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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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Ripsaw: This Little 358ci Ford Small Block Has Yates D3 Heads And Makes 730hp NA On The Dyno – Watch!

By the time the early 2000s rolled around, Ford had a horsepower problem in NASCAR the C3 head that they were using was OK but it was definitely not up to the job of hanging with the other...

The Hyundai RM20e Is The Ultra-High Performance Electric Hatchback Of Your Dreams (Or Nightmares)

(By Tom Lohnes) – Ever since the GM EV1 in the 90’s electric cars have been getting more and more advanced with every new model and generation. This year, we get another advancement, with...

Best Worst Ship Ever: The Insane, Incredible, Insolvent, and Entirely Unbelievable Story Of The SS Great Eastern

This is the story of one of the greatest engineering achievements of the  Victorian Age. It is also the story of a ship so far ahead of its time it was one of the greatest financial failures ever...

Drag Racing Action Photos: PDRA Drag Wars Presented by Modern Racing at GALOT Motorsports Park

(Photos by David Whealon) – The 2020 PDRA Drag Wars presented by Modern Racing at GALOT Motorsports Park represented the second to last event of the season for the organization and it drew a...

NHRA Insider Podcast: Talking Camping World, Tommy Johnson Jr, Cameron Ferre, and More!

Tommy Johnson Jr and Cameron Ferre join Brian Lohnes on the NHRA Insider podcast this week. Lohnes talks Camping World, craziness at St Louis, and then has two great conversations with a veteran...

Take A Ride Down The Strip With One Of The Most Unloved Fords Ever: An 11-Second 1982 Thunderbird!

Quick, picture a 1982 Ford Thunderbird. Did you have to Google it? Sorry about that…unlike the 1983-88 “Aero Bird” that looked pretty good and earned a legend in the NASCAR circles,...

Unhinged: I Want To Modify This Super-Original 1971 Ford Pinto Badly!

It’s low-mile for it’s age, it’s paint looks day one fresh, the interior is in amazing condition. It still looks purposeful, sitting on those teeny-tiny slot mag style wheels,...

Missing The Point Has Never Been More Awesome: A Nitrous-Snorting Cobra Runs The Strip!

Carroll Shelby made a name for himself as a race car driver, but by 1959 he had been forced to retire from wheelman duties due to his heart health. Normally, he had nitroglycerin pills to take care...

Junga Bunga Cash Days: No-Prep Throwdown At Warwick Dragway

While I was standing in a lift in Michigan covering the Mid-West Drag Racing Series back in September, I happened to take a quick glance at the chat. Normally, the only time the livestream chat gets...

Got Skills? Race Winning Brands Is Hiring Across Their Company and Across The Country

As we all know, things these days are not exactly normal. There have been lots of people displaced from their jobs by all the junk going on in the world and others who feel stuck in doing what they...

Watch Scott Palmer Decimate The Ozark Raceway Park Track Record In His Top Fuel Dragster And Run Studezilla

If there is one thing that we know and love about Scott Palmer it’s that the guy ain’t scared…of anything. We have not seen Scott out much on the NHRA tour in 2020 but that...

For Just $1,000 Per Day: The New Mclaren 765LT Is Limited In Production But Nearly Unlimited In Price

(By Tom Lohnes) – Don’t blink, because you could miss the new Mclaren 765LT.  When it was released back in April everyone was impressed with it and now with official performance numbers...

Drag Racing Action Photos: 2020 PDRA Drag Wars At GALOT Motorsports Park – The Penultimate Race!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was the battle that everyone has come to expect every time the PDRA drag racing series throws the gates open at whatever track their brand of eighth mile door...

Retro Review Fun: This Look At The 1993 Jeep Grand Wagoner Is A Fun Contrast To The SUVs Of Today

The Jeep Grand Wagoneer was a mainstay of the SUV universe for decades. Built off of the basic but tough J-series truck chassis, they command incredible money on the market today and in so many ways...