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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 Pro Street/Strip 1976 Chevy Vega Has Great Looks And A Conservative Engine Combo

This little 1976 Vega is 100% street legal (in Minnesota) has a very mild little 350 under the hood (that needs to be fixed), and seems like it would be a spartan but fun little hunk of iron to beat...

Nut Driver: The Long Journey Home (Part 3) | Quality Time With The “Other” Monte

[“Nut Driver” features updates on Dave Nutting’s 1987 Chevrolet Monte Carlo] To catch up on the other installments, click HERE One of my goals for this year was to attend a full season of SCCA...

Warhead: Watch The Test Mule Engine For Tom Bailey’s Sick Seconds 2.0 Make 3,625hp On Morris Racing Engines Dyno

If there is one thing that I consider myself fortunate to have witnessed first hand it has been the escalation of competition, technology, horsepower, and insanity in the world of street legal drag...

Tennessee’s I-40 Dragway SOLD!!!! Another Drag Strip Saved!

We have it on very good authority that papers were signed today for the sale of I-40 Dragway in Tennessee! That’s great news for racers as the track recently came up for sale and it’s...

Holley NHRA Reunion Cacklefest Photos – Loading In The Iron And Header Flame Spewing Fun!

(Photos by Bryan McTaggart) – Having attended more than our fair share of Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunions at Beech Bend Raceway in Bowling Green, Kentucky we can tell you with some...

Good News, Canadians! The Mercedes Benz Unimog Is Coming Back! (Sorry, Lohnes, Not In The U.S.A. Yet)

One of the most capable workhorse vehicles ever designed is slated to make a return to the Great White North’s market soon, and workers across Canada are celebrating. The Mercedes Benz Unimog...

The Next Generation of TCI® 6x Six-Speed™ Transmissions Has Arrived – More Durable, More Smoothness

The TCI 6x six speed automatic was an amazing piece when introduced a short while back and since we know that company does not rest for a minute on their laurels, it only makes sense that they have...

Aussie Test And Tune Footage From Heathcote Park Raceway – Rotarys, Sixes, Eights, And Even A Lambo!

We love seeing all sorts of cars mixing it up on the same playing surface, no matter the racing, and a test and tune night at the dragstrip is guaranteed to bring out many different players. We see...

Raging Inferno: Watch This Mustang Eat The Wall At A No-Prep Race And Then Burst Into Flames! (Driver OK)

Well this is about as crazy as it gets. The driver of the Mustang you see enveloped in flames above was competing at a no-prep event recently when hr wrecked the car and it went up like a Chinese...

Caption This: The Maserati Quattroporte “Jackson Pollock” Edition

Accidents can happen at anywhere and anytime…that is why securing cargo inside of a vehicle is so important. While most people think of cargo in a truck bed (something our own Charles Wickam...

Cruise Photos: Mass. Cruisers Bass Pro Shops Cruise – Foxboro, Massachusetts – June 2015

With no races to attend and a Thursday night at home last week, we hit the biggest cruise night in the eastern half of the United States which is happily located about a forty minutes from BangShift...

FCA To Ramp Up Production Of Hellcat V8s To Meet Demand – And Possibly For An Upcoming Jeep?

Well, if this isn’t good news, then I just don’t know what is. In an interview with Automotive News, Dodge/SRT CEO Tim Kuniskis admitted that the company is going to ramp up production...

2015 LA Roadsters Show – Grab Bag Of Automotive Coolness Photos!

We have been slamming you with photos from the 2015 LA Roadsters show over the last week or two and for good reason, there were tons of awesome cars at the Pomona Fairplex! Instead of breaking these...

Ebay Find: A Rear-Engined 1972 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser – Sorry, Kids, We’re Going To Wally World By Ourselves!

The beauty of owning a station wagon lies in the cargo area In the back. It is quite useful for carrying all sorts of cargo: Lumber, groceries, brats who sit in the rearward-facing seats and flip off...