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4th of July SALE! Visit Ridetech.com Between Now And July 7th for 10% Off Late Model Suspension During July 4th Weekend Sale!

That’s right gang, if you are looking for some real savings this 4th of July weekend, to celebrate 250 years of American pride, then now is your chance to save 10% off your late model...

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Free Live Streaming Drag Racing: 20th Annual World Footbrake Challenge Big Money Bracket Racing – Sunday

The 18th Annual World Footbrake Challenge is the bracket race event for all you folks who don’t like a trans brake, delay boxes, etc. and we are thrilled to be bringing you all the racing action...

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LIVE: LARIS Motorsports Insurance $100K Presented by Vintage at Beech Bend Raceway Park – Sunday

Watch the Motormania LIVE Coverage from the TB Promotions Laris Insurance $100k at Bowling Green. This is going to be some great racing with a $25K race, two $50k races, and the big $100,000...

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STREET WEEK SWEDEN LIVE in the United States For The First Time! Get Your All Access Pass To Drag And Drive Greatness Right Here!

That’s right folks, we’ve been talking about it for a few weeks but now is the time to sign up for your livestream from Street Week Sweden! I’ll be there, announcing, interviewing,...

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FREE Big Money Bracket Racing LIVESTREAM: The SuperBucks Showdown Presented by Get’M Performance Saturday $20,000

More big money bracket racing coming to you live! It’s Thursday at the SuperBucks Showdown presented by Get’M Performance and that means there is $5,000 on the line to warm up everyone for two...

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Beaver Springs Dragway All Ford Show and Drags Was Off The Hook For 2026! We’ve Got More Dan Grippo Photos Right Here!

(Words by Joe Grippo, photos by Dan Grippo) We hauled the race cars up to picturesque Beaver Springs Dragway the other weekend for the annual All Ford Race and Car Show. Sunshine, blue skies, and...

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Bonneville Speed Week 2014: Carpool DeVille, The World’s Fastest Hot Tub Will Be On The Salt!

(Editor’s note: Craig wrote this story and we ran it some weeks back to let people know about the fund raising effort that the builders of the Carpool Deville were putting on in an attempt to...

Too Cool Or Too Much? This 1972 Olds Vista Cruiser Has A Rear Mounted Engine And Jet Boat Headers Through The Back Window

Reader Josh Fullenwider had his BangShift alarm go off when he saw this Craigslist post for a 1972 Olds Vista Cruiser the likes of which the world has never seen before. We’re not kidding, this...

Bonneville Speed Week Video: Watch What It Looks Like Inside The Jesel Land Speed Racing Team Dodge Truck When It Spins At 260MPH At Bonneville

Jimmy Barton is a bad ass ladies and gentleman, and has a bunch of records here at Bonneville behind the wheel of the famed Jesel Racing Dodge Ram Pickup. He’s driven it with everything from 4...

Kearney Cruise Nite Coverage: More Photos From A Packed House In Downtown Kearney

(Photos by Scott Liggett) – Yesterday we dropped Scott Liggett’s first gallery from the 2014 Kearney Cruise Nite in your lap and today we’re back with more. See, the entire length...

Powerful Video: Motor Trend’s Jessi Lang Tells The Story Of Her Autobahn Wreck And Recovery

I first learned who Jessi Lang was when “The J-Turn” series of videos she hosted hit the Motor Trend channel on YouTube. I watched the first episode, where David Freiburger taught her how...

McTaggart’s Day Of Mud, Volume 3: A Camaro Showing How It’s Done

Mudding is often classified as a redneck sport. So be it, it’s loud, wild, dirty and fun as hell. It’s a fitting statement. And while there are plenty of high-dollar rigs with mountain...

McTaggart’s Day Of Mud, Volume 2: International Mud Truck Made From An Opel Omega Wagon!

Ok, so there isn’t a damn bit of mud worth mentioning in the video, but what you’ll see would do pretty well, given it’s roots. At one point in time this was an early 1990s Opel...

Don Baskin’s Chevrolet Collection Is Incredible – Chad Would Hyperventilate Upon Entry

Recently, the guys over the Chevrolet Performance’s “The Block” blog made it to the giant car collection of Don Baskin and what they found was nothing short of incredible,...

McTaggart’s Day Of Mud, Volume 1: Screaming Motors And Mud Fountains

While Brian and Chad prepare for their summer vacation on the salt at Bonneville, I’m enjoying one of the drier summers in recent memory in Kentucky. While it’s perfect track-day weather...

This 1956 Pontiac Pathfinder Could Be The Coolest Factory Sedan Delivery We Have Ever Seen – A Canadian Gem On eBay

We have to thank our bacon loving tipster Tommy Kreisler for the goods on this awesome find. The car is a 1956 Pontiac Pathfinder, which was a model produced only in Canada and like all the other...

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Aircraft Gallery: Collings Foundation’s Wings Of Freedom Tour Stop in Bowling Green, KY

World War II saw air battles that were absolutely vicious in nature being fought by pilots that were barely out of high school going toe-to-toe with their adversaries. Their aircraft were the only...

In 1935 Ab Jenkins Went 68mph On An Allis Chalmers Tractor And In 2014 There’s a Modified 8N Showing Up To Blow That Away

The man you see hunkered over the steering wheel of that (literally) speeding Allis-Chalmers tractor is the legendary Ab Jenkins. In 1935 Jenkins drove that tractor to a terminal speed of just under...

This 1970s Cadillac Eldorado Car Hauler Could Be Yours – This Thing Is Really Cool

Charles Wickam gets the gold star on this one for tipping us off to this awesome example of a 1970s Cadillac Eldorado converted into a race car hauler. There’s lots of photos on the internet of...

A Pair Of The Rarest Factory Valve Covers Ever Is For Sale On eBay For $3,499

Many people have never heard of the Mercury M-335 engine and that’s not too shocking because it is one of the most rare and short lived engine packages of the murky days when Detroit...

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