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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 World’s Largest All Ford Show And Swap Meet! We’ve Got Photos From The Carlisle All Ford Nationals In Central Pennsylvania

(Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) The world’s largest celebration of the Blue Oval went down a few weeks ago in Central Pennsylvania and of course, we were there. The 2026 edition of the Carlisle...

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The Goodwood Festival Of Speed 2026 In Car Camera LIVESTREAM Coverage: This Is What It Is Really Like To Race Up The Road At Goodwood!

If you’ve ever seen them race up the “driveway” at Goodwood, you know that it is narrow, fast, and intimidating for drivers. There have been plenty who have ended up in the grass,...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 5 At SRCA Dragway – SUNDAY

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 5! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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FREE LIVESTREAM From The Santa Pod Summer Nationals 2026 – All The LIVE Racing Action From England You Can Stand! SUNDAY

It has been an epic season of drag racing in England this year. With amazing weather blessing nearly every event at Santa Pod, drag racing fans in the UK have been thrilled with all the action....

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Video: Munster’s Drag-u-la Dragster Racing For Pinks

Yesterday we got an interesting email from a BangShifter asking about this video of Grandpa Munster driving Drag-u-la. The video shows Grandpa trying to win back the Munster Koach after Herman lost...

News: GM’s Holden Brand May Shut Down Production In Southern Australia THIS YEAR!

With our continued reports on the fate of Australia’s auto industry, the future looks dimmer and dimmer. It was announced yesterday that Holden’s Elizabeth plant in Adelaide could close...

Trar Sighting! What The Hell Is This? Plymouth Meets What? Help Us Identify The Chassis

You know how much we love, okay and hate, TRARS (cars on truck chassis’) around here, so when Greg and Bob sent in photos of this one that they saw in DuQuoin while shooting the Street Machine...

Drag Gallery: More Great Action From Rumble At The Grove 2013 – Doorslammer Do-See-Do!

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – As Joe told you yesterday in the intro to his first gallery, the Rumble at the Grove event is about cars with doors in all of the various shapes, sizes, models, and...

Bangshift Daily Tune Up: “Shirley” by L7. The Punk Rock Tribute To Shirley Muldowney

Whenever resident underground music afficionado Anthony Castillo sends Brian and I an email with a list of prospective Daily Tune Ups, I’m always intrigued. This week he sent us a few different...

Hilarious Sleeper: A Geo Prism With A Turbocharged, Nitrous Injected Toyota Heart (And A Dora Window Shade)

Ok, so we’re running a blog item about a damned Geo Prism, but give us a second and you’ll be on board with it…we think. This is obviously not a stock GEO Prism, because if it was...

Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics – The Incredible Story Behind ChumpCar’s 36-hour Endurance Race!

(Words John Condren – Photos by Alicia Glubrecht) There’s always something cold and heartless about statistics.  Raw numbers.  Basic facts that rarely tell the whole story.  For example,...

Comp Cams Engine Builder Duels Happening At Columbus Goodguys and Car Craft Summer Nationals. Sign Up Now!

That’s right BangShifters, you can sign up for the Comp Cams Engine Builder Duels at Columbus Goodguys or Car Craft Summer Nationals! We were just informed by Comp that there are a few spots...

Drag Gallery: Rumble At The Grove 2013 – Doorslammers Only! Wheels Up Action!

(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) -The Rumble at the Grove means one thing…..Doorslammers! Not a dragster or altered in sight. The Northeast Outlaw Pro Mods came to Maple Grove with a variety of...

Don’t Try This At Home Video: Watch A Dude Drift The Full Length Of A Highway Off Ramp Like A Pro

Even though this guy clearly has great car control skills and seems to have completed this maneuver before, we don’t see it as being all that bright a thing to do. He could have easily wadded...

Photos: Midnight Drags Featuring The Cars Of The 2013 Street Machine Nationals

We aren’t going to lie to you, we don’t have photos of Cheez Whiz or Dobbertin’s J2000, but we sure wish they had come out for this! But a ton of cars from the 2013 Car Craft Street...

Video: Watch One Of The Cleanest And Fastest Side By Side Outlaw AA/FA Runs Of All Time!

The Outlaw Fuel Altered Association is no stranger to the pages of BangShift. We’ve featured these guys a time or two getting after it on eighth mile tracks in Texas and this is some more of...

More Donut Derelicts Cruise In Photos Of Hot Rods, Customs, Street Machines, And More!

Donut Derelicts unofficially started in 1986 and has been a staple of Southern California Hot Rodding ever since. And the only thing that is keeping it from growing any larger is the lack of parking...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s One Thing You’d Change About Your Car This Instant?

Today’s question is all about snap decision making. We want to know what one thing you’d change on your car this instant. No long protracted debate, no consideration for price,...