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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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Big Cat Attack: The 2021 Jaguar F-Pace SVR Is Not Just A Killer Engine Wrapped In A Mundane SUV Anymore – Updates A-Plenty

(By Tom Lohnes) – The Jaguar F-Pace SVR is a fun vehicle. With the hilarious 550-horsepower Supercharged V8 paired with AWD and an SUV body style, it blends practicality with one of the...

Not So Fast: Ford Delays Mass-Production Of Bronco Because Of COVID-19 Supplier Related Delays

(By Tom Lohnes) – Possibly the most hyped vehicle this year, the new Ford Bronco was just about to hit markets next month. Problem is, Ford isn’t quite ready for that to happen, so...

The Starting Shift: Watching This Guy Powershift A ZF-6 Speed Equipped Duramax Into The 12s At The Strip Is Really, Really Awesome

Those of you who have driven manual transmission trucks probably know that they’re not the quickest-shifting things in the world. There are some mutant drivers who can shift anything though,...

This Man Built A 12-Valve Cummins Powered Banshee ATV And Hooked It To A Pulling Sled – He’s Our Hero

Utah’s Jarod Hall has gained instant access to the BangShift hall of fame for conceiving, designing, and construction the vehicle you see before you. What is it? Basically it is an overgrown...

Watch Ayrton Senna Attack Monaco In 1990 – Fast. Loud, and Violent

When you see a Formula One car working on the track at full speed, there’s a certain grace and composure that comes along with it, right? They do not bounce, heave, or look untoward when they...

This Is Clearly The Most Bat Crap Insane Jeep Ever Built (Video)

There are nutso must trucks and then there’s this creation. Constructed from what looks to be three miles of steel tube and powered by a claimed 2,000hp supercharged big block Chevy engine,...

The License Plate Says It All On This LS2-Powered Toyota HiAce Van – And It Looks Dead Stock, Too!

You know what the acronym “WTF” stands for…don’t act like you don’t. It’s that expletive question that you tend to think, if not blurt out, when you are seeing...

Hometown Favorite: Travis Pastrana In Gymkhana 2020

There is a bit of cynicism that comes with yet another Gymkhana video. “Oh, it’s the same thing over and over: little rally monster car goes sideways, creates smoke, beats the rev limiter...

The Second Draft: The Cyan-Built Volvo P1800 Is What Happens When The OEMs Try Restomodding

At the age of 13, I saw my first Volvo P1800. And for two weeks, I swore up and down that somebody had slapped “VOLVO” on the back of some kind of sports car I’d never seen before...

MORE: Videos

Watch A Mining Dump Truck Run Over A Pickup Like It Is A Hot Wheels Toy

Yes, this video seems like a setup but in reality that makes the whole thing better. Why? Mainly because no one got killed when a massive Caterpillar 797B mining dump truck ran over a Ford pickup...

In Memoriam: Charles “Chuck” Yeager, Brigadier General, USAF (Ret.)

In interviews leading up to his historic 1947 blast through the sound barrier, interviews that questioned what would happen to Chuck Yeager were met with answers that sounded roughly like,...

Watch A Supercharged Drag Car Literally Suck The Ceiling Of A Dyno Shop In!

This could be the most awesome and visual demonstration of just how much air a supercharged engine in s very serious drag car moves at full song. In this video we see a Pro Mod car sitting on a...

Maybe 8.5 Lives: A Quick Look At Zero-G Training Involving One Unappreciative Kitten

If you weren’t aware, I have animal magnetism. No, not the same kind Chad swears up an down he has as he does his sexy walk up to the starting line in his flip-flops. What I mean is that cats...

Carrying The Left Front Tire The Entire Way Around A Dirt Oval May Not Be The Fast Way Home But It Sure Is The Coolest Looking

I have never driven a dirt track car before. I have never worked on a dirt track car before. I have never spent much time around guys who run such machines so I cannot speak to the chassis setup,...