FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Fabrication Marathon! Winch Mount, Bumper & Race Prep Madness In The Shop

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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Let’s Talk ENGINES, PROJECT CARS, CHiPS TV, and More With David Freiburger!

David Freiburger’s Socials and YouTube channel have grown dramatically since the Motor Trend Studios that he and Finnegan were working for shut down and he went out on his own. It’s been...

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Viva Las Vegas 2026 Rockabilly Car Show Video – Hot Rods, Pinup Girls & Live Bands Take Over Las Vegas!

Viva Las Vegas is one of THE premier rockabilly car shows and get togethers in the country. Taking over the Orleans Hotel and Casino every April, this show is in its 30th year! When I still lived in...

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New Junkyard Inventory: Dent Side Ford Pickup Trucks from the 1970’s! Including an XLT 4X4!

Chad Ehrlich is back at it with more new rides coming into the wrecking yard this week. Just when you think there can’t possibly be anymore old Ford trucks sitting around, he shows up with some...

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What Makes the East Coast Gear Supply KP 540 Axle Housing So Good? Ian Johnson Walks Us Through Them.

Heavy duty axles for off-road rigs have come a long way over the years and putting “tons” under a Jeep, or anything else for that matter, is the norm anymore. And you can buy all kinds of...

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Dyno Testing Dual Plane Intake Manifolds: Made in the USA vs Cheap Import Knockoffs – How Do They Compare?

We’re all about made in the USA parts when they make sense, but I’m very well known for saying that crap is crap, regardless of where it comes from. The point being that you should buy...

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Watch As This Duramax Chevy Puts All Of That Torque To Good Use: Punishing Tires!

From the start: this Duramax Chevrolet is a bad, bad sumbitch. The burnouts are epic, the driver unrelenting, and the fog bank created by just the tires alone was probably visible on weather radar...

This Jeepster Is The Perfect Combo Of Cool And Beat, And Will Take You Anywhere You Want To Go.

Jeepsters are awesome. As one of the first SUVs, they paved the way for some iconic rigs over the years. Of course they also paved the way for one of the most overused classifications of vehicles,...

This Peterbilt Pickup Truck Has A Caterpillar Engine, A Chopped Roof, and Super Singles

Normally I am very negative when it comes to “big rig” pickups because they are almost always a big rig cab that has been mounted on a pickup truck frame and they look weird. Conversely...

This Duramax-Powered Chevy Mega Truck Cuts Loose On A Motocross Track!

We’ve been featuring Mega Trucks here for a while now, and to be rather honest…there is something about them that has kind of bothered me. It’s not the lift, not the skinny tires,...

Take a cool cutaway view of a 10,000 horsepower turbine’s compressor stages

If you’ve ever wondered how a jet engine works, this is a pretty great video by YouTuber AgentJayZ (Likely unrelated to the hip-hop artist) on what an axial compressor looks like. Modern airliner...

Go Or No Go? Does This Customized 1955 Chevy Truck Pass The BangShift Reader Coolness Test?

(Words and photos by Greg Rourke) – Spotted this 57 Chevy pickup at the local home improvement labyrinth. At first, I hated it. I don’t like the wrong bed on a pickup. Sticking a Dodge bed...

Video Re-Run: An Epic Bus Jump From 1980 – Flying Chevy Buses, Endangered Motorcycles, and ‘Staches

So McTaggart thought he was hot stuff with the big rig jump so I had to go into the BS blog archive to pull out the best jump video we have ever run. This 1980 bus jump is so spectacular it warranted...

Stop What You Are Doing And Check Out This Crazy Cadillac Prerunner… You’ll Thank Us Later!

Here at BangShift, you know we love vehicles that are built to do crazy things the manufacturers never intended them to do. One of these categories is the American Full-Size Sedan Prerunner. Now,...

This Time-Lapse Video Featuring The Rebuild Of A Ford Flathead V8 Engine Is Awesome

The Ford Flathead V8 is one of the most iconic engines in the history of the automobile. It brought more power to more people than any other engine and it did so as reliably as any engine of its day,...

These Kids Drive Like Rock Stars! Check Out The Air They Get In These Mini Monster Trucks!

We really need to start keeping up with the times. When we were kids, we were over the moon if one of our friends had a go-kart or a dirt bike, but apparently the game has been dramatically stepped...

Jeeps And Burnouts At The Donut Garage With Currie Enterprises. What More Do You Need?

Currie Enterprises has been one of the strongest names to go to when it comes to off-road axles. I know this because in every issue of 4-Wheel and Off-Road that I read as a kid, everything under the...

2 For 1: Twice The Rear Tire, Twice The Doors, Same Price! Dually Deals.

This Dually Deal right here is pretty sweet. It’s a 1988 Crew Cab Dually, from Chevrolet, which means TBI injection. Big Block, Th400, 14 Bolt, all the heavy duty stuff. And everything works....

Bitchin 4×4 Pathfinder Chevrolet Van! Custom And Off-road, All In One!

Vans are cool. Lifted trucks are cool. Well this Chevrolet Pathfinder 4×4 Van is both and it rules! With a set of Welds on it, and what look like 35s to us, this thing is bad ass. And it’s...

eBay find: This 1949 Ford T6 Wrecker is Flathead Powered Perfection

When it comes to seeking and finding tow trucks on the internet, I probably do it far too often. I love seeing these trucks in all of their various forms. That being said, this one came as a complete...