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FREE LIVE Drag Racing From The 11th Annual New Year Nationals At Bradenton Motorsports Park – Sunday

There are only a couple of races happening before the clock strikes midnight on Sunday to ring in the new year and while we’re sure 2026 is going to be awesome, 2025 isn’t done yet! Our last big...

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Street Weekend Drag and Drive 2025 – The Movie! Racing Action From England’s Second Drag and Drive

With the success of Hot Rod Drag Week, which started in 2005, other Drag and Drive events started popping up around the world. While nobody in the United States wanted to put one on in the early...

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Sleeperdude and Family Take An Off Road Christmas Tree Journey in an 80 Year Old Jeep That Doesn’t Drive Yet

When I think back to my earliest Christmas memories, one of the things I do remember was going to Christmas Tree farms to choose and cut our own tree. It was fun, and made getting a tree, bringing it...

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240z Suspension & Brake Upgrades, Plus Cool Tractor Pulling Innovations On Stacey David’s Gearz

Stacey is back at it in this episode of Gearz, working on his 240Z project which is getting some suspension and brake upgrades to keep this project moving. These cars have a ton of high performance...

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350 Mile ROAD TRIP in the 1957 Chevy Belair – Derek Traded SIGHT UNSEEN After He Finished The Rebuild!

Here we go again with another one of Derek’s Vice Grip Garage Christmas Extras. This time he’s taking the Texas 1957 Chevrolet on a road trip for a trade. He has no clue how good the...

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How to Prep an All-Original 1932 Ford to Chop – Haters Welcome, Cause This Thing Has Been Untouched For 93 Years!

Here’s a video showing you everything that has to happen to plan and prepare to chop an all original 1932 Ford Tudor Sedan. There is a lot of measuring and taping and measuring and measuring...

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BangShift Daily Tune Up: Rhythm From A Red Car – Hardline (1992)

Remember Hardline? Chances are you don’t unless you were into the LA hard rock scene in the early 1990s when they were the hottest product on the market. The band has put out a few albums over...

Video: StangKilr 1200+ Horsepower 2010 Camaro On The Street Racing All Comers

We’ve all seen a lot of really fast 5th Gen Camaros, but when you start talking about big power like this, it’s a whole other world. The StangKilr Camaro has enough turbo for 1500+...

Video: Big Burnout…On A Trailer! Yes, Smoking The Tires, While On A Trailer

We’ve seen just about every kind of burnout imaginable. We have done most of them ourselves! But this one made us shake our heads. Unfortunately the car doing the burnout is front wheel drive,...

Street Racing Extravaganza!: Cash Days VII and VIII DVD Trailer From 1320 Video

If you haven’t heard about Cash Days, then you are missing out on one of the greatest street races ANYWHERE. And before you start whining about street racing being illegal and dangerous, and...

1320 Video Sunday: A 1000 Horsepower Turbo Ford Lightning Tearing Up The Track In Houston

Lightning’s have been Ford’s baddest truck for a long long time, but there are a lot of them out there with turbos instead of the factory installed supercharger. The whole Turbo vs...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: “American Pie” by Don Mclean (1971)

I can’t believe we haven’t run this song as a Daily Tune Up yet! We suck, cause this song rules. I mean how can you go wrong when your song talks about driving your Chevy to the levee....

Saturday Sleeper Movie Day: Watch a Malibu Wagon Pull a Massive Wheelie on the Street!

Well, we know at least one guy now who we have to believe when he tells us that his car can pull wheelies on the street and that’s the owner of this Chevy Malibu station wagon! This small tire...

BangShift Sleeper Saturday: THE SECRET WEAPON – A 1980 OLDS WAGON WITH 496CI OF VORTEC BIG BLOCK AND A DOUG NASH 5-SPEED!

This kids, is a hot rod. It is also a rolling mechanical orphanage. The motor in the car isn’t made any more. The rear end in the car isn’t made anymore. The components in the rear...

Sleeper Saturday Movie Day: Drag Sleeper Video: An Aussie Toyota Corolla Q-Ship!

To build a little old Toyota Corolla that runs in the elevens on the strip and looks like something an old woman would be driving is devious and awesome. The car is down in Australia where weird and...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: Paul Revere And The Raiders – Judge (1969)

Here’s one straight out of the Pontiac marketing department in 1969! We’ve featured several tunes by Paul Revere and the Raiders before, among them was SS396, their ode to the 1966...

Project Buford T Justice: Our Caprice 9C1 Gets The Shaft! A Dynotech Drive Shaft That Is!

(Photos by Dynotech Engineering and the Author) – At its base, hot rodding has always been about trying stuff, breaking stuff, fixing stuff, and getting better, faster, and stronger along the...

A Gallery Of Swap Meet And Show Car Greatness From The Charlotte Auto Fair 2013!

(Words and photos by Bob Chiluk) – Having a true gear head employer, it was easy to talk him into a few days off for a car fix to cure a case of Spring fever. I Spent a few days at the 2013...

Video: How Auto Meter Gauges Are Made In The USA – Sycamore, Illinois To Be Exact!

Of all the questions we get asked about different companies the one that seems to be most frequently brought up is, “Where is their stuff made?” Well, in the case of Auto Meter, if it has...

More Fantastic Photos From The Long Beach Swap Meet – April 2013

(Photos by Scott Liggett) – We ran Scott’s first load o’ photos from the April 2013 Long Beach Swap Meet yesterday and we promised more, so here they are. In this gallery you will...