THE VAULT: Exploring Hot Rod & Racing HISTORY Underneath the Petersen Museum. You Gotta See This!

Our friend Tommy Lee Byrd recently got the chance to visit the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, and the very special section, underneath this HUGE space that is called The Vault. It’s...

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BANGshift.com Would Like To Wish All Of You A Happy And Safe Independence Day! We Hope You Enjoy The Celebration This 4th of July!

On behalf of myself, all our great BANGshift.com contributors, and all our families, BANGshift.com would like to wish you all a happy, healthy, and safe Independence Day. Happy Birthday to the United...

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Shop Tour Video: United by Trucks Visits Pennsylvania’s Hart Fab to Get A Look At What Makes Them Tick. This is UBT ON TOUR

I love shop tours. Who doesn’t? Seeing a hot rod or custom shop building cars and trucks is always fun to see, and when they do it right it is really fun to check out all their fabrication,...

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Laid On Its Balls! How This Custom NBS Went From Show To Scrap And Back To Life And On The Road!

This truck has got some interesting history and has lived a rough life but has been brought back to life in a big way. After being built, this truck lit the show world on fire as it was laid out on...

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Loren Healy and the El Bandito Ford Bronco Take First in Ultra4 USA at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb! Race Day Onboard 2026

Loren Healy is no stranger to going fast, no matter what he’s driving, but he’s most at home behind the wheel of his Ultra 4 Bronco in the dirt. So what made him want to take the El...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Making Fiberglass Doors Actually Fit, And Making The Steering Work Properly!

Doors that shut and wheels that turn might not sound super exciting, but they require fabrication and time in order to be right and that’s what we dig. This project has been fun to follow, and...

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Watch This Jeep Plummet Off A Cliff, Bash Trees, Flip 8 Times And Protect The Driver

The majority of us have probably been four wheeling or off roading in one form or another. I have no problem admitting that the stuff I have done is absolutely weenie-esque when compared to what you...

This NAPCO Equipped 1959 Chevy Apache 3600 Is A No Nonsense, Go Anywhere Rig

Talk about cool, this truck is ice cold! A three quarter ton, 1959 Chevy Apache is a cool truck but when you add in the fact that it is also a factory NAPCO truck, the interest level (and price)...

Craigslist Find: A Properly Rat-Rodded 1948 International Wrecker With Minneapolis-Moline Power!

A cut down old wrecker with some hot-rodding touches and a tractor engine…if there was ever a Craigslist ad targeted straight towards Brian, I’ve yet to see it. While Brutus the Wrecker...

This Inside Look At Chuck Mallet’s Award Winning, Retro Inspired 2014 Silverado Is Great

Perhaps my single favorite vehicle at SEMA 2014 is the one featured in this video made the the team at Chevrolet Performance’s “The Block”. This truck was built by Chuck Mallet and...

Watch This Sled Failure Turn Into A Painful Crash At An Indoor Kentucky Pull

Indoor tractor pulls are cool for the same reason that indoor monster truck shows are. The action is all right there in front of you and the noise and fury are intensified by the fact that there is a...

Kelderman Air Suspensions Equipped Trucks Were EVERYWHERE At SEMA, Check Them Out

Jeff Kelderman, and the entire crew at Kelderman Air Suspensions, are some bad ass folks. Not only do they build some insanely cool heavy duty suspension systems for your stock height or lifted...

Tug Of Win: Watch A Monster Cadillac Hearse Battle An Old Deuce And A Half Truck

Back during the earliest days of BangShift in 2008 when Chad and I sat down to figure things out we agreed on one item only. That singular point was the fact that whenever we saw anything related to...

This 1936 Chevy Bus Was Made Into A Hose Hauler By The Fire Dapartment – Could It Haul Hot Rods?

So there will never be a day when we grow weary of seeing, scheming about, or dreaming of cool car haulers. This 1936 Chevy school bus was converted into a hauler of sorts many moons ago by a fire...

Video: The MythBusters Coolest Test Involves A Dump Truck, Two Columns Of Cars, A Cow Catcher, And Incredible Results

The guys on MythBusters have done some seriously cool stuff on TV over the years to prove or disprove things that have happened in movies, old wives’ tales, and their own theories on stuff but...

Watch Monster Truck Racer BJ Johnson Make One Of The Wildest Saves Of All Time

BJ Johnson is one of the up and coming names in the world of monster truck racing. What was once the realm of guys who bashed beer cans over their heads before getting into the trucks is now becoming...

The JCB Fastrac Snow Plow Is A High Speed Snow Dominating Monster

When I lay my grotesquely large head down on my pillow each night I try to think of something nice before drifting off into slumber. Maybe it is a happy memory from the day, maybe it is the thought...

Icelandic Off-Roading Rules! This 1600 HP Beast Hillclimbs, Mudding And Just Because They Can, They Drive On Water Too!

Sometimes we don’t need a reason past “it’s just freakin’ awesome” to feature something here, and this footage from the Formula Offroad race in Hella, Iceland is just...

Ford Unveils 2016 Ford Police Interceptor Utility – Turbo V6 Tank On Wheels

The 2016 Ford Police Interceptor Utility has been unveiled at the Chicago Auto Show and while the drivetrain is largely unchanged from previous models there are a host of other technological...

Classic Racing Footage: The 1989 Heavy Metal Challenge Race – Watch Robby Gordon and Walker Evans Battle It Out!

We love fast trucks around here, and we love loud and fast racing. By that measure, Class 8 trucks are high on our list of dirt toys we dream of being able to drive. You may have your favorites, but...