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NORRA Baja Livestream: The National Off-Road Racing Association Takes On The Mexican Desert May 1-7!

The National Off-Road Racing Association has been putting on races since 1967 and is known for their Baja race that is a little less hardcore than SCORE’s BAJA 1000. Not that the racing...

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RebelDryver Got A New Project Car! This 1977 Chevy Monza Is Going To Become A Drag And Drive Machine!

Our boy Scott Liggett is back with a new drag and drive project! After buying a 1950 Chevy coupe a year or two ago, and realizing it would be more work than he was really wanting to tackle, he sold...

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Better Than Rain-X?! Is This The Best Windshield Water Repellent Windshield Coating Ever? 10 Brands Tested!

I am a big fan of Rain-X. I own, and have owned, a few vehicles that don’t have windshield wipers at all and have found that if you apply it right and often enough it works wonders. I’ve...

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Our Final Gallery of 2026 PDRA East Coast Nationals Photos! Pro Mods, Dragsters, Door Cars, And So Much More!

Here’s gallery #4, our final gallery of PDRA East Coast Nationals action, and if you missed the photos we already posted, use the link below to check them out too. (Photos by David Whealon) The...

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This Awesome Dent Side Ford F100 Pre-Runner RIPS The STREETS, The Dirt, And More!

There is something awesome about vintage bodied pre-runner trucks, and this dentside F100 is a great example. My uncle had a SuperCab back then, and even though I was never a Ford fan growing up I...

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The Wild 1981-1985 Era Of Formula One Cars Race At Monaco Again! 1980s F1 Gold at the 2026 Monaco Historic Grand Prix!

Here we go with more awesome vintage F1 action from the streets of Monaco! The Monaco Historic Grand Prix is one hell of an event, and it’s back after a few years off! If you dig old race cars, you...

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The Wild Rat Injected Fuel Altered Runs A Big Block Chevy, 100% Nitro, Doesn’t Do Burnouts And Hauls (Video)

We have had a lot of cool stuff on the site so far this week but this is the coolest video(s) by a mile. Bret Kepner alerted us to the existence of this car yesterday and from the stories he was...

Pro Street Hemi Hammer – This Demon Has 535ci Of Stage V Headed Hemi Under The Orange Hood!

No car is every perfect, right? Even the stuff you build yourself may have some compromises in it to get the final product rolling. If you are buying something that is already built, that’s a...

RideTech Launches “RideTech Nation” Program Where You Can Get Paid To Win Running RideTech Components

As the temps warm up, more and more of you will be out there on autocrosses and road courses across the country and RideTech has a program that’ll reward your successes in your RideTech...

Behemoth: Watch This Full Sized Chevy Truck Run 7.70s At 170mph Plus With A Twin Turbo LS Engine – World’s Quickest?

Charles Wickam was at the Houston Performance Trucks Shootout last weekend at Royal Purple Raceway in Baytown, Texas. He reported back that there was some crazy stuff there and mentioned a truck that...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-worthy News: VW Trucks, Night-Blind Panthers And More!

While the seasons have changed and the automotive season is spinning up for North America, the stream of news that fills spaces or causes gut-lurching reactions hasn’t stopped. We’ve trod...

This 1971 Ford LTD Droptop Is Just Begging To Be Driven – If You Like Them Topless And Big, This One’s For You!

Seventeen years of legal driving (plus many more on top of that) and the only convertible I’ve ever driven was a 1987 Chrysler LeBaron that had at least once cylinder calling it a day. The car...

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Behind The Scenes Video: Great Footage From The Making Of The Pennzoil Hellcat Tires Shredding Drift Film

We recently got tipped off to some cool behind the scenes, “making of” video that shows just how Pennzoil and the crew that made the film pulled off the awesome drifting scenes that we...

Unknown Parts Counter Guy: The Service Advisor, Also Known As The Whipping Boy

Those of us who work behind the scenes, trying to keep your vehicles alive, have a brotherhood mentality that is oddly similar to the military: sure, we will give each other hell about different...

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All Hot Rod Drag Week 2015 Tracks Announced – Gateway Motorsports Park, Indy, Great Lakes Dragaway and Cordovas Round It Out!

After months of waiting, fingernail gnawing, and speculation, Hot Rod Drag Week 2015 tracks have been announced and this looks like it will be a wild Midwestern adventure through some of the coolest...

Truckin’ Photos: More Tire Smoking, Wheels Up Action From The Houston Performance Truck Shootout

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Engines are dumb. We don’t mean it like that, they’re cool and interesting but ultimately they don’t care what they are bolted into and making...

Feature: Here’s How A 2015 Hellcat Charger Gets Broken In The BangShift Way – Photos, Video, Smoke!

(Words and photos by Kaleb Kelley) – Everybody has been talking about the Hellcat since it was first announced last year. Everybody is getting to see the car they’ve been drooling over on...

Check Out This Footage FCA Released Of The 2015 Easter Jeep Safari Concept Vehicles Playing At Moab!

For years now, Jeep puts together some excellent concept vehicles, hauls them out to Moab, and in the spirit of marketing and having fun, takes them out onto the trail during the Easter Jeep Safari....

Here’s A Collection Of The Most BangShifty Stuff At The 2015 Carl Casper Car Show

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – The 2015 Carl Casper show took place during some not very accommodating weather, but the turnout was still pretty good.  This year the venue offered more...

The Test Mule For Rolls-Royce’s Upcoming 4×4 Looks So Wrong, Yet So Right

The second I saw this Rolls-Royce test mule, code-named Project Cullinan, I started smiling. Rollers are highly esteemed cars, exceptionally luxurious and eye-wateringly expensive. There isn’t...