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A Weekend At The Drags with Joe Grippo: Racing, Photos, And Fun From Darana Raceway Park Maple Grove in Pennsylvania.

(Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) Arguably the biggest bombshell news story that came out of last year’s PRI show was the legendary Pennsylvania drag strip Maple Grove Raceway being acquired by the...

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Pueblo’s Biggest Father’s Day Event Is The Father’s Day Car Show! We’ve Got Photos Right Here!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) Billed as the biggest Father’s Day event in Pueblo, the Father’s Day Car Show at the Pueblo Christian Center is in it’s 8th year and fills up fast on show...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Making Fiberglass Doors Actually Fit, And Making The Steering Work Properly!

Doors that shut and wheels that turn might not sound super exciting, but they require fabrication and time in order to be right and that’s what we dig. This project has been fun to follow, and...

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PDRA Drag Racing Video: Pro Nitrous and Pro Boost Round 1 North vs South Shootout Qualifying from Maryland International Raceway

We’ve shared some live track testing going on at Maryland International Raceway where PDRA’s top teams were on hand to see what kind of improvements they can make as they got ready for this past...

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Extended Highlights from the CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa | GT World Challenge powered by AWS 2026

We share all kinds of live racing action from the 24 Hours of SPA this weekend, but if you missed any of that we’ve got great highlight video below that shows the best racing action from the...

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IMSA 6-Hours of Watkins Glen Endurance Racing Highlight Video Is Right Here! Only The Best Racing Action!

Here we go again! The 2026 IMSA Racing season is in full swing and this weekend the series was visiting Watkins Glen in New York which is one of the most famous race tracks in the country! There was...

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Event Coverage: The 5th Annual Jeg’s NHRA SportsNationals

The 5th Annual 2009 Jeg’s Pacific SPORTSNationals presented by K&N on April 18-19 in Fontana, California, was hot and fast, and we’re not just talking about the weather. While the...

2009 Mopar Spring Fling in Van Nuys this Weekend

So-Cal guys and gals, don’t forget that the gala Spring Fling all-Mopar show and more is coming this weekend, April 25-26 at Woodley Park in Van Nuys, California. Actually it’s closer...

Hotchkis Performance Now Offers Mopar Suspension

The Mopar guys can finally get bolt-on suspension upgrades from Hotchkis Performace, including tubular upper A-arms and front and rear antiroll bars. The stuff fits B-bodies (like Chargers and Road...

Video: The Popular Hot Rodding Project X 1957 Chevy

There’s currently a discussion on the BangShift.com message boards about the merits and influences of various magazine feature and project cars over the years. Whenever that topic comes up,...

Mecum Auction Packed with Killer Vintage Drag Machinery

There is some significantly awesome stuff that will be crossing the block at the upcoming Mecum Auction in Indy on May 13-17, 2009. Among the stuff we’re fixated on, there’s a real 1965...

Vintage Race Car of the Week: The Scarab Mk1 Chevrolet

This week’s Vintage Racer is one that was born in the late 1950s road racing renaissance here in the good ol’ USA. As more and more people imported Eurpean race cars to compete on courses...

2009 MSD Car Show and Employee Appreciation Day Coming May 1

We got a note from our buddy Todd Ryden over at MSD Ignition and he told us about the employee appreciation day and car show that’s going down on May first. If you live in the El Paso, Texas,...

Book Review: The History of NHRA Pro Stock

NHRA Publications is a relatively new deal for the Glendora, Califorinia-based sanctioning body, and this book, The History of NHRA Pro Stock, is its second published effort. If you are a fan of the...

What if General Motors Has to Change Its Name?

What if GM is legally required through its restructuring to change its name? That’s the query behind a new poll at the Automotive News web site. The names offered for selection are GM Inc.,...

Edelbrock’s New Entry Level E-Street Aluminum Heads

Edelbrock just posted a page on its site about the new, entry-level E-Street line of aluminum cylinder heads being offered for small-block Chevy and Ford applications. They sell for under $1,000 a...

The Lohnes Wreck Files: Stop!

It turns out that Honda Civics skip like small stones when driven into a sand trap at their terminal velocity. This little tidbit was discovered on a Wednesday “street night” at New...

Castroneves Acquitted of Tax Evasion

Sure it happened at the end of last week, and that’s like 23 years in blog time, but we wanted to give you some closure on the saga of Helio Castroneves and his tax evasion trial. It took the...

Barnstormin’: The Last Days of Chrysler

Is Chrysler done? That’s a question which has been posed before, several times actually. Chrysler has nearly bought the farm a couple times now, coming the closest to collapse in the early...

eBay Pick of the Week: Annoying Guy With Kick-Ass Firebird

Some people simply do not know the definition of “soft sell.” The dude selling this awesome 1971 Firebird Formula 455 is one of them. The text in the ad is not all that bad, but the...