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Jay Leno Drives the Ultimate 1967 Muscle Car Unicorn (With an American Powertrain 6-Speed Swap!)

Just 187 1967 Pontiac 2+2 HOs were built from the factory, and man is this thing a real unicorn. With the 428 under the hood, and a factory 4-speed, it was a fun car to drive, but it’s a whole...

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FREE No Prep Drag And Drive LIVESTREAM: Back To The Streets 2026 Is Hitting Wabash, Wagler, Brown County And Bunker Hill Dragways This Week!

It’s Drag and Drive season and that means more and more folks are taking their hot rods and race cars out for racing and road trips and we love them for it. Back to the Streets is one of the more...

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NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Our Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car 4-Wide Drag Racing Photos Continue!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a cool, fast, and adventurous weekend for the stars of the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North...

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Featured Product: Mazda Miata Coil Overs From Ridetech! One Of The Best Track Day Cars Ever Gets Some New Goodies From Ridetech!

Whether you love their 4 cylinder power, or not, it’s hard to argue with the handling prowess of the venerable Mazda Miata. The MX5, as it is known everywhere else in the world, is light,...

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Indianapolis 500 Movie – The 500: Immortality at Indy. The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.

The Indianapolis 500 will be run for the 110th time this Sunday as the green flag drops for the 2026 edition of this amazing race. Regardless of whether you are a hardcore Indy Car Series fan, or...

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More NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car4-Wide Drag Racing Photos!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a cool, fast, and adventurous weekend for the stars of the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North...

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Video of the Week: 1990 Pikes Peak In-Car Action!

We’re not sure that we’ll ever be able to top this one. This is footage, both in car and out, is of Ari Vatanen driving a seriously hot rodded Peugeot 405 in the 1990 Pikes Peak Hill...

Lohnes’ Pic of the Week: Top Comedy from Lime Rock

Here’s some more fun from Lime Rock. This GT1 racer began his race with a hard top and ended with a roadster, much to his chagrin. On talking to the driver, we learned that he was involved in...

Site of the Week: How to Do a Burnout Wiki!

The wonderful age of high-tech video and the Internet have finally come together for the greater good. Yes folks, thanks to Wikihow.com, you can learn how to do a burnout online. And lest you think...

Crane Cams Reportedly Shut Down

We learned the hard way last week that not all reports of horrible business news are correct at first, and we hope the same is true here, but a story on new-journalonline.com seems to verify the...

Vintage Race Car of the Week: Sir Malcom Campbell’s 1935 Bluebird

If you want to talk about the intersection of blunt force trauma and stylized design, then no conversation on the topic would be complete with out bringing up the Bluebird of Sir Malcom Campbell,...

Roadside Find: A Trio of Old Navy 1950 Chevys

Since the snow has been melting around here in Massachusetts and the glaciers are receding, old cars and trucks are now seeing daylight after being literally buried for months. We saw this neat group...

Video Review: 7-Second Love Affair

The golden era of Top Fuel racing during the ‘60s is heavily romanticized. Stories from those days just seem too good to be true and even reading period racing newspapers conveys the feeling...

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...