The American Powertrain Memorial Day Sale is now LIVE! Save $150 off any 5 or 6 speed kit May 18-26!

That’s right folks, the American Powertrain Memorial Day Sale is on now through Tuesday the 26th, so if you want to save $150 off any 5 or 6 speed kit use the link below and tell them we sent...

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Turning This Old Farm Truck into a Killer Street Machine Using Scrapyard Ford Parts! Bumpside Ford Goodness!

I love donor vehicle builds like this one. What I mean by that is when you buy a car, or parts from the wrecking yard, to build something new and exciting in a way it never was before. My 1956 Chevy...

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EASILY Bend Rubber Hoses Without Kinking Them! Does The Hot Water Trick Actually Work Or Not?

I’ve heard about this trick a few times, but have never actually tried to form my own molded rubber hose using it. But this guy seems to suggest it is not only possible, but very very...

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Remembering Our Friend Kyle Loftis – The Man Behind 1320video Will Be Missed More Than He Ever Realized

It has taken me several days to be able to post something like this on BANGshift. Posting it the day we found out about the loss of our great friend would have been the smart thing for page views and...

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HIGH FLYING FORMULA OFFROAD RACING FROM ICELAND’s HELLA 2026! COURSE 3 RACING ACTION

If you are new around there then you might not know that we seriously dig Formula Off-Road racing here at BANGshift.com. This is high flying, loud, and intense racing that involves what look to be...

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Camden Murphy Sets Monster Truck World Speed Record at Monster Jam at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway

Monster Trucks are awesome machines, and the things they are capable of doing are mind boggling at times. But as fast, and crazy, and high flying as they are, top speed is not the thing you think of...

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More Awesome Pulling Action Photos From The VDB Staalbouw Megapull – Huge European Horsepower On Display!

(Words and photos by Dennis Vos) – Saturday was a great day for some pulling action, so I packed my bag and went to Stroe, As i was on time i was taking my stroll through the Paddock I saw a...

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...