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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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DD Speed Shop’s FORGOTTEN First Generation Camaro: Nothin But NEW METAL! – This Makes It A Rust Free 1967 Camaro Right?

When you get a Camaro project, you care a bit less about the rust when it comes with a bunch of new replacement panels. After all, when you’ve got all those parts sitting in the garage you are...

How To: Installing a McLeod RXT Street Twin Clutch on RebelDryver’s BluePrint Engines 400 Small Block!

It is incredibly rare to find anyone that daily drives a stick shift car anymore. It’s also rare to find folks that drive classic cars daily. Both in one is almost unheard of, but Scott Liggett...

Murder Nova Burnout Truck – Build Series Part 1: Tearing Down This ’81 C10 and Seeing What’s Hiding And Making Game Plan

It sure ain’t pretty! But that’s okay, because Shawn and the gang are going to blow this thing all apart to make it a little bit prettier before turning their attention to making this the...

Chassis Mods Part 1: Bagging a 1936 Ford, Rebuilding Frame Rails, Custom Crossmembers, Notch, And A One Off LS Swap.

The Bellos Kustoms crew are jamming on another project and this time it’s a little different. They’re taking what looks like a pretty clean 1936 Ford Chassis and building an LS swapped,...

Rough Project: Pole Barn Garage’s Budget-Savvy $2,250 Grand Prix Rebuild!

You may remember my “Rough Start” posts from a while back. The basic sentiment was that for $5,000, you could find an interesting, worthy project that would run, drive and had the...

Draggin’ Ass: Can This Squarebody Tow Truck Live Once More?

At the corner of Hancock Avenue and Fillmore Street in Colorado Springs, there used to be a Conoco gas station of the old-school variety: four pumps and a service center that would do oil changes,...

Morning Symphony: Banging Gears In A Stick-Shifted Ford LTD II

The Ford LTD II was a strange duck. It only ran for three years (1977-1979), was effectively a 1972 Ford Torino with razor-lined styling and a park bench for a front bumper, and had all of...

Cool Tool Spotlight: You Need This! A Wheel Lug Pattern Caliper Slide Ruler. No More Red Plastic Rings!

Every hot rodder either has one of those red plastic rings that has multiple wheel lug patterns in it, or wishes they did. I’ve got several, as I’ve bought them at the swap meet for a few...

You’ve Been Lied To! The Truth About Welding Sheetmetal Panels! Change Your Ways To Get Straight, Smooth Panels Easier.

Low heat and small tacks. This is what so many of us have been told for decades about welding sheet metal panels to avoid distortion. But the truth is that in the past year or so I’ve seen tons...

The Engine Builder Hall of Fame Class of 2024 – The Pioneer of Performance Parts: Ed Winfield

The Engine Builder Hall of Fame is meant to recognize and memorialize the individuals that played a significant role in the development of internal combustion engines for competition. From the...

Steve Magnante Is Back And Truck Week Continues. Truck Week Feature #13 Heavy Duty “Corn Binders” International Harvester Trucks!

Here’s the thirteenth video of Steve’s Truck series! This time it’s all about the venerable “Corn Binders”, which is just one of the nicknames given to International Harvester...

Mooneyes New Year’s Party At Irwindale: Customs, Hot Rods, Traditionals, Lowriders, Vans, And More!

(Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) Most people take their yearly vacations in the summertime, not us. My nice weather months (Spring, Summer, and Fall) are for racing and hitting up our many local...

The Iron Trap Garage Crew Is Unloading A MASSIVE Truckload Of Speed Equipment & Early Ford Parts From A Recent Score!

Matt and the crew are back at it and that means unloading a literal ton of parts from a recent collection they discovered. These guys bring more parts to the world than you might imagine, and when...

Finnegan Is Road Tripping His Rusty Dodge “Daytona” Wing Car to An Abandoned Dragstrip!

Finnegan is back at it with more shenanigans in this video and that means bringing out the Rusty Dodge Daytona for some fun. In this case we’re talking about road tripping this thing to the...