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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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2018 Easter Jeep Safari Concept Vehicles Are Here! Which one Is Your Favorite?

We told you the Easter Jeep Safari concept vehicles that Jeep puts together each year were on their way. Well, they’ve been unveiled and without further ado, here they are:   1. Jeep...

Optima’s Search For The Ultimate Street Car Hits Vegas And We Aren’t Keeping Quiet About It!

(Words and Photos by Kaleb Kelley) Optima’s Search for the Ultimate Street Car returns for its fifth season on TV and 10th season of the event in Las Vegas. We love these events and are strangely...

Our Scottsdale Barrett-Jackson Auction Coverage Keeps On Keeping On

(Photos by Cole Reynolds) Just when you thought there was no way we could have more photos, we show up with even more. For some reason these bonus photos from Barrett-Jackson in Scottsdale last month...

Nitro Vette! Randy Merrick’s Corvette Doorslammer Runs 3s With A Blown Nitro Burning Engine

Now THIS is BangShift approved! You are about to watch a video featuring the nitro fueled, blown Corvette of Randy Merrick as it attacks the track in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This is effectively a pro...

Show Photos: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (and more!) The Piston Powered Auto-Rama is the largest indoor show on the planet!

(Words and photos by Mike Brooks) – One of the shows at the top of my list each year is an insanely huge indoor show in Cleveland OH. The Summit Racing Equipment I-X Piston Powered Auto-Rama...

Funny Carnage: The 2018 Amalie Oil NHRA Gatornationals Were A Festival Of Flopper Destruction

The historical record will tell us that Jack Beckman won the 2018 Amalie Oil NHRA Gatornationals but it won’t tell us the full story of an insane weekend in the funny car category. From John...

Backwoods Luxury Cruiser: This Chevy Dually Limo Is Long, Lovely, and Likely Does Not Smell Like A Dream

There’s pro street, there’s pro luxury, there’s professional, and then there’s whatever you can figure to call a dually limo. We’re calling it a backwoods luxury cruiser...

Rough Start: How About A 1972 Chevrolet Flatbed That Will Be A Bit More Affordable Than That Fast And Furious Truck?

I don’t mean to post two of the same vehicle on the same day, but this 1972 Chevrolet was just too good to pass up. I’m on a bit of a truck kick and you just can’t go wrong with a...

The Cure For A Bad Day: Banger Racing At It’s Most Violent…European Cars Against A Cadillac Limo!

The only way you know what is good is to experience the bad. That’s something that was instilled in me years ago. If you only knew good, how would you know what “good” really was?...

Money No Object: The Monster 1967 Chevrolet Flatbed From Fast And Furious Is Going Up For Auction

I may not appreciate the plot or the acting in the Fast and Furious franchise, but I will say that part four, 2009’s Fast and Furious, was the film that finally got me interested in the cars....

BangShift Project Files: A Barn-Find 1979 Pontiac Trans Am That Is Being Brought Back To Life

Sitting in a barn, covered in dust…yeah, the barn find dream is nice, isn’t it? We’ve seen the pictures of the GTO left in the barn, the Superbird parked out back, or the Mach 1...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Should There Be An Age Cutoff For Road-Registered Vehicles?

Before anybody steps in to rake me over the coals, know for a fact that I do not and will not ever support an age cutoff for vehicles. Ever. Ok, comments sections? I’m not supporting this idea,...

Watch The Insane Robert Hight, Matt Hagan Double Explosion Run From The 2018 NHRA Gatornationals – Both Walked Away

This is something that even the most salty, grizzled, drag racing veterans at the Gatornationals had never seen before. Two funny cars exploding on the same run within a second of each other. Below...

The Minivan We’d Take: This 1992 Chevy Astro Is Clean, AWD, And Has Been V8 Swapped!

For the 1980s and into the 1990s, the vehicle of choice was the minivan. Thanks to the foresight of Lee Iacocca, the idea of shrinking down the cargo van into something the average family could use...