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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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eBay Find: A Custom Harley Board Track Style Motorcycle Powered By Two Pulse Jet Engines

Admit it, you read the title a couple of times. We have stared at the photos of this motorcycle…err…jet bike for more time than we’d ever publicly admit. We have no idea why anyone...

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Watch a Blown Vega Wreck at the 100-Foot Drags in Lethbridge, Canada

Lethbridge, Canada is a city located out in the Alberta Province of the Great White North and it plays host to an event called, “Street Machine Weekend” each summer. As you’ll see...

Slap Fight: Brian Vs Chad – We Insult Each Other Over Turbos and Nitrous

(Editor’s note: Welcome to Slap Fight! We’re going to try and make this a weekly part of the BangShift blog lineup. Long story short, this is a space where Chad and Brian take the...

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Buford T Justice, Our 1987 9C1 Chevy Caprice Goes Through Final Testing Before the Upgrades Begin!

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – Take a good long look at this wallowing sad sack. It is the last time you’ll see ol’ Buford T Justice, our 1987 9C1 Caprice in stock form. Because we are...

$200 Hauler Project Update: Our 2000 Suburban Gets Wrapped! 24 Hour Makeover

Vinyl wraps on vehicles are nothing new. Every plumber, Vegas taxi cab, and city bus has got something, or someone, in vinyl down their sides. And when we repaired the quarter panel on our $200...

Epic Photo Sequence: First Time Pro Daredevil Jumps His Daily Driver Lincoln Over a Bunch of Vans!

(Photos by Chuck Clark) – This is total greatness. Ohio native Michael “Madman” Porter recently jumped a 1980s Lincoln over a bunch of vans at the Crawford County Fair, which was...

MSD Atomic EFI Gets The Off-Road Wet Test! Plus Free Air Cleaners from MSD with Atomic Purchase!

We dig it when folks test things hmmmm how should we put it…”thoroughly”. Or for you guys that don’t get innuendo, that means we dig it when people try to tear the crap out of...

RacingJunk Find: A Turbine Powered 1983 Datsun 280zx

Historically, the only Datsun Z-cars we have cars about were the one jammed full of snotty small block or rumbling big block engines. We can now add another variation to that theme with the finding...

Roadside Find Gallery: Vintage Stock Cars and Ancient Doodlebug Tractors

(Photos by Jeremy George) – Today we’ve been showing you all kinds of high zoot, race car stuff in the galleries but this one is proof that there is still some damned awesome stuff living...

Nostalgia Drags Gallery: Mo-Kan Dragway’s 50th Anniversary Race – Hot Rod, Wheelstanders, and More!

(Photos by Steve Wilson) – Mo-Kan Dragway in Asbury, Missouri is one of the neatest old strips in the country. The local racers, fans, and track management celebrated the track’s 50th...

Project Car: The Goodguys G/RS 1969 Camaro…The Build at Ridetech Continues

The Goodguys Rod and Custom Association has taken car shows to the next level for decades, and founder Gary and Marilyn Meadors are still cruising with the best of them. When their son Marc Meadors...

SIGN UP NOW…More Teams Welcome! Comp Cams Engine Builder Duel at the Car Craft Summernats This Weekend!

If you think you’ve got what it takes to put a set of Snap-On Tools to work, head to head, in a competition to see who can build and run a small-block Chevrolet the fastest, then step on up....

Video: Yokohama Off-Road Racer Heidi Steele’s Return to Baja, New Kid and All!

Women racers having kids isn’t a new thing, but when most women leave their newborn for the first time it’s usually to go to dinner and a movie with their husband, not to pre-run Baja....

Event Gallery: The 2012 Motor State Challenge – Pro Touring Bad-Assed-Ness!

(Photos and words by Bob Chiluk) – Lane Automotive  in Michigan probably had no idea that a few years ago if they sponsored an event if it would fly.Well fly it did and like they could not...