HIGH FLYING FORMULA OFFROAD RACING FROM ICELAND’s HELLA 2026! COURSE 4 and 5 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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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Building The Custom Roof, Dash, Steering, And Pedals, And A Lot More!

Shannon is back at the fab work on the FJ40, with the roof and dash coming along, as well as the pedals and steering in a second video. There is a lot more going on as well, but that’s the fab...

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Tool Tech: Mythbusting! Putting 20 Myths About Using An Impact To The Test! Which Do’s And Don’t Actually Matter?

Opinions are like belly buttons, meaning everyone’s got one, but that doesn’t mean they are based on facts. It is absolutely insane how many people have opinions on how to use a tool...

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This Show is PACKED with RARE Muscle Cars & Cool Corvettes! It’s Corvette Expo And Chevys In The Smokies!

Tommy Lee Byrd, The Hot Rod Hoarder, is back at it with another great video of some insanely rare and awesome muscle cars. These cars were all on hand at the Corvette Expo and Chevys in the Smokies...

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BluePrint Engines Tech: Compression Testing The Right Way. Check Out The Simple Tools And Techniques You Need!

Doing a compression test on an engine is pretty straight forward, and only requires a couple of tools. And only one of those is a “specialty” tool, and you can either rent one from your...

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Use This 3 Step Secret to GLASS FLAT Paint! Kevin Tetz Shares Decades Of Experience That Will Make Your Paint Job A Success

We’ve shared plenty of Kevin Tetz videos over the years around here, and I can tell you that Kevin sure knows what he’s talking about. The number of TV and YouTube personalities that have...

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This Mildly Hot Rodded 1934 Ford Truck Is As Class Act That We’d Love To Cruise

Is there anything neater than when someone takes a classic and iconic shape, tweaks stuff just a little and  then “lets it breathe” like the builder of the 1934 Ford pickup did here? We...

Watch Peugeot Build A Team And Three Trucks For The 2015 Dakar Rally, From Scratch

I can’t say I’m some big Peugeot fan, but I can tell you that I’m a big Dakar fan. So when I saw this cool video that was put together by Peugeot to show what they went through to...

When I Grow Up I Want To Be A Ramp Truck: This 1963 Chevy L60 Deserves That Chance!

Sometimes we find cool ramp trucks online that we just dream of owning. Other times we find a truck that is just begging to be made into a ramp truck, like this ultra cool 1963 Chevrolet L60....

FAIL! Watch The Mad Maxx Mega Truck Fail At The Backflip

This was less than spectacular, and certainly not the way the driver of the Mad Maxx Mega Truck wanted this to go. It’s all wrong from the moment it hits the backflip ramp, and it only gets...

No Reserve! Buy This Fire Truck For Cheap! Ramp Truck Baby!

I know, we’ve been on a ramp truck kick this week, but we can’t help ourselves. Take a look at this 1979 Ford 800 Fire Truck that is for sale in Mississippi for NO RESERVE! As of the...

Cool Video: Ride Shotgun With Off Road Racer Shannon Campbell – 360-degree Camera!

There was a time when an in-car camera looked like something from the Apollo space program. Huge, bulky units that racers almost had to be forced at gunpoint to have in their vehicles. Now it is the...

eBay Find: This 1917 Curtiss OX-5 V8 Engine Is An Amazing Historical Relic

The name Glen Curtiss is slowly slipping into the darkness of history as things often do but as hardcore gear heads we’re going to do everything we can to keep it fresh. Curtiss is one of the...

Pulling Action Photos: Diesel Trucks Hooked Up And Rolling Coal

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – The last class to take the hook for the weekend were the diesel pickups.  These things have really progressed since the last time I seen them in person. ...

The A-Team Van Meets Ramp Truck! Can We Get Some 8-Lug Vectors For This Sucker?

This is a bit of a change from our normal ramp truck post, because it isn’t a normal ramp truck by a lot. In fact this may be the first ramp truck we have seen that was built from a cab and...

Got $100k? Buy This Full Tilt Pre-Runner And Own The Desert

This is one bad ass Chevrolet Pre-Runner. We’re not talking a bolt on long travel setup here, we’re talking a complete tube chassis double throw down awesome Pre-Runner that can hang with...

KTPA Pulling Action: Hot Farm Tractors and Pro Stock 4WD Trucks!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Putting on an event that moves along as this one did takes a lot of work and that force of labor is mainly consists of volunteers.  To have shows like...

eBay Find: The Awesome Reboot Buggy Is For Sale – A Crazy Design That Does Sweet Jumps

There are lots of wild concepts and designs that get “built” but instead of being usable they are simply pieces of rolling art or sculpture that are meant to be looked at but not seen or...

Military Motorhome In The Making! This 1994 M1079 LMTV Is Ready To Rock!

We dig big giant army trucks, I mean who doesn’t right? The M1079 was originally part of the 82nd Airborne of Fort Bragg, and is in awesome shape. It’s got a 6 cylinder CAT diesel with...

Some Of The Stuff We Just Thought Was Cool From The Lucas Off-Road Expo 2015

It was like Christmas at the Lucas Oil Off-Road Expo in Pomona last weekend, but there were still a few vehicles that stood out to us as just being cool, even though they didn’t necessarily fit...