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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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Drag Car TIME CAPSULE with a Surprise – The One that Got Away From The Hot Rod Hoarder

Tommy Lee Byrd and his family have a pretty cool collection of old hot rods and drag cars. To a lot of people these wouldn’t be much to look at, because Tommy tends to leave them alone as much...

Merry Christmas! We Hope You Enjoy Christmas With Family And Friends, And That Santa Brings You Lots Of Parts!

On behalf of the Reynolds family, along with our amazing BangShift.com sponsors, I’d like to wish all of our friends and readers a very Merry Christmas. We also send a hearty Season’s...

Would You Import A Car From Overseas? Stanceworks Imported a Euro BMW E36 Touring from Germany For a CHEAP Daily Driver Build

My dad worked for Mercedes Benz, Rolls Royce, and Bentley for several years when I was growing up and one issue they often saw was customers coming in for warranty or maintenance work in cars that...

Here Are The NHRA’s Top 10 Quickest Funny Car runs of the 2024 Mission Drag Racing Series

If you weren’t watching every single run in the NHRA Mission Drag Racing series this year, or you were but don’t remember all the stats, here is a video that features all of the baddest...

Jay Leno’s Garage Car Feature: The Iconic 1977 Pontiac Firebird Formula from “The Rockford Files!”

I guess kids today see cars in movies and on tv and are excited about them, but the tv shows we grew up with in the 1970s and 1980s were part of the epic car chase era. And not only did they make car...

Fixing 50 Cracks on a Pontiac GTO Bumper – Endura Or Rubber Bumper Repair How To!

When I was a kid, I thought a 1969 Camaro with the Endura front bumper option was the bees knees. The Endura front bumper was a urethane bumper that replaced the front bumper and was body color....

Dropped Cross Member On A Tube Chassis? Why Is The Latest Suspension Trend Making This Necessary?

Drag racing, like most forms of motorsports, is always evolving. In an effort to go quicker and faster, there is a constant back and forth between the engine, drivetrain, and chassis of the car....

PROOF! FINNEGAN’S ENGINE MADE 1,200 HP WITH NO TURBO NO NITROUS AND NO BLOWER!

A couple years ago, Finnegan bought a new to him drag boat that he named Side Chick. And this boat was set to stay in California so that Mike could fly in and race it and have fun. But it just gave...

Can You Chassis Swap A Classic Truck Onto A Late Model Chassis In Just Two Days? Watch…

The answer is…. maybe. If you have the right team, the right parts, and the right mentality, I think you can. Hell, I know you can, because I’ve seen it done. But can the Rustomod crew...

Check Out This Transformation! Wrecked Station Wagon Gets The Complete PDR Treatment And Shines Again.

Paintless Dent Removal, aka PDR, is nothing new. It came about decades ago and is the savior of the automotive body repair industry in many ways. PDR can take care of insane amounts of damage and...

Ultimate Flap Disc Test: Norton Red Heat And Diablo Steel Demon Face The Grinder Test Rig To See Which One Survives Best In Round 3.

A couple days ago we shared the video from Fireball Tool where Jason was building the ultimate grinding disc test rig in preparation for the ultimate grinding wheel test we’ve ever seen. And now it...

Killer Junkyard Photos: Joe Grippo Walks The Junkyard At Fleming’s Pumpkin Run. Check Out All The Forgotten Iron.

I understand why the Fleming’s Pumpkin Run has to be one of Joe Grippo’s favorite events of the year. I mean how can’t it be, when you look at how huge it is and has what feels like...

Inside with TMI – Flat Out Auto’s Oldsmobile Cutlass, Winner Of The Best Custom Car TMI Trim Award At The 2024 SEMA Show

A few years ago, a small group of people came together to create an awards program for those vehicles with amazing interiors at the annual SEMA Show in Las Vegas. Our friends Marcel, Jason, and Ross...

Check Out Newbern’s Video From The PRI Show Where He’s Highlighting All His Favorite Cars!

If you don’t normally attend the SEMA Show in Las Vegas, or the PRI Show in Indianapolis, then you rely on sites like ours, and all your favorite industry folks, to share all the cool stuff you...