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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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Three New Hampshire Mechanics in Big Trouble Over Flubbed Emissions Tests

Three New Hampshire mechanics and the company they were formerly employed by are in big trouble with state authorities after admitting to cheating nearly 100 cars through the state’s emissions...

NASCAR Tells Driver Brad Kaselowski to Back Off Racing So Hard!

It has come to light that NASCAR racer Brad Kaselowski, a non-qualifier for the “Chase,” was warned by NASCAR on Sunday to essentially back off of racing Juan Pablo Montoya so hard during...

King of the Trars: 850hp 1966 Galaxie Mud Bogger

Well, this one should put people in two distinct camps. You’ll either love it or absolutely hate it. “It” is a 1966 Ford Galaxie sporting an 850hp big-block Chevy motor, huge axles,...

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BangShift Approved: A racer’s last pass.

On September 29th, 2009 Jerome Miller, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, passed away at age 72. You can read his obituary here.  We didn’t know Jerome. Heck, we had never even heard of him until...

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Gentleman Start Your Attorneys; December 1 Hearing for Mayfield NASCAR Injunction

Wednesday it was announced that Jeremy Mayfield’s appeal to the injunction NASCAR has placed on him will be heard in court on December 1, 2009. This legal clash, depending on the outcome, will...

Why Tires Are So Freakin’ Expensive

Bought tires lately? If it seems like prices are on a quick rise, that’s because they are. The Wall Street Journal took a look into the situation and explored many of the avenues that drive...

Great Read: From Dirt Tracks to Super Speedways; Local Racers and National Heroes

While the days of a few guys at the local gas station fielding a competitive entry in NASCAR are long over, there is still some elements of small town America left in the sport. Local short tracks,...

Your Weirdest Driving Citation

A man in Canada managed to crash his tractor into a police cruiser, resulting in both himself and the police officer taking trips to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The interesting...

Barrett-Jackson May Add California Auction in 2010

The Phoenix Business Journal is reporting that Barrett-Jackson may add a fourth high profile auction to the tree it currently holds in Las Vegas, West Palm Beach, and Scottsdale. This one would be...

New Racing Venue Approved in Rockingham, NC

Finally, some good news to report with respect to someone wanting to set up a race track and the local government’s approval of it. Richmond County, NC officials decided in a unaminous vote to...

Site of the Week: Ponysite.de

Ponysite.de is a Mustang-centric website that is full of all kinds of info, but thanks to reader Jeremy George, we were tipped off to the Trans-Am section and spent hours reading and checking out all...

Layoffs At Edelbrock

We have recently learned that Edelbrock laid off 16 employees off today. These employees, as we understand it, make up support staff for Edelbrock’s EFI systems and their development. Edelbrock...

Name that Motor

While we were checking out the massive Mass. Cruisers cruise night at Gillette Stadium a couple of Thursdays ago, we happened upon a wicked black Buick Riviera. Sporting some of the hottest...

eBay Find: 1976 Chevy Limo-amino

We have to thank Bangshift.com member Mr4Speed for this amazingly awesome eBay find. It is true perfection. A 1976 El Camino limo, one of three actually built and the longest of the troika. It the...