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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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Drool Worthy: Awesome Fab Work and Photos as DMC Racing Updates Paul Major’s Drag Radial Corvette – Turbos to the Front!

Paul Major’s wild twin-turbo radial tire Corvette has been one of the great pieces to come out of the DMC Racing shop over the last couple of seasons. The car has run very well all over the...

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Event Photos: Radial Revolution, No Mercy 3 Wheels-Up Action Photos From South Georgia

The Radial Revolution races at South Georgia Motorsports Park are some of the best small tire races anywhere. And every year we look forward to the No Mercy event because it is a run what you brung...

Explosivo Video: A Late Model Challenger Suffers A Big Nitrous Explosion and Major Fire – Whoopsie Doodle!

It isn’t a mistake or coincidence that nearly as soon as a new performance car is released, nitrous companies are on the scene with bolt on plate kits for them. It is cheap horsepower and when...

Video: Champion Wheelie From the World Power Wheelstanding Championships – Eighth Mile, No Wreck!

Of all the great ideas, innovations, and wacky creations that Byron Dragway’s Ron Leek came up with over the years as one of the nation’s best drag strip promoters, his master stroke was...

New Product: Rocket Racing Wheels Adds New Bolt Patterns to Their Wheel Lineup!

Rocket Racing Wheels has announced that they’ve added 5″x5″ and 5×5.5″ bolt patterns to some of their wheel offerings. We think that this is a great move as there’s...

Drag Gallery: More Vintage Cars and Competition From Day of the Drags 2012!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Yesterday we dropped the first load of photo goodness on you as shot by Charles Wickam at The Kontinentals Day of the Drags 2012 held at the historic Little River...

Event Coverage: Autocross Action and Car Show Photos From Goodguys Lonestar Nationals

It was cold as hell at the Goodguys Fall Lonestar Nationals this weekend, but that didn’t stop a huge crowd from showing up at the car show and autocross. The Texas Motorspeedway was packed,...

Found: A Perfect 1972 Opel GT Trar – Tiny Car With 44-Inch Tires = BS Approved!

BangShift tipster Rich Hintze is establishing himself as a true ninja of the internets. He’s dug up a bunch of cool stuff from eBay and CraigsList over the last few weeks, but this is the king...

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Video: This Is What Happens When You Drive Like a Jackass On Public Roads and Fail At Drifting

What ever happened to pulling a hole shot at a light or maybe a little fishtail action leaving a parking lot or something? Why do today’s kooky kids need to act like complete death wish...

Gallery: Day of the Drags 2012 – Vintage Hot Rod and Drag Car Nirvana at Little River Dragway!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) The Kontinentals car club has been putting one one of the coolest old timey drag races in the country for 10 years now. “Day of the Drags” has been held at the...

Gallery: The 2012 Iron Invasion Hot Rod Show – Traditional Rods, Kustoms, and Trucks – Lots of Neat Stuff!

(Words and photos by Bob Chiluk) – Us midwest guys envy all you west coast and southern hot rodding bretheren that can partake in events all year round. October signals the close of the...

WATCH LIVE: THE BATHURST 1000 FROM AUSTRALIA! GREATEST DOOR SLAMMER ROAD RACE IN THE WORLD!

We have the live feed of the 2012 Bathurst 1000 embedded below! In terms of door car road racing, this is the pinnacle, by a lot! The course is legendary and narrow and fast as hell. Remember, Darrel...

Video: Would You Watch This TV Show About Sportsman Stick Shift Drag Racing?

So we found this 10-minute “sizzle reel” for a reality TV show pilot called, “Shifters USA”. The show follows a group of southern stick shift drag racers as they compete at...

PSCA Mickey Thompson West Coast Shootout Comes To Vegas This Weekend

The West Coast’s best door slammer drag racing is put on by Mel and the gang at the PSCA, and this weekend they are heading to Vegas for the PSCA Mickey Thompson West Coast Shootout....