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NHRA NEWS: 2026 NHRA MISSION FOODS DRAG RACING SERIES FRIDAY RESULTS FROM GAINESVILLE PLUS VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS

HART, CAPPS, C. COUGHLIN & A. SMITH START 75TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON WITH PROVISIONAL NO. 1 SPOTS AT GAINESVILLE   GAINESVILLE, Fla. (March 6, 2026) – Ocala’s Josh Hart made the fastest...

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Free Drag Racing Livestream: NHRA Drag Racing From The Season Opening GatorNationals at Gainesville.

Catching all the testing action from Gainesville Raceway on March 3-4 right here, ahead of the legendary season-opening Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals on March 5-8 at the historic racing...

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Small Town Car Show Photos: Weekend of Wheels In Grand Island Nebraska Celebrated 53 Years Of Car Shows!

(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) It’s been a while since we added to our small town car show series here at Bang Shift. But, after attending the Weekend Of Wheels this past Saturday, we felt...

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Junkyard Crawl: Steve Magnante Finds A Plymouth Satellite Convertible That Might Be Identifying As A Road Runner

Today’s Magnante junkyard find is a really cool convertible that I think would be an awesome driver. Who doesn’t love a good convertible for Power Tour or Cruisin’ The Coast? Check...

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Free Livestreaming Road Racing: 2026 SCCA Hoosier Super Tour @ Road Atlanta – Saturday Coverage LIVE

It’s time for another SCCA Livestream, but this weekend it is coming to you LIVE from Road Atlanta where the SCCA Hoosier Super Tour is in full swing. There is a lot of great racing action...

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Trailer Tech: Bearing Buddy VS. EZ Lube-What’s The Difference, And Are Either One Of Them Right For You And Your Trailer?

A good trailer is invaluable, and I’d argue that a huge portion of the population should own one and doesn’t even realize it. But one thing that happens to so many trailers, is that they...

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Kibbetech Black Prerunner Update: Man This Sucker Is Going To Be A Bad Ass! Plus More Project Updates.

The Kibbetech Black Prerunner is one of my favorite projects happening right now. And it is just one of the great projects happening over at Kibbetech. I’d say that my second favorite is the...

Cheap eBay Caddy Blower: How Much Power Will It Make On E85 Instead Of Pump Gas?

Yesterday we showed you what pump gas boost was good for with one of these ultra cheap Cadillac superchargers that you can buy new on eBay for just a few hundred bucks. They don’t bolt on,...

Lone Star Throwdown 2021 Photos Just Keep Coming! Nothing But Custom Trucks In This Batch!

Lone Star Throwdown photos baby! We’ve got tons more to share this week and today’s batch is a mix of nothing but late model custom trucks of all kinds. Fords, Dodge, Toyota, Chevrolet,...

Big Power, Bigger Dollars: Does The 392 Powered Jeep Stand Up To The 518hp V8 Defender?

(By Tom Lohnes) – Well if you’re a high-horsepower, V8-powered extreme-offroad SUV enthusiast, now is your time. Two of the most prominent SUV manufacturers have shoved bug V8 engines into...

The Pistons Fight Back: Will Porsche eFuel Be The Synthetic Solution To Stem The Electric Tide?

(By Tom Lohnes) – Porsche, possibly the most pedigreed maker of internal combustion engines out there, isn’t ready to give up and go totally electric. They have spent the past 13 years...

Lights Out 12 Race Action Photo Coverage: Big Tire, Small Tire, and Record Smashing Cars On The Leave At SGMP

(Photos by Wes Allison) – We’re still recovering from our near week-long stint at Donald Long’s Lights Out 12: Playing With Power. This event, much like many that have preceded it...

NHRA Insider Podcast: A Crew Chief and A Top Fuel Champion Tell All – Rob Flynn and Steve Torrence

On this episode of the NHRA Insider Podcast, crew chief Rob Flynn and top fuel world champion Steve Torrence join Brian Lohnes. Flynn tells his story of how he got into drag racing, how he worked his...

Playing With Blocks: This Update On The Hagerty Cadillac Build Concentrates on Block Machining, Piston and Rod Assembly, More

The Hagerty Cadillac 365 engine project that we’ve ben following has been updated! This video is all about measuring, boring, and preparing the important basics of any engine for a long life....

Garage Fab Project: Building Rock Sliders For Your Off-Road Rig At Home

When you are first starting on your fabrication skills you typically start off with small brackets and projects that are of a smaller scale. But when it’s time to step up and start doing bigger...

Cheap E-Bay Caddy Blower For LS Engines Made Easy! Pump Gas Boost Baby!

These Cadillac superchargers that came on the STS-V and XLR-V, with the 4.4L LC3 Northstar engine, are a pretty cool little supercharger and they are flooding the market for sale cheap. Apparently...

Check Out All The Custom Cars, Classics, And Muscle Cars From Lone Star Throwdown 2021

LST is known for being one of the best custom truck shows in the country, and has been for years. And yes, there are jillions of custom trucks of all kinds there, but there are also a fair number of...

Plasma Cutter Or Steel Cutting Circular Saw? Which One Is Better, Straighter, Smoother, Faster, Easier?

Everyone who ever fabricates anything out of metal wants to own a plasma cutter. They are cool, make pretty quick work of cutting most anything, and they are way faster that using a cutoff wheel all...

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Timing Tech: Here’s How You Recurve An MSD Distributor. It’s Easier Than You Think, And You Can Do It In Minutes With Just A Couple Tools

Making changes to a distributor has always been one of those jobs that people seem to be afraid of for some reason. Maybe it is because you typically remove the distributor before doing this to it,...

Watch Mike Skinner Lay Down One Of The Quickest Runs In Goodwood History Driving His NASCAR Truck!

As amazing as the Goodwood Festival of Speed is for the pageantry, the history, the setting, and the collection of cars that show up, there’s another element that can kind of get lost and that...