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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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The ZL1 vs Z71 Battle Continues: Here is Chad’s Day 3 Update After Saturday’s Autocross

Somehow Brian thinks the Z71 vs ZL1 Battle is a tie so far. I don’t get it, but I’ll play along since he tends to be kind fragile. Don’t get me wrong, I want to break him. Break him...

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Brian and Chad’s ZL1 VS Z71 Battle Moves Into Day Two – They Have Fought To A Draw So Far!

 So if you missed the memo, Chad was handed the keys to a 2014 Camaro ZL1 late last week to test out and review. At about the same time, Lohnes was handed the keys to a 2014 Chevy Silverado Z71...

Follow Our Facebook ZL1 Camaro vs Z71 Silverado Battle This Weekend! We Kick It Off On PowerShift LIVE Tonight At 6pm.

That’s right folks, I’ve got a new ZL1 Camaro and Brian has got a new Z71 Silverado that GM gave us for a week of testing. The fact that they gave us two really cool new vehicles is...

Video: We’ve Got A New ZL1 Camaro For A Week: Dragstrips, Autocross, Smack Talk, Oh My!

That’s right folks, yesterday at 4pm the guys from GM dropped of a brand new Red Hot 2014 ZL1 Camaro for me to beat on, errr test out, for a week. Well at 5:30 we made out first pass down the...

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The Parting Shift: In-Car Video of Ken Montgomery’s 1965 Hemi Belvedere, The Famous Triple Nickle

The late Ken Montgomery bought a Hemi Belvedere in 1965 and raced the hell out of it for decades. Ken named the car the 555, known better as the “Triple Nickle” over the years and it has...

Project Update: The Wally’s World GTO Is Going To The OPTIMA Batteries Ultimate Street Car Invitational!

To say that Wally and the rest of the build team are excited about getting an invitation to the Optima Batteries Ultimate Street Car Invitational would be the understatement of the year! After a...

Mini-Feature: A ’69 Dodge Sweptline With Cummins Power, 50 Gears, A Tucked Dually Rear And More!

So there we were, cruising the pits at Famoso, surrounded by hundreds of truly awesome race cars and I spotted it. The IT was the 1969 Dodge Sweptline truck you will see below. My eye immediately...

ADRL Houston 2013 – Our Last Blast Of Great Action Photos!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – This is our last blast of photos from the lens of Charles Wickam who was camped out at the ADRL event in Houston, Texas last weekend to capture the action for...

Genius Parody Video: Watch Ken “Box” Gymkhana A Razor Crazy Cart Through A Warehouse And Office

Normally parody videos are hit or miss, especially when they are done by a company promoting a product but we have to hand it to the men and women at Razor because they hit a home run with this video...

Moron Stock Car Racer Manages To Get DUI DURING A Race – This Guy Deserves Everything He Gets

Mark our words. By the end of this story you’re going to want to punch a guy named Tommy Lathan right in the yam bag for doing one of the worst things we have heard of anyone doing at a race...

Roadkill: Freiburger and Finnegan Hit The Road, Do Burnouts, Save A Custom Mercury, Overheat, Make A Father and Son’s Day

So this is the feel good Roadkill of the fall. Freiburger and Finnegan hit the highway in this episode of the show to get a custom Mercury up and running so they can deliver it to its new owner. They...

Watch A Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Truck Over Shoot A Jump And Endo Like A Mother!

The Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series is pretty much chock full of non-stop action. There are trucks flying all over the place, dirt getting slung off of rear tires, passing, and aggressive moves to...

A Couple Of Guys From An Awful CNBC Show Make The Worst Video About Nitrous Ever – Seriously

Apparently there is a show on CNBC called “Car Chasers”. We’ve never seen it, but we were tipped off to a video starring the two lead guys from the show that appeared on...

Sweden’s Tierp Arena Drag Strip Files For Bankruptcy – One Of Europe’s Premier Drag Plants In Limbo

It has been kind of a crazy year for strips opening, closing, coming back from the dead, being offered up for sale, etc. We heard some not so good news from a Swedish BangShift reader yesterday when...