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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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Half Ass Kustoms 1951 Ford Pickup Project: Shortening The Driveshaft, Sorta First Drive, And More For The F1 Project

Here is Part 11 of the 1951 Ford Project. It’s nearly ready for the big unveil, and in this episode the driveshaft gets shortened, the radiator goes in, and the running boards get mounted so it...

U-8 Miss Tri-Cities Hydroplane Blows Turbine Engine Into A Pile Of Parts During The APBA Gold Cup Final Heat

I don’t know what it costs to replace a turbine engine in one of these APBA Off-Shore hydroplanes, but I can tell you that the Miss Tri-Cities team had to spend all of it after this big bang...

Fast Fords At Dragway 42! We Have Event Coverage Photos Starting Right Here

(Words by Joe Grippo, Photos by Dan Grippo) We just returned home from a fantastic weekend of blue oval greatness at the Fast Fords at Dragway 42 event held at where else but Dragway 42 in West...

Chevy Small-Block V-8 Time-Lapse Rebuild! RESTORED And IMPROVED | Redline Rebuild

Watching time-lapse videos is fun, but the ones that are done so that the parts and pieces in the video appear to be doing their own thing without tools, people, etc is something truly special. It is...

FORD 5.0L INTAKE SHOOT OUT-GT-40 vs 93 COBRA R vs SN95 COBRA vs EXPLORER-WHICH ONE MAKES MORE POWER?

The GT-40 intake manifold is one of the most talked about and revered intake manifolds in small-block Ford history. And because it is so good, Ford enthusiasts were always looking for intakes that...

Sheet Metal Fabrication: Repairing Previously Repaired 1933 Ford Fenders Part 2

With rare exceptions, fenders from 1920s and 1930s cars are going to have some old repairs that have been done to them. After all, they are 90-100 years old and have been living who knows what kind...

This 1951 Chevy Truck Build Is Budget Friendly And Creative Because It’s Being Built In South Africa!

Building a project on the cheap, by being creative and doing the work yourself, is what hot rodding is all about. And I’m totally down for a patina’d project that starts off with a donor...

Quarantine Cruise Photos: Muscle Cars, Customs, Hot Rods, And Trucks Cruising Through SoCal

(Photos by Wes Allison) Our coverage of the June 2022 Quarantine Cruise in Huntington Beach starts right here. The weather was gorgeous, the cars were cool, and fun was had by all. Check out the...

Our Carlisle All Ford Nationals Photos Continue Right Here!

Here’s our next gallery of photos from Joe Grippo! If you missed the first one, use the link below to see them as well. (Words and Photos by Joe Grippo)  Here’s what the Carlisle Ford Nationals...

Our Last Gallery Of Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Photos From Maple Grove

Here’s our final gallery of photos from the Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series at Maple Grove, thanks to Joe Grippo. ( Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) We just finished bombarding you with all the Stock...

Here’s What Happens When A Retired Truck Driver Gets An Airstream

Everyone knows I have a thing for motorhomes, rvs, and travel trailers. I can’t help it, I grew up in a family that had them and have traveled all around the country in one. So when I see...

Pro Personal Luxury: This 1971 Pontiac Grand Prix Model J Creates Envy

The “personal luxury coupe” that became prevalent in the 1970s sought to do two things. One, it was a way to extend out the price range of an intermediate coupe by allowing an...

Sand Skipper: Junkyard Digs Takes The Cadillac/Bronco Trar Out To The Silver Lake Sand Dunes

It took me a minute to figure out what Junkyard Digs’ latest field find reminded me of. I couldn’t picture the Bronco that it used to be, and I certainly couldn’t picture a...

Car Feature: Holley Ford Festival 2021 – 1963 ½ Ford Galaxie by Jason Graham Hot Rods

This Galaxie was one of those rides that had everyone talking at Ford Fest in Bowling Green last year and we were as impressed as everyone else. This is a really cool car that is just begging to be...