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Big Sky Race Week Video from the BangShift Billy crew. Will Ultra High Temps Cause Trouble For Competitiors?

There has been a lot of weird weather in the last 12 months and it doesn’t seem to be getting any less crazy. With heat waves and storm fronts moving all over the country, you are seeing areas...

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

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We’ve got Buckeye Skip’s drag and drive photos right here! We already shared photos from Day #1’s checkpoints and racing, but now it is time for Day #2...

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

Here’s our second gallery of photos from Carlisle, but if you missed the previous photos you can find them all at the link below. (Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) The world’s largest...

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More FJ40 Custom Fabrication! This Beast Gets An ECM Install, Branik Links, Custom Cooler Mounts, and A Stereo Install.

When you start making real headway on a project the jobs get smaller and smaller, but no less significant. Shannon and Jess are back at it on the cool FJ40 project and that means many small things...

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This Is The Ultimate Call Out Challenge! We’re Talking 3,000 Horsepower Diesel Trucks Battling It Out For Bragging Rights And More!

The 2026 Ultimate Callout Challenge was epic. The meanest, nastiest, and most no-holds barred diesel trucks in the country  gathered in Indy to do battle on the dyno rollers, on the drag strip, and...

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Video: The West Coast’s Largest All Ford Truck Show – The F100 Western Nationals 2026 Coverage Starts Here

We figured that if we were going to start sharing our Carlisle Ford Nationals photo coverage today, which is the largest all Ford show in the world, we might as well share the largest classic Ford...

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Blame It on the Cat: Attorneys For Lisa Mayfield Claim Confrontation Was Brought on by Cat

This is impossible to top. Lisa Mayfield’s attorneys claim that she made her way to Jeremy Mayfield’s 400-acre farm, while drunk, to take possession of a cat whose custody has been under...

Hot Rod Drag Week Hotels Announced

Hot Rod Magazine recently announced the host hotels for the 2009 running of Drag Week. If you are headed out on the event, spectating, or are a groupie (weird!) this is the list you need to make sure...

Great Rant: De Lorenzo Brings the Thunder Again

Man, this is a rant. A full on, sit down and listen, rant. Autoextremist.com’s Peter De Lorenzo, a long time automotive advertising executive has had it up to his eyeballs with GM’s new...

Danica’s Not Headed for F1; NASCAR a Possibility

Ridelust.com is reporting that the new kids on the F1 block, USF1, has removed themselves from the Danica Patrick chase, leaving the door open for her potential switch to NASCAR. We’d be pretty...

The ADRL Continues to Blow Up; Columbus Race This Weekend

It’s the most under-reported story in motorsports: the ADRL has blown up like a neutron bomb over the last couple seasons. In the course of a two day event, the little drag race series that...

Just So We’re On the Same Page: Mayfield Timeline Complete With Banjo Action

In the event you are just stepping onto the high-speed thrill ride known as the Jeremy Mayfield saga, fear not! We’ve located the perfect timeline to get you up to speed on all the comings and...

Video of the Week: Death Defying Mustang Wheelstand

It’s pretty amazing how well guys can get lots of horsepower through a small tire these days. This insane wheelstand actually dates back a couple of years but its all-time greatness negates any...

Government to Announce Clunkers Program Exit Strategy Today

While we’re happy to hear that the government is set to announce the “winding down” of the Cash for Clunkers program, we’re suspicious that the words “for now”...

Dirtbag Tries to Use Clunkers Program to Ditch Car After Fatal Hit and Run

Here’s an angle on the Cash for Clunkers program we never considered: its potential use to ditch a car involved in a crime! A 23 year old Arizona man struck and killed a man riding a bicycle...

“Great Advice” For Finding a Mechanic

You have to feel for professional mechanics, and especially those that own their own shops. This piece from Wallet Pop serves as the perfect reason why. The automotive know-nothing population which...

Details of the New Ford 6.2L V8 Emerge; F150 Raptor Sounds Like Big Fun

The new 6.2L Boss V8 motor from Ford is sounding more and more like a pretty stout piece. Details have not exactly been easy to come by, but thanks to a recently published story about the SVT Raptor...

Cool! Massive Formula One Engine Goes on Display

A massive model of a Formula One engine has gone on display at The ‘Ring in Germany. The engine actually rotates around and is there as an exhibit being shown at the Ring Wrek museum at the...

Here Comes the Fail: Clunkers Sales on the Wane Just as Companies Ramp Up Production

Just like it is scripted, the Cash for Clunkers fraud is about to expose itself in the most public of ways. As triumphant announcements hit the wires from around the auto-manufacturing globe, other...

GM Says FARVAL To Saab

Farval means goodbye in Swedish (or so the online translator told us). We’d like to say that GM sold Saab, but it didn’t: Saab was literally given away. Well, technically it hasn’t...