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The Anatomy of a Win: Ultimate Street Cars attack Willow Springs and We’ve Got Photos and Results Right Here!

(Words by Jim McIlvaine, Photos by Kaleb Kelley) The third stop of the 2026 season of OPTIMA’s Ultimate Street Car series took competitors to their first West coast event at historic Willow Springs...

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RJ Fab Tech Talk: Custom Headers Explained – Rob Lindsay Goes Over Tips, Tricks, And Proven Methods For Custom Header Fabrication.

You may not have heard of RJ Fab, but you’ve probably seen something they have built. When Rob Lindsay started RJ Fab a few decades ago I doubt he thought he’d build a brand that covered...

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The Last LIL GANGSTA standing get’s $30,000 Cash! – Biggest Payout EVER! Here Is Street Car Bragging Rights at Rockingham Dragway

Lil Gangstas just keeps on keeping on, and at Street Car Bragging Rights at Rockingham Dragway they not only put on a hell of a show, but also put up the biggest payout in LG history at $30,000 for...

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Here are 16 of the COOLEST GASSER Combinations from the Southeast Gassers Association. It’s the 1960s All Over Again!

Every Southeast Gassers Association race is a flashback to the 1960’s, which is why everyone loves going to their races so much. These races are all about the showmanship and the fun and...

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Can You Really Paint A Car For Less Than $250 And Make It Look Halfway Decent? Tony Says, Yes… Err Maybe. Watch.

Cheap car and truck paint jobs have always been popular, whether in DIY stories in magazines, on the internet, or with companies like Earl Sheib and Maaco. Hell, Earl Sheib would paint any car for...

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Taking Slow Junk Off The Jumps At The Ramp Contest at Hudson Speedway Memorial Day Thrill Show 2026

Going fast in slow cars, thrashing on junk, and jumping things that shouldn’t be jumped are always a good time and the folks at Hudson Speedway sure know it. For their Memorial Day Thrill Show...

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Wreck Video: A Swamp Buggy Stuffs It Hard

Naples, Florida, is home to the Florida Sports Park. It’s a motorsports facility best known as the home of the world famous Swamp Buggy races. There are seven classes that range from 4-banger...

Cool Photos: A Load of Cool Aerial Shots From the 2010 NHRA O’Reilly Spring Nationals

We were tipped off to some awesome aerial photography from the 2010 NHRA O’Reilly Spring Nationals, held in Houston, Texas, and had to share. The race was held a few weeks back but this is the...

Great Underdog Read: North American Eagle Land Speed Project Making Progress

Currently, the ultimate land speed record for an Earth-bound vehicle is owned by the Thrust SSC team of Englishman Richard Noble. It was back in the 1990s when their multi-gazillion dollar effort...

Cool Old Video: Ten Minutes of Kooky AMC Commercials Circa 1973

We love old car ads around here so when we saw a compilation video made up of the entire 1973 AMC television ad catalog, we had to share it with all of you out there in readerland. While on a long...

NHRA Four-Wide Nationals to Continue in 2011

It has been announced that the NHRA will continue with four-wide drag racing in 2011 at zMax Dragway. The announcement came after NHRA brass met with members of the Professional Racers Owners...

Carnage Video: A Turbo Failure Results in Exhaust Stack Fireworks

With the surge in popularity and power of diesel pickup trucks, the pulling scene is buzzing like never before with entries in stock and modified diesel classes. This particular nitrous injected,...

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...