movement. In reality,...

Diesel Swap! Hot Rod Garage Takes A 12V Cummins And Jams It Into A Dodge D200

Making the kind of power with an oil-burner that would have been unbelievable years ago is stupid-easy nowadays, and while the diesel community have the lines drawn in the dirt, for us, our choice...

Plenty Of Action And Pit Photos From The USCA Optima Search for the Ultimate Street Car Road America!

Thanks to Bob Chiluk and Optima Jim, we’ve got great photos from last weekend’s USCA Optima Search for the Ultimate Street Car event at Road America. The track is spectacular, and Carson...

Watch Roy Hill’s Wild, Wall-Banging Wheelstand From Thursday At The 2015 US Nationals

Just when you thought it was safe to go outside, Roy Hill has had another wild ride at the 2015 Chevrolet Performance US Nationals. This time the car made contact with the wall after coming down from...

Watch Roy Hill Make A Crazy Lane Swapping 300′ Wheelie At The 2015 NHRA US Nationals

Roy Hill has has the most adventurous week of anyone so far at the 2015 Chevrolet Performance NHRA US Nationals. His Cobra Jet Mustang has pulled a pair of completely insane wheel stands and this is...

Unhinged: The Best Way To Shut Up A Smack-Talking Kid I’ve Ever Heard Of

You don’t know the name Frank Billington IV, and that’s ok. I’ve known him since late 2000, because he was the owner and moderator of the first automotive forum I ever joined,...

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BangShift Project Files: Tubbed And Tube-Framed Makes For One Seriously Interesting Chevette

The lesson we all learn about cars is that there are two ways to make them faster: you either add horsepower or you remove weight. Most of what we cover involves adding horsepower. Removing weight is...

The RideTech Report: Tech, Race Results, Customer Cars, Upcoming Events, and More!

RideTech is dropping huge knowledge bombs these days with awesome updates the happenings in the Pro Touring competition world, cool tech videos, profiles of customer cars, and updates on the cool...

Corvair War: Sitting Pretty Is One Thing, But This Crown-Converted Monza Racer Stomping Corvettes And Porsches Is Another!

I can’t knock Lohnes for picking the Yenko Stinger…it’s a given that if you aren’t going for a V8-converted ‘Vair, that the Yenko is the way to go. Looking at for sale...

This Big-Block AMC Ambassador Coupe Is The Last Of It’s Kind And Up For Grabs

This 1973 Ambassador Coupe represents one of the most forgotten last gasps of the musclecar era before it’s advancement into malaise. Sure, it’s a large by huge car, but if the shape...

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This Real Yenko Stinger Is The Finishing Blow To This Corvair Blog War – RIP McTaggart’s Hopes And Dreams

Wow, I did not think McTaggart would simply flop like a dying fish when it came to this Corvair war. I thought he was better than just panic searching for a Crown Corvair (which I featured the day...

Racing With Dad: Here’s A Spectacular Story From The NMCA Finals And Why We Love This Sport

  There’s always something cool about going racing with your family. Speaking from the father and son perspective some of the most fun weekends I have ever spent in the sport of drag...

2015 U.S. Nationals Extra: Courtney Force & Clay Millican Into Traxxas Nitro Shootout!

Courtney Force and Clay Millican claimed the No. 8 positions in the Traxxas Nitro Shootout following special lottery drawings held in downtown Indianapolis to preview the Chevrolet Performance U.S....