With the year that we’ve had, the time where we get together with family and friends and break bread (and bird…cannot forget the turkey now) seems more special than it has in a long time. While many of you will be frying, roasting, or smoking a big bird, and watching football, or catching up with family members that you may not have seen in what feels like forever, we can’t forget that this day is all about: giving thanks. Brian, Chad and myself are incredibly thankful everything that we have been able to do this year and, on behalf of ourselves and our families, want to wish our BangShift family a Happy and Healthy Thanksgiving. Whether it’s something big that happened in your life this year, or the little things like the smiles from your family, it’s all worth being thankful for. So join us in being thankful this year, as we share the things we are thankful for in 2020.

This year was tough, make no mistake. But regardless of how strange the days got, we were still able to do the job that we love so much: to bring you closer to the hobby that we all love. Sometimes, we were the only connection that you may have had. We were privileged to have been there in person and were honored to be the ones to provide you with something, anything, that would ease the burden of the stresses of this year. We got creative when we needed to, we leaned on others when we needed help, and we were supported by our family and friends throughout our endeavors this year. Whether the tire smoke was filtered through a face mask or we had to wave at you from across the track, know that nothing has changed from years passed…we still live and breathe everything about this world and we will still do everything within our power to bring you that much closer to the action. Whether it is Brian’s multiple irons in the fire that he handles with the skill he uses on the microphone, or it’s Chad putting his all into an announcing gig while trying to sneak in track time on the side, or it’s me splitting the difference between living on a scaffold behind the camera or under a car with wrench in hand, every second we get to do this as our career is another day we get to do what we love as a career. We’re lucky, we know this, and we do not take that for granted.

The amount of thanks that we have is monumental. A big thank you goes out to you, the readers, the livestream viewers, the Forum regulars, the Facebook folk, every last one of you who stop by and check out what we do. Thank you to our amazing contributors who assist us in every way possible. Thank you to the racers, the industry leaders, the builders, the backyard hot-rodders, those bastions of history who have forgotten more than we have learned. Thank you all from the bottom of our hearts.

A special thank you goes out to our sponsors, who have been the reason why we are able to do what we do: American Powertrain, ARP, Borgeson, Chris Alston’s Chassisworks, FTI, Holley, Mahle Motorsport, Mark Williams Enterprises, McLeod, Meziere, Optima, Original Parts Group, Powermaster, QA1, Race Winning Brands, RideTech and TrickFlow. It is because of their support and their belief in what we do that we are able to bring you this content. Please remember them as we move on towards the Christmas season…as they support us, we need you to support them.

(Thanks to Dylan McCool for capturing this!)

From our tables to yours, Happy Thanksgiving from BangShift.com.

Special thank to Jerry Fuchs (Fooksie) for the cool Hot Rod Turkey graphic.