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Big Sky Race Week Video from the BangShift Billy crew. Day 4 Adventures Continue For All The Racers. And It Rains!

Big Sky Race Week coverage continues thanks to Bill and the crew at BANGshift Billy. This time it is their Day 4 video from a rain soaked highway somewhere.  Can Bill hang on to 1st place on Day 4....

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FREE LIVESTREAM: CASH DAYS at The Hill with Happy and Limpy! KD Dragways Hosts One Hell Of An Event! Watch Here.

It doesn’t matter whether you call it KD Motorsports Park, KD Dragway, or The Hill, everyone knows that some bad ass no prep races go on there and that it is one of the more unique drag strips in...

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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The ACE Triple $20,000 Races Are LIVE From Darana Dragway 42 – SATURDAY

The ACE Triple $20,000 Races are live this weekend from Darana Dragway 42 in Ohio, and we’ve got all the action coming to you live and free right here thanks to our friends at MotorManiaTV. Racing...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: NHRA Jr. Dragster Eastern Conference Finals Weekend! Saturday Racing Right Here from Bristol.

If you are fan of the up and comers in NHRA sportsman drag racing, then you are going to love the Right Trailers Jr. Eastern Conference Finals being held this weekend at the Thunder Valley in Bristol...

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More Photos From The World’s Largest All Ford Show And Swap Meet! The Carlisle All Ford Nationals In Central Pennsylvania Were Full!

Here’s our fourth gallery of photos from Carlisle, but if you missed the previous photos you can find them all at the link below. Joe Grippo was on hand like every year, capturing amazing finds...

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More Buckeye Skips 2026 Drag and Drive Photos! Here’s Our Third Day 2 Racing Gallery from Darana Dragway 42 in Ohio

We’ve got more racing action from Buckeye Skips Drag and Drive! (Photos by Neal Sabo) We’ve got Buckeye Skip’s drag and drive photos right here! We already shared photos from Day #1’s...

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Get Your Squash On Video: Compressing Aluminum, Steel, Copper, and Brass In A 150-ton Press Is Awesome and Weird

The Hydraulic Press Channel on YouTube is one of the more mystifying success stories in the world, right? Why do people like seeing crushed in a big old press so much?! Count us among the millions of...

Mt Vesuvius On Steel Wheels: Check Out This Steam Tractor Pulling The Sled For Fun

While this is not the first time we have showed an exhibition pull being made by an awesome and massive steam tractor, we think it may be the most majestic one we have ever showed. You are going to...

This Vintage Ad For Irwindale Raceway Will Make you Long For SoCal Living 50 Yars Ago

There’s nothing like the history of southern California drag racing. A few years I spent days cruising SoCal to see the locations of many old strips. Between the finals and the exploration, was...

It Is 4/03 So Let’s Look At Some Olds 403 Dyno Videos! The Ignored Big Bore Small Block Can Make Power

The Oldsmobile 403 was a pretty short run engine produced from 1977 through 1979 and while it appeared in some performance minded cars of the era like the Firebird, Buick Riviera, and Olds 442, it...

Influence & Impact Episode 17: The History of Truck Shows, Mini Truck Runs, C10 Shows And More!

You know we’re big on truck shows around here and have our favorites. As a mini trucker from way back, I can tell you that mini truck shows are their own thing and have their own personality....

Custom Truck Feature: OL YELLER – This Protouring 1972 C10 Is Hitting The Streets In Grand Fashion. Bitchin Truck, Bitchin Look, Bitchin Performance.

When you take a classic C10 truck, fix up some rust and shorten it up a bit, it’s going to be cool. I mean it doesn’t need much more than that to be fun, but that’s not how Level 7...

Will Dennis Taylor’s 1941 Willys Project Live Again? Pulling Apart The Blown 392 Hemi To See What’s Wrong Before The Rebuild.

This one is going to be fun, not only because it is a cool car that Dennis and Deb put together years ago, but also because when Dennis and Alex started tearing into it to find out what the problems...

Street Freak – Part 3: Tube Chassis Fabrication Continues! Twin Turbo Lambo Powered, Mid Engine, 25.2 Drag And Drive Volvo!

Here’s the third video in the series, and the tube work is coming along really well. It looks awesome and this thing is going to be amazing. I can’t wait to see this thing hauling ass! If...

WHAT DO YOU THINK? This Stuff Can Make Or Break A Hot Rod. Mounting Headlights, Tail lights, Shocks, & More On The Make It Kustom Model A Roadster

It’s time to start getting the exterior accessories on this cool Model A Roadster project. We’re talking headlights, tail lights, shocks and more. This stuff all really matters on a...

Halfass Kustoms 1949 GMC Roadster Pickup Custom: Rebuilding The Rear of the Box on the ’49 GMC Roadster Custom!

In the last video, Brent was working on the custom running boards on the GMC Roadster pickup and now he’s doing some tweaking out back to the rear of the pickup bed. Check it out and let us...

Happy 4/02! Let’s Look Back At Chevy’s 402ci Big Block From The Early 1970s

There’s not a lot of mystery about what the 402ci big block actually was, right? You are basically looking at a 396 that was bored .030 to get the extra six cubic inches. Mechanically, the pair...

Rusted and Busted! DIY Frame Repair! Mortske’s 1962 Chevrolet C10 Shortbed, The Budget Friendly Pickup Truck, Might Just Break In Half!

Most of the time when we are talking about rust in old cars it is sheet metal. Whether it’s the floors or the quarters or the rockers, the normal spots are usually thinner materials. But...

FINALLY! The New Makita 1″ Drive Impact vs Milwaukee Shootout! Who Needs Huge Impacts Like This? Insane Power!

I remember working at a rock and gravel and building materials joint growing up called U-Save Rockery, where I drove a dump truck, ran heavy equipment for loading and unloading materials, ran a...

Newbern Bought An Old Jr. Dragster For His Kid, It Needs And Engine And The Brakes Are Junk. So He’s Putting An Engine In It!

Yep, Newbern is making sure his kid Luke is ready for the racing life and that meant grabbing a Jr. Dragster that came available for cheap. The engine on it was junk, so he’s making other...