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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Method Race Wheels 58th SCORE BAJA 500 Qualifier—TT Spec, Class 1, 2WD, Legends, Unlimited

Desert off-road racing is some of my favorite off-road action, and having been to Ensenada for the BAJA 1000, the BAJA 500 is near and dear to my heart as well. If you dig desert off-road racing as...

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This Might Be The Most Insane JDM Wheel Collection Ever, And Larry Chen Found It By Accident. Check It Out!

I own just two vehicles that are not Chevrolets, and those two are both Japanese imports. They are my 1985 Mitsubishi Mighty Max and my 1994 Honda Civic Hatchback. And while my plan is to build the...

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How To Make New Wheels Look Like Old Steelies, With A Twist! A New Way Of Doing Things!

For several years there have been people using custom bolt on adapters to mount dog dish hubcaps onto Weld Draglite wheels, and while it sounds weird, it really does work. The dog dish caps cover the...

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HIGH FLYING FORMULA OFFROAD RACING VIDEO FROM ICELAND’S STANGARHYLUR 2026! COURSE 1 and 2 RACING ACTION

It’s time for the 2nd Formula Offroad race of the 2026 Season in Iceland and here’s the video coverage. If you haven’t watched this kind of racing before, you are in for a treat....

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The Anatomy of a Win: Ultimate Street Cars attack Willow Springs and We’ve Got Photos and Results Right Here!

(Words by Jim McIlvaine, Photos by Kaleb Kelley) The third stop of the 2026 season of OPTIMA’s Ultimate Street Car series took competitors to their first West coast event at historic Willow Springs...

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RJ Fab Tech Talk: Custom Headers Explained – Rob Lindsay Goes Over Tips, Tricks, And Proven Methods For Custom Header Fabrication.

You may not have heard of RJ Fab, but you’ve probably seen something they have built. When Rob Lindsay started RJ Fab a few decades ago I doubt he thought he’d build a brand that covered...

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Tune In: Live, Free Streaming Drag Racing From Santa Pod in England This Weekend! Nitro, Sportsmen, and Hydrogen Peroxide Rocket Action!

This weekend, from Friday to Monday, one of the biggest drag racing events in Europe will be happening at Santa Pod Raceway. The Auto Trader Easter Thunderball is one big freakin’ event and you...

Pro Touring Tech: High Performance Tires 101 With the Experts at BFG

(Words by Dave Nutting) – Hello and welcome to the second installment in our on-going Pro-touring tech series, a little something that we like to call “Pro-touring 101”. Think less...

Ridetech Releases New Tru-Turn System For 1964-66 Mustangs

One of the most major hurdles that BangShifters face when trying to make their old, cool cars handle well is overcoming the crappy stock geometry and components that they were designed with. Over the...

BangShift Replay: Is Your Local Strip Safe or Just Pretending to Be?

(Editor’s note: This story ran at the tail end of 2011 but since tracks across the country are opening again we thought we would run this piece a secnd time) – While there is still a fair...

Maryland’s Capitol Raceway Closed Over Apparent Land/Lease Dispute

The drag strip operated by NHRA Pro Stock team owner Jim Cunningham, Capitol Raceway is currently closed. The reasons for this closure appear to stem from a dispute over the lease on the track. The...

Watch a Big Rig and a Huge Tow Truck Fall 200 Feet Over an Icy Cliff

This video has been on the web for a day or two, so we’re late to the party, but it is amazing to watch. Apparently filmed in Norway, the video shows a big rig being towed up a mountain road....

Caption This Photo: What’s Everyone Lookin’ For?

(Photo by Charles Wickam) – It takes a veritable village to run a high power drag car like one of the entries in the ADRL’s Pro Extreme or Pro Nitrous class. Those 2,000+hp beasts...

Watch Bob Riggle Take the Hemi Under Glass Wheelstander Up the Hill at Goodwood Circa 2007

When I ran the video of Ron Hope’s crash in the Rat Trap AA/FA at a road course type event in New Zealand the other day, I knew that the video was going to get picked up and run everywhere. I...

Gallery: Hotckis Suspension and Hotckis H-Team Track Day

(Photos by Khan Media) – One of the coolest aspects of working for a company that designs and builds high performance suspension systems is the fact that those components need to be tested and...

Junkyard Stagger: We Hit Another Yard and Find More Cool Old Junk, Plus Parts for Buford t Justice

We once again went junkyard hunting for Caprice parts and while at the yard, some cool stuff jumped up and caught our eye. While there are not any true gems like we found during our last scavenging...

Amazing Find Gallery: Abandoned Trucks and Cars in the Pennsylvania Woods!

(Photos by Doug Garrison) – One of the reasons that we love our nationwide network of photo contributors as much as we do is because they are all as tapped as Chad and I are. Take Doug...

ADRL Houston 2012 – Eliminations Galleries and Race Results HERE!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – It was a wild weekend in Baytown, Texas last weekend at the ADRL’s CarSafe Dragpalooza VIII run on the strip at Royal Purple Raceway. Charles Wickam was there...

Drag Gallery: Opening Day at New England Dragway 2012

Hot rodders from around New England converged on the small town of Epping, NH yesterday as New England Dragway threw the gates open for the first time in 2012 to kick off the racing season and we...

BangShift’s ADRL Houston 2012 Coverage: Tons of Killer Photos and Results!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – The ADRL season kicked off in fine fashion yesterday at Royal Purple Raceway in Baytown, Texas. Our man Charles Wickam was on the wall for the whole day shooting...