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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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BangShift Sleeper Saturday: THE SECRET WEAPON – A 1980 OLDS WAGON WITH 496CI OF VORTEC BIG BLOCK AND A DOUG NASH 5-SPEED!

This kids, is a hot rod. It is also a rolling mechanical orphanage. The motor in the car isn’t made any more. The rear end in the car isn’t made anymore. The components in the rear...

Sleeper Saturday Movie Day: Drag Sleeper Video: An Aussie Toyota Corolla Q-Ship!

To build a little old Toyota Corolla that runs in the elevens on the strip and looks like something an old woman would be driving is devious and awesome. The car is down in Australia where weird and...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: Paul Revere And The Raiders – Judge (1969)

Here’s one straight out of the Pontiac marketing department in 1969! We’ve featured several tunes by Paul Revere and the Raiders before, among them was SS396, their ode to the 1966...

Project Buford T Justice: Our Caprice 9C1 Gets The Shaft! A Dynotech Drive Shaft That Is!

(Photos by Dynotech Engineering and the Author) – At its base, hot rodding has always been about trying stuff, breaking stuff, fixing stuff, and getting better, faster, and stronger along the...

A Gallery Of Swap Meet And Show Car Greatness From The Charlotte Auto Fair 2013!

(Words and photos by Bob Chiluk) – Having a true gear head employer, it was easy to talk him into a few days off for a car fix to cure a case of Spring fever. I Spent a few days at the 2013...

Video: How Auto Meter Gauges Are Made In The USA – Sycamore, Illinois To Be Exact!

Of all the questions we get asked about different companies the one that seems to be most frequently brought up is, “Where is their stuff made?” Well, in the case of Auto Meter, if it has...

More Fantastic Photos From The Long Beach Swap Meet – April 2013

(Photos by Scott Liggett) – We ran Scott’s first load o’ photos from the April 2013 Long Beach Swap Meet yesterday and we promised more, so here they are. In this gallery you will...

The 2013 Lonestar Rod and Kustom Car Round Up – More NEW NEVER BEFORE SEEN PHOTOS!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – We promised you a truckload of photos from Wickam this week and the hits just keep on coming from the 2013 Lonestar Rod and Kustom Car Round Up. This gallery is our...

Celebrity Car Death Match: The Bluesmobile VS Buford T Justice’s 1977 Pontiac LeMans – Read And Comment To Vote For A Winner!

We’re going to be running a series of items over the coming days and weeks called “Celebrity Car Death Match” where we’ll pit two iconic cars, trucks, motorcycles, or other vehicles against...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Copperhead Road” by Steve Earle (1988)

According to Steve Earle, “Copperhead Road” was the World’s first blend of Heavy Metal and Bluegrass. I think it just kicks ass. The song is all about Shine, Horsepower, and Pot,...

PowerShift LIVE Tonight! CLICK HERE TO WATCH BangShift’s Live Weekly Show At 6PM Pacific/9PM Eastern! Viewing IS MANDATORY!

That’s right, tonight is the night that we’re going to be live and rocking with PowerShift, BangShift’s live weekly show with Chad and Brian. This one is a guaranteed freaking barn...

eBay Find: A Massive One Of None 1978 Lincoln Mark V Station Wagon!

Get a load of this monster! You are looking at a one of none 1978 Lincoln Mark V station wagon that was supposedly built as a promotional/exploratory vehicle by Lincoln in the late 1970s to gauge...

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RHS Unveils The Most Versatile Single Plane Small Block Chevy Intake Ever

You’ve got a lot of options out there as a consumer when shopping small block Chevy intake manifolds. There are old designs, weird designs, and new designs to consider. We think that it’s...

Video: Watch A Bad Ass, Modern Aussie Version Of The All Conquering Shelby Dragon Snake Attack The Strip In Oz!

Shelby Cobras are certainly BangShift approved but the most BangShifty of them all were the few rare “Dragon Snakes” built for quarter mile competition. Guys like Bruce Larson made some...