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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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WOW!!! Lucas Oil Off Road Racing RULES!!! We Get The VIP Treatment And Tons Of Jump Photos!

Tom Bogner and the entire team at Lucas Oil have always been great supporters and sponsors here at BangShift.com. But last week when we called Tom up, to talk about a bunch of new dyno tests we have...

Screaming Dyno Video: Jay Brown’s 530ci, 850hp, Fuel Injected, FE Ford Drag Week Hammer!

Jay Brown, he of FE engine building, home dyno owning, awesome Ford drag machine fame will once again fly the Blue Oval banner at Hot Rod Drag Week 2012. This time it is an aluminum, 530ci, fuel...

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Guest Blog: A BangShifter’s Great Stories and Memories of the Late Tom Hnatiw

(Editor’s note: Ed Nicholson is a long time BangShift reader. He’s also a long time competitive road racer, instructor, and car guy. Ed knew and raced with Tom Hnatiw a few years before...

Event Gallery: The 2012 Carlisle Truck Nationals

(Photos by John Button) – We’ve never been afraid to express our love of trucks here at BangShift. Chad is a reformed mini-truck guy, I love mud trucks, big rigs, and stuff that runs out...

Hilarious Video: Freiburger and Finnegan Bolt A Blower On to a SBC Powered Jag and Pound On It Mercilessly

The newest episode of Roadkill the web-show that documents the wacky adventures of David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan from Hot Rod Magazine was released last Friday and this one is pretty damned...

Cruise Gallery: The Sonic Cruise – Morgantown, Pennsylvania – August 2012

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Before Grippo spent the weekend at the drags, he and his wife took in a cool local cruise night that always draws some neat stuff. From classic bikes to old trucks,...

Drag Gallery: The 2012 Glory Daze Nostalgia Drags at Maple Grove Raceway

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Pennsylvania nostalgia drag racers and fans were out in force at the famed Maple Grove Raceway last weekend at the 2012 version of the Glory Daze Nostalgia Drags. With...

Hundreds Of Photos From Joe’s Minibike Reunion 2012: Customs, Hot Rods, Ruckus, CT’s, You Name It!

Joe’s Minibike Reunion was awesome!!! We showed up around 10:30am and the place was packed. Folks had started rolling in before 8 am, and were having a really good time. We have to say, this...

BangShift Sponsors Take Over NSRA Street Rod Nationals In Louisville This Weekend!

It’s true! We’re taking over the world, one drag race or car show at a time! And BangShift sponsors are helping tremendously, but spreading the word. If you are going to be within a few...

Question of the Day: What’s The Best Bolt On Upgrade You Have Ever Made To A Project?

So I’ve been wrenching hard on ol’ Bufort T Justice this week installing the Hotchkis Sport Suspension parts and pieces. It has been a long process mainly because I am taking my time and...

Carnage Video: Duramax Trucks Experiencing Tie Rod and Driveshaft Failures at the Truck Pulls

The independent front suspension used in GM trucks has long been the bane of hard core truck guys. IFS is a pain the rear end to deal with when lifting a 4×4 as opposed to the simplicity of a...

Craigslist Find: A Homebuilt 1977 Ford Monster Truck That We Want For Absolutely No Good Reason

Craigslist finds always seem to have more totally off the wall charm than similar things on eBay or RacingJunk. There’s a certain down home nature to the stuff we find or are tipped off to on...

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Vermont Farmer Flips Out And Uses Massive Tractor To Crush Half of Town’s Police Cars!

In what can only be described as the craziest story we have heard about in a while, a Vermont farmer who was apparently fed up with the local police department, fired up his huge, four wheel drive...

Roadside Find Gallery: Moyock Muscle Cars – Moyock, North Carolina – Lots of Neat Projects For Sale!

While on a recent road trip through the Carolinas, my mother and father in law happened upon a pretty neat place in the town of Moyock, North Carolina. At first blush it looks to be a classic car...