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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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This 1951 Ford Truck Might Look Like A Budget Beater, But With A Tunnel-Rammed 5.4 And All-Wheel Drive, It Is A Daily Driver That Pegs Out The Awesome Meter!

Many people talk about daily-driving a hot rod, but how many people really do it? A very tiny margin, that’s how many. There are a decent number of fair-weather drivers, and you have the...

You Make The Call: Which Rig Wins This Tug Of War? The Lifted 4WD Dodge Or The 2WD Ford Wrecker?

The tug of war is a simple contest that depends on two things. Power and traction. In the battle you will watch below we have a mud caked Dodge Ram truck that has obviously been attacking the local...

Jiffy-Tite’s Carburetor Kits Are A Great Solution To Speed Up Carb Removal And Eliminator Fuel Spillage

If you are a racer, chances are that the carb comes on and off your race engine with regularity. Heck, if you are a hot rodder than can’t leave anything alone for five minutes the same can be...

Racer Jim Hughes Takes Over Tucson Dragway

Words by Shayna Keller Photos by Bob Snyder   IRG Sports + Entertainment™ (IRG) has announced that three Tucson businessmen, Jon Bradford, Tom Koenan and Jim Hughes will take over the...

2015 NHRA US Nationals Extra: Rickie Smith Leads Friday Pro Mod Qualifying

#6 Qualifier Danny Rowe, 2015 Corvette, 5.952, 245.00   Words by NHRA Communications   Defending NHRA J&A Service Pro Mod Series world champion Rickie Smith raced to the qualifying lead...

Three Cool Military Trucks We Think You Should Buy Right Now

We dig military trucks, and military inspired trucks around here. I mean who doesn’t like a giant 6×6? But there are other cool military trucks that we want to buy too. Here are a couple...

Aussie Burnout Oddity: A Rambler Hornet Having A Go On The Skidpad!

If you have been following any kind of Aussie automotive news we’ve put up, you’ve seen the local flavor. Ford Falcons, Holden Toranas and Monaros, Valiants, and imports of both the JDM...

Byron Wheelstanding Champ Brian Ambrosini Facing Up To 32 Years In Prison For Burglary And Theft

(Lead Photo: Kenosha News/Brian Passino) The name Brian Ambrosini should at least create a spark with anyone who has ever taken an interest in the Byron Wheelstand Contest. Ambrosini’s bright...

Rough Start: A Ford Granada Set Up So Well That Even McTaggart Doesn’t Hate It

Stop the presses, call a press conference, a f***ing miracle just took place: A Ford Granada has been located that I not only don’t mind, but might actually consider driving in real life....

Click HERE To Watch FREE Live Streaming Video From The Crower Cup At Barona TODAY!!

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE LIVE RACING FROM THE CROWER CUP IN BARONA That’s right folks, it’s live video season here at BangShift.com and we’ve been live all over the country the past...

Not Familiar With New Zealand’s Superstock Racing? You Should Be! Dirt Track, Bumper Cars And A Demo Derby, All In One!

Super stock racing to us is door slammer racing. Impalas, Max Wedge Mopars, Thunderbolts, and all of the other cars that make up the class turn our crank. The racing is competitive, the cars are...

Roadkill Takes On LeMons! (Again.) Does The Rotsun Have The Guts To Take On The Battle Of The Beaters?

The Roadkill crew have been here before. The 24 Hours of LeMons should be their haven, their safe home. It’s a race designed for beaters, the worse, the better…how could they possibly...

Caption This: How Would You Sell This Lincoln-Ish Super Brougham?

Zimmer Golden Spirit. 1970s Stutz. Both of these cars represent the same thing: a harkening back to the days of Dusenbergs and Bugattis, though the execution might be…well…a little...

Watch This! Brian Hobaugh Racing His Bitchin 1973 Camaro Around The Road Course At Charlotte

Brian Hobaugh is a bad ass behind the wheel of anything, but his famed Orang Camaro is probably one of my favorites. Thanks to the guys at Falken tire, who gave he and Mike Maier a lift to Charlotte,...