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King Of The Hammers Livestream 2026: The Race of Kings Is Today! The Biggest And Baddest Machines Of King Of The Hammers Are Racing LIVE Today Right Here!

This is it, the biggest and baddest of the bad attacking the rocks, sand, and dirt at Johnson Valley’s King of the Hammers! This is what all the week leads up to and is what many say is the...

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Sick Week 2026 Video With KSR and Alex Taylor Racing: 370 Miles And Then Rain Was Not How This Stop Was Supposed To Go!

We’ve got some of your favorite content creators featured in this Day 3 video blog post from Sick Week 2026 and that means Kevin and the KSR crew, Alex Taylor, and the Drag Drive Repeat boys are...

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Sick Week Day 3 Video: The Fast Cars Got a Surprise on Day 3 of Sick Week – Rain Delays And 40 MPH Winds!

After a long drive that really put everyone’s street manners to the test, Day 3 at Bradenton Motorsports Park was a wet and windy one. I know that lots of folks were excited about Sick Week...

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Sick Week 2026 Video Coverage: Drag, Drive, Repeat’s FULL Day 2 Video Coverage Is Right Here! All The Action!

The Drag, Drive, Repeat crew are in the house and ready to rock and roll through the rest of Sick Week 2026. And while we already shared their Day 2 points special, this video here is one that shows...

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Sick Week Drive Day Video: 370 Street Miles Prove Too Much For Some Racers And Brings More Bad News

370 miles is a real drive, and apparenlty more than a few of these racers could handle during Sick Week 2026. The drive from South Georgia all the way to Bradenton is a real drive and sometimes...

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Tool Tech: Have You Ever Seen A Screwdriver This Good? Testing And Reviewing Precision And Electric Screwdrivers

Let’s face it, there are plenty of times that the tools we are using on our hot rods and race cars are about as rudamentary as can be. Hammers, pry bars, even screw drivers sometimes. But then...

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BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is The Most Under-Appreciated Skill That Gearheads Have And “Regular” People Don’t?

Fact: gearheads are different from “regular” people because we approach lots of stuff in every day situations differently. Typically we’re better problem solvers, quicker thinking...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Brand New Car” The Rolling Stones (1994)

“Brand New Car” by the Rolling Stones may not rank up there with some of their more famous hits, but the album Voodoo Lounge did go double platinum and was number 2 in the charts. Still,...

eBay Find: A Restored, $195,000 V-Twin Hemi Engine From The Late 1930s – $3,100 Per Cubic Inch!

This may be the answer to the question, “What do you get the motorcycle guy who has it all?” Even THAT guy doesn’t have one of these and at $195,000, you’d seriously need it...

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Cool Video: Watch The Ice Monster Camaro Throw Dirt And Slide Around A Swedish Track – Our Kind Of Rally Style Fun!

You all know and love the ice monster Camaro from Sweden. Jobergg always posts cool videos of the gnarly crumpled racer chewing up ice courses, flying through the woods, burning tires to the cords,...

Speed Industry Icon Harvey Crane Passes At Age 81 – Innovator, Inventor, And Cam Genius

Harvey Crane Jr. passed away last Friday at the age of 81. In 1953 Crane founded his company called Crane Engineering with the sole purpose of increasing the performance and efficiency of internal...

Land Speed Gallery: WannaGoFast Chicago 2013 — Half Mile Land Speed Action!

(Words and photos by Bob Chiluk) – Our gearhead forefathers probably got it from the generation before them, so the premise of us finding a strip to run wide open is nothing new. After World...

Rendered Perfection: The Insane Craigslist Van Gets Rendered Into An Pretty Awesome Looking Machine — Click Here To SEE!

Back on May 24th we showed you the below photo of this insane 1978 GMC van that is for sale on Craigslist. There were a fair amount of BS readers and commenters who saw some potential in the machine...

BangShift Question of The Day: What Is The Most Annoying Automotive Debate?

I spent the weekend announcing at the 2013 Chevy High Performance Nationals at Atlanta Dragway in Commerce, Georgia. One night over an adult beverages or two a bunch of us automotive writers were...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Cannon Ball Run” The Theme Song With Opening Scenes

This is the Mad Matt Graves Edition of the Daily Tune Up, because while Matt was expertly honing his craft as the Marketing Guru at American Power Train last week he was also looking at our Stroker...

Video: Bill Elliot’s #94 McDonald’s NASCAR Cup Car On The Chassis Dyno

We never expected to see actual footage of a Cup Car on the chassis dyno, but here it is! This is Bill Eliott’s #94 McDonald’s car that we believe ran in the 2000 season. It makes some...

BangShift Video: A NASCAR RP7 Running On The Dyno At Westech For Lucas Oil Testing

We get to see all kinds of fun stuff run, but sometimes we are not allowed to show it to you. This time we were thanks to Lucas Oil and their strenuous oil testing program. This RP7 has been run a...

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Video: The Best Of 2012 – The NASCAR Crashes You Just Can’t Miss

Earlier we showed you the best of 2013 so far, but that’s not a complete year worth of crashes to compare. This however is the best from 2012, including some incredibly huge ones that drivers...

Video: How Hendrick Racing Decides Who Gets Which Engine Come Race Day

We’ve always wondered how a multi-car team decides who gets which engine for a particular race. Do they duke it out SUMO style? Do they foot race across the parking lot? On tricycles? Drinking...

Video: 2013 NASCAR Crash Compilation. They All Lived, But Their Junk Is TORE UP!

I swear half the NASCAR Cup fans are in it for the crashes. Probably the same percentage for Nationwide series fans too. But at least 75 percent of the Truck Series fans have got to love the crashes....