More Run to the Sun 2026 Car Show Photos: The 37th Annual Event Did Not Disappoint! Check Out All The Cool Photos That Mike Brooks Got Us!

Here’s gallery #2 from Mike Brooks coverage of the Run to the Sun car show in Myrtle Beach South Carolina. If you missed gallery #1, use the link below to check them out too. (Photos by Mike...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Big Progress, Big Video, Engine & Transmission Mounted + Roll Cage Bracing Complete!

Shannon and Jess are moving right along on the FJ40 and things just keep getting better. If you like a Landcruiser, you’ll dig this one. But if restored to factory is your jam, this one might not...

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The TRUTH About Oil Additives Revealed, With Real Test Results From The Motor Oil Geek

There are too many Oil Treatments and Additives to count nowadays, and many of them make claims that are hard to believe. Over the years there have been so many of them and while some have good...

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Aftermarket Gossip: Is a Manual C8 Corvette Actually Happening? TREMEC’s Aftermarket Chief Tells All!

I realize the numbers are small, but there are people out there that would like a C8 Corvette with a clutch pedal. And as a guy who drives a stick shift car most days, I understand the allure. But I...

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First Drive Video: Westen Champlin’s Cummins Swapped Rolls Royce Is Something Special. Absurd, But Special.

I like a good Cummins as much as the next guy, but this is a bit over the top. Of course it won’t surprise you since it is coming from Westen Champlin, but at the same time it is taking the...

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Derek is Taking A 1,600 Mile Journey To Trade One Of Vice Grip Garages More Popular Trucks For The Ride He Sold And Instantly Regretted It

We’ve all traded or sold a car or truck and then regretted it. Sometimes that regret is as soon as the deal is done and sometimes it takes a week or month or year to realize that you just...

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Smoked Turkey: A Cummins Diesel Blows All The Way Up! Cylinder Head and Most Of Block Launched Into The Air

BangShift reader TruckPuller sent us a tip on the wildest engine dyno failure video we have seen in quite some time. It features a straight six diesel engine on the dyno, which we think is a Cummins,...

If At First You Don’t Succeed, Fail, Fail Again – Here’s A Rock Bouncing Video We’re Scratching Our Head Over

Before you start hucking rocks at us here, understand that we like rock bouncing, we get rock bouncing, and we think rock bouncing is generally bad ass. This video however has us scratching our head....

Vintage Tractor Porn: This 1950s Allis-Chalmers Video About Crawler Tractors Rules!

It has been far too long since I last indulged my love of old tractors here on the pages of BangShift so let’s fix this today, shall we? Here we have a 1950s video produced by the...

Suffering From Snow Worries? This 6×6 Suzuki Samurai Will Save Your Sorry Hide!

We are heading quickly from the colorful and crisp Autumn season to what I casually refer to as the “cold, gray bucket of suck” that is winter. (Ok, Brian Gordon from Fowl Language Comics...

Cool eBay Find: This Ancient Joseph Van Blerck Marine Engine Is Cool And It Runs (Video)

Four cylinders, 350ci, clunking-clanking noises, and likely some amazing smells. That’s what you are buying if you get your hands on this engine that is 112 years old and is claimed to be the...

Old Iron Film: Watch This Oshkosh Snowplow Trundle Through Deep Snow In 1936

This is a video that only fans of old slow trucks will really love. While the nation has not really plunged into the depths of winter yet, it ain’t gonna be long before white stuff is flying...

This Big Rig Pulling Truck Launches The Entire Engine Out Of The Truck!

(Lead photo from Jacked Up Motorsports FB page) We’re talking the ENTIRE ENGINE!!! The force required to actually have an engine remove itself is not measurable using the high tech devices we...

This 1976 Ford F-250 Crew Cab Is A Little Rough Around The Roof But We Love It All The Same

So I have been gingerly poking around the internet for a 1970s era Ford truck lately and while I have not found the truck I want to bid on, I have found a load of cool trucks that anyone who is into...

This 1953 Ford Promotional Video For The Golden Jubilee Tractor Is 1950s Gearhead Perfection

Ford has been in the tractor business for a very long time and the N-series of machines is about as timeless and iconic as some of the company’s better known car and truck models. 1953 was a...

The 50th Running Of The Baja 1000 Finished Today. Here Are The Results And Some Interesting Quotes

The Baja 1000 remains one of the coolest automotive racing events I’ve ever attended, and it pains me that I haven’t been able to go see it again for several years because it happens to...

Seeing The 50th Baja 1000 Finish Today Made Us Want This Prerunner GMC

Desert off-road racing is amazing to watch. The speed, the power, the effortless way in which big tires and suspension just soak up bumps. It’s almost as if they aren’t there, it seems so...

Help Us Name Our New Square Body Crew Cab Dually Project!

I’ve wanted a Chevrolet Crew Cab Dually since I was a kid. Probably since I was 10 or so, since we’d see them at the races all the time pulling gooseneck trailers and looking bad ass. Of...

Incredible Video: Watch This Guy In A Pickup Drive Into An Advance Auto Parts At Full Throttle!

Ever have a weird day? This cop has  a weird day in this video. The policeman was a responding to a complaint about an erratic driver. The guy who drew the attention was driving an F-150 pickup...

A BangShifty Hero With A Lathe, A Mill, and A Welder Built A Radial Engine Out Of VW Stuff Just For Fun

Sometimes stuff just “bubbles up” on the internet. This awesome video is proof of that. Originalyl posted in the late winter/early spring of last year we got a couple of notes via email...