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BLOOD WARZ AT THE ROCK! OUTLAW 275 DRAG RADIAL ACTION AT CAROLINA NT! ROCKINGHAM DRAGWAY!!

Rockingham Dragway’s Blood Warz presented by Carolina No Time is a heck of a race with tons of great racing action featuring all kinds of small tire classes. The Outlaw 275 class is clearly one of...

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NOSTALGIA TOP FUEL DRAGSTER ELIMINATIONS FROM THE 2026 NATIONAL HOT ROD REUNION! FRONT ENGINE DRAGSTER GREATNESS!

While we still wish we were livestreaming the National Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green, we are super grateful that the Monday Morning Racer was on hand to shoot all the action so we can still check...

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More Speedway Motors and the Museum of American Speed Cars And Coffee Photos During Motor City to Wheel Hub LIVE!

Here’s our second gallery of photos from Speedway Motors, and if you missed any of the others we’ve got a link to those as well! (Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) Speedway Motors...

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Lost Buckeye Skips Day THREE Drag and Drive Photos! Our First Gallery of Day Three On Track Action and Checkpoints!

Here’s our first gallery of lost photos from Day 3 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos we’ve got a link...

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Speedway Motors and the Museum of American Speed Cars And Coffee Photos During Motor City to Wheel Hub LIVE!

(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) Speedway Motors headquarters in Lincoln, NE is right across the parking lot from the Museum Of American Speed. Together, they put on a cars and coffee gathering...

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NHRA New England Nationals Photo Coverage: Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, And Pit Photos From This Sold Out NHRA National Event!

(Photos by Richard Pasley) – When the NHRA brought National Event Drag Racing back to the northeast a few years ago, the crowds at the New England Nationals in Epping were off the hook. More...

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The Horrible Welding Continues! This is An Epidemic! More Globs Of Fail Inside

Yesterday, after running the blog item about the horrid welding job on the gas tank the guys at RideTech spotted, we sent our an APB asking for your photos of horrid welding jobs. The first guy to...

Huge Upcoming Oklahoma Auction Has Hundreds Of Old American Cars – Hot Rod Project Galore

Chuy Nava from MSD Performance tipped us off about this amazing auction that is set to take place in Oklahoma come early June (the 7th to be exact). The auction is not filled with pristine, ready to...

Painfully Stupid Video: Watch An Amazing Towing Failure From (We Think) Russia

Cue the music and bring in the clowns because this video is as close to a circus as anything you’ll see today. We think it was filmed in Russia but perhaps we are wrong and if we are, by all...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Is Your Project Ready To Go For Cruising Season?

Tomorrow I will get you back up to speed on Project Buford T Justice and his long winter nap as we got repeatedly smashed in the face by mother nature to the point that the car was under a frozen...

Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series – Crazy Photos And Full Results From Wild Horse Pass!

(Photos credit: Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series) – The second race of the early Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series season was held at Wild Horse Pass Raceway in Arizona last weekend and we have...

BangShift Approved Video? This Blown V8 Powered M3 Makes Some Big Suds At The Wheels And Hits The Strip

First things first. There is not an LS engine in this M3. This is a factory V8 powered M3 that has been warmed up with a centrifugal blower bolted to the front of the engine and it sounds pretty...

Unknown Parts Counter Guy: Assault And Battery (Acid)

Batteries are big right now because of the cold, or depending on the day, because it’s starting to look like the first breaths of Spring and people are getting their projects out and are starting...

BOOM VIDEO: Watch This Very Fast Pickup Literally Launch Its Driveshaft – No Loop Here!

There are certain rules that lots of racers like to scoff at. Replacing belts every couple years is one of many that annoy people and make them believe that there’s some sort of conspiracy out...

Event Gallery: The 2014 Motor City Hot Rod And Racing Expo – First Time Show And We Were There!

(Dave Nutting photos) – This week, we’ll be telling you all about our adventurous road trip to visit the fine folks at Trick Flow, Lingenfelter Performance Engineering, and the...

RACE COVERAGE: World Of Outlaws Results And Action Photos From Stockton, California

(Words by Mike Burghardt – Photos by Mike and Jeff Burghardt) – STOCKTON, California – Kerry Madsen (a native of St. Marys, N.S.W., Austrailia) led only one lap in the FVP Western...

The 2014 Buffalo Motorama – Our Last Batch Of Fresh Photos From The Floor and The Rafters (Seriously)

(Photos by Mike Brooks) – From California to New York, we have your car show needs covered this week! If you just spent some time looking at the photos from Pomona, welcome to our second and...

The 2014 Muscle Car and Street Machine Nationals – Our Last Blast Of Photos

Our first two galleries from the 2014 Muscle Car and Street Machine Nationals, held at the expansive Pomona Fairplex took you to many places around the ground but this time we’re going inside...

Rally Video: Watch A Gutsy Driver and Co-Driver Power Through An Irish Course Where Mistakes Are NOT An Option

We haven’t ever brought you many racing videos from Ireland but this week is an exception. We’re going over to the Emerald Isle and inside a rare and very fast Darrian T90 GTR to spend...

In August 1973, cheating in the Soap Box Derby made national news

In August, 1973 — at the very height of the Watergate scandal — Walter Cronkite, Time magazine and hundreds of other broadcasts and publications were focused on one thing: the 36th...