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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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Flying Free: The First Icelandic Formula Offroad Event Of 2020!

When the pandemic started to become a real issue for us here in America, the joke was that cabin fever was about to get a reality check. What was a few weeks of staying at home when you’d...

Rough Start: 1980 Ford Fairmont Futura – Light And Rowdy Street Beater

The Ford Fairmont Futura (and it’s twin, the Mercury Zephyr Z-7), are love-it or hate-it cars. From the doors forward, it’s Fairmont. But from the doors back, you are looking at what was...

High Flying Short Course And Pre Runner Fun At TCB Ranch In SoCal

When we did the Junkyard Challenge off-road truck build show last year it was an absolute riot hanging out at TCB Ranch near Murrieta California. I called the ranch home for more than a week, and had...

Raising Hell In The Fields: Midwest Farm Field Road Cash Days!

Can you count how many drag tracks are dead and done for 2020? You would think that the news would be calming down on that front, but no. Events getting cancelled or “postponed”, tracks...

Independence Chevelle: Getting The Front Clip Back Into Useable Shape

When Derek drove this 1970 Chevelle from Indiana home, he had a solid complaint the whole time: the front end didn’t care anything about what he was asking it to do. Now, it’s not...

Four In A Row Make It Go – Watch This Turbocharged Four Banger Dragster Run 6.40s at 200+!

(By Jason Mazzotta) –  One aspect of drag racing that will always be a huge part of the sport is the ability to create and innovate newer and crazier cars and combinations, and Don Nase...

Wacky Drag Racing History: The Day An Airplane Destroyed The Tree At An NHRA National Event!

(Photos by Bob Boudreau and John Chisholm) – There are bad days at the office and then there are BAD days at the office and at the 1975 NHRA Le GrandNational at Sanair Dragway outside of...

The Mud Pit From Hell – Try As They Might, They All Sink To The Bottom!

Do you remember the kite-eating tree in the Peanuts comic strip? No matter what Charlie Brown did to avoid fate, his kite wound up getting taken out by the one single, solitary tree that just had it...

The Strong Get Stronger! Mark Williams Releases New Big Bore Ball Bearing Case For 9″ Ford

With ever increasing horsepower and chassis designs that allow said horsepower to reach the track in more and more efficient forms driveline parts need to keep pace and the crew at Mark Williams...

The American Powertrain Parting Shift: Watch This Buzzing Small Block Camaro Scream To A Win!

(By Jason Mazzotta) – There is nothing quite like a small block stick car buzzing through the gears at high rpm’s, and this immaculate inside and out ’69 Camaro runs through the gears in...

Let The Beauty Shine Through: Scrubbing The Ugly Off Of A Muralized Dodge Ramcharger

One thing that I always wondered when I was a kid, reading Sport Truck and other magazines in the 1990s, was how all of these vehicles that had gotten these radical, super-detailed paint jobs were...

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Diesel Revival 3: When In Doubt, Call In An Expert Before You Nuke The Engine

“Try, try and try again” is commendable in theory. In practice, there’s a point where you have to understand that you are doing something wrong and that if you keep up with your...

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Help Us Understand: This Trike Is Basically A 2000 Saturn With Reduced Seating Capacity –

So we often find things that we don’t really fully comprehend on the internet. And listen, we’re the first people to celebrate the fact that when people build something weird or wild for...

Better Engine Building Video: Eliminate Common Lifter Failures – Roller and Flat Tappet!

If there is one thing that can hurt your heart, wallet, and will to live, it is a lifter failure in your high performance engine. Whether we are talking rollers or flat tappers, when a lifter goes,...