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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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Dyno Test Video: Measuring The Gains Of Roller Rockers On A Hot Rod Stroker Jeep Inline Six Engine

It’s the age old question that hot rodders have asked themselves since the dawn of time. “Are they worth the money?” This goes for basically any part of parts that people have to...

Pair Of Twos: Hear The Story Of The Design Of The Mustang II From The Actual Designer!

Are you familiar with the story of the Mustang II and it’s genesis? No? Okay, here’s the elevator pitch version: The first generation Ford Mustang, the car that had brought Ford wild...

Feelin’ Lucky? OPGI Is Running A 20% Off Sale On The Products You Want This Week – Shop Before 3/17

Hey, normally on St Patrick’s Day Week we’re talking about luck, right? Well this time we have nothing to say about luck and everything to say about good sense! OPGI is running a 20% off...

Morning Symphony: Desert Runners, Dune Racers And Dirt Huckers

For someone who enjoyed a lot of motorsport activity during his years in Arizona, I didn’t do much with desert-style off-roading. Only a few years ago did I take part in any, actually, and that...

US60 Dragway Photo Coverage: Car Show Images From The Straight Axle Mafia Drags!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – The Straight-Axle Mafia and US60 Dragway put on a couple big nostalgia events in Hardinsburg, KY every year.  We didn’t make it to the one in May so I...

Minivan Genesis? Jay Leno Checks Out The Two Remaining 1958 Fiat 600 Multipla Mirafiori

Let’s get down to the business of just how rare the vehicles you will see in this video are…Five were built and you are looking at the two remaining examples left in the world. They are...

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Watch Chuck Etchells Suffer A Massive Funny Car Fire At The 1994 NHRA Gatornationals – Drives It Like A Boss!

The late Chuck Etchells was a hardcore funny car racer. The dude scraped his way up the ladder and by the time his career peaked he was battling it out with the best racers in the world. Every hard...

Leave The Neighbors Wondering: 1994 Holden Commodore VR Ute

Most Americans know what a Chevrolet El Camino is. It’s the vehicle that seats two, meaning you can take your sister and cousin out for a ride at the same time, and other absolutely...

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Awesome Video: This Compilation Of Gas V8 Swapped Vintage Tractors Is Spectacular – Crank Up The Sound!

Some of the tractor loving populace out there will hate this video. Why? Well in their eyes all these old machines have been somewhat defiled by having their tried and true original engine swapped...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is Your Go-To Non-V8 Engine Choice?

While eight cylinder engines had been around at least twenty-five years prior to it’s introduction, the Ford Flathead V8 was the siren call for anyone who was into these new-fangled self-moving...

NHRA Insider: Darrell Gywnn and Greg Anderson Talk Gatornationals Glory Past And Present – Epic Stories!

Now THIS right here is the good stuff, kids. If you love NHRA drag racing and its history, you cannot afford to miss this conversation with Darrell Gwynn, the man who won the 1990 NHRA Gatornationals...

Warp Zone: Finnegan’s Twin-Turbo Jet Boat Hits The Water!

Mike Finnegan came to fame as the co-host of Roadkill, but among the man’s many different facets of interest, the one that is the strangest in my eyes is that the dude drag races boats. This...

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Shake, Battle, and Roll 3: Watch 1994’s Greatest Compilation Of Monster Truck, Mud Bogging, and Pulling Carnage

Ahhh, yes! Time to take a mid-week trip back to the first half of the 1990s and experience some good old Diamond P video goodness with this, Shake, Battle, and Roll 3. Now if you were a drag racing...

Watch The 1994 NHRA Gatornationals Here – Awesome Action, Epic Finals, Kalitta vs Kalitta and More

As we get ready for the 2020 running of the NHRA Gatornationals this weekend in Gainesville, Florida it’s always fun to look back into the history of one of drag racing’s greatest events....