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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 Family That Hot Rods Together…Stays Together! The Patterson Family Likes Patina and Performance (Video)

We always love it when hot rodding is a multi-generational family affair and so do the guys at Holley. We can say that with confidence after watching this video, which was shot by the Holley guys at...

A Look At All Of The Rejected Designs For The Mustang II – Cool Stuff From Ford’s Historical Vault!

We are rapidly approaching the 50th anniversary of the Ford Mustang’s debut in 1964. That’s a wild thing to consider and also mind blowing is the sheer volume of sales that the car has...

BackFire! An Impassioned Reader Response To Our Editorial Columns By BangShifter Bryan McTaggart – Do You Agree With Him?

Editor’s note: Last week Chad and I both wrote columns lamenting stuff. Chad’s was about globalization and identity while mine was about apathy and youth disengagement with hot rodding....

This Hyabusa Powered Golf Cart Burnout Machine Proves All Of Australia Is Gloriously Insane (Video)

Spending the year as the announcer for the ECTA has shown me many things about land speed racing but one of the most basic things I have learned is that Hyabusa motorcycles absolutely haul ass in...

Ride On The Roof As Sean Ashe’s X275 Mustang Spins Out Of Control And Whacks The Wall!

This is one of those happy ending stories that you’ll only hear at the race track. Sean Ashe’s flat black, ProCharged X275 Mustang is one bad mother of a car. This video is proof of the...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is The One Car You Would Own And Not Modify At All?

We’re not usually ones for advocating keeping anything stock around here but the reality is that lots of us have some cars in our mind that we would like to own and keep as stock pieces. For...

Show Gallery: Return To The Milltown Car And Bike Show 2013 – Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, and More!

(Photos by Johnny Gaudette) – As many photos as we get sent in by our great army of contributors across the country, occasionally stuff falls between our desk and the beer fridge…ok that...

Video And More: Mecum Auction Features 4 Hemi Under Glass Cars To Sell As One Lot!

Barney Kinsey sent us the link to this one yesterday, and we couldn’t be happier that he did, but at the same time it’s a little sad to see these iconic drag cars leaving Bob...

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Video: Proof That With Enough Power You Can Have A 10 Second SUV! This Jeep SRT8 Hauls!

Jesse Kleiber, aka BigKleib34 on YouTube, is a video shooting machine. He’s become this one man band who puts up a new video every single day, like the one below that features a 10 second Jeep...

Rumble At Ralph’s 2013 – A Gallery of Cool Early Muscle Cars, Hot Rods, Kustoms, and more!

(Photos by Johnny Gaudette) – BS contributor Johnny Gaudette has been jonesing for some car fun since the beginning of September. Why? He’s back in school, that’s why! Gaudette shot...

Trans-Dapt’s New Billet Aluminum, Hub-Centric Wheel Spacers May By The Ticket To Get The Clearance You Need!

All wheel spacers are not created equal. Not event close. There are lots of cheap options floating around out there that look appealing and easy to scarf up, bolt on your car, and head on down the...

The 2013 Hot Rod Riot Hosted by South Texas Performance – A Car Show Gallery Extrodinare!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Last weekend, Charles hopped in his car and traveled about two hours from home to capture come photos at the 2013 Hot Rod Riot car show in Victoria, Texas. The...

BangShift Question of the Day: What’s the Best Road Trip You’ve Ever Been On?

Pounding the pavement is a fundamental element of being a BangShifter. From logging short haul scenic drives to epic cross country adventures, road trips are one of the great joys of the car hobby....

The Wenrick Motorsports 1969 Camaro Hammers The Dyno With More Than 800hp Of Supercharged Small Block At The Wheels! (Video)

Those creepy, inappropriate noises you hear are likely coming all the way from BangShift western world hq because Chad just laid eyes onto the Wenrick Motorsports ‘Maro getting its violence on....