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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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Ford To Offer Used LS V8 Option In 2015 Mustang – Junkyard Takeouts Just Got More Expensive

In a turn of events that may prove shocking to the Mustang faithful, yet should come as no surprise to anyone of sound body and mind that has actually driven a Mustang, a Ford official close to the...

2015 NASCAR Rules To Cut 100hp From Engines But Announces New PEDALS System Will Be Added To Cars

In a bold move, NASCAR officials have decided to make a pair of major changes to their rules package for the 2014 season. The first change will be in the engine specifications as proposed induction...

Rumored Rendering: The 2015 Camaro Z/SD – NASCAR Inspired Model Fills Hole Between Z/28 and COPO

We knew that this was coming sooner or later. Drag racing guys have their COPO Camaro and the road racing dudes have the 1LE and now the Z/28 but what about the stock car enthusiasts? Well we have...

BangShift To Live Stream The Destruction Of All Pre-Production Dodge Vipers

When we heard that Chrysler officials had informed the people who currently possess some 90 pre-production Dodge Vipers that the cars were going to be essentially confiscated and destroyed we were...

Robert McGaffin’s 1965 Olds Gets Profiled On Big Muscle – Olds Powered And Awesome

One of the most fun rides I took over my travels last year was in the passenger seat of Robert McGaffin’s 1965 Oldsmobile at the Goodguys autocross in Nashville. I was there to announce the...

The Total Cost Involved Engineering Autocross At The 2014 Muscle Car/Street Machine Nats

(Photos by TCI Engineering) – Total Cost Involved Engineering is a neat company that has been providing high quality chassis and suspension components for trucks, muscle cars, and hot rods for...

LIVE NHRA Testing In Vegas Right Here Right Now. Ashley Force, Schumacher, And More

If you didn’t get quite enough drag racing over the weekend, here’s something cool for the Monday morning blues at the office.  The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway is holding a Pro test...

Bottom Dollar Blazer Project – Episode 7: We’re back

It’s been a couple of weeks since I posted an update on the Blazer. It’s not because I haven’t been working on it, but Lohnes convinced me to go on that trip to Detroit and I got...

Have You Ever Wanted To Buy A Grand Marquis With A Corvette Rear And A Mustang Front? Now You Can!

I don’t think I am easily stumped on many things. Honestly. At this point I had typed out thousands and thousands of blog items for BangShift and along the way some really freaky stuff has...

MSD Performance Launches Winter Sucks Save Some Bucks Promotion With Lowest Prices Ever Offered On Major Products (EFI Systems Included!)

As I type this there is snow falling from the sky. Tomorrow is April and right now there is snow coming down from the heavens. It was 60-degrees a couple of days ago. Saying all of that, you can...

No Engine Test Stand? No Problem! (With Video)

Here at BangShift we’re all about low buck builds and making due with what you have in regards to parts and tools. I’ll admit to having used a screwdriver as a pry bar or the handle of a...

This English Demo Derby Car’s Clutch Explodes In The Pits And Makes Absolutely Comical Noises

We understand that exploding clutches are no joke and that they can be very, and we mean very bad for the health of the guy sitting near the transmission but sometimes funny is funny. We know that...

2014 Northeast Rod and Custom Nationals – Photos Galore! Our Last Blast

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Over the last few days we have been taking you through the 2014 Northeast Rod and Custom Nationals car show that took place outside of Philadelphia. This event was...

Barnstormin’: Necessity Is The Mother Of Addiction

Through comments and conversations, I have been lucky enough to read about how lots of BangShifters got their hooks into the car hobby. For some, things started well after their got their...