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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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Awesome Video: Watch The Incredible Forging Process For Wheels Expected To Go 1,000 MPH On The Bloodhound SSC Car

Richard Noble, Andy Green, and a literal army of engineers, scientists, and other brainiacs have been working ’round the clock for years on the design and construction of the Bloodhound SSC....

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POWERSHIFT LIVE RESCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY AT BONNEVILLE. STAY TUNED.

PowerShift LIVE will be rescheduled for Friday this week because we are in the middle of traveling to Bonneville for the SCTA-BNI Speed Week 2013. We’ll be bringing you all the coverage you can...

Video: The Theatrical Trailer For “Out Of Nothing” A Feature Level Film On Four Close Knit Bonneville Racers

We happened to stumble across this awesome trailer for the film, “Out of Nothing” recently and have watched the thing about 100 times since. It is a feature level film about four guys who...

The Last Of The Classics: Our Final Photos From Auctions America, See Every Single Photo Here.

This morning we ran a great gallery of sports cars that we didn’t necessarily think we were going to like as much as we do, and then we started thinking about some cool engine swaps we could do...

How To Haul A Vega: This Ultra Creative and Bitchin System Kept The Vega Cheap

We know that this story has been floating around the internet for months, and we have not idea who originally wrote the text, but we think it’s just too damn cool. If you are the dude that...

Wreckage Video: Watch Lucas Oil Sprint Car Racer Robbie Wolfgang Suffer A Wild Wreck – In Car and Out Of Car Video!

So Tony Stewart’s broken leg has gotten all of the attention in the sprint car world this week but the guys at Lucas Oil aren’t taking that laying down. Nope, they found video of Robbie...

Scary Video: Watch Two Funny Car Crewmen Get Wiped Out While Starting Said Funny Car – Everyone Is OK

We often say that running a nitro car is serious and dangerous business. These videos (one from in the car and one from outside the car) are further proof of our claims. The videos show the crew of...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: I’ve Been Everywhere – Johnny Cash

By the time most of you read this, I’ll be steaming west on a plane to hook up with Chad and then drive to the fabled Bonneville salt flats for our coverage of Speed Week. The funny part of...

Question of the Day: What is Your Ultimate or Dream Land Speed Racing Car?

Full swing Bonneville action is just days away. Cars and trucks will be hauling ass by the buckload and they’ll be doing it in all shape and sizes. From the usual production bodied suspects, to...

Speedway Motors Co-Founder And Wife Of “Speedy Bill” Smith, Joyce Smith Passes

We were saddened to hear of the recent passing of Joyce Smith who was the co-founder of Speedway motors and the wife of “Speedy Bill” Smith. While we didn’t know Joyce personally,...

Nothing But Sports Cars From The California Collector Car Auction In Burbank. Ferraris, Porsches, Panteras Oh My

If someone asked us if we were sports car fans around here, our first reaction would be to say no. But after hitting up the Auctions America California Collector Car Auction in Burbank last weekend,...

Historic Bonneville Video: The Story Of the Gyronaut X-1 – A Streamlined Motorcycle With Incredible History That’s Returning To The Salt In 2013

The Gyronaut X-1 was a streamlined motorcycle powered by two Triumph engines. The bike was built by Bob Leppan, Alex Tremulis and Jim Bruflodt in the 1960s and it became one one of the most dominant...

More Muscle Cars, Race Cars, and More From Auctions America California Collector Car Auction

We’ve still got tons of photos left from the Auctions America California Collector Car Auction in Burbank, so we thought we’d throw the rest of the muscle cars, race cars, and a few hot...

Get Cash Back For Buying MSD Products This Summer, Through MSD’s Summer Cool Down Rebate

Spend $200-$499, get $25 back. Spend $500 or more, get $50 back. That’s real money, and right when you need it, during the summer when you are working on your hot rod. Technically summer ends...