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Drag and Drive Photos: Buckeye Skips 2026 – Day 1 Driver’s Meeting, Checkpoints, and Racing at Darana Raceway National Trail in Ohio

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We just finished sharing our lost Buckeye Skips drag and drive photos from 2025 the other day, but we’re excited about 2026! Yesterday was Day 1, when the driver’s...

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Our Final Gallery of Car Show Photos From Pueblo’s Biggest Father’s Day Event! The 2026 Father’s Day Car Show!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) Billed as the biggest Father’s Day event in Pueblo, the Father’s Day Car Show at the Pueblo Christian Center is in it’s 8th year and fills up fast on show...

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Shop Tour Video: United by Trucks Visits Pennsylvania’s Hart Fab to Get A Look At What Makes Them Tick. This is UBT ON TOUR

I love shop tours. Who doesn’t? Seeing a hot rod or custom shop building cars and trucks is always fun to see, and when they do it right it is really fun to check out all their fabrication,...

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STREET WEEK SWEDEN LIVE in the United States For The First Time! Get Your All Access Pass To Drag And Drive Greatness Right Here!

That’s right folks, we’ve been talking about it for a few weeks but now is the time to sign up for your livestream from Street Week Sweden! I’ll be there, announcing, interviewing,...

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Laid On Its Balls! How This Custom NBS Went From Show To Scrap And Back To Life And On The Road!

This truck has got some interesting history and has lived a rough life but has been brought back to life in a big way. After being built, this truck lit the show world on fire as it was laid out on...

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100 Hot Rod Roadsters. Three Days. One Incredible Adventure. This Road Trip Is Full of Collections, Cruises, And Memories Like None Other.

We love a good road trip, and doing one in a topless hot rod sounds like a wonderful idea. I’m a big fan of a good convertible, and so are these guys. In this video you’ll see 100 vintage...

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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...

Watch Peugeot Build A Team And Three Trucks For The 2015 Dakar Rally, From Scratch

I can’t say I’m some big Peugeot fan, but I can tell you that I’m a big Dakar fan. So when I saw this cool video that was put together by Peugeot to show what they went through to...

When I Grow Up I Want To Be A Ramp Truck: This 1963 Chevy L60 Deserves That Chance!

Sometimes we find cool ramp trucks online that we just dream of owning. Other times we find a truck that is just begging to be made into a ramp truck, like this ultra cool 1963 Chevrolet L60....

Randy Pobst Provides Another Lesson For The Racer: Passing – When To Do It, What It Takes, And What You As The Driver Need To Provide

Passing…the art of proving to someone else on a racecourse that you are better than them. There are right ways to pass someone, and there are wrong ways to pass someone. Anyone who has ever...

More Aussie Racing! Top Sportsman Doorslammers From Sydney Dragway!

We’re back with more footage from Sydney Dragway, this time of the Top Sportsman class. There are many flavors of car in this class…some small tire, some huge tire, some that would border...

Watch As This Nissan GT-R’s Hood Blows Off At Over 180 Miles An Hour!

At about 150 miles an hour, aerodynamics become an integral part of racing rather than an secondary consideration. Downforce becomes very real (and your best friend) and anything that can act like an...

Caption This: Who Says You Can’t Have Your Cake And Eat It Too With This Lincoln Flatbed?

In the era of $70,000 pickup trucks that make the excesses of the 1970s land barges seem tame by comparison, we often find ourselves looking at Australian utes for the answer to a question we wished...

This 1971 AMC Gremlin Road Test Video Will Have You Chuckling For Sure

There are lots of cool old “Car and Track” videos out there that depict the 1960s-1970s automotive television show testing cars, going to the races, and generally being awesome but this...

Craigslist Hilarity: Ad For An LT1 Powered Pontiac Trans-Am Convertible Or Future Ex-Wife Is Awesome

This is one of those jaw dropping Craigslist ads that just makes you both smile and shake your head in sympathy with the poor guy who wrote it. Basically what we have here is a dude who is having to...

FAIL! Watch The Mad Maxx Mega Truck Fail At The Backflip

This was less than spectacular, and certainly not the way the driver of the Mad Maxx Mega Truck wanted this to go. It’s all wrong from the moment it hits the backflip ramp, and it only gets...