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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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Work For It: Scotty Puts The New 318 In His Dad’s Valiant Ute To Work!

I don’t know about you, readers, but growing up there was that daydream that perpetually plagued me: in what most adults would call “a momentary lapse in good judgement”, I would...

Money No Object: 1970 Chevrolet Impala Kingswood Wagon With A 502 Under The Hood

In this day and age, the great lumbering beasts of the road are the full-size sport-utility vehicles. Based on full-size trucks, able to seat a large family, able to tow good-sized loads, filled to...

Cleetus Bought AND BROKE a RIPSAW Tank!!! 700hp Duramax Powered Tank That Does 70mph!

It shouldn’t surprise you that Cleetus would end up with something awesome like this 700hp Duramax powered RIPSAW, and it also shouldn’t surprise you that it took just two days to break...

Vice Grip Garage Does Sick Week: Day 3- And The Wheel Falls Off…It Fell The F*^&K OFF!

Dude, at some point you wonder if it might just be better to stay in bed one morning, cause ain’t this the poop. Oh well, it’s par for the course in this Day 3 adventure. Check it out below....

NHRA Winternationals Photos: Big Tire Door Cars Running The Full Quarter Mile!

Pro Stock is some of the tightest drag racing in the world, and we love it. Drivers having to dump the clutch, shift, and be dead on the tree in order to pull out a win that often is determined by a...

LSFest West Pre-Registration Is Now Open! Register Now For The Biggest Event In Vegas!

Here we go folks! LSFest West pre-registration is live and ready to take your entries. This is the biggest and baddest event in the west and if you want to come out and enjoy everything LS and LT...

Drag And Drive Ignitions For All: MSD’s Single Channel Pro 600 Ignition Provides Race-Ready Spark When You Need It

Running in the 5’s and 6’s on the dragstrip isn’t hard with the right equipment, but doing that AND driving the car hundreds of miles a day for a week is a whole other thing. One of...

Watch A Beautiful Failure Run Up The Hill At Goodwood – The Ferrari 712 Can-Am Car Was A Light Hitting Legend

This car is powered by the biggest engine that Ferrari ever made and it never won a race. The Ferrari 712 was the company’s answer to the question surrounding how it was going to attack the...

Polyester Perfection: Watch The 1977 NHRA Summernationals Right Here – Big Names, Big Heat, Big History

This weekend for the 49th time in NHRA history there will be a race run carrying the title of the Summernationals. The first one was run in 1970 at York US 30 Drag Strip in Pennsylvania. In 1971 the...

This Video From The 1957 12 Hours of Sebring Grand Prix Is Completely Awesome – The Cars!

Here’s a pro tip. If we ever see a video that features an amazingly beautiful 1957 Chevrolet convertible towing an MG race car down the highway, we’re featuring that thing. Such is the...

Here’s What It Looks Like When A Peterbilt 379 Lays Down 1,665hp On The Dyno Rollers

Every spring the guys at Antrim Diesel in Pennsylvania host a dyno day where their customers and other diesel soaked enthusiasts show up and run their stuff on the dyno. The major difference? This is...

If You Live In Remote Alaska And You Need Bulk Fuel Delivered Chances Are This 1942 Curtiss C-46 Commando Will Be Delivering It

So blame this blog item on spending too much time in hotel rooms. While I don’t seek the show out at home, I somehow manage to stumble upon the wild documentary style television program,...

Watch A Vintage Dodge Big Rig Make A Full Pull With Detroit Diesel Power! Slow-Mo Wheels Up Action!

There are not many old Dodge big rigs left on the road. They were pretty limited in quantity to start with an when you take into consideration time and abuse, you can see why their numbers are so...

Pinstriping Inspiration: Design Ideas Practice With Hot Rod Jen

We’ve featured some of Hot Rod Jen’s work here on BANGshift lately and appreciate her cool videos that show how to pinstripe, her work flow, and her process for practicing and perfecting...