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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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Speeding Tickets Actually Suck Worse in Some Other Countries

Speeding tickets suck no matter which way you cut it. Thanks to a tip from BangShift.com forum member TheSilverBuick, we now know that they suck far worse in some other countries than they do here....

Coming This Weekend: The Bangshift.com East Feast: Come on Down (or up)

It’s coming this weekend! The first annual BangShift.com East Feast is a get together for readers, forum members, friends, and hell, maybe even a couple haters, at beautiful and historic Beaver...

Event Gallery: Sidney, New York, Airport Car Show

BangShift.com Forum Member Mustang13 (Jeremy George) attended the Sidney, New York Airport Car Show and filed an awesome gallery of nearly 130 photos. This show has a little of everything, and...

Monday Time Killer: The Mexican Shelby Mustangs

We have to thank BangShift.com forum member Joes66Fury2 for the great tip on the DarkHorseRacing website telling the story of the Shelby Mustangs from South of the Border built from 1967 to 1972....

Engine Carnage from the BangShift Forums

This is the type of wreckage you don’t see every day. BangShift.com member BigBuds1 had his LT1 Camaro in full tire-fire mode when the engine gave way. He says he broke the crank, and that shot...

Cool or Not: You Decide

So we’re conflicted. Normally we dismiss weirdo, human powered, pod-like vehicles milliseconds after seeing them. This one is a special case, though. First off, it’s amphibious, and...

Racer and Cool Shirt Inventor Schafer Dies in Racing Accident

Here’s sad news from the world of racing, as we have learned that avid racer and the inventor of the Cool Shirt, Rich Schafer was killed in as accident while participating in a hill climb event...

Friday Excuse to Go Home Early and Drink: America Still Builds Some Bad Ass Stuff

Many of us often opine that America doesn’t make anything anymore. While it’s true we have shipped off a lot of manufacturing business to both our southward neighbors and to Asia,...

Connecticut Junkyard Owner in Hot Water

We can’t imagine being in the junkyard business these days. It cannot be easy. For decades it must have been pretty straightforward. Score a big tract of land way outside of town, put up a...

Oddball Barris Creation in Canadian Collection

We’ll be up front in telling you that we had no idea George Barris’s shop turned out anything other than the occasional beautiful kustom mixed among a majority of semi-garish stuff. We...

Great Read: A Look At Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Trucks

The Lucas Oil Off Road Racing series picked up where CORR left off. It’s a series featuring race trucks that weigh in at two tons and pack nearly 1,000 hp. The courses are winding, bending,...

Craigslist Pick of the Week: Oddly Painted VW Racer

Back in 1979, BMW had Andy Warhol paint an M1 race car that was to be run at Le Mans. Dubbed the “art car”, the machine went on to finish six overall at the race. It was the only time it...

Barn Find Wild ’70s Custom Road Runner for $3,000!

We picked up on this one via CarDomain via Chevelles.com. It’s the incredible story of a Road Runner that was parked since 1982, and that just sold for $3,000! It has a 383 and a four-speed,...

Bullpen Cars: A Short History

It’s Fall and that means one thing: Major League Baseball Playoffs! Hate sports you say? Don’t be so fast to take off. As we were watching some baseball we thought about a great story we...