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SMALL TIRE GANGSTERS GO FOR THE $20K+ AGAIN!!!! LOSER’S BRACKET AT DIG OR DIE DIG DAYS 7 AT THE ROCK

If you like Dig or Die coverage as much as we do, then check out this race video from our friends at Spoold Media. Keep in mind, this race is worth more than $20,000 and it’s the losers bracket...

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Leroy Engine Teardown: Did Cleetus Tear Up This HED Beast? Or Is It In Great Shape Still And Ready For More Boost?

Anybody who knows Cleetus, knows that he can tear up just about anything. I can’t even begin to guess the number of engines he’s blown up over the years, but it’s an insane number....

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8×8 and 6×6 Truck Trials Competition: These Bad Ass Rigs Take On All The Mud, Climbs, And Obstacles You Can Throw At Them!

If you have never seen the Tatra truck trials, you are missing out. These 6×6 trucks are truly something special as they have insane suspension, locking diffs, and the ability to ascend and descend...

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Testing TikTok versus Instagram Tool Hacks: Testing a Fractal Vise versus a Dual Battery Behemoth. Are Either Worth Having?

You can imagine that being a tool testing channel on YouTube means digging through tons of comments telling you that you are wrong about the tools you test, or are testing the wrong ones all...

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Finally BIG TURBO POWER! Swapping a 500HP SRT4 Turbo Engine Into A Classic Dodge Caravan Wasn’t As Easy As They Thought!

In the previous installments of the SRT4 powered Caravan build, I said that I wasn’t sure there has ever been a Dodge Caravan that was cleaner and cooler than this one right here, and the engine...

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INDYCAR NTT SERIES: EXTENDED HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2026 Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix At NASHVILLE SUPER SPEEDWAY

Heavy rain meant the NTT INDYCAR SERIES couldn’t race on Sunday for the 2026 Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix, but they were at it bright and early on Monday! If you missed the racing...

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Stromberg Calls Out Speedway For Its Knock-Off 97 Carburetor

There’s nothing quite as juicy as two companies getting into a scrum over similar products, especially when one of them is a late arrival knock-off of the other. This is the case with Stromberg...

Killer Car Show: The Hot Rod Hayride

We think we’ve located the coolest car show in England and it’s happening this August. Thanks to a tip from the ADRL’s Ian Tocher we checked out the website for this neat gathering...

Book Review: NASCAR Racers by Ben White

We often cite NASCAR as the root of all racing evil. With its massive budgets, corporate-driven agenda, and media domination, it’s an easy target to draw the ire of us busted-knuckle types. The...

Video: The Real F-Bomb Camaro in Action for the Fast and Furious Sound Crew

Here’s a video that we made last summer during a day at California’s Willow Springs International Raceway when the gearhead crew from the Fast and Furious movie was having a fun day...

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Event Coverage: 200 Photos from Goodguys Del Mar Car Show

It was another great weekend in California on April 3-5 for the 9th Annual Goodguys Del Mar Nationals at the fairgrounds in, you guessed it, Del Mar. BangShift.com was there all weekend as I once...

Richard Petty and John Andretti to Field a Car at the Indy 500

The rumors are true. Richard Petty will be fielding an entry in the Indy 500 this year and the driver will be John Andretti. It’s very cool that two of the most iconic families in American...

The Top 11 Greatest Motorsports Sponsorships

Racing sponsorships can be great, long-term agreements between a company that is seeing benefit in its advertising dollars or they can be disastrous, short-term follies. Most fall somewhere in...

Barnstormin’: Is there a Future in Nostalgia?

For the second week in a row, I’m going drag racing specific in my Barnstormin’ column, but this is a topic that has had me thinking for some time now and it does relate to other racing...

All About the Intermeccanica Car Company

Many guys wonder what it would be like to build a car from scratch—to give it the look, the power, the name they want. A few have done it and in the modern era that includes a man named Frank...

Failure: The Secret to Success

This one may inspire a lynch mob, but we’re going to strongly recommend you hit the link below and check out this video from Honda. It’s entitled “Failure: The Secret to...

Events for Jim Deist and Lynn Wineland

It’s always a tough thing to swallow when we as a community of hot rodders, racers, and enthusiasts lose people who are instrumental in the history we all hold so dear. This year has already...

Friday Excuse to Go Home Early and Drink: We Woke Up

This week has sucked with such vastly epic proportions we can’t think about it for more than a few minutes at a time before blood starts shooting from our ears. Government controls on the auto...

SEMA Asks President Obama to Oppose Scrappage Programs

SEMA has written a letter to President Obama urging him to oppose “cash for clunkers” programs on the grounds that other similar programs, most notably the model used in Germany, have not...

Tobey Maguire to Star in a Movie about Phil Hill

Tobey Maguire is set to star in a movie version of an upcoming book called Limit by Michael Cannell that follows Phil Hill and Ferrari teammate Wolfgang Von Trips through the 1961 F1 season that...