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It’s Time For Buckeye Skips 2026! We’ve Got Photos Starting With Day 0 Right Here! Who Showed Up, and Who Are The Favorites?

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We just finished sharing our lost Buckeye Skips drag and drive photos from 2025 the other day, but we’re excited about 2026! Yesterday was Day 0, when everyone shows up...

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More Car Show Photos From Pueblo’s Biggest Father’s Day Event! The 2026 Father’s Day Car Show!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) Billed as the biggest Father’s Day event in Pueblo, the Father’s Day Car Show at the Pueblo Christian Center is in it’s 8th year and fills up fast on show...

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Australian Drag and Drive Machine! This 1400hp HQ Ute was Built to Survive Drag Challenge. Street and Strip Greatness!

The Aussies are something special when it comes to hot rods, race cars, and especially their street strip machines. With all the restrictions they have on what you can do to a car or truck over...

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John Jackson visits Squeeg’s Kustoms: Shop Tour, Projects, an insane Dodge A100, and photographing the America’s Most Beautiful Roadster!

After missing it for a couple of years, it was good to be back at the Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona in 2025. It was especially cool because the field of cars that were in contention for...

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Loren Healy and the El Bandito Ford Bronco Take First in Ultra4 USA at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb! Race Day Onboard 2026

Loren Healy is no stranger to going fast, no matter what he’s driving, but he’s most at home behind the wheel of his Ultra 4 Bronco in the dirt. So what made him want to take the El...

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The State of American Performance: Corvette ZR1X vs. Mustang GTD vs. Lucid Sapphire vs. Czinger 21C on the Road and the Track.

Horsepower has never been easier to make, more readily available, or more usable than it is in 2026. And while car prices have climbed, and I certainly can’t afford any of these machines here,...

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The Uraidla South Australia Car Show: An Aussie Hot Rodding Extravaganza

(Photos by Darryl Daniels) Every year Darryl Daniels sends us photos from Uraidla Australia’s bitchin car show and cruise, and every year it makes us want to come to Australia and bring some...

Bangshift Question Of The Day: The 2015 Z06, Love It Or Hate It?

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last month or so (If that is the case, Welcome back!), it’s been pretty difficult to avoid all of the fanfare and hoopla around the new...

The Top 11 Cars You Thought Should Have Been On Chad’s Top 11 From 1972, But Weren’t

Last week I did the Top 11 Cars from the year I was born, which was 1972, and while a ton of you agreed with me, there were just as many who raised their hands via the comments, email, PM, text...

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Watch Dennis Anderson Freestyle The King Sling On Three Wheels After One Falls Off – This Man Is Our Kind Of Lunatic

Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina was never the same after Dennis Anderson showed up. The man who brought forth the Grave Digger monster truck into the world and then parlayed that into an...

Dodge and Mopar Coolness At The 2014 Detroit Auto Show — Also, Rumor Mill Has Chrysler HQ Leaving The USA?

We showed you some cool stuff from Chevrolet in the form of the 2105 Corvette Z06 yesterday and from Ford with the new F-150 and the 2015 Mustang so today we get to shine the light on the Chrysler...

2015 Mustang And 2015 F150 Are Ford’s Big Stories At Detroit Auto Show – Photos Here

Our photographer on the scene of the 2014 Detroit Auto show continues to send us dispatches from the bustling show floor as hordes of media swarm to whichever display is pouring the free drinks...

2015 Corvette Z06 – Our Photos From The Detroit Auto Show Unveil!

Just a couple hours ago the 2015 Corvette Z06 was unveiled for the assembled press in Detroit. The bad news is that we weren’t there first hand. The good news is that we had someone in the...

Gallery: The 2014 Austin AutoRama – A Huge Collection Of Awesome In Texas

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – It was a busy weekend for BangShift’s Charles Wickam as he traveled to the wilds of Austin, Texas and covered two events in two days. We’re going to...

1000 Horsepower LS Turbo Getting The Headers Cherry Red. A Sneak Peek On Our LS 383 Turbo Project.

Last week we gave you Part 1 of our Cool G: 1000 Horsepower Turbo LS engine build and told you all about how the naturally aspirated combo went together. We’ll be showing you the completed 1000...

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Is This The Quickest Big Rig In The World? The Beast Goes 10-teens!

So this should rile the troops up because for the first time in your lives you’ll find yourselves embroiled in a debate about what a “real” big rig is. Like the never ending,...

Project Violent Valiant Update: The Floor Comes Out And The Cage Starts Going In

With the holiday season behind us and arctic temps settling in around Hot Rod Chassis and Cycle in Illinois, work has resumed at a feverish pace on Project Violent Valiant. In this update we’re...

There’s A Drag Strip In The Tiny Country Of Malta And They Run Top Fuel Cars There! (Video)

We mentioned that a BangShifter from Malta emailed us with a video tip earlier today. In his email he intimated that there were lots of cool cars on the tiny island nation and that the hot rodding...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Worst Used Parts Buying Experience?

As a gearhead, shopping for parts can be tough. Sure, in theory most projects should be relatively easy to shop for as, whether or not we’ve all realized it, this really is a Golden Age in regards...

Win Stuff: The RideTech, “Heading To Barrett Jackson” Contest IS ON! You Can Win By Commenting On This Blog Item!

As we told you earlier in the week, the famed “Grouchy” ’33 from RideTech that has carved up road courses and autocross events all across our great land s heading to be auctioned...