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Save BIG With OPGI’s SUMMER20 Promo Code – Up To 40% Savings – ONE WEEK LEFT

We live in weird, uncertain times. There’s some new wrinkle in the way we live our lives nearly every day. The good thing? Our cars are still there to keep us sane. You can socially distance...

Heavy Metal Crunching: Check Out Truck Banger Racing From St Day!

Yes, you’re seeing that correctly: a rollback truck mounted on top of a cement barrier like a trophy, it’s nose shoved in. You almost feel sorry for the poor thing, don’t you?...

McLeod Racing Unveils New Website – Fresh Look, More Interactive, Easy To Navigate Dealer Network!

Our friends at McLeod are always innovating, inventing, and evolving their product line. That’s why it only makes sense that their website follow the same pattern, right? In this case the...

Boiling Off The Rear Tires On A White Road Boss Dump Truck, Because Why Not?

If there is one certainty we have around here, it’s that if we see something cool happening with any kind of vehicle, we will share it with you. That’s brought many, many things out from...

Dakar Hell Video: Watch A Racer Slog Through Sand And Then Blaze His Own Trail, Vegetation Be Damned

The Dakar Rally sure beats the ever loving crap out of man and machine. While the treachery of racing thousands of miles across hellacious desert landscapes presents some obvious obstacles, sometimes...

Classic YouTube: Some Diesel Tire-Roasting From Speedworld In Arizona

To date, the wildest event that I’ve attended since I was brought on to write for BangShift was a diesel race that devolved into a burnout contest so wild that the owner of the track rolled up...

Yes, It’ll Go: The 2021 Ford Bronco Sport Taking On Moab

When the Ford Bronco was unveiled, fans rejoiced. From everything we’ve seen, Ford hit the nail directly on the head with a mallet…dead-on. The Bronco Sport, however, has left some...

Random Car Review: 1971 International Harvester 1010 “Johnnie Reb”

(Lead photo: Chris Castoldi) It isn’t every day that I find a vehicle that I know exactly nothing about, one that I have never heard of in my lifetime, one that even according to die-hard fans...

Basic Bad Ass: This K30 Is A Diesel Powered, No Frills, Wheeling Machine – Watch It In Action

There’s nothing wrong with liking fancy things. Hey, we occasionally like to put sprinkles on our ice cream so we know exactly what the finer things in life are. This K30 is not one of those...

The Last Dinosaurs: The Story Of The Northwestern Steel and Wire Steam Locomotives That Worked Until 1980!

(By Greg Rourke) – Long after steam was dead on most railroads, a few soldiered on. No, we don’t mean on tourist trains and such. These were working hard in a very non glamorous task....

Holy Rocks: A BangShifty Look At The Evolution Of How Man Learned To Drill Rock

Mastering the world around us has been a constant quest of mankind since the first quasi-humans started grunting at each other and living in caves. Rocks have always provide an amazing array of...

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Hagerty Redline Rebuild Time: Davin Pulls Down A Mystery 440 Destined For A Project Car

We love us some Hagerty Redline Rebuild series around here and there’s a new one coming. How do we know? This behind the scenes video that shows him pulling down a 440ci Chrysler big block that...

Get Your Goat: This 1970 US Army Gama Goat Is Running, Driving, and Pretty Awesome

The history of the Gama Goat may be one of compromise to the point of nearly being ineffectual but let’s not be negative here. Roughly 15,000 Gama Goat trucks were built and the reason for...

Man Puts 1-Million Miles On Nissan Frontier – Is Given Identical Truck By Nissan

(By Tom Lohnes) – The Nissan Frontier: A truck that’s been around for 17 years without a major update has hit a milestone. A man from Texas put a million miles on his 2007 Frontier and Nissan...