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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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Mickey Rooney — star of a lot of crap and two great car movies — died at the age of 93 yesterday

Most of Mickey Rooney’s career was one version of an “aww shucks” kid or another, but for car nerds, two of Rooney’s movies stand out in a big, big way as some of the most...

Bed Wood and Parts Joins The BangShift Family Of Sponsors – American Made Beauty!

We’re proud to announce that Bed Wood and Parts has joined the BangShift family of sponsors. You may have seen their vibrant banners on the site for a few days already and that’s a good...

Someone Modified A 1977 Dodge Ambulance Into A Trailer Hauler And It Pretty Much Rules

BangShifter Tom Loreto send us an email with the Craigslist link to this pretty awesome 1977 Dodge trailer hauler that actually started life as an ambulance. Clean as a whistle, unique looking, and...

Caswell And Crew Win Class At Nurburgring – What The Hell Happens Next?

Early last weekend I received a breathless (OK they’s all breathless) call from Bill Caswell informing me that he was at the Nurburgring in Germany getting ready to make practice laps so he...

The 59th Annual Omaha Autorama – Cars, Trucks, Tractors, Oh My!

(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) – The Omaha, Nebraska Autorama does not have the prestige the Grand National Roadster Show and the Detroit Autorama have, but to our man on the scene Scott...

We Saw This Awesome 1959 Buick Invicta In Front Of A Junkyard And Want To Know How You Would Build It

There I was, minding my own business driving down the road like the honest, upstanding citizen that I am when this evil son of a you know what started staring me down. I was forced to pull over and...

Lonestar Round Up 2014: Photos From Inside The Show – Unreal Cars And Trucks

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Since late last week we have been showing you the photographic handy work of Charles Wickam at the Lonestar Round Up 2014. Even with all we have showed you so far,...

Goodguys Del Mar 2014: The Hit Parade Of Awesome Iron Keeps On Rolling

Yeah, we were busy last weekend and the car scene in SoCal was hoppin’! We’ve been showing you photos from the Goodguys Del Mar show all weekend and today we have another fresh batch for...

2014 Chrysler Performance West Spring Fling: The Biggest Mopar Show In The West

Chryslers, Chryslers everywhere! That was how it looked just the other day when we were cruising the rows and rows of cool cars and trucks on display at the 2014 Chrysler Performance West Spring...

Funny Video: Proof That There Really Are a Million Ways to Lose a Drag Race

Of all the ways we have lost races ourselves and seen other people lose races, this is a new one on us. The driver of this well worn looking Buick appears to be competing at some sort of grudge type...

More Great Photos From Goodguys Del Mar, California – Customs, Classics, and Hot Rods

Our hit parade of photos from the 2014 Goodguys De Mar, California show continues. This gallery has lots of cool customs, classics, and hot rods in it. We have something like 1,000 photos to post...

Special Edition 2014 Mopar Challenger Sells Out In One Day – People Love Appearance Packages

Each year, Mopar chooses a Chrysler model to make a limited edition of and this year is was the Challenger and only 100 of them were offered up for sale. Proving that the Mopar crowd is still as...

If You Could Replace One Racing Sanctioning Body Head TODAY, Who Would It Be?

It is Sunday and that means to most people they sleep in a little, wander through the day without much of a plan, and enjoy the fact that they don’t have to work, and maybe have an adult...

Lonestar Round Up 2014 – Top Notch Burgers Cruise NIght

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Charles Wickam has been doing a fantastic job of keeping us up to date and in the know about his weekend adventure with BangShifter Scott Brown at the 2014 Lonestar...