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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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Rough Start Fox Mustang: Radiator, Fan, And Some Electrical Tidbits

Oooh, would you look at that…there’s an engine sitting in the bay of the Rough Start Fox! It is a hollow victory as there is no transmission, no way to fire the engine off at the moment,...

Video Proof That Rally Racers Are The Most Nuts Guys On The Planet! This Is Wild!

If there was any doubt in your mind that rally racers were not the hardest core, do anything to survive mo-fos in racing, let this video erase that. Shot down in South America somewhere, what you...

Drag Week 2020 Is Cancelled, But Rock Mountain Race Week 2.0 IS A GO FOR SEPTEMBER! Street Car Racing Is Still Happening!

UPDATE: It’s on folks! Matt and June and the gang at Rocky Mountain Race Week have come to the rescue and are going to be holding Rocky Mountain Race Week 2.0 in September during the time that...

The World’s Fastest Cadillac Is Up For Auction: 409 mph At Bonneville With Lots More Potential

This one makes me sad and happy both. Sad because it is the end of a journey that I was a part of from the very early stages, but happy because I am hoping someone takes this rad machine and makes it...

Money No Object: 1986 Chevrolet El Camino Choo-Choo Super Sport

The small truck. The sport truck. The muscle truck. The coupe utility. The Chevrolet El Camino might not have been the first… The owner goes to an Australian Ford… But it made an impact in the...

Junkyard Wide Body Mustang: It’s Creative, And Kinda Cool, And You Can Do It Too!

There have been several times when I was looking at a project and trying to stuff as much tire under it, that I realized there just wasn’t any more room underneath and that the fenders would...

Classic YouTube: Mustang Vs. Camaro, 1994, Courtesy Of Motorweek!

Welcome to my “dammit, I’m getting old” moment, right here. In 1994 I was eleven years old, one year away from the rot-box Camaro that would be my first car, and happily tooling...

2020 Southeastern Chevy/GMC Truck Nationals: Bring Out Your Bowties!

Whoops…I almost forgot that there was another gallery of trucks that I shot while roaming the Wilson County Fairgrounds for the Southeastern Chevy/GMC Truck Nationals! Call me crazy from the...

Rough Start: Add An Extra Grand To The Budget For This Ballsy Dakota R/T!

Whenever I go daydream project hunting in areas of the Pacific Northwest, I try to keep an eye out for vehicles that I might have known. A Chevelle here, a Cutlass there, or maybe something that I...

We Offer You One For The Weekend: Which One Of These Boats Do You Choose For A Weekend On The Lake?

If someone told you that you could have one of these three boats, for the weekend on the lake, for free, which one do you choose? The hot rodder and racer in me, that totally wants to own a Big Block...

The Green Light: WebMD Highlights Paul Lee’s Journey Back To Driving A Funny Car After A Heart Attack.

When our friend, and owner of McLeod and FTI, Paul Lee had his heart attack back in 2016 the NHRA Drag Racing community was shocked. Paul was one of these in-shape guys that you never expected to...

FOUND: The “Moonburst” AA Fuel Dragster Has Been Sitting In A Field In This Trailer For 43 Years!

Barn finds are rad, but what about trailer finds? Well it seems like we’ve heard of more than a few really old and cool race cars being found inside trailers sitting outside in the weather of...

Rack Repair: Fixing A Valiant Wagon’s Front Subframe Rail’s Damage

Happiness this year is found in the garage, ain’t it? Yeah…this is where you learn if you are a car builder or just would rather watch one on television. I’m finding that I’m...

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How Much Power Can You Make With A Crate 514 Big Block Ford? A LOT!

GM always owned the factory crate engine world. No matter what make or model, you could go to any car show or race and find dozens of GM Crate engines in everything under the sun. But Ford and Mopar...