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Watch a Violent European Tractor Pulling Wreck – The Sled is an Effective Battering Ram!

As we have showed many times in the past, stuff can go wrong in a hurry on the pulling course, especially when the machines are on the upper end of the power scale and the sled is weighed down like a...

Watch a Monte Carlo Drag Car Pull All Four Wheels Off the Ground and Still Win a Drag Race!

There are a couple things that make this simple video great. The first is the absolutely massive wheel stand that the Monte Carlo drag car goes into on the newly resurfaced strip at Cecil County...

Jeff Howe’s Laid Out 1965 Chevelle Got Him Through School, Got Him The Girl, And Now Just Kicks Ass

Jeff Howe’s 1965 Chevelle represents the perfect hot rodder story. Dad is into Corvairs, Jeff helps work on them from the time he’s 7, and the rest is history. In 1995 Jeff buys the...

Crash and Thrash: The Awesome Story Of The One Lap Camaro Eating The Wall At Daytona And How A Band Of Gearheads Got It Back On The Track

(Words by Jesse Kiser – Photos by James Shipka/USCA/Jesse Kiser) – The One Lap Camaro is one of the baddest 1967 Camaros ever built. Originally burgundy, it’s a true example of what we...

Tom Bailey’s Drag Week Winning Camaro Hit’s The Dyno And Makes 2500 Horsepower At The Tires!

Tom Bailey’s Project “Sick Seconds” 1969 Camaro won Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week with record performances never seen before. He ran 6.70s at 213 mph in 2013, and expects to...

Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Action Photos From Wild West Motorsports Park – Flying Trucks, Wreckage, Flames, More!

(Photos by Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series) – It was a wild weekend at the Wild West Motorsports Park in Sparks, Nevada last Saturday and Sunday as the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series came to...

BangShift XL Photos: Sweet Trucks A The June 2014 Pomona Swap Meet – Big Ones, Tall One, Short Ones, Small Ones

Last weekend the massive Pomona Swap Meet went down and we were there, right in the thick of it all. There was so much neat stuff that we’re going to bust it up into chunks for you to take in...

Action Gallery: The TS Performance Diesel Drags, Beech Bend Raceway – Crazy, Sideways, Smoking Diesel Action

(Words and photos by Bryan McTaggart) – Question: What has enough torque to slow the Earth’s rotation, enough smoke to justify suspicion of an oil derrick fire, and enough turbine noise to...

A Photo Tour Of The Incredible Lane Automotive Museum – A Collection Of Awesome Freaks, Racers, and More

(Words and photos by Bryan McTaggart) – My wife Haley suggested that we check out the Lane Museum in Nashville during one of our visits. She kept mentioning how they had a random catalog of...

More Sweet Stock and Super Stock Action From The NHRA Division One Meet At Maple Grove Raceway

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – We’re back with another great gallery from “The Grove” as the kids are calling it these days. Word on the street is that stock and super stock were a...

Stock And Super Stock Action From Maple Grove Raceway – Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Meet

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – The NHRA’s Division One has long been the most densely packed of all the seven divisions that are spread across the country. Because of the tight geography, there...

The 2014 Spring Throwdown In T-Town – Drag Action At The Biggest Event In The History Of Tulsa Raceway Park

(Words and photos by Brad Klaassen with additional photos from Tish Dingman and Bland Bridenstine) – When spring time in Oklahoma rolls around it means it’s time for another Throwdown in...

Wheels Up, Gear Banging Drag Action From Central Illinois Dragway – Awesome Cars At An Awesome Track

(Photos by Greg Rourke) – A friend of mine at home recently asked me what the attraction to visiting new drag strips was because at the end of the day, they were all just a pair of lanes headed...

Vision Quest: This Period Perfect 1971 Demon Was Built By A Kid Born 20 Years Late

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – We all do the hot rodding thing for different reasons. We have different tastes, different motivations, and different opinions on how to best capture the right look...