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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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Run Silent, Run Deep: We Drive America’s Best Sleeper, The 2013 Ford Taurus SHO

(Photos by Dave Nutting) This is the kind of car that can get you both into and out of trouble very quickly. With sedate styling that blends seamlessly with its surroundings and power enough to run...

Goodguys Del Mar Gallery: Drag Themed Cars and Auto Cross Action Under The California Sun!

(Photos by Justin Oney) – It was another great weekend at a huge Goodguys car show as the tour stopped in Del Mar, California and the autocross was rocking. From the pro built and expertly...

Saturday Movie Day: The Famous ‘Gimme Some Lovin’ Scene From Days Of Thunder

Hey, why are you rolling your eyes? I’m not ashamed to admit that I enjoy catching Days of Thunder now and then when it shows up on TV somewhere. There have not been that many modern big budget...

Saturday Movie Day: The Straight Axle Willys And Stealing A Hemi In The Film Hot Rod (1979)

Here’s another campy memory for you guys and girls out there. This is a 10-minute section of the television movie Hot Rod or Rebel of the Road depending on which title you want to use. Made in...

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The Parting Shift: John Coughlin’s C/Super Modified Cobalt Making Big Music and Small Elapsed Times at Beech Bend

Competition Eliminator is a place that brainy and wealthy people race with machines that seem to define the laws of physics. Take this awesome video of John Coughlin ripping off a run at an NHRA...

Hedman Hedders Is Looking For R&D Cars – FREE HEDDERS FOR YOUR CAR! CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE!

If you’ve ever wondered how companies like Hedman manage to build such great fitting hedders for all of the different applications that they have, wonder no more…you could be a part of...

New Photo Gallery: 25 Gasser-Style Cars

One of my favorite rants is about Gassers. Like the fact that too many guys today want to put a straight-axle under the front of any car and call it a Gasser despite the fact that history shows us...

Russian Dash Cam Video: Hilarious Video Of A Tank Driver That Should Have His License Revoked!

We used the word “tank” in the title but frankly, this thing is not as stout as a tank because if it were, the vehicle would have totally destroyed the pole it crashes into rather than...

eBay Find: The Most Bitchin’ And Perfect 1959 NAPCO 4X4 Suburban You’ll Ever See!

Forgive me if my spelling is slurred in this blog item because I fell and struck m head very hard after laying my eyes on this absolutely spectacular 1959 Suburban with NAPCO 4WD, clam shell style...

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Caption This Photo: An Unfortunate And Highly Ironic Scene At BS Eastern World HQ

(Photo by Kerri Lohnes) – This horrifying scene greeted my wife as she entered my son Tom’s room yesterday. It was both hilarious and totally ironic. Obviously, I am a freak for the sport...

BangShift Question of the Day: What’s the Largest Engine You’ve Ever Hung Around With?

When Chad posted the photo of the incredibly huge turbocharger the other day, it got me thinking about the biggest engine I have ever been around. That monster is show below. It is a 600hp powerplant...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: Hot Rod Ford – The Swingin’ Demons (Year Unknown)

Here’s a good Rockabilly jam from a band called The Swingin’ Demons singing about a hot rod Ford. It is good Friday music because hopefully you’ll be cruising your own hot rod or at...

POWERSHIFT LIVE TONIGHT 6PM PACIFIC/9PM EASTERN – BRIAN AND CHAD TALK ABOUT ALL THE BANGSHIFTY NEWS OF THE WEEK AND MORE! – CLICK HERE TO WATCH

That’s right, we’re back with another weekly installment of Powershift, our live and totally interactive show that covers all the big news of the week. Chad and I are going to bring the...

BangShift Exclusive Video: Accufab Racing 5.4L Cobra Jet Engine Makes 1600 Horsepower!

We happened to stroll into Westech Performance Group the other day, and John Mihovetz and the Accufab crew were there testing a 5.4L Cobra Jet Engine. After exchanging the normal “They’ll...

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