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The LIWA 2025 Hillclimb Was Epic As Always! Look At These Big Power, Rooster Tail Throwing, Machines Haul Up The Dune!

Well, it’s that time of year where the LIWA Hillclimbs are happening. This is some really fun stuff, where folks come from all over to race up an epic dune in Dubai. Located not far from the Liwa...

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Mr 4 Speed Herb McCandless and Steve Magnante talk Hemi Race Cars Sox & Martin and 70’s Pro Stock!

What a pair to have talking about Hemi Race Cars and the early days of Pro Stock! I’ve been a Pro Stock fan my entire life, so when I took the plunge and got my Pro Stock license 25 years ago...

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New Products: From Prototypes To Castings – These HammerHead® IRS 12 Bolt And 8.8 IRS Differential Housings Are A Game Changer For GM, Mopar, And More!

Jeff and Skip Lee were a couple of die hard racers, family men, and hot rodders who just happened to have a sickness that made them want to take on the hugely complicated task of making a better,...

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Newbern Bought A Few Motortrend Projects: One Got Lost! Check Out What He Got And The Adventure Getting Them Home!

Like all the Motortrend TV hosts, Newbern and the gang were given the opportunity to buy some of the projects from the shows when Motortrend decided to shut down the production company and stop...

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The Best Wrench Ever Tested! 20 Adjustable Wrenches Tested – Can Harbor Freight Make The Snap-On Version Look Like A Kid’s Toy?

We love tools around here, and tool testing in particular really does it for us. When Project Farm and the Torque Test Channel test tools we rarely miss the opportunity to share them with you guys....

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Tony Built a $1000 Turbo Kit for His 6 Cylinder Shop Rig and it RULES! Making This 1983 GMC Squarebody Cooler Yet!

Tony Angelo does some fun stuff, there is no doubt. One thing I love about him is that he not only builds the hot rod and racing style stuff, but also goes for the oddballs, like the 6 cylinder...

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Awful Cars, Awful Ads: The 1984 Cadillac Cimarron

On the heels of reading Rob Kinnan’s great editorial entitled “Crappy Cars” in the January 2010 edition of Hot Rod magazine, we were inspired to act on a crappy car impulse we were...

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Crazy Turbine Powered Honda Motorcycle

BangShift.com forum member Eagle Kammback posted a link to this totally wild Boeing T-50 Turbine powered Honda motorcycle in the forum section and we just had to throw it up here on the front page....

Buy Jeremy Mayfield’s Stuff Online

On November 20th, the will be an auction of former NASCAR racer Jeremy Mayfield’s estate and personal items. Up until now, you’d have had to have been on site to buy stuff. Now, through...

Book Review: The Complete Book of Shelby Automobiles by Colin Comer

Say the name Carroll Shelby among a group of car guys and the response you’ll get will be as varied as the day is long. There are the worshipers, the haters, the historians, and those who...

Australian Hoon Driver Uploads Incriminating Video Complete with License Plate Number

When will these guys learn? Yet another Australian driver has gone out tearing around town with his video camera and then uploaded the video on YouTube. Problem? Hell yeah, because the video...

Louisiana Schools Adding Trade Education Option

In a laudable move, some schools in Louisiana are adding trade education classes back into their curricula in an effort to stem dropout rates. The classes, featuring stuff like welding, are part of...

Brad Kaselowski Read Riot Act by NASCAR Before Race

Brad Kaselowski was called to a private meeting with NASCAR officials before Sunday’s race, according to an Associated Press story. The meeting centered around Kaselowski’s agressive...

Event Coverage: Pistons and Paint Numero 8

Big thanks to BangShift.com forum member BigDad for providing us this gallery from the Pistons and Paint Numero 8 show in Denton, Texas, on November 14, 2009. The show has humble origins as a small...

Report: NHRA To Sanction Tracks Worldwide

Respected drag racing journalist Rob Geiger is reporting that the NHRA will be sanctioning drag strips in the Middle East in the neat future. This is huge news in the sense that the organization will...

EBay Pick of the Week: Wild Blown Hemi Powered Street Legal Bantam Altered

If you’re thinking what we’re thinking, we share the same mental illness. Our thought process when we laid eyes on this wild hunk of iron jumped directly to Hot Rod’s Drag Week. It...

Monday Time Killer: Tons of Bonneville Pics From the Last 10 Years

This week’s Time Killer will have you spending some quality time on the salt at Bonneville. We happened upon this major league collection of photos while doing some research on another story...

Columnist: NHRA Rules and NASCAR Sucks

Jeff Wolf is a highly respected columnist for the Las Vegas Review Journal newspaper. He often has interesting takes on the worlds of drag racing and Stock Car racing. He never spares the rod when he...

Mendy Fry Set to Haul the Mail in Pomona This Weekend

The end of the NHRA season is upon us once again. It all comes to a screeching halt this weekend in Pomona, Califoria, at the Auto Club Finals. Aside from the normal slate of Sportsman and Pro racing...

Living Legends of Auto Racing Ripped Off By Rogue Employee

The Living Legends of Auto Racing is an organization that works hard to preserve the history of racing on Daytona Beach and of all the the pioneers of Stock Car racing. Unfortunately for them, the...