New Junkyard Inventory: Dent Side Ford Pickup Trucks from the 1970’s! Including an XLT 4X4!

Chad Ehrlich is back at it with more new rides coming into the wrecking yard this week. Just when you think there can’t possibly be anymore old Ford trucks sitting around, he shows up with some...

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What Makes the East Coast Gear Supply KP 540 Axle Housing So Good? Ian Johnson Walks Us Through Them.

Heavy duty axles for off-road rigs have come a long way over the years and putting “tons” under a Jeep, or anything else for that matter, is the norm anymore. And you can buy all kinds of...

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Dyno Testing Dual Plane Intake Manifolds: Made in the USA vs Cheap Import Knockoffs – How Do They Compare?

We’re all about made in the USA parts when they make sense, but I’m very well known for saying that crap is crap, regardless of where it comes from. The point being that you should buy...

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Is This Thing An ABOMINATION or GREATNESS? This Is A Small Block Chevy Powered Ford F100! Installing a HUGE Cam and Engine Refresh With Derek.

I know that some of you are screaming already, but the reality is that it’s not like you can’t replace the Chevy with a Ford in this F100 if you buy it and want to “save” it...

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Freiburger and Finnegan Limo Truck Dyno Shootout! How Much Power Did It Make?

If you missed the awesome on the road engine build and swap in Finnegan’s Limo Squarebody truck, then you missed a lot and are going to want to use the link below. They literally built a brand...

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Vintage RV For Sale: This 1972 Chevrolet C30 Open Road Custom Camper Motorhome Is Retro Greatness!

Anyone who’s been hanging out around BANGshift for very long knows I have an affinity for old rv trailers and motorhomes. When I was a kid we had a Roll-a-Long motorhome that was a square body...

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Chaos: Watch What It Looks Like When Two Dakar Rally Participants Wreck HARD In The Bolivian Desert

We’ve often talked about the risks and dangers associated with races like Baja, Dakar, and others of their ilk. That being said, we’ve never seen a more stark representation of what...

This 1962 Willys Station Wagon Is Cool, Needs Work, And In Stock Form Would Lose A Drag Race To A Steam Tractor

So McTaggart and I have essentially agreed to end the station wagon blog war that we have been engaged in over the last couple of weeks. Much like the Korean War, we have not declared a truce or...

The Camaro TRAR Or The Kids In The Photos? Which Is Cooler?

When BangShifter Tyler Garrett, who drives a 4000 horsepower Coast Guard Cutter by the way, sent us this Craigslist ad for a 4th Gen Camaro TRAR (Truck Car), the email just said “Welcome to...

Will The New 5.0L Cummins Diesel V8 Save The Nissan Titan? We’re Dying To Drive One!

With compound turbos, dual overhead cam heads, loads of Cummins engineering behind it and 555 lb/ft of torque to churn the ground with, the new Cummins 5.0L V8 which made its world debut in the...

A British Airways Boeing 777 Set A New Speed Record Across The Atlantic – Just Barely Under The Speed Of Sound!

A British Airways Boeing 777-200 just set a speed record on the New York-London route by using the jet stream to bring the wide body jet to within 16 mph of the speed of sound. BA114 completed the...

Blog War Secret Weapon: An Immaculate 1939 Ford Woody Wagon 4×4 – This Thing Is AMAZING

Look, we’ve both rolled out wagons with crappy fake woodgrain on the sides but I’m the first to actually drop the woody hammer in this blog war and I am dropping it HARD. My choice for...

Watching Kelderman’s Bed Lift System For Medium Duty Trucks Work Is Pretty Awesome – One Strong Arm

So you may be wondering a few things after seeing that lead image. The first thing you may be wondering about is why anyone would need a bed lift. The fact is that there are LOTS of medium duty and...

2015 Dakar Rally: El Martillo Racing Durango Flips, Crashes And Becomes A Fireball (Everyone Is Ok)

Yesterday I said something about how big crashes happen frequently at Dakar Rally. It’s no surprise that they do, Dakar sincerely the ultimate torture test for man, machine and the physics...

Must Be Hard Work: Watch Two Remote-Control Bobcats Fill In The National Corvette Museum’s Sinkhole!

Work is progressing on that little car-eating hole in the center of the Skydome’s floor at the National Corvette Museum. Scott, Murphy and Daniel, LLC., the construction group that is...

Tractor Gallery: 2015 Western Kentucky University’s Antique Tractor Show

If there is one thing that BangShift Mid-West has in spades, it’s access to agricultural equipment on a scale that would leave Lohnes drooling. And since it’s a new year, why not lead on...

Watch This Wild, Turbocharged, Monster Quad Lay Down More Than 300hp To The Tires On The Dyno!

When we got sent this video we had no idea what the heck we were looking at and frankly we’re still not sure. This looks like an overgrown ATV and it makes more power at the tire than our...

Blog War: This 1973 Oldsmobile Ninety Eight Custom Cruiser Wagon Is Beyond Reproach (And Better Than Anything McTaggart Will Find)

You’ll have to excuse the fact that I took a couple days off of what has turned into a Soviet/US Cold War style situation here at BangShift regarding station wagons and how wrong Bryan...

Dyno Carnage Video: A Diesel Explodes Its Guts During a Dyno Pull

Sweet mother of mechanical mercy, this is the craziest engine dynoing failure we’ve ever seen. It’s gnarly enough that parts of the bottom end, perhaps a chunk of the crank even, crash...

This Video Of A Massive Michigan Highway Pileup In Progress Is Terrifying And The Most Vivid Winter Driving Lesson Ever

We’ve all seen the news stories about huge traffic accidents that gather up dozens and dozens of cars at a whack. The other day in Michigan there was a catastrophe that involved some 150...