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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 Daily Tune Up: Hot Rod Heart – John Fogerty (1997)

John Fogerty rose to fame as the front man of the legendary band Creedence Clearwater Revival and has gone on to have a great solo career. There was all kinds of crazy legal stuff that went on...

Project Buford T Justice Update: Where Has Our 9C1 Caprice Been Hiding?

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – So it has been a while since you’ve seen anything with respect to our much beloved project Buford T Justice Caprice. What the Hell, right? We can assure you...

Screaming V8 Video: A NASCAR V8 + A Scion FR-S = A Toyota That Does Not Suck

We typically do not sing the praises of Toyota here at BangShift…quite the opposite really, but when something cool gets built we’re all over highlighting it. In this case, that cool...

Car Show Gallery: Photos From The Grove At The 2013 March Meet

(Photos by Scott Liggett) – Frequent BangShift LA-area contributor Scott Liggett hopped into his vintage big block powered Chevy Caprice and hauled the mail up to Bakersfield on Saturday at the...

Event Gallery: The 2013 Top Gear Festival Australia – More Great Photos Of Hot Rods From Down Under!

(Photos by Darryl Daniels) – Last week we showed you some great photos from the 2013 Top Gear Festival Australia from Aussie BS contributor Darryl Daniels. The good news is that we are back...

Craigslist Find: A 1959 Dodge Coronet-camino – Is It Wrong To Like This Creation?

In terms of custom built ‘caminos this one ranks high on the strangeness and coolness scales for us. The fact that the front end is proportionally off when compared to the business end is...

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Ridetech Equipped Ridler Contender Wins For The Third Year In A Row!

The Ridler award was founded in 1964 to honor the late Don Ridler. The winner is judged based on creativity, engineering, and workmanship, all of which were in great supply on the Ron Cizek owned...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is the Most Annoying Thing You Have Ever Had Happen To You, Or Have Seen At A Race?

As an announcer, one of the things that annoys me is when racers can’t follow directions. When they end up staging up for a run group or class and are in the wrong place. When they can’t...

Goodguys Autocross Action Shots: Tire Smoke, Donuts, Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, Rat Rods, and Minis!

This gallery has a little bit of everything. From trucks to minis, to rat rods, to muscle cars, they are all tearing up the huge autocross course at this weekend’s Lonestar Nationals at Texas...

Caption This Photo: Ridetech’s Bret Voelkel “Autographs” A Concrete Barrier At The Goodguys Autocross

Two weeks ago we did a caption contest with Bret Voelkel’s venerable ’33 Ford Autocross Monster, and the winner got some really good schwag. This week it’s Bret again, but not with...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Red Camaro” By Rascal Flats. The Song GM Should Have Used!

I listen to the most eclectic mix of music ever, and LOVE good music through good speakers. Rascal Flatts, one of the biggest groups in Country Music, came out with their album Nothing Like This in...

Detroit Autorama 2013 Gallery: 100 Killer Photos From The Show You Have NOT Seen Yet!

(Photos by Sean Smyth) – Sean Smyth is a freshly minted BangShift contributor as of this gallery! Sean sent us an email mentioning that he had some photos from the show and after sending a...

Drag Gallery: Zane McNary’s Action Photos From Sunday At The 2013 March Meet

(Photos by Zane McNary) – Here’s more of Zane’s great work from the 2013 March Meet that does not include any crashing Anglias. Instead, this gallery is full of wheels up, burnout,...

Wreckage Photo Sequence: Eddie Prenevost’s Anglia Hits The Wall At The March Meet

(Photos by Zane McNary) – While shooting photos during the March Meet BangShift contributor Zane McNary caught Eddie Prenevost’s hairy ride at the starting line that resulted with he and...