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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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It Came From the Fab Shop: Build Your Own Roll Back Tow Truck

(By Loren Krussow)Fortune, we hope, will smile upon us on days we venture from our garages and neighborhoods to take out our hot rods.The wheels will steadily spin, the fluid in the cooling system...

Event Gallery: 2009 Goodguys Pacific Northwest Nationals

BangShift.com forum member Bob Parks (called Memphis on the forum) attended the 2009 Goodguys Northwest Nationals with his camera and knocked our socks off with some bitchin’ photos of the...

We Missed the Party! Mopar Nats Cruise Gets Rowdy, Cops Tired

The 2009 Mopar Nationals just went down at its normal location of National Trail Raceway in Hebron, Ohio. That was a former national event track for NHRA until Norwalk came into the picture. Now...

Attorney Convicted; Killer Drag Car and Racing Stuff to be Auctioned

A North Carolina attorney has been convicted of defrauding former clients out of millions of dollars and will spend the next 20 years behind bars. That’s the crappy part. The good news is that...

Event Coverage: Wednesday at the 2009 Bonneville Speed Week, Including a 262-MPH Truck!

OK, you readers, I admit I am totally wiped right now. While the cool guys are out at the 200 MPH Club banquet tonight, I’m still pounding out all the coverage I can on the 2009 Bonneville...

Team Nish Still in the Hunt for Top Speed at 2009 Speed Week

The 2009 SCTA/BNI Speed Week at the Bonneville Salt Flats is slowly drawing to a close as teams set records, blow up, or just plain fail. Meanwhile, the fastest cars of Bonneville are still in a...

Barnstormin’: I’m a Clunker-holic

I can’t say that I pride myself on being a champion of the environment or even really ever going out of my way to save trees, dolphins, owls, or any other limited edition woodland creature....

Mendy Goes to Hollywood: Mendy Fry Behind-the -Scenes Footage of SCE Gaskets TV Commercial Shoot

We got tipped off to this bit of coolness by our pal Cole Coonce. This is video of a television commercial shoot involving Mendy Fry, the acclaimed Fuel Dragster and Funny Car pilot from California....

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Website of the Week: Photographic History of Virginia International Raceway

We’re suckers for vintage photos around here and especially if they are of the drag race or road race variety. This awesome set of photos, specifically related to the history of Virginia...

Craigslist Nugget: “Rulingest Car Ever”

Some people truly know how to sell. It’s all about the eye-catching title of your ad on Craigslist and the dude selling this really clean Nova pulled out all the stops with the invention of the...

Video: Take a ride in a 235-MPH Corvette

Ed and Linda Van Scoy have been racing their C4 Corvette at Bonneville for 15 years. It has gotten Ed into the Bonneville 200-MPH Club, and has held several records. All of that experience clearly...

AP Editorial Says GM Must Concentrate on Cars. We Say No, Really?

Today’s Captain Obvious Award goes to the Associated Press, which ran a story entitled, “GM has to Focus on Its Cars to Boost Sales.” You don’t say! The story then goes on to...

Great Rant: Peter De Lorenzo’s Take on the Woodward Dream Cruise and What Detroit Means to The Auto Industy

We’ll admit that lots of times we do not exactly agree with all that Autoextremist’s Peter De Lorenzo has to say. He’s a guy who grew up in the auto industry and spent many years...

Video: Gary Hart’s 248-mph Studebaker Blows a Turbo at Speed

Blowing up a turbo isn’t good. It’s really not good at over 200 mph. Running a car at Bonneville Speedway is a lot like putting your engine through a 2 minute dyno pull, which means you...