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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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AMC Gallery: The Kenosha Homecoming 2011

BangShift member and Wisconsinite Mikes343Sharpstick is a dude who loves his own bitchin’ AMC Javelin and has recently picked up an old IMSA racer AMC project as well. When he let us know that...

Cool Gallery: Mega Moto Demo Day at the Simeone Museum – Unobtanium in Action

The Simeone Museum is an incredible place when you consider that virtually everything in it belongs to one dude, Dr. Fred Simeone. Not one to just allow everything to sit and collect dust, Simeone...

Drag Gallery: The Old Time Drags and Funny Car Reunion – Englishtown, NJ

Joe Grippo braved incredibly oppressive heat to bring us an awesome gallery of nearly 200 photos from the Old Time Drags and Funny Car Reunion at Raceway Park in Old Bridge Township, New Jersey. The...

Cruise Gallery: The Mass Cruisers Bass Pro Shops Cruise – Foxboro, MA

We finally managed to get ourselves, and Goliath down to the massive, 2,000 car, bi-weekly cruise event at the Bass Pro Shops store in Foxboro, Massachusetts last week. With our two boys strapped...

BangShift Exclusive A 13-Original Mile 1987 Pontiac Firebird Formula 350 Emerges

We were recently tipped off to what may be the lowest mileage Third-Gen Firebird on Earth by our pal Berserko Bob. The car was bought brand new with the intention of being turned into an NHRA Super...

The Parting Shift: Pulling Lenco Levers With the Front End in the Air!

Steve Clukey is a long time New England drag racer. He’s owned his Duster since it was brand new, and he has been beating it like a rented mule from day one. It has always been a stick shift...

Killer Video: Mike Ryan Wheels His Freightliner Up Mount Washington!

Jason Lewis has done it again. The first time we saw Lewis do his thing with Mike Ryan we fell in love with the video, called “Size Matters”. It is Ken Block meets a hot rod Freightliner...

Vote for Kyle Tucker! BFG “Select the Seats” Baja 1000 Voting Starts Now

Detroit Speed’s Kyle Tucker is once again in the hunt for a seat in the famed Baja 1000 and thanks to BFG you can help him get there. Voting has started on BFG’s Facebook page, and there...

Feedback: Take the MSD Survey and Tell ’em How They’re Doing!

Proud BangShift sponsor MSD Ignition is a company that spends lots of time interacting with their customers. From scouring the country with their massive tech trailer at NHRA events, truck pulls, and...

The Rest of the Story Behind Grumpy Jenkins 1977 Match Race Wreck at Oswego Dragway

Earlier this week we ran an item that highlighted a cool website centered around the history of Oswego Dragway. One of the photos on the site was of Grumpy Jenkins’s Pro Stocker mangled...

Caption This Photo: What the Hell Happened? Seriously, What the Freaking Hell Happened?

Holy wild photo Batman! BangShift photo contributor Greg Rourke nailed this shot of a completely mangled Chevy truck teetering on a bridge girder recently. We don’t want to skew the captions on...

20 Minutes of Engine Pornography: A Look at 25 Motors from Nelson Racing Engines

No matter what you think of Tom Nelson and his engines, there’s no denying that the man understands how to promote his business. His “NRE TV” channel on YouTube draws tens of...

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eBay Find: A Ford F-2/4/650 on a Military Frame and 52-inch tires that packs big diesel power

Nervous about our debt ceiling? Fearing that the end of the world is coming in 2012? Worried that zombies are going to attack your town and escape will be futile? We’ve got the answer and in...

Elliot Handler, Creator of Hot Wheels Dies at Age 95

The man who created the most influential automotive toy of all time, the Hot Wheels brand of cars has died in California at the age of 95. Launched in 1968, it is estimated that more than 41 million...