Pulling Action Photos: VDB Staalbouw Megapull Madness From Europe – Big Rigs Getting Down!
(Words and photos by Dennis Vos) – The 2016 season kicked of at VDB Staalbouw Megapull in Stroe. Friday night was a light two wheel drive and Truck night and Saturday was filled to the brink...
Unimog Greatness: One Of The World’s Finest Off Road Machines
I love the Unimog. Mercedes built, totally bitchin, and as much truck as tractor. Bulletproof must be what Unimog means in German, because that’s what they are, and they take a big tire without...
Proof That The Gulf Livery Is Cool On EVERYTHING – This 1978 E-Series Van Is Awesome!
There are certain things that ring iconic no matter what form we see them in. The Coke bottle, the American flag, and in the world of racing, the “Gulf livery”. That pale blue base paint...
HE DID IT! Jack Donohue’s 101 Mile Per Hour 1952 8Ncredible Tractor Is The Best LSR Vehicle Ever
(Photos by David Whealon/ DWPhotos.net) – UPDATED 5/20/16 — During the ECTA Ohio Mile meet last weekend, Jack Donohue made history and achieved his goal of reaching 100 mph with a...
Watch As Scott Green And The “Sail” Mega Truck Proceed To Violate FAA Rules!
Two things immediately come to mind seeing Scott Green and his mega truck, “Sail”, that far in the air: One, that this will be a high point in his driving gig for years to come, and two,...
Semi Tractors, Dump Trucks, And School Buses: Running Every Possible Diesel-Powered Rig At Truck Mania!
Now this is a day at the drags for diesels we could really get behind. No offense meant to the 3/4 and one-ton pickup crowd, but when we see a GMC Astro 95 boiling it’s hides off like a blown...
eBay Find: This 1957 International S-120 Panel Truck Is A Heavenly 4×4 That Looks Like Hell
If this thing is not absolutely ripe to be the central character in an episode of Roadkill, I am not sure what else is. Unique in the fact that there cannot be many of them left on Earth, oozing...
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...
