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The Last of our Lost Buckeye Skips Drag and Drive Photos! Our Final Gallery of Day Three On Track Action and Checkpoints!

Here’s our last 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 to...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: PDRA Testing For This Weekend’s Maryland International Raceway Event! Live Testing Action.

We’ve got some live track testing going on at Maryland International Raceway where PDRA’s top teams are on hand to see what kind of improvements they can make as they get ready for this...

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Robin Shutes Onboard Video Pikes Peak 2026. 2nd Overall, 1st in Super Unlimited, and Sets the All Time Rear Wheel Drive Record!

If you are like me you are going to watch this video and think how much fun it seems it would be to be driving, and also that this dude could have been going even faster. Yeah, that’s not a...

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They Built a BANNED F1 Car From the 70’s! Well Kinda, And It’s Awesome! Who Wants To Build One Of These?

I know I’m not alone in saying that the Tyrrell P34 is one of the coolest looking F1 cars ever produced, not only because the lines are good on it, but also because it’s a freak show with...

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Flat-12 Ferrari Magic in Monaco | John Surtees’ Favourite F1 Car Makes ALL the Right Noises. Pure Bliss.

There are going to be some of the most epic Ferrari’s in Formula 1 history at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, and this right here is one of them. The crew caught up with this car...

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Randy Pobst’s Randit Suspension Overhaul: Episode 4 of 5 – Putting All This Freshly Installed Suspension To The Test On The Track!

Randy Pobst can wheel a race car, and on too many occasions to count we’ve seen him do it. But he also enjoys a quick and fast street car which means that upgrades are often in order. In this video...

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Mission Impossible: Nutting Picks Eleven Of The Best And Worst General Motors G-bodies

 Last night Brian called me up and we had the following conversation: Brian: “Nutting, it’s the middle of the week and your last two blog items have been weak sauce, so I’ve got a challenge...

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Gearhead Magazine: The Best Thing About the 1990s

I was digging through my record shelf the other day and was kind of surprised to find that I had a relatively complete collection of split singles that all came from the same place: Gearhead...

Effing Awesome Fail Video: A Massive Truck Tug of War Goes Very Very Wrong

Forgive us as we try to reconstruct the events leading up to this momentous video. There were cans, nay, gallons of Keystone beer chugged. There were minutes of angry Ford versus Chevy rumblings and...

Done: Toyota To Cease Manufacturing In Australia Come 2017 – Will Officially End Australia’s Auto Industry

 For a country as obsessed with cars and hot rods as Australia is, it seems unfathomable that no new ones will be made there when 2017 rolls around, but that is the reality the country faces now...

Watch This Front Wheel Drive Drag Car Suffer A Catastrophic Tire Failure On The Dyno!

 We love chassis dynos but we also fear them to some degree. Obviously we have run our projects on the dyno with varying levels of success, some destruction, and the constant thought in the back of...

Barnstormin’: The Culture Of “Everything Sucks”

I try to be a positive guy. Whether it is people, cars, sports, politics, or whatever, I tend not to go straight to the negative angle of stuff. Yes, I enjoy breaking the chops of weird or ugly cars...

V8 Symphony: The Sounds Of Thundering Power At A Swiss Hill Climb Will Make Your Day

 This video was literal music to our ears so we wanted to share it with you. The video was shot at a hill climb event in Switzerland and it concentrates on some of the sweet V8 powered cars that...

Epic Hacks: Reddit’s “Just Rolled in the Shop” Subreddit Will Give you Nightmares

  Reddit has a million “subreddits” on everything from trees to male fashion advice. Our favorite is “Just Rolled in the Shop,” a collection of photos from mechanics all over...

Project Violent Valiant Update: The Valiant’s Face Gets Chopped Off And Cage Building Continues

Project Violent Valiant is soldiering along at Hot Rod Chassis and Cycle these days despite the crushing forces of winter trying to freeze half of the country to death. Kevin Tully is keeping warm by...

eBay Find: The Most Second Gen, 2nd Gen Camaro In The World

There was a time when this Camaro ruled the streets of whatever city or town it was built in. Ok, maybe that’s not true because it doesn’t appear that the car was ever driven all that...

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BangShift Question Of The Day: What Music Do You Listen To When Wrenching On Your Vehicles?

Driving home today, I realized that the majority of my day’s activities involves listening to music, whether it’s on the commute to and from work, slogging through some debugging and...

2014 NHRA Winternationals – Photos From The Explosive Opening Weekend Of The 2014 NHRA Season

(Words by Darr Hawthorne – Photos by Mike and Jeff Burghardt) – Love him or hate him, 16-time nitro funny car Champion John Force isn’t going anywhere, except down the dragstrip, 1,000...

Unknown Parts Counter Guy: The Winter Car Crash – Mystery, Intrigue, and Public Urination

(Unknown Parts Counter Guy is our new series written by an actual parts counter guy at a large chain auto parts store. He’s writing anonymously so his ass doesn’t get fired. If you missed...

Drag Week 2014: All The Dates, All The Tracks, All The Info You Want And Need – Photos From The Original 2005 Event HERE!

So the news broke on Saturday about what race tracks and what dates that Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2014 would be happening at and on. I happened to be in the car when that news came out traveling...