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Beaver Springs Dragway All Ford Show and Drags Was Off The Hook For 2026! We’ve Got Dan Grippo Photos Right Here!

(Words by Joe Grippo, photos by Dan Grippo) We hauled the race cars up to picturesque Beaver Springs Dragway the other weekend for the annual All Ford Race and Car Show. Sunshine, blue skies, and...

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Free Live Streaming Drag Racing: 20th Annual World Footbrake Challenge Big Money Bracket Racing– Thursday

The 18th Annual World Footbrake Challenge is the bracket race event for all you folks who don’t like a trans brake, delay boxes, etc. and we are thrilled to be bringing you all the racing action...

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LIVE: LARIS Motorsports Insurance $100K Presented by Vintage – Thursday

Watch the Motormania LIVE Coverage from the TB Promotions Laris Insurance $100k at Bowling Green. This is going to be some great racing with a $25K race, two $50k races, and the big $100,000...

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FREE Big Money Bracket Racing LIVESTREAM: The SuperBucks Showdown Presented by Get’M Performance All Run Thursday Warmup $5k

More big money bracket racing coming to you live! It’s Thursday at the SuperBucks Showdown presented by Get’M Performance and that means there is $5,000 on the line to warm up everyone for two...

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Buckeye Skips 2026 Drag and Drive Photos Continue! More Day 1 Racing at Darana Raceway National Trail in Ohio

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We just finished sharing our lost Buckeye Skips drag and drive photos from 2025 the other day, but we’re excited about 2026! Yesterday was Day 1, when the driver’s...

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STREET WEEK SWEDEN LIVE in the United States For The First Time! Get Your All Access Pass To Drag And Drive Greatness Right Here!

That’s right folks, we’ve been talking about it for a few weeks but now is the time to sign up for your livestream from Street Week Sweden! I’ll be there, announcing, interviewing,...

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Bigfoot To Sport Chevy Body and Engine at MLB All-Star Game, Panic Ensues

There are few things more iconic in motorsports than the series of Bigfoot monster trucks. Since Bob Chandler built the first one back in Missouri several decades ago, they’ve evolved from...

Auto Trader Classics Find: A Cool (but Pricey) 1974 Ford F250

Ford trucks of the 1970’s era are some of the coolest to come out of Detroit. Their brawny style and beefy drive line components make them some of our personal favorites. True, they were...

Dumbass Alert: Guy Steals Camaro Off of Transport Truck; Gets Tased

A 59-year old Oregon man recently found himself on the business end of two pieces of modern technology, On-Star and a taser. This strange pair of bedfellows came into play when Robert Stoddard got...

Project Car Spotlight: The Tale of a BangShifter and the 25 Years He’s Had His Malibu

BangShift.com forum member Bamfster (Dan) is one of the true BangShift originals. He’s been around since the CarJunkieTV days, participated in the epic Red Ball Express run that saw David...

Fire Video: One Mud Truck Flambe Coming Right Up

With our East Coast offices in the beginning stages of a horrific heat wave, it was only natural that we’d seek out some good old fashioned fire action. We got our fix with this footage of an...

More Bad News for Harrells Raceway: Man Shot and Killed at Track

Back in May we reported on a bizarre accident where a fan attending a drag race at Harrells Raceway in the small town of Harrells, NC was killed by a flying engine that broke free from a crashing...

Freaking Awesome Drag Video: Nostalgia Pro Stocks at Ohio’s Thompson Raceway

When we heard about the Nostalgia Pro Stock Shootout that was scheduled to go down at Thompson, Ohio’s, Thompson Raceway on July 3rd, we were sad that we couldn’t make it. After all, it...

Event Coverage: Geezers at the Grove 2010

Our man Joe Grippo was on the scene for the “Geezers Reunion” which went down July 2-3, 2010 at Maple Grove Raceway in Reading, PA. The race is one of the biggest and most ambitious self...

Racing Junk Find: A 1964 Dodge Pulling Truck With 700-inches of Hemi Power!

We caught some pulling action on TV recently and went into fantasy mode searching for something to jump into competition with. Us being us, we didn’t want some typical late-model truck. We...

Look Out: Researchers to Build Vehicle for Blind Drivers

Happy not April Fool’s Day! Researchers from Virgina Tech and the National Federation for the Blind are working together to build a Ford Escape that will be driven by a blind person at Daytona...

Event Gallery: The 2010 Old Pomona Hot Rod and Custom Car Show

The 2010 version of the Old Pomona Hot Rod and Custom Car Show, put on by the Shifters car club went off last weekend without a hitch. The crowd of cars was cool and the kustoms were out in full...

eBay Find: A Drag Racing Four-Wheeler That Will Probably Kill You

As it turns out we didn’t blow any appendages off or die during fireworks tomfoolery yesterday. Due to that fact, we’re bringing you a machine that will probably result in your own...

Event Coverage: Saturday Action from GoodGuys Des Moine 2010

Record numbers of participants and spectators filled the Iowa State Fairgrounds for this weekend’s GoodGuys Heartland Nationals in Des Moines Iowa, and we’ve got photos to prove it....

Event Coverage: 19th Good Guys Heartland Nationals Des Moines

With over 3000 cars showing up for Friday of the Good Guys 19th Heartland Nationals, and amazing 85 degree weather, we can’t wait to see what Saturday will bring. Our first impression of the...