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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 Garage Spotlight: We Show You Some of Our Favorite Readers Rides

There are tons of great cars and trucks in the BangShift Garages on our Forums, and now we’ve even added a commenting feature! Today we decided to gives some of our guys a little love by...

BangShift Forum Freaks Shirts, Hats, Sweatshirts, and More ON SALE NOW!

It’s that time of year again boys and girls. Time for Hot Rod Power Tour planning and that means Forum Freaks gear is on sale now at BangShift.com. We have shirts, hats, sweatshirts, hoodies,...

EPIC FAIL VIDEO: 30 Ways To Ruin A Great Day On The Dyno

We can’t take credit for finding this one, because it came from BangShifter extraordinaire Malcolm Dyer who happens to live in Spain and is with us on every single LIVE drag racing broadcast...

BangShift Announces Sponsorship of Nissan Pro Stock Team! What do you think?

HA!!! We got your attention with that one didn’t we? LOL  Sorry, we couldn’t help ourselves. Brian is off playing on a Pro Mod this week so I’m left to my own devices which means...

Snavely is BACK! Plus We Release His Epic Crash Video from SCSN 2011

For those of you who weren’t watching during our huge LIVE broadcast at the 2011 PSCA Street Car Super Nationals, you missed an amazingly scary crash. For those that were with us, you know the...

Chadmouth: The IndyCar Edition Including Photos and Video!

So, the Monday before the Long Beach Grand Prix our guy Jimi Day, with Optima Batteries, calls and says “Hey bud, Optima is a sponsor of the World Challenge Series and I have some credentials for...

Live Blog: We’re Working on the Crew of an ADRL Pro Mod This Weekend

In a decision he will probably regret for the rest of his life, NHRA and ADRL Pro Mod racer Peter Farber invited me along to work alongside his crew this weekend at the ADRL event in Bristol,...

Watch a Blown Altered Flip Onto Its Roof at the Drags In New Zealand – Southern Hemisphere Wreckage

Racing an altered can be a real handful as this racer and the crowd at a New Zealand drag strip recently found out. As the car is launching, it gets way out of shape and ends up rolling onto the roof...

Gallery: Autocross Photos From the 2012 Running of Mopars at the Strip

(Photos by Hotchkis Sport Suspension) – While rain certainly did its best to dampen the drag strip action at last weekend’s Mopars at the Strip event in Las Vegas, the Hotchkis autocross...

Frank Hawley’s Drag Racing School Loves Jiffy-Tite Fittings and You Should Too!

Whenever Chad and I are chatting up Jiffy-Tite fittings with people, one of the first questions is always, “Well how many times can you take them on and off before they leak?”. The easy...

eBay Find: A Half-Million Dollar Modern Rendition of Big Oly – Street Legal Trophy Truck

For starters, I can say that I have seen this truck up close and personal at the SEMA show a couple of years ago and it is freaking awesome. This is one of the neatest trucks I have ever seen and as...

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Watch Freiburger and Finnegan Take on Pewe and Fred William From 4-Wheel and Off Road in a Cheap Truck Challenge

We’re late to the party on this one, but Freibuger and Finnegan’s latest Roadkill adventure has been set live on the interwebs and we think it is a pretty good one. The guys take on...

Question of the Day: What’s the Coolest Wheel Ever?

Wheels are such a huge part of the look and performance package of any car. There are thousands of different designs out there, from the classic steel “rally” wheels that adorned so many...

Dirt Slingin’ Sprint Car Gallery: ASCS Winged Sprints at Battleground Speedway – Texas

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Last weekend, the ever intrepid Charles Wickam went to Battleground Speedway in Texas to take in some of the wildest four wheeled machines in the world, winged...