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Funny Car Chaos Set To Kick Off 2026 Season With Back-to-Back 32 Car Showcases! It’s A Funny Car Extravaganza!

We’ve got big news coming out of the Funny Car Chaos camp as they are kicking off the 2026 season with TWO big Funny Car shows you won’t want to miss. With 32 cars battling it out at BOTH...

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Here’s Our Final Gallery From The Drag Racing Showcase at the I-24 Lebanon Dragfest 2026

We’ve shared three of Joe’s great photo galleries so far, but we’ve got the final one left right here! If you missed the previous galleries, use the link below to check them all out...

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Buyer Beware! 1/3 Of The $500 Worth Of Spark Plugs Tested Were Counterfeit! Order Your Plugs From Someone Legit!

I’ve heard about counterfeit tools a lot in the last few years. Stuff that looks like DeWalt or Milwaukee, but that is just a cheap fake. And some that even say the brand name on them! Hell,...

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NOSTALGIA TOP FUEL DRAGSTER ELIMINATIONS FROM THE 2026 MARCH MEET! FRONT ENGINE DRAGSTER GREATNESS!

While we still wish we were livestreaming the March Meet at Famoso, we are super grateful that the Monday Morning Racer was on hand to shoot all the action so we can still check it out and share it....

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Small Town Car Show Photo Wrap Up: Hot Rods, Customs, Trucks, And More From The 53rd Weekend of Wheels In Grand Island Nebraska

We’ve got our final gallery to share from the Weekend of Wheels show in Grand Island Nebraska, thanks to Scott Liggett. Scott’s got more photos coming, so stay tuned, and if you missed...

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Pavement Pounder Events Announces “Motor City to Wheel Hub Live” 2026 Road Trip And We’re Excited To Be Their Official Media Partner!

Pavement Pounder Events is back in 2026 in a HUGE way, with an incredibly exciting road trip event that will be starting in the Motor City and heading to Wheel Hub Live! That’s right, you get...

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More Painful And Impossible European Hill Climb Video – Rachau Hillclimb Circa 1998

It was a couple of weeks ago that we showed you footage from a hillclimb event in Belgium that we deemed completely impossible. Well, we’re back with more video of another hill climb that may...

BangShift Question of the Day: Which Failed Car Brand Has the Worst Reputation in America?

So yesterday I was driving down the road and nearly crashed when an old Peugeot 505 passed me going in the other direction. I had not seen one of these things in years, let along spoken to anyone who...

The American Powertrain Parting Shift: 292 Cubes of De-Stroked Boss 302 at 9500 RPM

For this week’s parting shift we head to an unknown eighth-mile drag strip where a kick ass Super Stock four-speed Mustang makes a honkin’ lap after launching at more than 9,000 RPM. Even...

Omaha Autorama Car Show Photos Continue Right Here!

We told you we were going to share all of Scott’s photos from the Omaha Autorama, and here they are! If you missed any of our previous galleries, click the link below! (Words and Photos by Scott...

Watch The Real Stone Woods and Cook Willys Make A Pass At Fremont In The 1980s

Now THIS is some nostalgia drag racing footage. Taken sometime in the mid-1980s at Baylands Raceway (Fremont Raceway) you are going to see the real Stone Woods and Cook Willys make a screaming rip...

Nitro, Turbo, Or Gasoline? All Three Are Tried On This Briggs and Stratton With Fun Results

Here’s one of the weirdest and coolest engine power adder comparisons we have er seen. The guy with the famed Briggs and Stratton that runs a clear head decided to really put his little engine...

Mopar Enthusiasts Rejoice! QA1 Expands To Include Gerst Tubular Suspension For Mopars

The guys and gals at QA1 were so genuinely excited about this that they called to tell me about it so I’d share it with all of you Mopar freaks that really drive and enjoy your hot rods. While...

Drag History Video: Awesome Quick 8 action from Shuffletown in 1988 – Big Names, Cool Cars

This weekend the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series heads to the palatial zMax Dragway in Concord, North Carolina. The state of North Carolina has been a hot bed of drag racing for decades and the...

Turbo Terror: Watch This Brazilian Chevy Opala Cruise The Streets And Hit The Dyno With The Angriest Chevy Six Ever

  Listen, I know that I am mental but for the life of me I cannot shake an addiction to searching our drag racing and hot car videos from South America. This time rather than hitting the strip...

We’ve Got Goodguys Spring Lone Star Nationals Photos Right Here!

(Photos by Rob Bennett) The Goodguys Spring Lone Star Nationals was a great show that marked a start to automotive events in the Lone Star State for 2021, and a destination that saw folks from all...

Cool Video: Travel The Same Path Air Does Through A Rolls Royce Locomotive Diesel Engine

It is pretty incredible what people can do with animations these days. In this video we get to travel as air through a Rolls Royce locomotive diesel engine and it’s pretty great. While there is...

Watch The 1929 Miss Daytona Hydroplane Come Back To Life And Roar! Miller Engine Perfection (Video)

Two boat posts in three days? Are we becoming BoatShift? Of course not because that would make no sense. We’re just sticking to our philosophy that stuff we dig is probably stuff you’ll...

It’s Indoor Car Show Season, And We’ve Got More Photos From The Omaha Autorama

We told you we were going to share all of Scott’s photos from the Omaha Autorama, so here is the second gallery for you to enjoy. This is a cool show and had an interesting and cool selection...

Dyno Music: Watch A 378ci Naturally Aspirated Cleveland Ford Crank Out 780+ HP At 8,000+ RPM

Our recent dyno videos have been Chevy-centric. That’s not because we were digging for Chevy videos, but more because those clips had jumped off the page at us. Today we’re going to the...

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