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

(Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) The world’s largest celebration of the Blue Oval went down a few weeks ago in Central Pennsylvania and of course, we were there. The 2026 edition of the Carlisle...

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The Goodwood Festival Of Speed 2026 In Car Camera LIVESTREAM Coverage: This Is What It Is Really Like To Race Up The Road At Goodwood!

If you’ve ever seen them race up the “driveway” at Goodwood, you know that it is narrow, fast, and intimidating for drivers. There have been plenty who have ended up in the grass,...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 5 At SRCA Dragway – SUNDAY

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 5! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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FREE LIVESTREAM From The Santa Pod Summer Nationals 2026 – All The LIVE Racing Action From England You Can Stand! SUNDAY

It has been an epic season of drag racing in England this year. With amazing weather blessing nearly every event at Santa Pod, drag racing fans in the UK have been thrilled with all the action....

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BUY IT NOW! 1987 Yugo Powered By 180hp Snowmobile Engine Mounted In The Rear – 100% BangShift Approved Insanity

This thing is so far past hack Yugo jokes, it isn’t even funny. How about a brilliant and kind of weird homebuilt hot rod that uses the car’s tin can light weight in its favor and uses...

2014 California Hot Rod Reunion: Doorslammers and Nothing But Doorslammers At Famoso

If all anyone wanted to do at the drag strip was to get to the finish line in the most consistent and efficient way possible, the world would be awash with dragsters and that would be a boring world....

Drag Action Photos From The Kontinentals Car Club Day Of The Drag Race – So Much Cool Stuff

(Photos by Bob Paxton) – For 13 years the Kontinentals car club has been putting on an awesome weekend of old school drag racing at Little River Dragway and after rain pushed them off their...

The Mystery Of The Foss Lake Camaro And 1952 Chevy Is Solved – Remains Identified From Decades Old Disappearances

It was in September of 2013 when we told you about the bizarre story of the cars (and bodies) discovered at the bottom of Foss Lake in Oklahoma (CLICK HERE TO SEE THE STORY). Law enforcement...

The Parting Shift: A Look Inside The Stick Shift Life Of Super Stock Racers At The 2014 NHRA US Nationals

There were more stick shift drag cars at the 2014 Chevrolet Performance US Nationals than I had ever seen in one place before. I’m not sure how I missed this awesome Les Mayhew video that he...

2014 Rodders Journal Revival: A Last Looks At Cool Customs, Cruisers, and Street Machines

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – As I told you yesterday, Grippo had a great time and shot like half a million photos at the 2014 Rodders Journalirevival at Pimlico a month or three ago. We have been...

2014 California Hot Rod Reunion – More Great Action Featuring Altereds And ONLY Altereds

We’re continuing to work through our massive pile of 2014 California Hot Rod Runion photos and that’ll roll on over the next few days because we have that much stuff left to go and our...

Ebay Find: This 1973 Pontiac Grand Am Has A 400ci V8 And The Lightning Rods Shifter…We Want It!

Let’s get the bad out of the way right off the bat: The price is higher than I’d pay, the paint is rough, there’s rust around the vinyl top, and there’s signs of past bodywork...

Blog War: A Cheap Shot On The Steel Jaw Of BangShift By A Former Friend Earns A Response

Yesterday, while most of America slept and prepared themselves for another day of work as productive members of society, Craig Fitzgerald had been up for hours scheming and plotting to take a blatant...

Question Of The Day: If You Could Name One Product Accurately, What Would It Be?

It cranks and cranks, but just won’t kick over. And you can hear the battery winding down and you curse and pray simultaneously for the damn thing to just start. Soon, you get the clicking of...

Unknown Parts Counter Guy: Don’t Believe Everything You Read On The Internet

The Internet: The hallowed electronic grounds filled with cat .gifs, Rage Faces, porn, and some of the worst “greatest advice ever”. I love hearing some of the stuff that comes out of...

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In 1964 Ford Built A Shorty Two Seater Mustang Show Car – The Story Of How It Avoided The Crusher And Who Owns It Now Is Greatness

Ford has done a really good job in 2014 telling all kinds of great Mustang stories. The 50th anniversary of the car has been handled with amazing prowess by the company from the way they interacted...

Bartone and Horan Jr. Dominate – Taking The California Hot Rod Reunion Nitro Titles & Championships!

  Over a year ago, loyal fans began checking their favorite hotel rooms for the October weekend of the California Hot Rod Reunion in Bakersfield, California like a modern-day Woodstock for the...

Craigslist Find: The Owner Of This Lumina Is Either A Comedic Genius Or In Need Of Help (On Several Levels)

There’s a part of me which fears this whole thing to be a setup. See, I have this buddy who no one really thought would amount to anything. He was just one of those people everyone looked at...