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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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Speed Week 1957 Film: This Incredible Movie Is In Color, Has Full Sound, Narration, and Goodness!

The internet makes us smile REALLY BIG some days. Most others we want it all to fall down a hole but today is a big smile day. Why? Because have found a jaw dropping Speed Week 1957 film that shows...

Karl Fisher From Make It Kustom Shows Us How To Make An EASY, FREE, DIY SHRINKER TOOL! HOW-TO Make CURVED FLANGES on SHEET METAL!

In this episode, Karl makes a DIY shrinker from scrap he had laying around. And I know I could absolutely do the same thing with junk I have sitting around. I’m sure you can too. And if you...

This Bad Ass Jeep Is Showing Supercars What The Back Of A Cherokee Looks Like On The Way To Gapplebees

I’m a huge fan of things that haul ass, and especially things that haul ass but don’t look like they should haul ass. I mean sure this Jeep Cherokee has wheels and tires on it, and a...

A $1,000,000 RV That Isn’t A Toter And Stacker!? Touring a $1 Million SCANIA RV Imported from HOLLAND!

Bruce Wilson is an RV reviewing machine and gets some of the coolest access to stuff that you and I would NEVER get to see otherwise. And while all of us racers are used to seeing stupid fancy...

Sunbeam Tiger Video: Ride Along As The Tiny Small Block Ford Sports Car Rips Monte Carlo

While the Shelby Cobra is certainly the signature piece in the legacy of Carroll Shelby, the Sunbeam Tiger is another English/American mashup he had his hands in and profited from. The Tiger was born...

Watch The Awesome and Pretty Complicated Starting Procedure For A 1958 John Deere 820 – Pony Motor!

If there is a basic rule of life it is that any engine that needs or happily uses another engine to start it is pretty awesome and the big (400+ ci) two cylinder John Deere diesel is nothing but...

An Amazing Tale: The Story Of The Rotodyne, The Vertical Take Off Airliner That Almost Made It (Video)

When we think of failed aeronautical innovations we normally put them in the same category known as, “stuff that could not actually fly.” Well this video and this story will stand as...

Break the Record: The Story of The Blue Flame LSR Car – Absolutely Awesome Historic LSR Video!

Before the British Thrust SSC took the World Land Speed Record in 1997, it was held by an Earth-bound rocket known as, “The Blue Flame”. The car was built by Reaction Dynamics, the...

Is Goliath Really Sold? Really Leaving The Country? Together And Loading Up For The Last Time? Watch.

We all know that Daddy Dave Comstock built a whole new NPK car that debuted last year at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas and that he’s been racing and winning with it all year long. But he also...

Shop Shenanigans: Can The Iron Trap Garage Crew Get This Unknown 331 Cadillac Engine To Run??!!

I love all the cool old iron that the guys at Iron Trap Garage are always finding, because most of their stuff is at least 20 years older than the muscle car stuff I mess around with most often. What...

Budget Shop Truck: Squarebody Long Bed To Short Bed Conversion – CHEAP REPAIRS. Basic Patch Panel How To With A MIG Welder

This cool low buck shop truck build is turning out really cool and we dig it. If you missed it, the long bed became a short bed, using the stock bed with the smallest of cuts and welds so that the...

Remember Bigfoot and USA-1 Racing Down Lanes of Crushed Cars At Gateway Motorsports Park In 1983? Let This Video Remind You

This video is absolutely awesome on every single level and we have to thank Chuy Nava for thinking of us and tipping us off to its existence. You are going to jump back in time to 1983 and to the...

Le Mans: The Grand Prize – This 1973 Film About The John Greenwood Corvette Team At Le Mans Rules

Ok, this is one of the most fantastic vintage road racing films we have ever seen. The title of the film is Le Mans: The Grand Prize and it is an inside look at the John Greenwood racing effort at...

History Video: The “Other” Racing At Pomona – Sports Car Racing Circa 1960 With Dave McDonald And Max Balchowsky

When the word Pomona is uttered around a car guy the first thought is drag racing, right? After all, the Pomona Fairplex has been home to the NHRA’s brand of motorsports entertainment for...