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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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Get The Real History On Junkyard Digs’ Latest Barn-Find Cutlass

About a week or so ago, we showed you the first part of Junkyard Digs’ third Cutlass revival. That’s right, third…this dude has a knack for finding pretty decent Rocket-powered...

Trapped 40 Years: Freeing An Old Ford Mustang From A Michigan Barn

In our minds we always want any Barn Find cars to find amazing homes and to live happily ever after, like Cinderella. After all, finding some old car in a barn or shed is a pretty romantic notion, so...

RAREST of the RARE – Barris Built Pontiac Firebird Goes Up For Auction

George Barris built some insanely cool customs in his time and was particularly well-known for building customs that were found on tv shows. From the sublime to the ridiculous, George has built some...

How To Repair A Rusty Cab Corner, Inner Rocker, Rear Floor, And B-Pillar Panels On A 1971 Chevy C10 PART 1

We have been showing a lot of custom sheet metal work around here lately, and also rust repair with custom patch panels, but if you are lucky enough to have new sheetmetal replacement panels, then...

FE Race And Reunion Coverage: More Great Fords From Beaver Springs Dragway

All things FE baby, that’s what the FE Race and Reunion is all about at Beaver Springs Dragway. Thanks to Joe Grippo we’ve got lots of photos from all over the event, so check out the second...

NMCA All-American Nationals Photo Coverage: Amazing Drag Cars And Action!

We’ve got our sixth gallery of photos from Joe Grippo’s coverage of the NMCA All-American Nationals right here. (Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) Ever been to an NMCA Event? If you...

CHEAP, BROKEN, JUNKYARD 4.8L-WILL IT RUN? WITH SO MANY ISSUES, CAN THE DAMAGED LS COME BACK TO LIFE?

So you find a cheap 4.8 or 5.3 for sale on Facebook Marketplace, and take it home to clean up and put into your project car or truck, only to find that it has a bunch of issues you weren’t...

So You Think You Can Drive? Both Hands and Both Feet Sideways

There are people who do not believe that race car drivers are athletes. Those people are wrong by a lot. Why? Watch this video and see what Jules Gounon does behind the wheel and tell me that there...

New Product: Introducing The Fabricator Table From Rogue Fabrication

Here’s what Rogue Fabrication has to say about this cool new tool! Here it is! The brand new Fabricator Table! Standard features: Construction of tops are 5/16″ thick steel with 1/4″ and...

FE Race And Reunion Coverage From Beaver Springs Dragway

All things FE baby, that’s what the FE Race and Reunion is all about at Beaver Springs Dragway. Thanks to Joe Grippo we’ve got lots of photos from all over the event, so check out the first...

WALMART Has a $170 ($245 Kit) Brushless Impact Wrench?! Is It Worth Buying? Dyno Test Below!

It seems like everyone and their brother is getting into the cordless tool game, and that some of them might actually be worth owning. Not so long ago name brands like Milwaukee, Dewalt, Bosch,...

Historic Race Video: Restored And Original Racecars Were Big At The Chattanooga Motorcar Festival

Look at these awesome historic racecars that were on hand at the Chattanooga Motorcar Festival. Tommy Lee Byrd, the Hot Rod Hoarder, was on hand and got all kinds of great videos. In fact,...

BoostedGT vs Beater Bomb.. BEST TWO OUT OF THREE!

If you follow small tire, no-prep or street racing at all, you have to know the names BoostedGT and Beater Bomb because they are both some of the quickest cars around. They’ve been the quickest...

KRIS THORNE WINS CHAMPIONSHIP IN FUELTECH NHRA PRO MOD SERIES, PLUS NITRO AND PRO STOCK VIDEO!

Here are all the results from the NHRA Pro Mod event in Ennis this past weekend. ENNIS, Texas (Oct. 16, 2022) – After clinching the world championship in the FuelTech NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing...