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Our Final Gallery Of Lone Star Throwdown 2026 Truck Show Pics: The Biggest and Baddest Truck Show In The Country!

Here’s our last gallery from LST 2026! Man  what a great show this is. I hope all of you at home put it on your list for 2027! If you missed our previous galleries, don’t worry because...

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Nitro Funny Car Eliminations From The 2026 Good Vibrations March Meet! Nostalgia Drag Racing Goodness!

While we still wish we were livestreaming the March Meet at Famoso, we are super grateful that the Monday Morning Racer was on hand to shoot all the action so we can still check it out and share it....

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NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Highlight Video: Sportsman Drag Racing Action from the 2026 AMALIE Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals

Here we go! NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing is some of the finest on the planet. Sportsman Drag Racing is the lifeblood of drag racing, drag strips, and the hobby in general, so when NHRA announced that...

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OG Mini Truck Customizing: Jendro’s Chop Shop Putting Maxima Headlights in this Clean Nissan 720!!

In the 1980s and 1990s, there were a ton of custom truck mods involving head lights and tail lights. A couple of the more well known were using Nissan Maxima lights in Nissan 720 pickups and Ford...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Body Chop, Rock Sliders & Cage Plates As Fabrication Continues

Shannon and Jess are back at it on the FJ40 this week and this thing is coming along nicely. If you like a Landcruiser, you’ll dig this one. But if restored to factory is your jam, this one...

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IHRA News: Monster Energy Named Official Energy Drink of the IHRA Offshore Racing Series

Monster Energy Named Official Energy Drink of the IHRA Offshore Racing Series; Partnership Kicks Off at St. Pete Powerboat Grand Prix Fairfield, OH — March 11, 2026 — The International Hot Rod...

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Lancaster Dragway Sunday Nostalgia – More Photos From A Killer Even In NY

(Photos by Mike Brooks) – We’re back with more photos from Lancaster National Dragway’s Sunday Nostalgia meet which took place earlier in the summer. Why are we just running the...

This Mildly Hot Rodded 1934 Ford Truck Is As Class Act That We’d Love To Cruise

Is there anything neater than when someone takes a classic and iconic shape, tweaks stuff just a little and  then “lets it breathe” like the builder of the 1934 Ford pickup did here? We...

Donut Derelicts Cruise Coverage: Sunrise In SoCal With Awesome Cars

To attend the Donut Derelicts pre-dawn cruise in Southern California is to get your day started right. Lots of bleary eyed hot rodder show up to slug back some coffee, munch a donut or two and meet...

Take A Look At Some Of The Cool Stuff We Saw At The Pomona Swap Meet!

It was 4:30 am when I rolled up to Crosby’s shop with Skid Row playing Slave to the Grind at 11 so as to wake myself up. With only a couple hours sleep it wasn’t a pleasure hearing my...

Scott Oksas And Mike Bowman Okay After Horrific Double Pro Mod Crash At NMCA Finals

This one was crazy!!! Watch this video and you’ll see Oksas and Bowman running in the first round of Pro Mod at the NMCA West Finals in Fontana when things went wrong in the worst way. Oksas...

Start Your Week Off Right…With An Airplane Drifting Donuts In The Snow

It is official: Bobby Breeden is a freaking overachiever when it comes to piloting an aircraft. I say that not only as a writer, but as someone who has worked the rudder and stick before. We’ve...

Enjoy The Song That The Ferrari BB512 LM Belts Out As It Screams Around Monza

If there is one thing to count on when it comes to a Ferrari at a track, it’s that regardless of where it’s placed or how well it’s running, it will make a glorious noise the whole...

Would You Rather? Take Your Pick Between Two Suggested Full-Sizers That We Missed!

Earlier this week we gave you a Top 11 list of our favorites from Detroit’s “bigger is better” days, and you guys seemed to like it, a lot. But with only eleven spots, it was...

Early Christmas Shopping: Watching This Rally Driver Play DiRT Rally On A Serious Racing Sim Makes Us Want The Whole Setup!

Racing games have come a long way since I first played Rad Racer as a kid. Who am I kidding, they’ve come a long way since the original Gran Turismo came out on the first Playstation, and back...

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Only In Australia: A Mid-Engined Kei Truck Spinning Tires To No Tomorrow

The “bongo truck”…that’s not what it is actually called, but my nickname for these things. Marketed as a Ford, Mitsubishi, Kia, and a whole host of Middle East and Asian kit...

In Boat Footage From A V8 Superboat Crash – Hang Time, People Diving Out Of The Way, Crazy!

This is one of the few crash videos we’ve ever posted that made us actually curl up and brace for impact! V8 Superboat racing is no stranger to us here on BangShift. We’ve shown a ton of...

Barnstormin’: Of Dually Trucks, Drag Strips and Return Roads

As a fan, a writer, an announcer, or in any other light, drag racing has always been a sport about details to me. Some people get wound up in the macro element of things with the huge noise, smoke,...

Twin Turbo Camaro Does Huge Wheelstand: PLR 481X Power Wheelie Baby!

Any wheelstand is fun to watch, but power wheelies, the ones that start way down track when the car really starts putting down some suds are the ones that really show you just how bad-ass some rides...

It’s The 1990’s All Over Again! This Blown Pro Street 1978 Caprice Will Have Brian Doing Backflips!

When this sucker popped up on Craigslist I was pretty excited, but not nearly as excited as Brian is going to be when he sees it! Despite what the old car feature says, this Caprice does NOT have...