Best of 2020: 1992 Chrysler Phantom R/T – The Mexicans Got The Good Mopars!
Dec 27, 2020Bryan McTaggartCraigslist Find, MOPAR
I’ll say it right now: between the end of the Musclecar era and the arrival of the Dodge Viper, the United States got shafted and Mexico got spoiled. Proof: We got the Dodge Dart Sport, the...
Dually Suburban For The Win! And It Is A Square Body! My Two Favorite Trucks Rolled Into One
Dec 27, 2020Chad ReynoldsXL Online Find, XL Spotlight
Square Body Chevrolet and GMC Duallies have enjoyed a HUGE rise in popularity in the past few years and I understand why completely. I mean just look at them. They are some of the best looking dually...
Daydream Into Drift: A Bit Of Russian Sideways Action Courtesy Of A Mushroom Trip
Dec 26, 2020Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX
There are some days, usually the sunny warm ones with the long hours, where reality can go and screw itself. These are the days when you are usually out “fishing” on the water, where the...
Finnegan Ads Hatervision, AKA A Huge Holley EFI Dash, To His C10 Truck Which Is Getting Put Together!
Dec 26, 2020Chad ReynoldsTECH, Videos
Never have there been more choices in gauges and dash clusters for popular hot rods, trucks, muscle cars, and street machines. And whether you want to run traditional round gauges, or one of the...
Best of 2020: 1966 Mercedes-Benz Unimog 406 Car Hauler
Dec 26, 2020Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, Monday Shopper, XL Online Find
It’s easy to take a jab or two at Brian Lohnes’ love of big trucks, but his kryptonite, without a doubt, are Mercedes-Benz Unimogs. At least his rationale behind the obsession is...
Here’s The 12 Days of Burnouts 2020 In Their Entirety! See All 12 Smoke Shows Right Here.
Dec 26, 2020Chad ReynoldsFUNNY STUFF, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Burnouts are great no matter what time of year, but there is something extra cool about burnouts during the holidays. Maybe it’s the Christmas trees on the roofs of high powered hot rods, maybe...
Best of 2020: Check Out This Fully Functional Remote-Controlled Ekranoplan!
Dec 26, 2020Bryan McTaggartTECH, Videos
When the KM ekranoplan was discovered by spy photography in 1967, Western countries could not understand quite what they were looking at. The idea of a ground-effect craft, or ekranoplan, was not on...
Best Of 2020: Ryan Newman’s Last Lap Crash At The 2020 Daytona 500
Dec 26, 2020Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, CRASH & BURN, Videos
Nineteen years ago, I was in a classroom in a high school in Illinois, working on a project during a study hall session when I learned what happened: during the running of the 2001 Daytona 500 the...
Merry Christmas From All Of Us At BangShift.com!
Dec 25, 2020Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
A Merry Christmas to you, BangShifters! We hope that you are enjoying the magic that this day brings, whether young or old. Regardless of whether it’s presents, family time, or the time away...
Best of 2020: The Right And Wrong Way To Sell The 1982 Ford Mustang
Dec 25, 2020Bryan McTaggartHISTORIC, Unhinged, Videos
One of the first rules of marketing is that once you’ve identified which product is your cash cow, you throw a majority of your efforts behind that to keep it front and center of the masses....
Best of 2020: Supercharged Rolls-Royce Meteor V-12 Out Of Zoomies
Dec 25, 2020Bryan McTaggartENGINES, Videos
Oh, you’re a violent little thing, aint’cha? This one goes out to every 200-horsepower 350-powered hot rod that is around…we may never know for sure, but when the earliest hot...
Best of 2020: 1980 GMC C35 With Holmes 480 Towing Equipment
Dec 25, 2020Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, XL Online Find
I swear, I’m not doing this on purpose. Teasing Brian with big trucks that we all know he loves dearly sometimes is fun. But I’m pretty sure that over the last couple of months, that...
Best of 2020: Check Out The Recovery Of This IH TD24 Crawler That’s Been Buried For 45 years!
Dec 25, 2020Bryan McTaggartBangShift News, Videos
There’s a line attributed to EOD bomb technicians. Reportedly, when asked about whether or not they were stressed out when it came time to defusing a bomb, the answer was something to the...
Best of 2020: Watch The Last Massive Pacific P12W3 Truck Roll Out Of The Shop And Cruise The Nieghborhood – Awesome!
Dec 24, 2020Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
Pacific trucks may not be a name that is wholly familiar to everyone outside of hardcore truck geeks but it probably should be. This company built some really neat stuff over the years and they had a...
