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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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Tesla Swap: How To Make A TESLA Powered Electric Karmann Ghia Step-By-Step

Love them or hate them, electric vehicles are here to stay and have been adopted by more than just folks looking for a new car. Sure, there are plenty of folks buying electric vehicles from GM,...

MAHLE Motorsport Introduces Ford 5.0L Modular 4-Valve Coyote/Voodoo PowerPak Plus Piston Kit

Great news for your Ford Coyote/Voodoo enthusiasts out there. If you are looking to make serious upgrades to your engine program, MAHLE Motorsport has now introduced new options in their PowerPak...

The American Powertrain Parting Shift: A Doug Nash Five-Speed Gets Worked at an Aussie Hill Climb

Because it is a Friday, we are legally obgligated to show you a Parting Shift today and instead of going to the drag strip, we’re throwing you all kinds of bends, hills, and tricky curves. With...

Not One, But Two BANGshifters Sent Us This Online Find To Share! Check Out This 440 Powered Suzuki Samurai

Do you know why people always swap Small Block Chevrolet’s, LS engines, or the occasional Small Block Ford into everything? Because they fit nice. They are small, have great aftermarket...

Alex Taylor Shares The Latest On Dennis Taylor’s COE Project. This Bagged Big Block Beast Is One Cool Ride. Check Out The Cool Hydraulic Shifter!

You’ve heard me talk about cars that Dennis Taylor has built, and the fact that he’s one of the few builders left in the country that build a car from scratch while doing virtually...

Is The Cheapest Magnetic Base Drill On Amazon Worth A Crap? Watch And Find Out!

I know I’m not alone in wondering if some of the cheap tools available online are worth a damn. I know that people sometimes bash on places like Harbor Freight for selling cheap tools, but I...

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Metalworking How To: Make Body Mounts From Scratch With Simple Tools And Some Sheet Metal

If you own a Camaro, Mustang, Chevelle, Challenger, or any other popular car or truck it is likely that replacement sheet metal is available for just about all of it. So if you find yourself needing...

Wait, What? Is GM Poised To Release A Trio Of 600+ Horsepower SUVs?!

(By Tom Lohnes) – So, the news is out that GM will be all-electric by 2035. Well, I guess these 14 years are going to be their last hurrah, because following the launch of the mental Cadillac...

SRT Is Gonzo….Is The Hemi Next? Things Are Changing In A Hurry, It Seems

(By Tom Lohnes) – Well folks, after many races won, dozens of fast, fun models made, and a total of five vehicles with a 700-horsepower V8 shoehorned into them, SRT is dead. With the recent...

In Defense of The 318: Uncle Tony Talks History, Tech, and Why The Little LA Small Block Is The Most Underrated V8 Ever

When it comes to engines, some of them just get a bad rap for no real reason. The 318ci Chrysler LS series small block seems to be one of them. In fact, Uncle Tony thinks that it may be the most...

Hemi Find: This 1964 426 Hemi Seems To Have Lived A Good Life – Amazing Engine For A Super Stock Restoration

There’s a small problem with small run, ultra-high performance factory engines, especially those involved in racing. The issue is the fact that very few survive as they were all beaten to a...

Video: Funny Car Racer Jack Wyatt Built His First Drag Car Before He Was Old Enough To Drive It! Watch His Story!

Now this right here is a classic story. Jack Wyatt who has been a well known funny car racer for decades now had an awesome start in drag racing. As a mechanically inclined, scrappy, and unstoppable...

Video: A Mustang, A Firebird, and An RV Walk Into A Tuff Truck Competition And All Race!

Ok, well they did not walk into the SAME Tuff Truck competition but the all did race and the videos below are total proof of that face. You are going to see a Fox-body Mustang get hammered so hard it...

This Rad Vintage GMC Prerunner Is An Epic Use Of Suspension, Wrapped In Attitude, And Powered By A Blown Small Block.

The 1941-1947 Chevrolet and “GMC” trucks were often referred to as the Art Deco trucks, and I doubt anyone who helped coin the phrase ever thought one would end up looking like this. I...