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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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LSR News: Ohio State Students Begin Planning Buckeye Bullet 3 — Goal is 400 MPH

Ohio State’s Center for Automotive Research is a place we wish we go hang out at. They teach and train some of the best and brightest engineers for the future of the automotive industry, and...

Wake Up Video: A Bad Ass Recreation of the Jerry Titus 1971 Pontiac Trans Am Road Racer

Is your Monday already headed down the tubes at work? Don’t fight it, just accept your fate that the day will suck and zone out, we’re here to help. A BangShift reader posted this video...

R.I.P Courtney Halowell ….Drag On Brother

It’s a good thing it’s Friday, because as of 11:30 am Pacific Time I am going to start drinking heavily. Industry icon, renowned journalist, hardcore car guy, and more importantly my...

Caption This Photo: License and Registration, Please

Our cousin, Brian Walsh is in the Air Force. In fact, he flies stuff. Brian stumbled upon this rather funny looking scene on base the other day and shared it on his Facebook page. We saw it an...

Video: 2011 Goodguys Heartland Nationals 4th of July

The Heartland. It says it all doesn’t it? A single word that drives home the point. Well Goodguys Heartland Nationals in Des Moines Iowa certainly embody all that the Heartland implies. Held on...

Captain Insano Video: Ride on the Nose of Bill Warner’s 311mph Motorcycle at Loring, Maine!

You’ve undoubtedly read lots of stuff about Bill Warner’s wild 311mph run at the Loring Timing Association’s event last weekend. Now you can ride along with him! In this video...

Tune In NOW: Lohnes Announcing the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Division 1 Points Meet in Epping, NH

After he got thrown out of Canada last weekend, Lohnes has set up shop at his happy place, New England Dragway in Epping, NH for the Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Division 1 points meet. He told me...

eBay Find: A Super Cool and Ultra Rare Frenzel Supercharger

Early speed parts rule. That’s a fact. Back in the late 1940s and early 1950s industrious machine shop owners across the country could make and market parts of their own design. One such...

Donate if You Can: Bitchin’ Mike Charlton Documentary Film Makers Looking to Group Source Funding for Final Filming

Back in March we told you about and showed you a trailer for a documentary being made about Ohio resident Mike Charlton and his home-brewed quest to set the LSR record for motorcycles with his crazy...

Project Fat Cad Update 6: Adding a Cold Air Intake and a Measly Pound!

  Project Fat Cad Update 1 Project Fat Cad Update 2 Project Fat Cad Update 3 Project Fat Cad Update 4 Project Fat Cad Update 5    At Spectre Performance, we not only design and build...

Cool News: Sponsors Announced for the 2011 Optima Ultimate Street Car Challenge

The Optima Ultimate Street Car Challenge has really become the defacto measuring stick for the highest level Pro Touring cars in the world. Featuring events like a Speed Stop Challenge, Autocross,...

Demon Carburetors and BG Fuel Systems are back errrr coming soon!

We are happy to announce that despite ceasing operations early in 2011, Demon Carburetors and BG Fuel Systems are on their way back! Barry Grant started the company in the 1990s, after positioning...

LSR Video: Pam Beineke Runs 205mph at Loring in the 1971 Wing Car She and Her Husband Gary Built

Gary and Pam Beineke built their “never was” 1971 wing car tribute to the K&K Insurance machine of Bobby Issac for one reason…to haul ass. Crafted in their home shop, the car...

Racing Junk Find: An Odd “Exhibition” PT Cruiser

One man’s exhibition vehicle is another man’s horror show. This PT Cruiser, which was apparently built to fill a hole in the “exhibition and arena show” market for burnout...