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Big Sky Race Week Video from the BangShift Billy crew. Will Ultra High Temps Cause Trouble For Competitiors?

There has been a lot of weird weather in the last 12 months and it doesn’t seem to be getting any less crazy. With heat waves and storm fronts moving all over the country, you are seeing areas...

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Buckeye Skips 2026 Drag and Drive Photos Continue! Here’s Our First Day 2 Racing Gallery from Darana Dragway 42 in Ohio

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We’ve got Buckeye Skip’s drag and drive photos right here! We already shared photos from Day #1’s checkpoints and racing, but now it is time for Day #2...

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The World’s Largest All Ford Show And Swap Meet! Swap Meet And Car Show Photos From The Carlisle All Ford Nationals In Central Pennsylvania

Here’s our second gallery of photos from Carlisle, but if you missed the previous photos you can find them all at the link below. (Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) The world’s largest...

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More FJ40 Custom Fabrication! This Beast Gets An ECM Install, Branik Links, Custom Cooler Mounts, and A Stereo Install.

When you start making real headway on a project the jobs get smaller and smaller, but no less significant. Shannon and Jess are back at it on the cool FJ40 project and that means many small things...

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This Is The Ultimate Call Out Challenge! We’re Talking 3,000 Horsepower Diesel Trucks Battling It Out For Bragging Rights And More!

The 2026 Ultimate Callout Challenge was epic. The meanest, nastiest, and most no-holds barred diesel trucks in the country  gathered in Indy to do battle on the dyno rollers, on the drag strip, and...

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Video: The West Coast’s Largest All Ford Truck Show – The F100 Western Nationals 2026 Coverage Starts Here

We figured that if we were going to start sharing our Carlisle Ford Nationals photo coverage today, which is the largest all Ford show in the world, we might as well share the largest classic Ford...

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Cruise Night Gallery: The Mass Cruisers Association Bass Pro Shops Cruise – Patriots Place- Foxboro, Mass

A late week cruise night on a beautiful August day is gearhead nirvana. We blew off our normal Thursday afternoon schedule and took ol’ Goliath down to the biggest cruise night on the east...

RacingJunk Find: A Multi-Purpose Ex-NASCAR Racer That’s Good for the Salt, the Road and the Local Cruise Night!

The idea of having a true multi-use car is appealing to every gearhead. One machine that can carry you to the burger joint, burn tires at the strip, and run stupid MPHs at LSR events is something we...

Bonneville Thursday Update: Salty Italians, Thrashing for a Legend, Sub-Speed Limit LSR Racing and now more photos.

The So-Al Special Two Banger set a record this morning at 32.419 mph which is “Blazingly slow” according to Freiburger. His best comment was when reciting the end of the run and...

One of the Greatest Wreck Videos Ever: 12-Minutes of Urban Hillbilly Drag Race Wreckage

Sean Melton and his crew at Urban Hillbilly Videos were really trailblazers in door car drag racing video coverage. They were there “before it was cool” and have been pumping out awesome...

We’ll Be There: The 63rd Annual Rough and Tumble Thresherman’s Reunion – Kinzers, PA – This Weekend!

This weekend, we’ll be attending the 63rd annual Rough and Tumble Thresherman’s Reunion in Kinzers, Pennsylvania. This event is a celebration of ancient steam traction engines, equipment,...

Thursday Bonneville Video Bonanza: More Great Footage From the Salt

We could sit and watch cars launch off and power down the short and long courses at Bonneville all day long. Luckily for us, there are lots of fans and racers out there now carrying video cameras...

Quick Gallery: Pit Shots From the SOVREN Northwest Historics

A while back we brought you a series of galleries from the SOVREN Northwest Historic road races at Pacific Raceways in Washington state. The event had a ton of different categories that ranged from...

Huge Drag Gallery: The United Black Drag Racers Association – Black Sunday Event – Byron Dragway

The United Black Drag Racers Association has been unofficially around since the 1980s but officially since 1994 when they organized themselves formally. Originally born in the greater St. Louis area,...

Car Show Gallery: 2011 Goodguys Chicagoland Nationals

We’re totally pounding you with galleries today, but we suspect that isn’t much of a problem. After all, it is hump day and work sucks, so what better way to kill a day is there than...

Wednesday Bonneville Video Bonanza: More Cool Video From Speed Week 2011!

Yesterday we brought you the freshest video we could find from Bonneville Speed Week 2011. Today, we’re back with the same thing because the sweet video footage keeps rolling in from the...

Swap Meet Gallery: The August 2011 Pomona Swap Meet – Cars Galore!

George Cross and Sons have been putting on the Pomona Swap Meet for decades. Their radio ads say they are, “The Southern California Original”. The swap meet’s size and reach are...

Update: The Hot Rod Magazine Special Camaro With a Supercharged Two Cylinder Big Block Chevy Runs 32.414 MPH – Qualifies for Record

Well this is oddly cool! When Keith Turk and Hot Rod Magazine’s David Freiburger fragged the 1100hp blown big block Chevy in their Camaro at Bonneville, all hope seemed lost for the week. The...

Goodguys Ohio Nationals Bonus Gallery: Shots from the Show and the Autocross!

While Chad was screaming into the mic as the announcer of the autocross at the Goodguys Ohio Nationals, countless hot rodders thrashed on their junk with varying levels of success between the cones....

BangShift Tech: How to Repair the Kickdown Switch in a Turbo 400 Transmission

Nearly every automatic transmission has some kind of kick down apparatus and they are all different. TH350s use a cable connected to the carb linkage, 700R4’s use TV cable, Ford...