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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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Behind The Scenes: This Video Shows The Awesome Process Used To Rush The 1992 Dodge Viper To Life

It’s almost like you remember where you were the first time you saw it. For guys of a certain generation (mine) the 1992 Dodge Viper represented not just the coolest car we had seen a factory...

Parking Lot Piston Swap On Rocky Mountain Race Week 2024! Nobody Is More Hard Core Than Tom Bagguley From Britain!

I first met Tom Bagguley after he took off on vacation and flew across the pond to hang out with us on Rocky Mountain Race Week a couple years ago. Now he’s been back and forth a couple of...

Metal Fab Video: Bello’s Kustoms Is Making A 1951 Chevrolet Post Car Into A Hard Top AND Chopping The Top!

You know we dig Michael Bello’s around here, and it isn’t just because he’s funny and likes to talk about lunch all the time. Nope, it’s because he has a great attitude, is...

TOP SECRET ACCUFAB 5.0L FORD INTAKE-NEVER BEFORE TESTED. PLUS STOCK VS ROLLER ROCKERS-HOW MUCH HP?

Richard is back at it with some super top secret, never before tested, Accufab 5.0 intake testing. We love the guys at Accufab and their creativity, so it is no surprise that something like this...

Kansas City’s BRAND NEW TRACK is Born! 1320 Video Makes Their First Visit To Flying H Drag Strip And This Place Is Awesome!

Flying H Drag Strip has been the talk of the mid-west drag racing community since they started breaking ground. With the latest in drag strip technology, this place promises to be epic with regards...

Why Do You Need To Use ARP Ultra-Torque Fastener Assembly Lubricant? This Video Tells The Story

We’re really proud to have ARP as member of the BangShift family of sponsors. Why? These guys are the industry standard not only fasteners but also fastener technology and that’s what the...

GM Built The World’s First Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powered Vehicle In 1966 And We Found Video Of It – Sweet Van!

This unassuming GMC Handivan is actually one of the great feats of automotive engineering in the history of the disciple. Known as the “Electrovan” this was the first vehicle that ever...

The American Powertrain Thursday Shift: Watch This Guy In A Classic Ford Rip Three Shifters Through Like 100 Gears

Well this is interesting. What we have below is a classic Ford truck that has been equipped with a manual transmission, some sort of a manual gear splitting transmission, and then a Brownie overdrive...

Roadside Magic: Watch These Young Guys Craft A Fresh Radiator Out Of Pieces From An Old One

“We have done so much with so little for so long, we can now do anything with nothing.” – Dave Marcus had this saying posted above the door of his shop and while we have read it a...

FASTEST PASS Day 1 Rocky Mountain Race Week 2024! Bryant Goldstone’s 6-second Twin Turbo AMC Javelin!

Bryant Gladstone is a bad ass. Not only because he has a pretty bitchin 6 second street car, but also because he’s doing back to back Drag and Drive events this year to prove just how hardcore...

Watch Ken “The Carolina Hooker” Regenthal Make A Lane Swapping Run At Shuffletown Dragway Circa 1989

This video was shot almost 33 years ago and it shows one of the coolest cars in what we’d call the second southern door slammer renaissance in the form of Ken Regenthal’s Carolina Hooker...

Vintage Racing Video: In The Face Of Challenge Is A 1975 Open Wheel Racing Masterpiece

It was known as the triple crown. Ontario, Indy, Pocono. These three races, some of the longest and fastest on the USAC trail tested both the bravery of the drivers and the gumption, skill, and...

So Cool Video: Watch This Guy Take A V-Twin Compressor and Turn It Into A V-Twin Gas Engine

This is 100% a “because you can” project and that is why we’re kind of in love with it. You are about to watch a guy take a V-twin style air compressor and turn it into a V-twin gas...

Awesome Video: The Story of The Royal Bobcat Package As Told By Jim Wangers

I really dig Pontiacs. I grew up with a dad who liked them and there’s something that the brand really captured in the 1960s that still speaks to me today. Jim Wangers was one of the guys...