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Finally BIG TURBO POWER! Swapping a 500HP SRT4 Turbo Engine Into A Classic Dodge Caravan Wasn’t As Easy As They Thought!

In the previous installments of the SRT4 powered Caravan build, I said that I wasn’t sure there has ever been a Dodge Caravan that was cleaner and cooler than this one right here, and the engine...

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INDYCAR NTT SERIES: EXTENDED HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2026 Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix At NASHVILLE SUPER SPEEDWAY

Heavy rain meant the NTT INDYCAR SERIES couldn’t race on Sunday for the 2026 Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix, but they were at it bright and early on Monday! If you missed the racing...

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More Photos From The World’s Largest All Ford Show And Swap Meet! We’ve Still Got Carlisle All Ford Nationals Photos To Share!

Here’s our fiftfh gallery of photos from Carlisle, but if you missed the previous photos you can find them all at the link below. Joe Grippo was on hand like every year, capturing amazing finds...

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RAT RODS CAR SHOW!!! The Rusty Eyeball Car Show 2026! Insane Rat Rods, Customs, Muscle Cars, And More!

2026 marked the 19th year for the Rusty Eyeball Car Show and it was bigger and better than ever. This show features tons of variety, and unlike many other shows they also encourage you to bring your...

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Big Sky Race Week Video from the BangShift Billy crew. Day 6 and they are back at Yellowstone Dragstrip in Montana!

This is it, the final video from Bangshift Billy’s Big Sky Race Week 2026 coverage. This is Day 6 video from Yellowstone Dragstrip.  Can Bill hang on and win the Stick Shift class even though...

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More Buckeye Skips 2026 Drag and Drive Photos! Here’s Our First Day 3 Racing Gallery from Kuhnle!

We’ve got more racing action from Buckeye Skips Drag and Drive! This is Day 3, the final day, and features plenty of shot from the checkpoint at Summit and racing at Kuhnle. (Photos by Neal Sabo)...

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It’s just Wrong: A Caddy Wearing Truck Parts or a Truck Wearing Caddy Parts?

Of all the bizarre junk we have posted on these electronic pages before, nothing trumps this. Nothing. We apologize in advance if you have eaten recently or have a fondness for either 1980’s...

Roadside Find: Vintage Dodge Big Truck Goodness

Stuff like this is the reason we never leave home without our camera. We were cruising to a cookout on Labor Day weekend when we rolled by a small fire station and spotted this neat Dodge LCF. After...

Caption This Photo: Is he really small or is that truck really big?

In the next day or two, we’re going to tell you the story of an odd and cool Canadian monster truck junkyard. Before we get to that, we wanted to share a photo from the man who went to the...

Racing Junk Find: A Quarter-Million Dollar Horde of Vintage Racing Tires

When Firestone introduced the “gold stripe” racing tire in the late 1960s it basically made everything else used for dry asphalt racing obsolete. The tire was the first real...

Wild Crash Video: Lunatic in a BMW Causes Huge Wreck and Seems to Escape Scott Free

We always get pissed when we see some dweeb in a European sedan treating the highway like an autocross course. Somewhere in the back of our mind we start thinking about the potential for a disastrous...

Wednesday Time Killer: Awesome Photos and History From Oswego Dragway, Including Grumpy Jenkins Wreckage!

Oswego Dragway operated from 1955 to 1980. During it’s time, the track was a hot spot of door slammer racing, most especially Pro Stock and early bracket racing. BangShift photo contributor...

Instructional Video: How to Crash Your Harley During a Stationary Dyno Drag Race

Before seeing this video we held a couple truths to be self-evident. One of which was the theory that you had to be moving to crash your motorcycle. One bad ass in Texas proved us wrong at the 2011...

Project Fat Cad Update 7: Headers, Windshield Washers, and Two Left Handed Exhaust Pipes

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Crash Video: A Motorcycle Racer On a Weird Bike Wipes Out the Christmas Tree!

We bet the guy riding the bike in this video is an experienced rider that has really hauled some ass in his day. Unfortunately, no one had a camera out during those good times, but they were front...

SEMA Alert: The Bonneville Salt Flats Need Our Help!

The greatest natural racing surface on Earth, the Bonneville Salt Flats are in trouble and SEMA is ringing the bell for help from the gearhead world. As many of you know, the potash mining operation...

Splosion Video: How to Remove Your Carbs, Intake Top, and Hood Scoop With Nitrous

The world of high horsepower door slammer drag racing was built on nitrous oxide. Nitrous continues to be one of the bedrock staples in the world of Pro Modified, Top Sportsman, and Outlaw Door...

Great Read: How New and Old General Dynamics Employees Worked Together to Repair a Nuclear Submarine

When the submarine USS Hartford crashed into a Navy ship back in 2009, the future for the nearly billion dollar machine looked bleak. It had sustained massive damage to several critical areas of its...

Cool Video: A Chute’s-Eye View of an 8-second drag car run

It is tough to really illustrate the speed of a bad ass drag car through video. Actually, it used to be hard to do that. Before killer little cameras became commonplace, industrious racers would...

eBay Find: A Big Block Ford Powered AC That Isn’t a Cobra and Is Kind of Ugly

We like learning stuff, so when we found a listing for a 1968 AC Frua on eBay, we had to investigate simply because we had never heard about these cars before and since they had a 428ci BBF in the...