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BangShift Question Of The Day: How Well Have You Cleaned Up On A Junkyard Deal?

Yesterday I spent the better part of the day cleaning out my shop. There’s a lot of junk that needed to be removed, a lot of material laying around from cutting up the flooring we put into my...

Watch The “Swamp Thing” Chevy Do What It Does Best – Work In The Mud And The Muck!

There’s a mindset that hard work requires you to get down and dirty. Grease under your fingernails, mud on your boots, dirt on your face, and sweat turning all of that into some kind of funky...

Fear No Fording Situation: Check Out This Neat Jeep Delta Force Snorkel Intake System

If you are someone who regularly does hardcore off-roading with your Jeep or someone who sure wants to look like it, Flowmaster has released the air intake for you. This Jeep Delta Forse snorkel...

Too Real: This Scale A-10 Thunderbolt II Is Way Too Real!

In the world of military aviation, it’s not uncommon for Army and Air Force units to be near each other, utilizing the same airfield. Any given day, you’d see CH-47 Chinooks taking off in...

Rough Start: 1983 Pontiac Trans Am – Pay A Little Extra For The Good Stuff

Five thousand dollars is the budget we use for the Rough Start budget. The goal is simple: to find a car that, using that total amount or less, will run and drive well enough to be useful, or to have...

Oldies, But Goodies? Let’s Look At The Three Oldest Trucks On The Market Today – Do They Stand Up?

(By Tom Lohnes) – Age is a thing no person or object can escape. With almost all modern cars on the market getting introduced or redesigned in the 2010s, only a few survive from the 00s. There...

Professional Level: Tony Whitmore’s Unreal Pedal Job At The Throwdown In T-Town!

Everybody thinks that they can be Billy Badass when it comes to the tree. They paid for the horsepower, they’re suited and booted, ready to go. All they have to do is stomp the skinny pedal on...

Son Of An Alco: The 2020 GMC Sierra 2500 Denali Is A Road Going Luxury Locomotive

If you are shopping the top end of the domestic pickup truck market you are looking at heavier duty rigs, likely with all the bells and whistles, a diesel drivetrain, and as much chrome as you can...

The Horsepower of Hydration: Listen To This Deep Dive Into The History of The Mighty Mack Super Pumper System That Protected New York City

There are lots of neat mechanical stories out there in the world. Some are more about the people that operated the machines and some are about machines that sold problems in an ingenious way for...

The International Quarantine Car Show Has Revealed Their Winners! Check Out The Awards Show!

It took a coordinated effort of a couple of Canadians, six YouTube channels’ worth of second-tier judging, and the suggestions of hundreds of people from around the world who wanted to show...

The Ultimate Troll: Barbecuing On The Road For Some Interesting Social Interactions

Since you’re on the Internet, you probably know what a troll is. They are the bane of the Internet, someone who is hell-bent on making your time online aggravating as all hell. They willfully...

More Pre-Pandemic Photos From The 2020 Autorama: We Got Photos Before They Closed Down The World!

We told you we had a bunch of cool show photos, and here they are. When BANGshifter Scott Liggett hit the Autorama to snap photos for all of you to enjoy back in March, he sent them to our Dropbox,...

Retro Done Right: This Kaege Retro Porsche 911 Is A 993 In A Wonderful Disguise

There are some things that money does get right in the automotive world. Cars like this Roger Kaege Retro Porsche 911 called “The Joker” are examples of what a legit budget can get you....

Updated ECTA Event Schedule! Come Party With Us In Arkansas For The Fourth of July!

We were looking forward to the ECTA Arkansas Mile event this year. We were excited to kick off the inaugural BangShift.com Street Car Shootout. And then…well, we all know what happened that...