Newbern’s Ramp Truck Project Continues: Tearing Into Two Builds! C50 Cab Off Plus A Fox Body Engine Gets Pulled!

Newbern is back at it with another installment on the C50 ramp truck build. He’s taking a couple of donor vehicles and putting them together to make his dream ramp truck and we can’t wait...

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Big Power, Small Engine: Double Or TRIPLE The Power Of Your Predator Engine For Go Kart And Mini Bike Fun!

I don’t know any car guys and gals who don’t like mini bikes and go karts, and in recent years there is no better engine than a Predator from Harbor Freight. Freiburger and I built mini...

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This Crew Cab Dually Trade Road Trip Goes South For Mortske! Did He Get TAKEN Or Is This Just Lowered Dually Life?

When you make enough trades, there is no doubt that occasionally you won’t end up making out exactly as planned. Doesn’t mean the car or truck you trade for sucks, but maybe it just...

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Tool Testing: Mustard vs Ketchup DeWALT says their 1st Right Angle Die Grinder is 1.5X As Powerful As Milwaukee!

We love tool tests around here, and while we know many of you out there are super loyal to mustard or ketchup, aka DeWalt or Milwaukee, we’re not really that particular. Yes I understand why...

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Vice Grip Garage Annual Father Son Trip! ATTEMPTING 3,000 Miles In A VINTAGE BIG BLOCK RV! Cooking, Fishing, Museums and more!

A couple of weeks ago we shared the video of Derek picking up this machine and getting it ready to drive 850 miles home. Seemed like a pretty stout trip in an unknown RV, but that was nothing when...

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Freiburger Takes Us On A DRIVING TOUR of HISTORIC HOT ROD SPOTS Around Los Angeles! Too Many To Count!

There are tons of historic spots around Southern California that impacted hot rodding, racing, and custom car building over the last 80 years or so, but no matter how many you can think of there are...

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This 1952 Ford 8N Tractor Is Powered By A 302, Has A Sherman Overdrive And Can Do 55mph!

The 8N tractor was a brilliant little workhorse that Ford sold by the millions to people across America. Small, just powerful enough, and maneuverable, the thing was perfect for small farms, small...

Video: This Custom Built, Remote Control , Tri-Axle Roll Off Dumpster Truck Is Incredible

We have seen some really neat remote control stuff here on BangShift over the years but when it comes to detail and functionality, we’re not sure that we have seen anything that compares to the...

This BangShift Approved Solution To Shifting A 4L80E Transmission Utilizes Light Switches, Miles Of Wire, And A Cell Phone

Hot rodding isn’t always pretty, right? The aftermarket is there to develop polished, working, and properly finished parts but there’s the other side of the hobby that manages to figure...

No One Remembers To Set The Brakes….Why Does Everyone Forget To Set The Brakes?

If you ever find yourself on the scene of a rolled over truck and have some say in what happens next, scream and yell as loud as you can to get someone to climb in the laid up truck and set the...

It’s Gotta Be The Van….Man – An Awesome Look Back At The World Of 1970s Custom Vans

While Chad and I were largely too young to “get” the 1970s vanning scene, it sure seems to be making a resurgence these days as the people who grew up in the 1970s, cruised custom vans...

This Amazing Time Lapse Video Of A Weekend Bridge Replacement Is Proof That People Are Still Pretty Smart

There are typically a lot of reasons to lost faith in the human race on a near daily basis now. Celebrities doing dumb thing, non-celebrities doing dumb things to become celebrities, and the other...

Not A Stunt, Not A Joke, This Guy Is Driving The Tractor Like This Down The Road On Purpose!

We have not showed you death defying tractor wheelie action like this since our last look at the insane world of Punjabi tractor pulling. Believe it or not, this video may shed some light on that...

Formula Off Road! Check Out How The Most Unhinged Off-Roaders Work The “Speed Course”!

It’s almost redundant to have a “speed” course at a Formula Off Road event. These monsters pack enough power that mountains made of gravel, sand or lava are nothing to be concerned...

The SLJ900/32 Is One Bad Bridge Building SOB. Watching This Sucker Work Is Insane!

The SLJ900/32 is an insane bridge building machine made by the Beijing Wowjoint Machinery Company. It apparently weighs 580 tons, is 300 foot long and 24 foot wide and because of it’s...

TAKE OUR MONEY: This 1979 Ford Monster Truck Is The Retro Beast We’ve Dreamed Of Owning

Sure, owning this truck makes about as much sense as cutting a pizza with a chainsaw but frankly we’ve never allowed sensibility to interrupt mechanical lust before so why start now? What you...

Ouch! Check Out Busted Knuckle Video’s Latest Rockbouncer Crash Compilation!

Rollover procedure: Keep all limbs inside of the vehicle. attempt to maintain control of the vehicle while passengers brace for impacts, and wait for the vehicle to quit moving before attempting to...

Air Muscle: Watch a classic helicopter do some low-margin heavy lifting among the high-rises of downtown Chicago

During a recent weekend trip in Chicago, I heard the tell-tale drumbeat of helicopter rotors early on a Saturday morning. It was not entirely out of the ordinary, though, since helicopters fly tours...

Your Money Came Up A Little Short: Watch The “Chasing Paper” Mega Truck Go For A Roll!

If there is one thing we’ve ever learned from watching vehicles jump, it’s that you don’t want to come up short on the landing ramp. If the back wheels catch the lip of something,...

The Deep Mud Isn’t For Everyone! Here’s Why You Don’t Follow A Mud Truck With A Street Truck!

What’s the ultimate goal of going mudding? You prove that you can take your rig through the deepest, most impossible mud hole and extract yourself. Eventually, you will get stuck, but...