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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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It Came From the Fab Shop: A Guided Tour of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner

(By Loren Krussow) – The relentless and expensive pursuit of a slightly-lower ET or a few more miles-per-hour in our cars could seem ironic, given that for the price of a commercial airline...

Doing it Wrong Video: How Not to Winch a Stuck Land Rover Out of the Muck

If you’ve never experienced the fun of trying to extract a truck out of deep mud, consider yourself lucky. It’s fun to laugh about hours after the job is done, but it can be pure misery....

Elderly Ohio Man Busted Stealing Corvettes

This story had us shaking our heads. A 71-year old Ohio man was busted by the coppers and charged with aiding and abetting the operation of an automobile chop shop, and interstate transportation of...

Auto Trader Classics Find: An Insane 1967 Ford Bronco Rod

First generation Ford Broncos are neat trucks. We’ve seen them in all forms from sloggin’ mud boggers, to wheel-pulling drag cars. Hell, Doug Nash ran a flip-up Bronco-bodied funny car in...

Killer Roadside Find: A Vintage 1958 Chevy Super Stocker

Finding awesome junk on the side of the road is a true gearhead sport. BangShift.com forum member Andy (known as VT Junk on the board) is the Michael Jordan of the game and has amassed an amazing...

Odd Rods: Arizona Man Builds Running, Driving, Scale Models of Classic Cars

Ernie Adams is a big guy with a penchant for building small cars, and we mean really small cars.  A heavy duty diesel mechanic by day and fabricator/builder by night, Adams has managed to build...

Cool Publicity Stunt Video: Prestone Melts a GM 3.6L V6!

Prestone took full advantage of the recent hot weather sweeping across the US by video taping a publicity stunt to “show” the importance of a fully functioning cooling system. They took a...

Great Read: The Story of The Thing, Drag Racing’s First Twin-Engine Bike

Drag racers have never really been slaves to convention. The reason for this stems back from the earliest days of the sport when there was no “right” way to do things. If you got to the...

eBay Find: A 10-Wheel Drive AM General M816 Military Wrecker

We’re not ashamed to admit that deep down, we’re 9-years old. That’s why we had to share this awesome 1970 AM General M816 5-Ton military spec wrecker we found on eBay. The seller...

Cruise Coverage: Kemah, Texas June 2010

Charles Wickam is at it again! He sent us 100 photos from the Kemah, texas, cruise night that he has been frequenting this year and once again we’re blown away. There’s a range of...

Historic Drag Video: Bitchin’ Vintage Footage of Fuel Altereds in Action, Including the Winged Express

Fuel Altereds rule, plain and simple. Not nearly enough wheelbase, chassis, or suspension, combined with way too much motor, gave fans a great show, drivers a lot of work, and chassis builders a lot...

AMC Collection Must be Sold off by July 30th, Buy Now!

If you happen to be itching for an AMC project vehicle or just want to own some Kenosha iron, get your bad self down to Fate, Texas, and try to scoop up one of the remaining pieces of the Ed Hooper...

Oddly Appealing Site of the Week: HouseTrucks.com

Have you ever stumbled upon a website that’s so weird it simply drags you in? That’s what happened to us when we found HouseTrucks.com. How the hell did we come to find HouseTrucks.com?...

Awesome Historic Racing Video: World of Outlaws Sprint Car Action Circa 1979

While we love finding old drag racing videos, there are other forms of racing that also have killer history caught on film. Take this movie from the 1979 World of Outlaws Knoxville Invasion....