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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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Ship Fail: The Cargo Ship Canadian Miner Was Supposed To Be Scrapped For Profit -Project Is $24-Million In The Hole – What A Mess! Photos and The Story Here

(By GREG ROURKE) – Most of us who regularly read BangShift don’t live in gated communities. As such, we all have someone in the neighborhood with junk in the back yard. Or maybe it’s you....

NHRA Announces 2015 Heritage Series Schedule

The National Hot Rod Association finally released their primarily west coast-based Hot Rod Heritage Racing Series headlined by the nitro Nostalgia Top Fuel and Nostalgia Funny Car categories.  2014...

The Hellcats Are Shipping! The Hellcats Are Shipping! Chrysler Made A Cool Video To Commemorate the Moment

Hellcats are officially in route to dealers all across North America as Chrysler announced yesterday that the first run of the cars had been released and sent out into the field. This means that we...

Cruise Coverage: The First Ever Costumes and Cruise In For A Cure – Great Cars And A Great Time

(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Let’s face it, Halloween isn’t typically a holiday that invites car guys to get out and play. Memorial Day weekend, sure….Fourth of July,...

Go or No Go? A Fifth-Gen Trans Am And A Phantom GTO Judge – You Make The Call!

(WORDS AND PHOTOS BY GREG ROURKE) – Body kits…love ’em or hate ’em, they are a big part of the automotive aftermarket. Some are dead nuts on, some you have to wonder how many...

A Fresh LT1, T56 6-Speed, Nitrous, And Clean Paint All For $2500? Could This Camaro Be The Best Deal On Craigslist?

Earlier we asked if the $750 LTD was the best thing you could buy for $750 on Craigslist, and then we ran across this Camaro! Sure it’s more than 4 times the price of the LTD, and it might not...

2014 York US30 Reunion Muscle Car Madness Show: Our First Blast Of Photos From One Of The Summer’s Big Ones

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Each July, one of the great weekends of drag racing historical celebration takes place in Pennsylvania with the York US30 Drag Strip Reunion and Muscle Car Madness...

Video: Arlen Ness, The Sound. Three Generations of Bike Builders, But The Old Man Is Still The Leader

If you don’t know the name Arlen Ness, then you have either lived under a rock for the last several decades or never paid attention to anything on two wheels. As one of the most iconic bike...

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Check Out This Great Old Tractor Collection We Found At The Alameda County Fairgrounds In Pleasanton, California

So there I was, minding my own business looking at hot rods and muscle cars at the Goodguys show when I turned around and nearly swallowed my tongue. As it turns out the fairgrounds that the show was...

Project FatLane Is Done, Delivered, And Preparing To Terrorize Drag Strips With Six Second Fury – Here’s A Look At The Final Product

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – For a couple of years we have been showing you the incremental progress of a car we dubbed FatLane, a Ford Fairlane being built to run in some Outlaw small tire...

Could This LTD Wagon Be The Best $750 You Ever Spent On Craigslist?

We think so! It’s a roller which is why it’s so cheap. Well, that and the fact that it’s an LTD. As the ad states, this thing is built on a Fox body chassis so it’s the same...

Goodguys Autumn Get Together 2014 – Our Last Blast Of Cool California Stuff

Well I have finally worked my way to the end of my copious load of photos from the 2014 Goodguys Autumn Get Together in Pleasanton, California. Ironically in just a day or two, Chad will be traveling...

BangShift Breaking News Exclusive: John Mihovetz Runs 5.92/248 At Pomona! First Mod Motor In The 5s – We Have The Slip!

Just minutes ago John Mihovetz ran 5.92/248mph to break a performance barrier he has flirted with several times in his modular motor powered car. Mihovetz recently Ran six flat and was knocking on...

Racepak Is Throwing A Party, Giving A Seminar, And Sponsoring An A-Fuel Car In Pomona!

That’s right folks, if you are going to be at the NHRA World Finals in Pomona this weekend then take advantage of the fine folks at Racepak, who are going to have goodies, information, and more...