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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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Holy Smokes! This 1970 Plymouth Barracuda Pro Stocker Is Completely Unrestored, Exactly As it Was Raced, And For Sale

So I have basically turned this into “Stuff For Sale Sunday” at this point but frankly, these links keep coming to me and they contain cars and trucks that are so freaking cool I have...

Meltdown Drags 2014 Coverage: Our Last Blast Of Killer Photos From The Pits – What An Event!

(Photos by Greg Rourke and Bob Chiluk) – And we have finally come to the end of a literal week of coverage from the 2014 Meltdown Drags that were held at Byron Dragway in Illinois. We’ve...

Someone In England Has Built A Rolls Royce Turbine Powered Mini-Van – You Can Buy It, You Should Buy It

In this situation, there’s only one tactful and polite thing to do and that is to buy this Renault van with a Rolls Royce Viper turbine mounted in the back. The van is for sale in England, the...

Another Killer 1968 Dodge Power Wagon W300 For Sale – This One Is An Old School Expedition Unit – Cooler Than The Wrecker?

So this has turned into the Dodge W300 Power Wagon W300 weekend here at BangShift. Why? Well yesterday we showed you a 1968 W300 wrecker that was looking for a new home and today we’re showing...

Bonneville Speed Week 2014 Coverage: The SCTA Course Condition Report From The Salt

If there is one single thing that every Bonneville racer is concerned about as we inch closer to Speed Week, it is the condition of the salt. The SCTA monitors the salt for months ahead of the event...

Meltdown Drags 2014 Coverage: More Cool Iron And Thrash Photos From The Pits At Byron Dragway

(Photos by Bob Chiluk and Greg Rourke) – Our week of Meltdown Drags 2014 coverage continues with more photos from the pit scene at Byron Dragway in Illinois. We know of people who took a full...

The Twin Turbo Lamborghini Plot Thickens As Dallas Performance Answers Back With Statement – Read It Here

Yesterday, we ran a story about a Lamborghini owner named Billy from Arkansas who brought his car to a shop in Dallas known as Dallas Performance to have it outfitted with a twin turbocharger setup....

Craigslist Find: A Rambler Wagon Trar That Means Muddin’ Fun For The Whole Family

BangShifter Matt Cramer was getting concerned and for good reason. It had been a while since a trar (truck/car mashup) had appeared on the site. Desperate to correct this ever growing problem, Matt...

CATASTROPHE VIDEO: Watch A Draw Bridge Lower On A Passing Ship – This Is The Definition Of Horror

Recently we reported on a tugboat going all submarine as it was washed under a bridge. Here we have another boat and another bridge, but very different circumstances. Not trying to turn this into...

This Could Be The Most BangShift Approved Motorcycle Ever Built – BSA A50 BY HAZAN MOTORWORKS

I know jack squat about custom motorcycles. I have been learning lots about racing bikes through my work with the ECTA, but when it comes to custom stuff, I can’t usually tell good from bad,...

This 1968 Dodge WD 300, 4×4 Wrecker, Is The Coolest Old Wrecker For Sale In The Known Universe

So here’s Chris Cabe sending me links to some of the coolest wreckers for sale in the country while I’m flat on my back trying to get the brakes working on my own man-sized Tonka toy 1968...

Watch A Blindingly Quick And Highly Modified Kubota Tractor Beat The Pants Off A Modified Diesel Pickup At The Strip In Thailand

We’ve showed you more than one drag racing video from Thailand over the years here at BangShift and that’s because they have a vibrant scene there with all kinds of worked up stuff. From...

Ebay Find: This Nasty Corvair Is Ready For A New Owner

When I was a kid, my grandfather had a black early Corvair behind his house. I never quite understood it then…there were Chevrolet bow-ties visible, but the word “Chevrolet”...

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Evil Little Sleeper: 728 WHP out of a Camry

Is there a car any less BangShift-y than a mid-1990’s Toyota Camry? These things are all over the place, at best have a 3.0L V6 humming out 185 hp, and are a perfect example of a...