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Final Drive Day, Shenanigans, and Shootouts! Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 | Race Day Five Means Driving Across The Plains, Burnouts, and Shootouts at SRCA Dragstrip In Great Bend Kansas

Here’s the Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Five video and boy is it a fun one. We’re talking on the road, on the track and more! Day Three AND Four were both at Pueblo Motorsports Park and then...

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Lost Buckeye Skips Day TWO Drag and Drive Photos! We’ve Got On Track Action and Checkpoints, and More From Day 2 Coming!

Here’s our first gallery of lost photos from Day 2 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos...

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The Martin Lundqvist Racing Street Week Sweden Drag and Drive 1969 Camaro Project Continues! The 8HP and LS Get Custom Mounts!

I can’t wait to see Project 508 in person in Sweden in a few weeks! This project is in full swing and we are super excited about what is going on with this machine. We’ve got another couple...

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Our Final Gallery of Lost Buckeye Skips Day One Drag and Drive Photos! We’ve Got On Track Action and Checkpoints, and More From Day 2 Coming!

Here’s our third gallery of lost photos from Day 1 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos...

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All The Racing Action From This Weekend’s SCTA El Mirage Flying Mile. 200 MPH Plus On Dirt! Watch Right Here.

While Bonneville gets most of the attention in Land Speed Racing, because it clearly is home to the biggest and baddest land speed racing events of the year, most land speed racers will tell you that...

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Dirt Daily with Fred Williams. His Barn Find 1989 Land Cruiser FJ-62 gets a Dissent Off Road Rear Bumper!

Years and years ago I built a 1987 Toyota FJ-62 for my buddy Sean and I loved it. We painted it, lifted it, improved a bunch of suspension and drivetrain, and then he drove the hell out of it. It was...

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The Hand Built 1/5th Scale RC Sprint Car Is Coming Along! 4 Cylinder Engine Install And More!

The first time I saw the RC Sprint Car project I was enthralled. This thing is going to be super rad, not only because it is so big, but also because the scale realism of this thing is pretty legit....

Take A Cruise And A Full Throttle Rip In A Four Speed, Dual Quad, Buick Wildcat

There’s nothing quite like a rare muscle car, right? This video plunks us square inside the passenger compartment of a good one. A 1964 Buick Wildcat powered by the king of the hill 425ci, dual...

Awesome Racing Video: Mustangs VS Minis – One Of The Best Road Racing Battles We Have Ever Seen

So what are the elements that go into a good road racing battle? Good drivers, evenly matched cars, a good course, and others right? This video has all of that and it is delivered in a  shockingly...

Krista Baldwin Will Make Her Top Fuel Debut This Weekend At The Gatornationals In Chris Karamesines Dragster

With Dom and Bobby Lagana tuning the Don Schumacher canopy chassis dragster, there is no doubt she’ll have what she needs to be a part of the show. As the only third generation Top Fuel racer...

The Coolest Retro-Styled SUV Combines Elements Of American Classics…And It Is Only Sold In Japan

(By Tom Lohnes) – The Toyota TNGA-N platform that underpins its SUV is a versatile one. Sitting under everything from the tiny CH-R to the 3-row Highlander, this chassis is very flexible in...

THE PRI SHOW IS BACK!!! 2021 PRI Show Is A Go! Racers, Teams, And Fans Rejoice!

That’s right folks, the PRI Show in Indy will be back in 2021 and with all kinds of other cool stuff too. Mark your calendars for December 9-11 and get your hotel rooms ready as the PRI Trade...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is Your Favorite Gearhead Euphemism?

Part of the fun in the whole gearhead world is the lingo and terminology we throw around. In many cases we speak a language all our own. This becomes totally apparent when guys get to talking about...

Fun For Fuddy-Duddy: The Replacement For the VW Golf In America Won’t Exactly Make Your Palms Sweat

(By Tom Lohnes) – Are you guys exited for the new VW Golf? Yeah, me too. But, you should only be really excited if you’re European, because the Golf is dead in America in favor of the...

Watching This Huge Tank Get Hauled Onto The Back Of A Flatbed In Alaska Is Pretty Awesome – Because Science

The lesser thinking people around the world (known heretofore as “non-gearheads”) would look at the scene above and think that some sort of crashing disaster was imminent. They are of...

There Is A Right Way And Wrong Way To Do A Drag Radial Burnout. Watch!

Tire smoke rules. It does. It is one of the worlds 5 great smells as well, but that’s another blog item. With that said, smoking the tires in a burnout is not just about making the most smoke...

Ridetech Is Doing A Complete OBS Chevy Truck Suspension Install LIVE At The Goodguys Show This Weekend In Texas!

Goodguys is letting in 1988-1998 Chevrolet and GMC Trucks into the Lone Star Spring Nationals in Texas this weekend! When the announcement was made, the guys at Ridetech decided it sounded like the...

Finnegan’s Five-Day C10 Thrash Continues! Will They Make It? They Are Way Behind.

If you missed it, Finnegan, Newbern, Cotten and who knows who else are going to road trip Finnegan’s C10 down to check on the progress with the 200 mph Cadillac project. You’ll remember...

High Tech, Big Buck Trucks: What Team Are You On? Tesla Cyber Truck Or The New Hummer Electric Truck?

(By Tom Lohnes) – The GMC Hummer EV has made a big splash in the recently birthed electric Pickup Truck market, so I thought that today I should make a list of the pros and cons of the Hummer...

Screaming Video: Ride In This NASCAR Powered 1950 Olds Thorugh A La Carrera Pan Americana Stage – Unreal Noise!

While the modern version of La Carrera Pan Americana may be different than the original, there’s still lots about it that have us really wanting to see it in person some day. There’s the...