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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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Major Theodore Van Kirk, Navigator Of The Enola Gay And The Last Remaining Crewmember, Has Passed On

As the automotive world gears up for the racing out at the salt flats near Wendover, Utah, a reflection needs to be made. Among the scrub, mountains and salt, seventy years ago, men started training...

Bonneville Speed Week 2014: Target 550 Streamliner To Miss Speed Week, Shooting For Late Season Meet

The Treit and Devenport Target 550 streamliner will not compete at Bonneville Speed Week 2014 after suffering mechanical problems at the USFRA test and tune meet a couple of weeks back and suffering...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Which One Of These Rides Would You Import To The U.S. If You Could?

The 25-year-old import rule sucks out loud. Period. Anyone who played Gran Turismo then went straight to a Nissan dealership looking for a Skyline learned quickly that America tends to get screwed...

Top 11: McTaggart’s To-Do Automotive List

  Y’know, for a guy who is seriously in-depth with automotive culture, it is amazing how little I’ve actually done. That’s not to say I haven’t done anything, mind you,...

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Australian Photographer Simon Davidson Makes Aussie Burnouts Look Like Art-Check These Pictures Out!

(Photos by Simon Davidson Photography) If you are at all familiar with Aussie burnouts, you know that they are loud, raucous, violent and utterly satisfying. One thing they are not, however, are...

Chryslers At Carlisle Coverage: Another Blast Of Nothing But B&E Bodies! Racers, Street Machines, Restored Perfection

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Yesterday we ran a collection of nothing but Chrysler B&E body cars on display at the 2014 Chryslers at Carlisle Show that was held at the famed show grounds in...

Tired Looking, Haggard, But Totally Savable Denimachine Van Surfaces For Sale In Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

As much as many people want to forget it, vans were a huge part of the scene in the 1970s and they’re coming back with a vengeance now as people who were kids in that era want to recapture...

Next-Gen Caddy CTS-V Seen Testing At The Nurburgring, Sounds As Wicked As Ever

When Lexus introduced the updated GS series in 1998, they did it by using one of the most well-done advertising campaigns ever, the “Something Wicked This Way Comes” ads. They...

This Evil VW Beetle Has A Noisy Secret Hidden Under The Engine Cover – A Fine Freak Show!

Today is shaping up to be the day of awesome stuff on Craigslist, but Mateo Lopez sent us the link for this VW Beetle which we almost didn’t even click but then decided if he thought it was...

This Killer Old Doodlebug Is Based Off Of A 1929 Ford Two Ton Truck – Perfect Bonneville Push Vehicle

We’ve got to thank Powermaster’s Brady Basner for the tip on this Craigslist ad for the cool 1929 Ford doodlebug you see below. The machine started life as a two ton truck and was then...

Ebay Find: 1972 AMC Javelin Alabama State Trooper Replica

We all know that in the early 1970s that two of, if not the baddest cop cars ever, the 440 Dodge Polara and Plymouth Fury were nothing to screw with at all. Acceleration that didn’t get beat...

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Ford Downsizes EcoBoost in the F150, Claims To Outperform All Comers: Is The Future Turbos And A Diet?

Ford’s latest F-150 EcoBoost has had one of the most radical changes for the F-Series lineup in recent memory. The body is now aluminum, and the EcoBoost V6 has scaled down, from 3.5L to 2.7L....

“Scoop” Vessels’ 1972 Ford Baja Truck Going To Auction For Charity In Burbank, California On August 1st!

This 1972 Ford F100 Class 8 racer, the 1977 Baja 1000 winner formerly owned and driven by Frank “Scoop” Vessels, is going to be auctioned off by Auctions America on August 1, 2014, and...

It’s The Round Of “Would You Rather?” That You’ll Enjoy For Once: Killer Intakes!

Yes, we know that when we put together these “Would You Rather?” items, that essentially you’re cringing and making a choice just to make a choice. And we’ve given you some...