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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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Toyota Celebrates The 1,000,000th Hilux Built In South Africa By Hot-Rodding One! Forget The Diesel, Jam In A V8!

We love it when manufacturers do an in-house hot rod, and oddly enough it is Toyota who, for the second time in nearly a year, who have shocked us with something we totally dig. First was last...

Cruise Coverage! We Were At The Recent Somernites Cruise – Photos Galore

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Here is another random, non-categorized collection of photos.  Crazy, isn’t it…?  Lets just try to suffer through it.  In here we’ve got some...

2015 NHRA New England Hot Rod Reunion Coverage: Photos From The Show AND The Strip

Photos by Rich Pasley – The 2015 NHRA New England Hot Rod Reunion was definitely the best one that race organizers and contestants have seen since the event’s conception several years...

Mahle Aftermarket Champion Technician Of The Year Contest Is ON! Nominate Yourself Or A Great Mechanic/Engine Builder You Know!

It is always cool when a company decides to help honor and recognize some of the true professionals that use their products and this is certainly true with the folks at Mahle Aftermarket. This year...

This May Be The Coolest Square Body 4×4 We’ve Ever Seen. Mini Monster Like None Other.

When I found this killer 1977 GMC square body short bed on Rockwells, I sent the link to Brian and he about died. This may be the coolest square body 4×4 we’ve ever seen! Owned since 1977...

2015 Charger R/T Scat Pack: We Drive The 485hp Four Door Fun Machine

It was an interesting turn of events to step from the seat of the BMW i8 into the cavernous confines of the 2015 Charger R/T Scat Pack a couple of weeks ago but since someone has to do the dirty...

Cool Video: Pete Steele and Louie Beato From Carnivore Wrench On A Beater Mustang II

I have to admit that that I am not now, nor have I ever been a metalhead. I have nothing against that style of music, it just isn’t my jam…literally. That being said, we know a ton of you...

The Driver Of This Porsche Cayman GT4 Race Car Proves That Sometimes Saving Your Own Hide Requires Max Throttle

As a general rule of thumb, when everything starts going wrong for you behind the wheel, the last thing you ever want to do is drill either the brake or the throttle. You want to shave off speed...

This 1967 Chevelle Street Freak Is A Yellow Bomber We’d Own – Straight Axle And All

We think that there are times where you need to look past the performance angle of some cars and just appreciate them for that what they are. This 1967 Chevelle street freak is certainly one of...

Rough Start: The Nicest Small A-body Monte Carlo You Can Get For Under Five Grand

Most people think of the 1982-up cars when suggesting an Eighties Monte Carlo, and a lot of that is due to the love-or-hate looks of the A-body 1978-1981 version. A departure from the Colonnade body...

Watch This Blown Small Block Drag Tudor Spin Across The Track As A Classic Pickup Nearly T-Bones It!

When our thoughts turn to no-prep drag racing we immediately envision S-10 trucks. Fox-bodied Mustangs, and other typical body styles preferred by those in that genre of drag racing. That’s one...

Question Of The Day: With A GM Chassis And Running Gear, How Would You Modify This 1987 Avanti?

Without a doubt, the original 1962-63 Studebaker Avanti was a polarizing car that was well ahead of it’s time. It had power (especially in supercharged trim), a bit of safety and quite a bit of...

Quick Gallery: The National Corvette Museum’s 21st Annual Celebration – Oh, For The Love Of All Things Fiberglass!

When your backyard is Bowling Green, Kentucky, you can’t help but notice the Corvettes everywhere normally. The city has pretty much prospered from the second that General Motors decided to...

The Bentley Continental GT3-R: Priced Like A House, Weighs As Much As A Diesel Dually, And Can Be Heard From Three Counties Over!

Normally, most BangShift attention directed at Bentley is towards their racing efforts in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Otherwise, for the most part, a Bentley is for someone who wants the premise...