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OG SMALL TIRE RACING IN THE MOUNTAINS!!!! KILLER STREET AT ELK CREEK DRAGWAY JUNE 2026!!!!

Oooh yeah! Elk Creek Dragway is something special, and with racing like this we understand why. In this video you’ll see Killer Street 275/28 and more as the 5.30 and 6.30 index classes take...

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FREE LIVE DRAG AND DRIVE COVERAGE! Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Continues Today as We are Heading for 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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2026 NTT INDYCAR SERIES Full Race | Bommarito Automotive Group 500 from WWT Raceway

Just a couple of weekss after the famed Indy 500, the IndyCar Series was back at it for another weekend of racing. This time it was at the Bommarito Automotive Group 500 World Wide Technology Raceway...

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Finnegan’s 1961 Cadillac Coupe DeVille Drag Car Build Is Getting Closer! Interior At Home. Check It Out.

I talked to Mike the other day and he said that they are seriously working on the Cadillac to get it on the road this year. Sure, there is a lot to do, but they keep chipping away at it and in the...

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They CLOSED a Public Road for a Street Race and Heavy Hitters Came Out! Cash Days Street Racing Greatness!

We’ve livestreamed a few city sanctioned street race events over the years, and have heard of a few others, but it never gets old to hear that folks want to see Cash Days street races to go...

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New Right-Angle Impact Totally Resets the Scoreboard! These Aren’t Supposed To Be This Good!

Right angle impacts have really made a splash recently, and if you are like me and think they are just an over hyped cordless ratchet, you’d be wrong. Yes, I said it, I was wrong. I love me...

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Barnstormin’: Hanging With The Fringe Element

It is kind of funny how after five years of writing this Barnstormin’ column my life has kind of turned into exactly that, especially during this time of the year. I recently had a three week...

Do You And Your Car Want To Be On TV? Now Is Your Chance! Ridetech Wants You!

We just found out that the upcoming USCA Race in Daytona, which is in two weeks, is going to be the location for some special segments and such revolving around the gang at Ridetech. While I am there...

Camaro 5 Fest Photos And A Little Editorial On Modern Muscle. Does It Exist?

(Text and Photos by Rodney Prouty)  We all say it, we all quote it, but is modern muscle, really muscle? Having a chance to travel to big-ole Texas and the Royal Purple Raceway, who played host to...

Close Call Video: Watch Things Get Weird On The Top End Of The Drag Strip At High Speed

I have certainly seen and called my fair share of top end weirdness on the drag strip but all of it has been witnessed from the comfy confines of the timing tower at whatever strip it was at. While...

Check Out Our Mooneyes Mother’s Day Show And Drag Photos From Irwindale California

If you missed the show this weekend at Irwindale, you missed a lot. Mooneyes knows how to put on a real shindig, and we couldn’t see a single person who wasn’t having a bitchin time. The...

This Criagslist Camaro Is Truly One For The Books – At Least It Has A Big Block In It?

There’s a place to begin with this 1977 Craigslist Camaro, I’m just not sure where it is. The thing has a very Mad Max vibe happening with the holes chopped in the hood and the lack of...

The BangShift C7 Corvette Dissection – Pulling Apart A Blown UP, Brand New Super Car For Fun And Profit

(Photos and captions by David Matyjasik) – We know him better as Dave Matty and so will you by the time this whole saga comes to a conclusion, but to say that this will be one of the neatest...

First Indianapolis Grand Prix Begins With Massive Wreckage – Starting Line Destruction (Video)

The IndyCar series was hoping to start a new tradition and build on their already strong legacy of racing in Indiana during the month of May but they did not bargain for the literal start that the...

Gallery: 52 Photos of AMCs!

The next collection in our series of “50 Photos” galleries will celebrate those great machines that rolled out of the factory in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The American Motors Company still has...

CL Find: This Beat Looking F-150 Has A Twin Turbo 351 And All The Makings Of The Best Sleeper In America

Normally we limit ourselves to one Craigslist Find per day but the tip we just got on this sleeper Ford pickup that is currently for sale on Craigslist was too good to sit on, we had to run it! This...

Pat Van Racing’s Tom Armitage Gives Us The Tech And Specs Behind The Team’s 10-second Mini-Slingshot Dragster – This Rules

After running the video of Team Pat Van Racing’s miniature, motorcycle powered slingshot running down into the 10-second zone at England’s York Raceway, we reached out to Tom and asked...

Have You Checked Out Jiffy-Tite’s Online Catalog Yet? There’s Tech, Products, and More In There

Jiffy-Tite fittings have been on our brain as of late because we’ve seen them installed on trucks at the Diesel Power Challenge, drag cars at NHRA events from coast to coast,  and on land...

Watching This Hemi Powered Model A Rip Around The Streets At Sunrise With No Mufflers Is Good For Your Soul

(Words by Greg Rourke) – This video has been around for a little while, but it says it all. A primer gray Model A, Chrysler Fire Power Hemi with a half dozen Strombergs, mufflers left at the...

Craigslist Find: The Most Genius Use For An Old School Bus Ever – Conversion Trailer Greatness

Mark Covey is the inspired BangShifter that tipped us off to the most genius use for an old school bus ever which is currently for sale on Craigslist. The premise is insanely simple in the fact that...