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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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Aussie Engine Build: Check Out The Construction and Dyno Testing Of This Classic Holden 308ci V8!

The Holden 308 is one of those engines. Like the small block Ford and Chevy here in the USA, they were made by the millions, speed parts were developed around them of every shape and size, and...

The 2024 Rolls-Royce Spectre Is Named After James Bond’s Nemesis And Has No Pistons

(By Tom Lohnes) – Rolls-Royce, the fabled luxury brand themselves, has spent their entire lifespan as a company trying to refine a V12 so much that it is completely silent to the driver. They...

Watch One Of The Best Funny Car Final Rounds Ever – Pedregon VS Force At Dallas ’92!

John Force had accumulated two championships by the time the 1992 season began. The world was largely expecting a third but there was a fly in that ointment named Cruz Pedregon. It was a heavyweight...

BangShift Video Game Review: WRC 10 – The Official Game Of The WRC Continues To Evolve In Realism, Fun

(By Tom Lohnes) – Since I first played WRC 7 three years ago, I really have loved the franchise. When I got the news that the latest installment had come out, I grabbed my sim wheel and jumped...

Worth The Wait: Jeep Releases Images And Specs Of New Generation Grand Cherokee – Slick Looks, Amazing Interiors

(By Tom Lohnes) – After a year of waiting since the long-wheelbase Grand Cherokee L was revealed, Jeep has finally released info on the classic 2-row Grand Cherokee, and it is the same formula...

Screaming Beauty: This Fox-Body Mustang Has A Naturally Aspirated Coyote Engine And It Makes 8,500 RPM Dyno Rips!

There’s just something about a nasty naturally aspirated engine, right? The RPM, the precisely matched parts and pieces, the knowledge that at some point you’ll probably take down a power...

Listen UP: Top Fuel Sensation Josh Hart and NHRA on FOX Analyst Tony Pedregon Spit Hot Truth!

Tony Pedregon and Josh Hart join Brian Lohnes on this episode of the NHRA Insider. Lohnes and Pedregon go over who has risen and who has fallen over the last four races, who can get their program...

Awesome Parts: Meziere Billet Aluminum Transmission Pan With Built In Cooling, For TH400!

When Meziere announced the availability of an all new billet aluminum transmission pan, with built in cooling, for GM Powerglide applications it was  a natural fit for guys running fast paced big...

Junkyard LS Cam Test: Will The Same Camshaft Work With A Carb, EFI, Nitrous, Or Boost?

When it comes to camshafts there is never a shortage of opinions or available grinds. And one thing that I always find amusing is the “ideal conditions” world that so many hot rodders,...

Race Week 2.0 – Day Three – Tulsa, Oklahoma – Andy Doesn’t Get The Passes He Wants, But Still Leads!

Rocky Mountain Race Week is in the books, and we were traveling the route with all these folks so we could bring you the FREE livestream that we had going all week long. It was a week full of fun,...

Sheet Metal Fabrication How To: Filling Holes in Sheet Metal EASY with This Simple Tool YOU Can Make At Home!!

There are several ways to fill holes in sheet metal, and several ways to make the patches themselves. When the holes are perfectly round, filling them is certainly easier than if they are a weird...

Abandoned Race Track Project: 50 Years Of Junk Tires, Some Drifting, Tractor Repairs, Camaro Repairs, And More!

And you thought buying an old abandoned race track would just take some mowing and then all the racing in the world could start. HA HA HA. There is so much to do, but thankfully it is really getting...

Saved From The Crusher: This 1958 Pontiac Pathfinder Needs A New Lease On Life. Will It Run And Drive As Is Though?

Sometimes all the “It’s been abandoned for 15 years! Will it ever run again?!?!” videos drive me nuts because many of them will clearly run again with little work. It’s not...

Puddin Finds An Epic Old UHaul Mini Box Truck And Has Big Plans For It. Will It Run?

Puddin is finding all kinds of cool stuff lately, including this awesome mini truck based box truck. It’s an old U-Haul that was clearly designed for moving much smaller furniture than everyone...