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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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Ethanol Is Eating Your Carb – Driven Has A Solution! Lear More About Carb Defender HERE!

15% Ethanol gasoline is a reality for many of us in the USA and while modern cars are largely designed to accept and comfortably live with this fuel, old cars are not, especially those with carbs on...

Question of the Day: What Track in What Country Would You Most Like to Visit For a Race?

Last year’s Optima Batteries Face Off at Road America was a killer event and I am headed back this year for the 2013 version, at a track that is considered to be one of the most famed in road...

Bizarro Find: The Most Insane Custom Show Truck Ever Built – We Can Only Ask Why?!

A tip from intrepid BangShift reader Ed Hohenberg led us to look at, ponder, verp a little, and then post this 1970 GMC custom truck currently listed on Hemmings for sale. For the low, low price of...

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BangShift Daily Tune Up: GTO Rock (Artist Unknown) 1970

I am a total sucker for these promotional songs and albums that Detroit manufacturers put out in the 1960s. Jim Wangers seems to have been the king of these things promoting Pontiac and specifically...

Holley’s 110th Birthday Bash: You Get The Gifts! Buy Stuff And Get Free Stuff. Our Kind Of Birthday Party!

Holley is celebrating 110 years of mixing air and fuel so that internal combustion engines can make horsepower, all while putting smiles on the faces of drivers. It’s that simple. Sure,...

Island Dragway Reopening July 5th With 3-Day Bracket And Nostalgia Event! – GREAT NEWS!

After a tumultuous 6 months, Island Dragway in New Jersey is proud to announce that they will be reopening July 5th, 2013! And in a show of force, the event is not just going to be some test and tune...

Ebay Find: Divorced…What Brian Will Be Once He Acquires This Bitchin 1949 GMC Wrecker

This is another Scott Payton submission, part of our daily email loop that includes motorhomes or box trucks, and the occasional wrecker. Of course, there is nobody we know that would look better...

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Gallery: The 2013 Carlisle All Ford Nationals – Lover Of The Blue Oval Bridage? CLICK HERE!

(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) – Well, it was a hit and miss weekend at the 2013 Carlisle All Ford Nationals. More of a hit, really. Rain killed most of Friday including my favorite activity,...

Video: Banging Gears In A Jerico Equipped ’67 427 Fairlane Nostalgia Super Stocker

The Hayes family is all about FE powered 4 speed racing, and we are glad to know it! Earl and Dave sent us this great video of their ’67 427 Fairlane at I-57 Dragstrip a couple weekends ago, as...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Rock and Roll” The Cadillac Edition by Led Zeppelin (2002)

Surprisingly, this is the first song by Led Zeppelin ever used in a commercial. I would never have guessed that, but when Cadillac decided in 2002 that this was going to be the song that launched the...

Win Cash From Champion Spark Plugs By Sending In A Photo Of Your Car: This Is Super Simple!

So simple even a BangShifter can do it is what they must have been thinking. And the great thing is all of you guys are out driving your cars right now, or have great photos of it from Power Tour and...

Video: Indoor Donuts Around A Pole In A Shelby Cobra. Seriously, We Couldn’t Make This Stuff Up!

While looking up another funny video that we will show later this week, we stumbled across this one. It’s title is Best Burnout Ever! Indoors!. Well, there isn’t much smoke, but we...

Cool Parts: Trans-Dapt Introduces “Swap In A Box” Kit For V8 S-10 Swaps – Everything You Need In One Place!

There’s currently one massive problem with V8 S-10 trucks. That problem? Neither Chad or I own one! Since taking a ride in a friend’s sleeper V8 S10 in college, I have been hooked on the...

Funny Car Folk Art: Build Yours or Buy Mine – Helpful Tips For Building Altered Wheelbase Models

(Words and Photos by Steve Magnante – SteveMags.com) –  I love building model cars. There, I’ve said it. Even though certain voices in society call model building a childish pursuit,...