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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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SEMA 2014: The Torrent Of Car and Truck Photos Continues From All Corners Of The Show

I am going through and adding photos as quickly as this sub-par hotel internet will let me this morning here at SEMA 2014. In this collection of snaps you’ll see a bunch of trucks from laid out...

Would You Buy A Wrecked $2-Million Car For Half A Million? Own A Ferrari Enzo For Way Less Than Retail (Disclaimer: It Is A Three Wheeler)

If you have dreamed of owning a Ferrari Enzo but lacked the millions of dollars necessary we have a smoking deal for you. In fact, you’ll be paying WAY less than retail for this car because it...

SEMA 2014: A Fresh Load Of Cool Cars And Trucks From Outside The Las Vegas Convention Center

The beat goes on here at SEMA 2014. Chad and I are running around the show gathering information on new parts and pieces that we’ll be talking on for weeks, we’re shooting photos like...

Antique RV Nirvana: A One Of One 1937 Packard RV With Only 40,000 Miles On The Clock

You know how much we dig old RV’s around here, but this one takes the cake. 1937!? Really? And a Packard? We’d never seen or heard of one until BangShifter Phil Secan sent us a bit of...

Want To Buy A Tool Condo? This eBay Ad Is Hawking A Sweet Set Of Snap-On Tools – Just Bring $100K

Professional mechanics depend on their tools to make their living. Just like a truck driver needs a functional rig to deliver his loads and get paid, a pro wrencher needs all of the tools he can...

Success Story: Dude Who Spoofed Lincoln Ad To Sell His Car To See Slayer Got Free Tickets. Here’s The Story…

Jake is a Slayer fan to the core. And Jake is like the rest of us, plugging away at a job to pay the bills. When he heard that Slayer was going to play The Forum in Inglewood, California, he reviewed...

Introducing Wicked’s Wagon: BangShift’s BMW Slaying Hot Rod 1966 Chevrolet Bel Air Wagon Project

Think Pro-Touring meets old-school Custom, think Cruiser meets Drag Car, think “Holy crap, that 1966 Bel Air Station Wagon just kicked that 5-series BMW Wagon’s ass!”, and...

SEMA 2014: RHS Offers Pro Elite LT1 Head Designed To Retrofit On LS Blocks – Best Of Both Worlds!

This blog item is more of a teaser than anything because we’re planning on bringing you the full story of these cool heads from RHS after the show because they are so neat. Basically the...

SEMA 2014: The Photo Coverage Continues – Cars, 2,000hp engines, Trucks Of All Shapes And Sizes Plus Weird Stuff That You May Hate

If you think we’re even halfway through showing you stuff that makes you smile, cringe, puke, or wince from SEMA 2014, you are 100% wrong. There are buildings we have not even walked through...

Want A Historic Funny Car Body? This Historic 1971 Camaro Body Is For Sale…To The Right Person – Check It Out

It is always cool when a funny car body with history comes up for sale, especially when it is a neat one like a former Bob Sullivan Pandemonium car. For you drag racing history geeks out there you...

Toyota Just Figured Out How To Build A Proper Funny Car Out Of Their Camry-This Thing Is Killer!

Toyota actually called this car the Camry Sleeper, and it takes clanking brass ones to roll into SEMA with a silver Toyota Camry into the show, call it a “sleeper”, and actually pull it...

Hyundai and Kia Fined By U.S. Government For Overstating Vehicle MPG Numbers

Whoops. On November 3, 2014, the Department of Justice and the EPA levied fines and penalties towards Hyundai and Kia that totaled to over $300 million dollars for overstating fuel mileage claims on...

A BangShifter Abroad, The Prelude: Going Back To Where I Came From

By the time most of you read this, I will be less than 12 hours away from hopping a plane and taking my first trip across the Atlantic that didn’t require me to wear a camouflaged uniform, on...

Watch Dave Connolly Make His First Top Fuel Run And See His Reaction At The Top End (Video)

It is official, Dave Connolly is no longer just a top fuel driver in name only. During post event testing at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Connolly made his first rips in a top fuel dragster...