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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Indianapolis 500 Open Testing Is On! | Day 1 | INDYCAR SERIES

We’ve got a few weeks until the start of all the official Indy 500 festivities, including official practice sessions, qualifying, etc, but that doesn’t mean that teams aren’t...

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Check Out The Record Breaking Ford GT Mk IV Lap Around Nürburgring! 6:15 Is The Quickest Internal Combustion Vehicle Ever On Track!

Before anyone starts yelling that there are quicker cars that have been around the Nurburgring, remember that there are only two of them and both of those cars had electric assist as a power adder....

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Buy Your Dream Apartment Condo At Texas Motor Speedway! 2 Bed, 2 Bath, 9th Floor Outside Turn 2 At TMS!

I’ve been fortunate enough to be at a couple of parties in the condos outside turn 2 at Texas Motor Speedway and can tell you that they are pretty cool. I went to a party in one of them where...

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Proper Vintage F1 Racing in Monaco: The 2026 Monaco Historic Grand Prix Did Not Disappoint! Awesome Racing Action!

I’m not a die hard Formula 1 fan that follows all the racers and points and such. But I appreciate the cars and the racing and all the technology that is present in that world nowadays. With...

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LIVE REPLAY: Circuit of the Americas GT World Challenge America powered by AWS 2026

Here we go again! We’ve got GT World Challenge Racing going on live right here, and we dig road racing and who doesn’t love the World Challenge series? This weekends racing is coming to you live...

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5.30 OUTLAW SMALL TIRE GANGSTERS AT MOORESVILLE! 704 OUTLAWS SEASON OPENER APRIL 2026!

We’ve said it multiple times, but it still makes me smile when I see heads up no-prep racers running an index class, and the awesome popularity of Lil’ Gangsta’s and other classes...

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RacingJunk Find: A Bad Ass, Turn-Key, Modified 4×4 Pulling Truck

We’re gearing up to go check out a tractor pull next weekend so when we were cruising RacingJunk.com for neat stuff this week, our one-track mind led us to search out pulling trucks. Once we...

Caption This Photo: How Not to Dismount From Your Boat

BangShift.com forum member Phil Cooper sent us this photo via e-mail and we just had to pass it on to the masses and get some proper captions for it. We don’t know who this guy is, who shot the...

Cool Old Promo Video: Curtis Turner and Ford’s Total Performance Campaign

Few men in NASCAR history drove harder or lived faster than Curtis Turner. He was one of the sport’s first bonafide legends and because of that he was used as a pitch man. In this video...

It Was a Good Run: GM Out of Fortune 500 Top Ten for First Time in 101 Years

General Motors has dropped to number 15 on the Fortune 500 list, out of the top ten for the first time in 101 years. Ford dropped one spot, from number seven to number eight. Weirdly, without a...

Classic Carnage Friday Edition: Train Wreck, Flipped Divco, Cheap Labor, Box Truck Wheelie

To close out another week of classic carnage scans, we’re bringing you some premium wreckage. It doesn’t get any more epic than a steam locomotive laying on its side. We had to laugh at...

Craigslist Find: A Cool 1968 Cadillac DeVille Convertible

We’re not going to lie to you. When we were trolling Kentucky Craigslist ads, we were looking to find the most bizarre, hill-jack, awful creation we could find. Instead though, we found the...

Vintage Carnage and Gearhead History: Smashed Tomatoes, Goliath’s Older Brother, Train Hits a Gas Tanker

We took a day off as to not melt our scanner from all the hot carnage and history action we’ve been showing you as of late. We’re back to hitting on all cylinders with this edition which...

Killer Drag Video: A 1960 Impala Twisting Itself Up Like a Pretzel

The educated hard core racers who see this video will immediately say that the racer is leaving ET on the table by having his massive 1960 Impala launch like Shamu. To those smarty pants readers, we...

Chrysler Sells Old AMC Headquarters

The last remaining piece of American Motors that was actively part of the US automotive manufacturing landscape has been sold by Chrysler, its current owner. Once the site of a Kelvinator fridge...

Engine Video: A WWII Cadillac M5 1-G Tank Engine On the Stand

When we learned yesterday that Packard built the 1,200hp engines that powered WWII PT boats, it got us to thinking about tank engines from the same era. We remembered that Cadillac motors powered...

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Great Thread: Saving A Rare 427 Impala Custom Coupe From Certain Doom

We were tipped off to an awesome thread on Yenko.net involving the resurrection of a rare, 427, 4-speed, 1968 Impala Custom Coupe. There are tons of photos showing the car as it was discovered and...

New Goodyear Top Fuel/Funny Car Tire Coming for NHRA Las Vegas Race

This weekend’s NHRA SummitRacing.com Nationals will see the debut of a new-compound of drag slick for Top Fuel and Funny Car racers. Traditionally, this results in hours of television coverage...

King of the Trar-maros

You may have a personal, deep seated hatred of trars. We do not. In fact, trars like the fourth-gen Camaro featured in this video have our ultimate respect. This thing is a full on, bad-ass mud...

MORE: MISC, Videos

Great Read: An Interview with Barry Meguiar

You’ve undoubtedly seen Barry Meguiar either on Car Crazy TV or at one of the zillion car shows he attends each season. It’s good to know that Barry is just as passionate about hot rods...