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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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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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The World’s Largest All Ford Show And Swap Meet! We’ve Got Photos From The Carlisle All Ford Nationals In Central Pennsylvania

(Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) The world’s largest celebration of the Blue Oval went down a few weeks ago in Central Pennsylvania and of course, we were there. The 2026 edition of the Carlisle...

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The 2014 Chattanooga Cruise-In Is Tomorrow! Don’t Miss One Of The Coolest Events In The South – See Our Pals At Powermaster There!

Tomorrow, the Chattanooga Cruise-In will draw a massive number of cars from Tennessee and all over the southern part of the United States as the Tennessee city opens its doors and closes a bunch of...

Race Report: NMCA West Action Thunders The Revived Auto Club Dragway In Fontana, California!

(Words and photos by Darr Hawthorne) -The first big event of the new drag racing season, the 3rd annual NMCA West Street Car Nationals took place at SoCal’s newly re-finished Auto Club Dragway....

Craigslist Find: A Huge, Rusty, And Awesome 1955 International 140 – Factory 4×4 Dually

If there is one thing I love more than crusty old trucks, it is crusty old 4×4 trucks because they are as rare as hen’s teeth. I don’t mean an old cab and bed mounted on a new...

Great Read: The Story Of Tom Lieb, Owner and Founder Of Scat Enterprises

A couple of weeks ago we told you to check out the very cool profile on Aeromotive founder and head honcho Steve Matusek on the MotoBlog at Motovicity.com. Steve’s story was one of a series...

Cruise-In Texas Style: The Sights And Scenes Of The Kemah Cruise Night

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – One of the fun traditions that has become part of the fabric of BangShift over the last few years is our monthly coverage of the Kemah Cruise in Kemah, Texas....

The Most Original, Factory Documented, Lightweight 1962 SS 409 Impala In The World Is Headed To Auction

There are certain cars in the world that we sincerely wish could speak because if they could, the stories would be completely amazing. The car you see below is one of those cars. This one of a...

Cool Video: Watch Pro Driver Robb Holland Predict The Crashing Of A Porsche On The Nurburgring Before It Happens

Robb Holland is not psychic, but he is a professional race car driver and driving instructor who has made hundreds and hundreds of laps around the famed Nurburgring in Germany. As we told you...

2014 Lonestar Round Up: Meatheads Kick Off BBQ Party

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – The 2014 Lonestar Round Up is on and we’re there. We have multiple BangShifters attending the massive weekend of hot rod overload in Austin, Texas and Charles...

JR Todd Named Driver Of Optima Batteries Top Fuel Dragster For Remainder Of NHRA Season

(Photo credit: Kalitta Motorsports) – It was announced today by Kalitta Motorsports that 32-year old JR Todd will become the full time driver of the Optima Batteries top fuel dragster for the...

Hacks of the Week from Reddit’s Just Rolled Into the Shop

Hiyooooo, it’s that time for Hacks of the Week. You know, I’ve been spending a lot more time with a welder in my hand, so I have to cut the hackers of the world a little slack. It takes...

The ToyoHog Is A Hacked Together Harley Powered Prius That Is Genius! It Is For Sale And We Have Video

There’s something that makes our little hearts jump for joy when we see a Prius modified in ways that would make the happy shiny people in their lame ass TV ads weep. You can imagine our...

Fan Vote Opens for NASCAR Hall of Fame Class of 2015 – See Who Is Nominated And Place Your Votes

Here’s another one of those intersections where our weird relationship with professional stock car racing comes into clearer view. While we’re not big followers or fans of the modern...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Is Your Significant Other As Automotive Obsessed As You Are?

Today’s BangShift Question Of The Day came to me this morning at work after finishing a conversation via text message with my wife about modifications that she wants to make to her Jeep...

Awesome Video Celebrates The 50th Anniversary Of The Shelby Daytona’s Triumph At Le Mans

The year was 1964 and the place was Le Mans. The players were Shelby American and Ferrari. The cars were the new and largely unproven Shelby Daytona and the Ferrari 250 GTO. It was a battle of...