NORRA Baja Livestream: The National Off-Road Racing Association Takes On The Mexican Desert May 1-7!

The National Off-Road Racing Association has been putting on races since 1967 and is known for their Baja race that is a little less hardcore than SCORE’s BAJA 1000. Not that the racing...

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Here’s The Story Of Freiburger’s Original Muscle Truck, And How We Helped Make This Awesome Squarebody A Thing!

I am willing to bet that there probably isn’t anyone who’s cut more stuff off of Freiburger’s Muscle Truck than I have. Since I was there for the original build, as part of our...

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New Junkyard Inventory! This 1963 Ford Custom Cab Pickup Is Cool! But Does It Check All The Boxes for a Custom Cab?

We’ve got more fun junkyard inventory from our friend Chad Ehrlich at Nobody Else’s Auto in Great Bend Kansas. This week Chad is sharing this awesome 1963 Custom Cab Ford pickup. These...

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The 2027 Dakar Rally Route Has Been Announced! Check Out Where It’s Going Below!

We’ve been fans of the Dakar Rally for decades, and we love to share coverage from the race here whenever possible. It’s been an interesting journey for the Dakar Rally in the last 10...

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Drill Press Meets Fab Table: Jason From Fireball Tools Built the Drill Press He’s Always Wanted!

Have you ever walked into someone’s shop or garage and seen a tool that got you excited because you realized it is something someone customized? I’ve done it too many times to count, and...

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This Awesome Dent Side Ford F100 Pre-Runner RIPS The STREETS, The Dirt, And More!

There is something awesome about vintage bodied pre-runner trucks, and this dentside F100 is a great example. My uncle had a SuperCab back then, and even though I was never a Ford fan growing up I...

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Lohnes’s Two Favorite Cab Over Trucks From SEMA 2015 – One Ford and One Chevy

If you had told the engineers and designers that were making these trucks come to life decades ago that the yeoman equipment they were working on would be considered iconic Americana in the next...

You Just Might Need This 4×4 Pacer In Your Life

The American Motors’ Pacer will, for better or worse, be one of the best-remembered cars in the company’s checkered past. Ungainly and overweight, it was the byproduct of a lot of things gone...

Today Would Have Been Marvin “Killdozer” Heemeyer’s Birthday – Remember Him?

(By Greg Rourke) – Today would have been the birthday of Marvin Heemeyer. It’s been said that you cannot fight city hall. That may be true, but Marvin found a loophole. He ran over city...

Glorious Overkill: Meet The Whispering Giant – This Is What 11,560 Ft/Lbs Of Torque Can Do!

You would have thought that having multiple blown alcohol-fueled Hemis attached to one Unlimited pulling tractor would have been enough, right? One Top Fueler’s engine is a study in mechanical...

Watch These Down Under Stadium Super Trucks Drivers End Up Upside-Down

Robby Gordon’s Stadium Super Trucks series has found a home away from home with several races in Australia. The brutish off-road trucks look positively absurd navigating any temporary street...

Go Long With This Unique And Cool 1940 Ford Flower Car – Ever Seen One Before?

We have seen lots of flower cars here at BangShift over the years and most of them have been of the type you’d expect. Lincolns, Cadillacs, and other big cars. It makes sense that those would...

Work For That Money: Chasing Five Grand Up A Muddy Bounty Hill In Kentucky!

Normally, when we check in on the rock bouncer types, they are trying to fling themselves up a hill that looks to have been crafted by the Devil himself. There’s airborne rigs, there’s...

Weirdest Chevrolet Newsreel Ever: Man Goes Fishing With His 1936 Chevrolet Sedan – Uses Car As “Net”

Typically newsreel ads of the 1930s, especially those that showed cars highlighted stuff like their toughness, their robust construction, or their fuel economy. Chevrolet decided to go another way...

Insane Video: Watch This (Presumably) Road Raging Truck Driver Bulldoze A Car Down A City Street At Speed

When you start to think about the physics and hard math involved in moving a big rig down the road and the energy it has when moving as speed, you’ll either be terrified or respectful when you...

Just What Brian Needs: A 1954 Dodge Job-Rated Truck With A 331 Hemi!

You know what we haven’t seen a lot of in a while? Big, lumbering trucks that are right up Lohnes’s alley. You know the kind: Classic styling, a torque-monster mill that is hooked to a...

This Eight Tire Equipped Jeep Looks Cool But Has One Massive Flaw – Can You See It?

The first time I ever saw a monster truck pulling off the eight tire look it was the “American Eagle” truck which was attempting to drive across a lake or something in Florida and the...

This 1951 White Moving Truck Has A 427, A Turbo 400, And Tiny House Potential For Days

We’ve got to admit to kind of loving this old truck. My wife and kids watch the tiny house show religiously and while they occasionally do something neat on there, we think that this rig has...

World’s Fastest Off-Road Vehicle To Be Debuted At Aeromotive SEMA Booth

  There are many different things to get excited about with the 2016 SEMA show coming. There’s the new parts and pieces that we will see, there are the parties we’ll duck into, but...

Formula Off-Road In The States! Iceland’s Greatest Show Off Their Hydroplaning Skills In Tennessee!

Formula Offroad is comprised of four-wheel drive vehicles that can, with the appropriate amount of throttle applied, completely and utterly defy physics. Mountain of gravel and ash? Oh, we’ll...