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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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Video: Watch A Chevelle Wagon That Looks Hammered Totally Haul Around the Autocross Course – Sleeper!

Sleepers rule in all of their many forms. From the unassuming pieces that can rocket down a drag strip and leave jaws hanging, to cars like the Chevelle wagon featured in this video that look as...

Drag Gallery: Fords At the 2012 NHRA Dutch Classic

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Joe Grippo appreciates cool iron of all shapes, sizes, and brand identity, but we know he’s a Ford loving dude deep down. There were lots of Cobra Jets on the...

More Free LIVE Streaming Video: The Million Dollar Race At Montgomery Motorsports Park

“The Million” as it’s come to be known is in it’s 17th year, and brings bracket racers from all over the country who want their shot at the largest single day drag race payout...

The Answer To Yesterday’s Test Of Your Gearhead Knowledge and a Few Extra Photos You’ll Want To See!

Once again, the BangShift readership nailed the gearhead challenge we threw down yesterday cold. After the weirdo Lincoln engine, the old Model A block, and the Willys Jeep engine, a famous V8...

VIDEO REMINDER: LIVE STREAM OF THE NHRA CALIFORNIA HOT ROD REUNION TOMORROW! NOW AVAILABLE ON MOBILE DEVICES!

TOMORROW! Yes, like the day after today, the 21st NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion will be streaming here on BangShift LIVE and FREE for your viewing enjoyment. We’re excited to announce that...

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Caption This Bitchin’ Photo: Bill Mitchell, The Thunderbug, and An Unknown Set of Legs

(Photo by Martyn Schorr) – These days most people know Bill Mitchell because he runs a Top Fuel dragster, operates World Products and Bill Mitchell Hardcore Racing Products but back in the...

Drag Gallery: Mighty Mopars At The 2012 NHRA Dutch Classic

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Yesterday we showed you a gallery that featured just COPO Camaros and Mustang Cobra Jets. We got some hate mail from the Mopar crowd that we didn’t put the Drag...

Big News!!! Mike Galimi, One Of The Coolest Dudes In The Racing Media, Is Now Race Pages Editor

I met Mike Galimi in a dive bar near Milan Dragway a few years ago now and, despite his Yankee accent, thought he was  pretty cool dude from the get go. He knew how to drink, played pool okay, and...

Easy Bolt-In For Chevy II: American Powertrain’s New Trans Swap Crossmember Makes It Simple

The dudes at American Powertrain just keep coming up with more and more cool products. And since we’re in the middle of building an engine for a ’66 Chevy II, we thought this one was...

Chadmouth: More Travel Woes… Some People Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Fly…

Almost exactly a year ago I wrote a Chadmouth titled “Travel Rookies Suck”, that got a lot of interest and resulted in lots of comments, emails, and phone calls. If you didn’t catch...

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Ebay Find: All Fiberglass ’69 Camaro On A G-Body Chassis… Weird? Cool? Hmmmmm

Scott Payton, one of the geeks that keeps BangShift.com up and running on the web, sent us this one yesterday and we have to say it shocked us. We had never heard of Corbin Rods all fiberglass...

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Another Test of Your Gearhead Knowledge – Yesterday’s Answer and Today’s Challenge!

Once again, there was no stumping the BangShift readership as Jim Forbes knocked it out of the park yesterday nailing the little four cylinder block we showed as an old Ford ‘banger out of a...

Drag Gallery: COPO Camaros and Mustang Cobra Jets At The 2012 Dutch Classic

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Yesterday we brought you the wheelstands and today we’re going to bring you some of the most modern muscle that attacked the strip at Maple Grove last weekend...

Drag Gallery: The Atlanta Dragway $10,000 Nostalgia Race – Gassers, Diggers, and Loads of Great Stuff!

(Words and Photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Another weekend down, and another nostalgia drag race is in the books. This time, it’s the Atlanta $10,000 race, held at Atlanta Dragway in Commerce,...