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Grand National Roadster Show 2026: Here Are Photos Of All The America’s Most Beautiful Roadster Contenders!

(Photos by Chad Reynolds) America’s Most Beautiful Roadster is a title given to just one roadster per year and is considered one of the two highest hot rod award honors in the world. Given out at...

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King Of The Hammers Livestream 2026: Unlimited Qualifying And Racing To Kick Off King of the Hammers Right! Johnson Valley Action Starts Now!

It’s time for a couple of weeks of off-road racing across Johnson Valley California at King of the Hammers 2026. We’ve got the livestream rocking right here the whole time, so make sure...

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Grand National Roadster Show 2026 Photos: Hot Rods, Customs, Lowriders, Muscle Cars, Street Rods, Trucks, and More!

(Photos by Chad Reynolds) Our newest gallery of photos from the 2026 edition of the Grand National Roadster Show features awesome rides from all over! The 2026 Grand National Roadster Show is a...

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Building A Hot Rod: This Is The Martin Indy Special And Here Is Part 1 Of The Documentary On Its Build

The Martin Indy Special is, well, special. Not only because it isn’t some bolt together simple project, but also because of the way it has been built. While the look is traditional, the spirit...

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Drag Racing History Lesson: Here Are The 5 Cars That Made NHRA Pro Stock And Are Considered To Be Incredibly Influential Door Cars

Everyone around here knows that NHRA Pro Stock is one of my favorite classes. Sure it has changed a bunch over the last decade or so, but it is still great drag racing. I have always loved NHRA Pro...

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Shannon Campbell’s King of the Hammers Daily Adventures 2026: Watch All Of Shannon’s King of the Hammers 2026 Videos Right Here!

We shared some of Shannon Campbell’s history at King of the Hammers the other day, and you can use the link below to check that out, but here are Shannon’s Daily Updates from the Lakebed...

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FreiburgersJunkyard.com is Becoming BangShift.com!

It’s pretty well known that the founder of this site, David Freiburger, has moved on to more well-paying pastures as the Editor In Chief of Hot Rod magazine, and has handed this web asylum over...

New Gallery: 2009 Milers Land Speed Club Meeting

To participate in the land speed races at El Mirage Dry Lake here in California, you must be a member of one of the clubs that comprise the Southern California Timing Association. Last year I was...

The Lohnes Wreck Files: A Bad Day at Lime Rock

Anyone who has been involved in racing at any level and in any capacity knows that there are good days at the track when everything goes right and bad days at the track where the almighty is telling...

Dan Dye’s New Twin-Turbo Hemi Cuda Pro Mod

Skinny Kid Race Cars has finished construction on this wild heap of iron that Dan Dye (one of the original 10.5-tire hitters) will campaign on the ADRL and IHRA circuits this season after getting the...

The Hack Job General Lee has Officially Hit Rock Bottom

This is the, we hope, rock bottom in the story of the Hack Job General Lee, a 1969 Dodge Charger that had been purchased sight-unseen on the Internet and that has turned into a nightmare matrix of...

The Top 11 Ways You’ll Know Where the GM Performance Division Engineers Were Reassigned

With the recent announcements regarding the GM Performance Division and the fact that the GMPD engineers have been reassigned to other projects, we thought it would be good to look into the future...

eBay Pick of the Week: Monster Truck with Creature Comforts

We spotted this ad, saw the 66-inch tires, and thought of all those great monster truck events we went to as kids. This thing is not as it first seems, though. In looking past the tires we happened...

Monday Time Killer: Barn Finds, Canadian Mopar Style

There are bitchin’ cars hidden in barns all over the world. We don’t have a hammer lock on them just here in the States. This week’s Time Killer site proves that there is coolness...

Roadside Find: 1987 Suburban Dually

I so want to own this. Talk about the best tow rig ever! It’s two-wheel drive, in beautiful shape, I think it has a big-block in it, and best of all is the narrowed 14-bolt and dually tires in...

Chadmouth: Hot Rodding with the Glass Half Full

I’m a cup-half-full kind of guy. Some people aren’t, and that’s okay, but I prefer to go through life with a smile on my face and the wind in my hair. I prefer to hang out with...

It Came From the fab Shop: The $5.00 3D Chassis Model

Welcome to a new weekly recurring feature here on the site. It Came From the Fab Shop is being written by Loren Krussow, who is known as KSO4 on our forums. Loren has a fabrication business and along...

Friday Excuse to Go Home Early and Drink: Government Bans the Sale of Kids’ Dirt Bikes

The AMA is pleading with its members, motorcycling enthusiasts, and general gearheads across the land to get on the horn and work to lift the ban on the sales of kids’ motorcycles before it has...

Motorized Freak of the Week: Sammy Miller’s Rocket Funny Car

In 1975, nothing on a dragstrip was quicker or faster than Sammy Miller’s Spirit of ‘76 Mustang II. It was the very first rocket powered Funny Car. Motivated by a hydrogen peroxide...

GM Performance Division Disbanded: Not as Drastic as First Reported

After a day of burning up phone lines, sending e-mails, reading other online reports, and launching flares up into the sky, we’ve got some more information for you with regard to...