Racing Season Needs To Hurry Up – We Need Things Like Nine-Second Diesel Trucks Again!
Is it spring yet? No…crap. At least time is on the march, because right now I’m missing the smell of PJ1 and race fuel. The strip is calling our name, and while Lohnes will be out for the...
This Chopped and Channeled 1971 Model R Mack Is Awesome – Take A Video Tour
(By Greg Rourke) – We see cool project cars on BangShift every day. What we don’t often see is the cool way some of these cars get hauled around. Here we have a guy who looked at a truck...
This 1971 Chevrolet C10 Camper Special Is A One Owner Truck With Great Patina
Whenever you find a truck like this, which has been driven and owned by the same person for its whole life, there is nothing cooler than looking it over and trying to understand each and every...
Watch The Sloppy Mechanics Make 992 Horsepower To The Tires On Their Junkyard Colorado
We dig the Sloppy Mechanics. Not just because they clearly know how to have fun and make power, but also because they do it their way. Instead of building things that intimidate people because they...
Rough Start: Give Your Inner Child What They Always Wanted: A Big Red Fire Truck!
Unless you are an absolute savant like the three of us were as kids, chances are pretty solid that the first vehicle you could name without any provocation whatsoever was “fire truck!”...
Disaster Bridge Video: This 11’8″ Span In Massachusetts Eats Trucks and Bad Drivers For Lunch!
(By Greg Rourke) – Low clearance bridges are the bane of the trucking industry. Legal height for trucks is 13’6″, but that doesn’t mean they can just go anywhere. Case in...
Huge Aftermarket News: MOMO and Weld Racing Join Forces – Weld To Maintain Kansas City Manufacturing
Some very significant news has broken this am in the high performance aftermarket. MOMO, the internationally known high performance wheel manufacturer and Weld Racing have joined in a partnership...
Exclusive Photos Of The New American Powertrain 1968-72 C10 Transmission Hump
So this week BangShift will be dropping knowledge on all sorts of new parts, components, and products from aftermarket companies across the board as we’re attending an annual event that centers...
The BSF Recovery Service Is Totally Awesome – Watch This Off Road Tow Truck Get The Job Done!
(By Greg Rourke) – Up in Northwest Wisconsin and Northeast Minnesota they have a bunch of off road parks and trails. And unlike the weenies I see driving around here with four shocks at each...
Not Every Holden Is A Burnout Car…Check Out This Beastly Kingswood Pulling Truck!
If there is such a thing as “burnout season” in Australia, it’s currently in full force right now. Video after video, we’ve seen some of the best come out swinging, turning...
Ever Wonder Why Cop Cars Have Push Bars? Here’s A Video Example
(By Greg Rourke) – I was a truck driver for a while. The perception is big semi trucks can drive through anything, but reality is it doesn’t take much to reduce them to 80,000 pounds...
During WWII The Germans Used Tiny Remote Controlled Tanks As Rolling Bombs (Video Of GIs Riding One!)
Just when you think that you have a pretty good handle on lots of the weaponry and innovations that came out of WWII you learn that the Germans were using small, remote controlled tanks packed with...
Watch A Crazy Irishmen Try To Keep His Car From Being Towed By Driving It Off The Truck!
(By Greg Rourke) – Sometimes I run across something blogworthy on Youtube, then find the vid that shows up next is even better. Today was one of those days. We showed some cats that...
This 1984 M1009 Military Blazer Is How Chevrolet Should Have Built Every K5 Blazer
We tend to look at military trucks on Craigslist and eBay so that we can dream about yet another vehicle to add to our list of must haves. The typical M35 is of course a staple, as who doesn’t...
