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Big Sky Race Week Video from the BangShift Billy crew. Day 5 at Hi-Line Dragstrip in Malta Montana Was Drama Filled!

Big Sky Race Week coverage continuos thanks to Bill and the crew at BANGshift Billy. This time it is their Day 5 video from Hi-Line dragstrip on Big Sky Raceweek.  Can Bill hang on and finish the...

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LIVE STREAMING | Race 1 and 2 | Misano | GT World Challenge powered by AWS 2026

It is endurance racing season, and boy is it in full swing! There have been more endurance races in the last few weeks than we could imagine, and there are even more to come. It’s summertime racing...

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IHRA F1 Powerboats Livestream: Round Round 5 – Alton Powerboat Nationals F1 Powerboat Showdown – Sunday

Boat racing is on! If you aren’t familiar with F1 boat racing, you’re in for a treat. This is side by side racing, “door handle to door handle” so to speak, and these drivers are giving it...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: CASH DAYS at The Hill with Happy and Limpy! KD Dragways Hosts One Hell Of An Event! Watch Here All Weekend!

It doesn’t matter whether you call it KD Motorsports Park, KD Dragway, or The Hill, everyone knows that some bad ass no prep races go on there and that it is one of the more unique drag strips in...

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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The ACE Triple $20,000 Races Are LIVE From Darana Dragway 42 – SUNDAY

The ACE Triple $20,000 Races are live this weekend from Darana Dragway 42 in Ohio, and we’ve got all the action coming to you live and free right here thanks to our friends at MotorManiaTV. Racing...

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Big Sky Race Week Video from the BangShift Billy crew. Day 4 Adventures Continue For All The Racers. And It Rains!

Big Sky Race Week coverage continues thanks to Bill and the crew at BANGshift Billy. This time it is their Day 4 video from a rain soaked highway somewhere.  Can Bill hang on to 1st place on Day 4....

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Video Of Steve McQueen Pulling Wheelies And Flying Around On A Honda CR250M Elsinore Rules

Largely regarded as the coolest guy who has ever lived, Steve McQueen’s aura was made by footage like that which you will see below. For starters, we’re taking the coolest guy ever and...

Classic Horsepower Video: This Early 1970s Classic Film From Allis-Chalmers Features Tractor Pulling and Focuses On Power!

This right here is some vintage tractor greatness! The film is called, “More Power On The Ground” and it was made by Allis Chalmers right around 1970 judging by the surroundings and...

This Look At The Coolest Ferrari Movie and TV Cars Of All Time Is Great – 1980s Greatness and More

When we think of iconic TV and movie cars, there’s a short list that people default to. KITT, The General Lee, Herbie, and on and on we go. But what of Ferrari? Just when you think it’s a...

Buy The Book: The Race To The Future by Kassia St. Clair – Story of the First Peking to Paris In 1907

In my own life as a gearhead, I have had a perspective change on my historical interests over time. For example, for many years I really never had even the most passing interest in early automotive...

History Video: The Changing Architecture Of The Automobile Is A Neat Film About Styling History Made In The 1970s

History is a really neat thing to look at, especially when it comes to cars, right? We get to see the evolution of not only the mechanical end of the machines, we get to see the styling involved as...

Back In 1960 England You Could Cruise Your Steam Traction Engine To The Store, Slowly

Ahh, 1960. It was about 15 years after the end of WWII, the cold war was brewing up nicely between Russia and everyone else, England had returned back to its jolly ol’ self, and pipe smoking...

10 Minutes Of Brilliance: This Collection Of Vintage VW Television Ads Is Fantastic

When it comes to the advertising game on television, especially when we speak about it in terms of automobiles, there’s “before VW” and “after VW”. The way that...

The Sleepiest Sleeper: Watch This Slot Mag Equipped Pinto Make 350 Wheel Horsepower On The Rollers!

The 2.3L Ford Lima four cylinder was produced from 1974 right through 1997 in various different machinations and forms. In this case, one of those 2.3L engines that was liberated from a Thunderbird...

We Drive It: The 2024 Alfa Romeo Stelvio Veloce AWD – Proof That The Italian Driving Soul Comes In Many Forms

I’ve never been shy on sharing my feelings about the many vehicles that occupy the CUV category of automobile which now represents the largest segment of the American buyers market for new...

Hours Of King Of The Hammers Everyman Challenge Qualifying Condensed To 45 Minutes Of The Very Best Action

The King of the Hammers Every Man Challenge is one of the most awesome races out of everything that is going on during Hammers Week, but like most of KOH it takes a lot of time to get in qualifying...

6.0L LS2 VS 6.2L LS3-WHICH ONE MAKES MORE HP STOCK, MINOR MODS THEN ALL THE MODS? FULL DYNO RESULTS

There’s no replacement for displacement. That’s the age old saying and we know that there isn’t much that compares with going bigger in search of more power. But how much bigger is...

IT’S GOING DOWN! FINNEGAN IS STARTING HIS SEMA 2024 OBS TRUCK PROJECT RIGHT NOW.

In case you missed it, we’ve got the link to the video showing Finnegan getting this truck here in Texas and driving it home below, but if you did see it then you know this super clean low...

Who Makes The Best OBD 2 Code Scanner? Are They All The Same? If Spending More Money Makes It Better, The Test Should Show That.

OBD 2 Scanners are no different than anything else we are going to buy, and if there is a cheap option we’re always going to wonder if it will do the job and how well. I know there are people...

Best Engineered Monster: Russ Collins’ Supercharged Twin Engine Top Fuel Motorcycle Is Amazing

There are a few machines in the drag racing world that cause people to stop, stare, and just say, “No way…”. The Sorcerer, ridden by Russ Collins and wrenched by Byron Hines is one...