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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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New Product: Holley’s New Modular Mid-Rise Intake For Cathedral Port LS Engines

Holley’s Hi-Ram intake has been a big hit since it’s inception, but there are guys that just didn’t have enough under hood clearance to run one. Now there is another option thanks...

Craigslist Find: 1948 Ton and a Half Studebaker Culligan Water Truck – Just What Brian Needs!

If you were watching last week’s PowerShift LIVE, you would  have heard Brian telling a story about being a water delivery guy back in the day, and dumping 5 gallon bottles of water on the...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: Ronnie and the Daytona’s “Little GTO”

Growing up in a racing family, with a dad that listened to the Beach Boys, Jan & Dean, and Ronnie and the Daytonas, meant that I listened to as much great surf and car music on Dad’s 4...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Should Pro Street Be Dead?

I’m a big time Pro Street Fan. I love them. Trailer queens, real street drivers, street drivers that run in the 6’s like Larry Larson’s Chevy II, I like them all. And back in the...

Ebay Find: A Pro Street ’86 Pontiac Grand Prix That Can’t Be Far From Drag Week Ready

We love Pro Street, and think it deserves a second chance! So be the first on your street with a new Pro Street car. This one reminds us of Matt and Debbie Hays Olds Ciera for some reason, although...

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Rocket Racing Wheels Unveils The Rocket Booster 6 In Hyper Shot- Bitchin’ Style For Your Truck Or SUV!

As we all know, wheels make or break the look of a car, truck, or even an SUV. The market for truck and SUV wheels has been pretty thin on cool options (in our eyes anyway). There’s lots of...

BangShift Exlusive: George Poteet’s, Rad Rides Built, Talladega Inspired ’69 Torino Assembly Pics

(Photos by Rob McGaffin) The famed 1969 Torino, owned by George Poteet, that is being built at Rad Rides By Troy, has been the talk of the hot rodding world for the past couple years. And thanks to...

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Video: Victor Bray and Pete Kapiris Crash – Top Doorslammer Wreck Could Have Been Far Worse – Crazy Video

Yesterday we showed you a wild video of an Australian Top Doorslammer racer experiencing a big fire and doing an amazing job of getting the car hauled down without hitting anything or making the...

Barnstormin’: Wooden Blocks and A Diecast Camaro

Those were the two major items that my son Tom asked “Santa” for this Christmas. We…I mean he, happily filled that request and he’s been building garages, bridges, workshops,...

BangShift.com Daily Tuneup: AC/DC “Highway To Hell” A Rock Anthem!

As the resident metal head, I thought it was time to crank this up a notch. Hell, all the way to 11 actually. AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell”  marked a pivotal moment in rock and roll...

Craigslist Find: David Freiburger’s Hot Rod Magazine Cheap Thrills Dodge Dart – A Low Buck Pioneer!

Thanks to a tip from BangShift forum member Rush, I found the infamous 1968 Dodge Dart Hot Rod Magazine project car known as Cheap Thrills for sale in Arizona on Craigslist.  Built in the early...

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BangShift Question Of The Day: If You Could Take Any Automotive Vacation, What Would It Be?

With the Grand National Roadster show coming up here in So Cal, we know a lot of people that are coming in from out of town for “vacation” at the Grand National. It seems a little strange...

Watch An Aussie Drag Racer Suffer A Horrifying Top End Explosion and Fire – He Handles It Like A Total Pro

As we have said before, the truly great drivers in drag racing are exposed when the crap hits the fan. Such was the case for Aussie racer Brett Gillespie at an event back in November. As you’ll...

Jet Hot’s New Palette Of Coating Colors Lets You Go Where No Hot Rodders Have Gone Before!

The big news from Jet-Hot during the trade show season at SEMA and PRI was the introduction of their premium color line and their new ability to do graphics, designs, and really artistic stuff with...