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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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Go For A Ride Around Grattan Raceway In The New Ford Shelby GT350 – Forget Fast, Forget Handling…THAT NOISE!

Taste, touch, sight, smell, and hearing. The five senses can tell you everything you need to know, and car geeks can tune in well to what works and what doesn’t. We know the crisp smell of the...

This 1970 Chevelle SS Shorty Looks Like A Riot…If You Can Fit Inside Of It!

Take a stroked 427 breathing through dual quads on a tunnel ram, hook it to an automatic trans, and jam it into a 1970 Chevelle that has had 27 inches whacked out of the wheelbase and a Pro...

FAST Jack Beckman Runs 3.90 At 325.69! Quickest And Fastest Funny Car Run In History!

Jack Beckman is hauling ass! With multiple records in the past couple events, everyone expects Jack Beckman to be a force to be reckoned with, but will this be yet another record-breaking weekend! In...

Watch FREE Live Streaming Video From The IHRA AND PDRA Right Here RIght Now!

That’s right, we’ve got live streaming video LIVE right here at BangShift.com from not one but TWO races this weekend thanks to Mark and the gang at Motormania TV. Click the giant link...

Listen To This NASCAR V8 Get Dyno Pulled To 9,700 RPM Three Times In Under A Minute – Sweet Music!

It is always fun when a bunch of new dyno videos jump onto the internet and for this current blast we have to thank the people at DEPAC Dyno Systems. That company makes instrumentation and software...

This 1978 Dodge Aspen Street Kit Car Is Clean, Bare Bones, And As Nasty As It Got In The Late 1970s

Think what you will of Chrysler Corporation’s decent towards insolvency in the late 1970s, but somewhere in Highland Park existed at least a few people who remembered what made them great just...

This Collection Of Subaru Crashes Is Here To Remind You That All-Wheel-Drive Does Not Save You From Poor Driving.

Subaru, prior to the mid-1990s in the United States, anyways, was famous only for four-wheel drive or all-wheel-drive cars that made a funny noise…oh, yeah, and that one really off-the-wall GT...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News: This Week, MORE Airbag Woes, A New Mach 1, and more!

  1. A possible Mach 1 return? Hell yes! It’s a personal thing with me, but of all of the names associated with the Ford Mustang, Mach 1 just resonates with me. Running from 1969-1978 on...

This Ford Territory Turbo AWD Wagon Is Perfect Sleeper Material – Eleven Seconds Out Of A Crossover Wagon!

Squint a little bit at this Ford Territory and tell me you don’t see a little bit of Ford Freestyle/Taurus X in the body lines. Think about those cars for a second…do you think that they...

Here, Kitty, Kitty: The Ford Shelby GT350 Has Started To Roll Off Of The Assembly Lines

The patience of Ford fans who have been waiting for the new S550-based GT350 and GT350R can finally be quelled, as Ford has started rolling the angry version of the Mustang off of the Lime Rock...

Want To Add An Overdrive Automatic To Your Mopar B or E-Body? American Powertrain Has Your Solution!

We all love to take our iron out and let it run, but with the rising speed limits on the Interstates, owners of older Chrysler products might think twice about running their muscle cars out on the...

V8 Chevrolet LUV vs Blown Chrysler V8-Powered Alfa Romeo GTV6 In Germany –

Straight from Hockenheimring’s drag strip in Germany, we bring you one of the more strange pairings we’ve seen. In the near lane is a mostly-typical V8 Chevrolet LUV build. A 400ci...

GM’s AGL-4 Was An Articulated, 4×4, Monster Corvair Truck That Should Have Been Built – Incredible Video Of The Beast In Action!

As you can imagine, I almost whizzed my shorts about fifteen times watching this amazing video of the little known GM AGL-4. This was a truck designed and built by the guys at GM to test the concept...

Best Tow Rig Ever? How About A Buick Roadmaster Wagon 4×4!

Earlier this month, I found myself wandering around Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park in Thompson CT while a bunch of crazies were flailing around the road course in $500 crapcans. During the day, I...