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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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Watch Some Of The Earliest Hornsby Tracked Vehicles Known To Man In Their Earliest Tests Circa 1908

Many people do not know that the “chain track” was invented in England. The Caterpillar company which was a combo of the Holt and Best tractor companies did not invent the technology but...

This 1980s IHRA Factory Modified Video Pays Tribute To A Bad Ass And Short Lived Class

Sometimes people think that drag racers fall out of the sky. People with piles of money that just magically appear with a car to compete in. Those people are morons. Everyone who has ever done a damn...

The Chainsaw: Early RX-7 Plus Snowmobile Engine Equals Fun…And Tinnitus!

“Well, that was a dumb idea, wasn’t it?” Forget trying to make me feel better after I botched a jump, separated from my dirt bike and augured into the ground like a 160-pound lawn...

Road Course Dice! Watch Two Historic BMW 3.0L CSL Batmobile Coupes Beat On Each Other At Daytona

It is pretty rare to see a single 1973 BMW 3.0L CSL anywhere but to have a pair of them literally racing door handle to door handle in the heat of battle is absolutely awesome! This footage comes to...

Putting A Dragy In A Top Fuel Dragster: Clay Millican Takes The Dragy World Record From Lyle Barnett!

It wasn’t as easy as you might think, but Clay Millican and his crew finally got their Dragy to work in their Top Fuel Dragster. If you aren’t familiar, the Dragy is a performance meter...

More 1960 Cadillac Metal Work: Make It Kustom Hammer Forms, Welds, And Finishes More On The Caddy Project

The 1960 Cadillac Coupe De Ville is coming along slowly but surely. With a project this big, both figuratively and literally, there is going to be a lot of sheet metal work when rust repair and floor...

Vice Grip Garage Does Sick Week: Day 4 – South Georgia Motorsports Park, Overheating, And Don Garlits Museum!

I swear these cars kind of don’t like Derek. Not a hate thing, but more a “I want you to make sure you understand you aren’t my favorite person and that I can do bad things to you...

NHRA Winternationals Photos: Wheels Up Sportsman Drag Racing Action Right Here!

We love Sportsman drag racing around here, after all, it is the home of the original small-tire drag racing and also where you find killer early and late model muscle cars and more, on the track,...

Forgotten History Video: The US Had Remote Control B-17 Bombers In WWII – Operation Aphrodite

It was called “Operation Aphrodite” and its premise was simple. Find a way to use the myriad of airplanes that had been deemed unfit for active duty and do so in a way that would help the...

Watch These Awesome (and Huge) British Scammell Trucks Attack An Off Road Course

While you may have never heard of Scammell trucks, consider yourself better off for watching this video where a pair of Scammell Pioneer models attack an off road course and show off the ability that...

OUCH! Watch This Mini-Rod Tractor Get The Beans Above The Frank During A Pull

With no wheelbase, a couple thousand horsepower, and a very heavy sled moving at a high rate of speed behind it, a mini-rod pulling tractor is an exciting thing to watch. Like any racing vehicle that...

Install Video: Using The Ridetech StreetGrip System To Upgrade The Handling Of Your C2 or C3 Corvette Is Easy! Watch!

Ridetech contines to expand the line of StreetGrip applications and that is now great news for classic Corvette owners. If you have an original C2 or C3 Corvette that is finally ready to have the...

Great Video: This 1979 GM Promotional Film Shows Off The Blazer, Medium Duty Trucks, and Vans, Man!

With the launch of the new Ford Bronco, one has to look at GM and wonder just what the hell happened? The company has absolutely nothing for either Jeep or Ford, the current Blazer is a weird...

Funday Friday Video: 14-minutes of Vintage Trans-Am In-Car Video = Awesome

Mike Skeen is a very capable young road racer who competes in a variety of series across the country. He runs Trans-Am, the Pirelli World Challenge, and any other venue that will let him behind the...