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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Rest Day Action! Drivers, Navigators, And Race Machines Get A Break. The Crews, Not So Much!

It’s Rest Day at Dakar 2026, but that doesn’t mean that everyone is just sitting around. In the video below you’ll see where everyone stands now as drivers and crew, along with...

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King of the Hammers 2026 Is Coming! Watch Hammertown Come Together With This Streaming Camera From Johnson Valley.

That’s right, it’s January and that means that King of the Hammers is coming! King of the Hammers 2026 officially starts on January 22nd and will continue for more than two weeks. It...

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Steve Magnante Junkyard Crawl: Here’s A Race Hemi Coronet Ready To Come Alive. This Post Car Could Be Epic!

Steve Magnante is back at it, at Backyard Auto in New Hampshire to check out another great muscle car shell. This is a 1965 Dodge Coronet 440, and while it didn’t come with a Hemi under the...

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Bodywork 101: Fixing BAD Panel Gaps! Tightening Up Your Gaps Can Make A HUGE Difference In Your Finished Project

There are a lot of differences between your average body shop paint and bodywork and something that someone like Kevin Tetz would do for a high end project. Sometimes projects don’t require, or...

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Cutting Up A Real 1932 Ford Frame? Iron Trap Garage Is Using Parts From This One To Fix Another!

When the guys at Iron Trap Garage pick up a new project, they sometimes find themselves with stuff that most people wouldn’t try to save. They have an eye for what something can become and,...

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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Stage 6 Rally Racing Action! The Saudi Desert Is Fighting Back In This 48th Running of the Dakar Rally!

We’ve been sharing every day’s coverage from the 2026 Dakar Rally and today is no different. Watch the video to see all the Stage 6 action, highlights, and more below! Bodies and vehicles...

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National Drag Racing Association Launches As Doorslammer Drag Racing Series – Assumes All Dates And Tracks Of 2014 ADRL Schedule

News broke yesterday at the 2013 PRI show that a new drag racing series called the “National Drag Racing Association” will have a run of events in 2014 for Pro Mods and mountain motor pro...

Gallery: 31 Photos of Studebakers!

(Photos from the BS Archive) – We’re getting back on the horse with our random specific galleries of different cars and trucks. Today, it is Studebaker getting the spotlight. The long...

Watch This T-Bucket Run 6’s In The 8th: Driver Wearing Shorts And A T-Shirt. Brilliant!

By now all of you know how much I hate T-Buckets, which has been the subject of many “spirited” discussions between Brian and I. Well, here is a video of some dude in his 1927 T-Bucket...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Are Baja Race Cars Cooler Than Baja Race Trucks?

We love Baja race stuff around here, and are planning on some cool prerunner upgrades to the $200 Hauler, which has had us looking at a bunch of prerunners and Baja race trucks for inspiration....

Watch An Idiot Filming A Moron Wreck His Car – Stupidity Hurts

Sure, that title is pretty harsh but let’s be honest. If you are driving down the highway and see a truck purposely driving with two wheels up on the center divider barriers and you decide to...

This Pro Street 1961 409 Impala Could Be Yours, If The Price Is Right.

Every once in a while we find something on Craigslist that surprises us. When doing a search for Pro Street stuff on Craigslist we found this clean old school 1961 Impala Pro Streeter and then we got...

Top 11 Current automotive trends that have jumped the shark

The video posted yesterday of a stretched tire exploding on a dyno got me thinking about all of the fads that develop in automotive culture. Whether or not we want to admit it, there’s a fair...

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Extreme Downhill Barbie Jeep Racing Is Highly Entertaining To Watch But Painful To Do (Video)

Have you always wondered what would happen if grown men decided to race plastic Barbie Jeeps down a steep incline in the woods? We’ve spent hours on end pondering the outcome of such a...

Dragway 42 Is Hosting The Legendary Hangover Nationals On New Year’s Day – A Drag Race With A Great Twist! BE THERE!

For 15 years Dragway 42 in West Salem, Ohio has been hosting the “Hangover Nationals” on New Year’s day. This race goes off whether there is rain, sun, or snow! Nothing stops the...

These Images From A 1930s Era Boston Buick Dealership Are Breathtaking –

1932 wasn’t exactly a banner year in the USA. While it was the year that the iconic ’32 Ford came out, it was also the year when the Great Depression reached its bleak crescendo (along...

Failure Video: Why Running “Stretched” Tires On Your Car Is A Recipe For Disaster

Of the current popular automotive trends among “the kids”, weirdo camber and stretched tires are two that we don’t understand and outside of looking weird have some pretty bad...

Meaty Deal! Buy A Transmission Kit Until 12/23 From American Powertrain And They’re Giving You An Entire Smoked Ham!

With the recent huge success of their bacon incentive sale, American Powertrain is ramping it up a notch for Christmas. That’s right, kids. If you buy a transmission kit from American...

Craigslist Find: We Don’t Know What A “Vipette” Is But We Do Know That It Makes Us Sad

Marcus Buckley found this creation on Craisglist and immediately thought that he needed to send it to us for the site. That pretty much makes us question every decision we have ever made in life, but...

Check Out This Awesome 1920’s Dodge Promo Video Of A Sedan Mud Bogging In An Oil Field

This video rules. Seriously rules! Watch as this 1920’s Dodge Brothers Sedan mud bogs like a mad man through all kinds of killer terrain that would leave your new Dodge Ram stranded axle deep...