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FREE LIVE DRAG AND DRIVE COVERAGE! Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Starts Today And Will Hit 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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Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Two Video | Great Bend, KS to Kearney, NE | Kearney Raceway Park

Here’s the Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Two video and boy is it a fun one. We’re talking on the road, on the track and more! It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and...

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The $5,000 LS Swap Challenge: Is a Budget LS swap Still Possible? We’ll Find Out, as Hagerty is Building the Ultimate Sleeper Barn Find!

The $250 LS engine. It sparked a movement that has out paced even the experts biggest expectations, and has created an entire group of new companies in the automotive aftermarket. On top of that, it...

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Touring Car Icons Reunited for the Heritage Touring Cup Round 1 at the Spa Classic by Peter Auto Le Mans Classic

Every spring, the Spa-Francorchamps Circuit becomes what they call “a living theater of automotive history.”Classic cars, classic engines, and some of the finest historic and vintage car...

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Turning This Old Farm Truck into a Killer Street Machine Using Scrapyard Ford Parts! Bumpside Ford Goodness Part 3!

It’s alive! Here’s the Part 3 video in the series, and that means actual driving! Yes, this thing is going down the road in this one and showing off all the bits underneath. I love donor...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Sheet Metal Madness – The FJ Gets A Glove Box, Floor Mods And Doghouse Fab

Shannon is back at the fab work on the FJ40, with the roof and dash coming along, as well as the pedals and steering in a second video. There is a lot more going on as well, but that’s the fab...

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The Most Epic Roadkill Yet! The Boys Fight The Elements, Swap A Motor, Cruise 2,400 Miles Home!

In my eyes, this is the new episode where all other Roadkills will be measured by. This one combines so many killer elements from the hellacious trip just to get to where the thing is supposed to...

Watch The 2014 U.S. Street Nationals LIVE Right Here!

The 2014 U.S. Street Nationals are on and LIVE right now for you to watch FREE. All the great door car drag racing you can stand, all weekend long, right here. Be one of the cool kids, and grab a...

SEE A SEVEN FOOT TALL CHEVY PLANT WORKER INSPECT ROOFS IN 1936

Call us names if you want, but this video made us smile. It is part of a newsreel of some other promotional film from Chevrolet in the mid-1930s. The video shows employee James Scott, who stands at a...

Have You Ever Heard A Song About Bracket Racing? Us Either, But This Rap Tune Is Cool.

“Knock the tree down, carry the thing with me. Can’t win if you’re no better than fifty.” is just one of the cool lyrics that you’ll here in the Rap titled Be Double O,...

What To Do When Your Hippy Wife Owns A Prius. A Hot Rodders Guide To Justifying Owning One

This video cracked us up, and then got us scratching our heads and thinking. I’ve often said that I wished every non hot rodding idiot on the road would drive a Prius so that I can burn as much...

Brighton Speed Trials Saved For 2014! Victory From The Jaws Of Defeat For English Gearheads (Petrolheads, as they’d say)

We are happy to report that one of the world’s longest running automotive events has been saved from death by politician. The Brighton Speed Trials which started at the dawn of the automotive...

Racing Videos: Grassroots Ice Racing Helps Cure The Winter Blues

Even though the polar vortex is seemingly done raising a middle finger to the majority of the United States, Winter is still in full swing and the bitter cold lingers across much of the northern part...

Craigslist Find: Chevy Gold! LS6 and LS7 454s Still In Their Original Crates!

Well if this doesn’t blow the mind of every Chevy fan in the house we’re not sure what will. This seller in Lexington, Kentucky has a pair of the most hairy factory big blocks Chevrolet...

Gallery: Veluzat Military Vehicle Rentals – The Coolest Place In The Known Universe

I have been galavanting around the country for the last week and a half from drag races in Florida to a big media conference in California. In between those two things, I had a couple of days to...

Motorized Freak of the Week: The 1932 Helicron

We know what you’re thinking. No, this is not a motorized Bologna slicer. It’s a French creation, and it was an epic fail (like that’s a surprise). As it turns out the French...

Question of the Day: What is the First Car You Remember Riding Around in as a Kid?

This question came up as I was tooling around with my son Jack last week. I was wondering what his four year old brain is holding onto as far as information about the family cars he’s occupied...

This Old Mazda Wagon With A Turbocharged 13B Rotary Engine Is 100% BangShift Approved (Video)

Thumping V8 engines that make torque for days and sound like the glorious beasts that they are make and forever will make up the foundation of the BangShift performance universe but let’s be...

Gearhead Guys You Should Know: Clay Smith

Clay Smith, the legendary purveyor of speed during the early days of professional racing here in America is a gearhead guy you should know. He’s a more than worthy guy to be profiled. Heck,...

Cool Build: The Madmen At Autofab Race Cars Are Building An LS1 Prius!

You knew it was bound to happen eventually: Someone is finally swapping an LS1 into a Prius. I’ve heard rumors of such mythical creatures before, including a Prius that had a LS7 transplanted...