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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Here’s What Happens When A Russian Truck Full Of Loose, High Pressure Gas Cylinders Crashes And Catches Fire – KABOOM

(Editor’s Note: This is one of the wildest videos that we showed you in 2014. If you missed it the first time, watch this disaster now. It’ll make you look at the next truck full of gas...

Big Rig Carnage! Ten Of The Biggest Wrecks From Truck Racing [VIDEO]

Of course a car such as a Porsche or a Corvette makes going around a corner look easy…they are set up to do just that in their softest setting. But flinging a heavy truck, the kind you normally...

eBay Find: The Drysdale Dryvtech Motorcycle Had Hydraulic Propulsion, Braking, and Two Wheeled Hydraulic Steering

This is both the coolest and weirdest motorcycle/dirt bike we have ever seen. Constructed by the internationally known Aussie builder Ian Drysdale in 1990 it is an engineering experiment that pushes...

Bad News ISIS: A-10 Warthogs Are Headed To See You – Flying Tractor Of Doom Won’t Be Retired Anytime Soon Despite Earlier Plans

Back in September of 2013 we reported on news that the A-10 Warthog was going to be retired by the Pentagon in the 2014/2015 time frame. The reasons were many. The role of the airplane had been...

TheThump Truck – A 23,000lb Kenworth That’s About to Run 13s (w/video)

With this Labor Day Weekend’s “theme” around here being working vehicles, we knew we couldn’t pass up another chance to share this insane tire shredding dump truck we have...

This Bobbed, Tracked Ford Is Weird But The Weird Is Outshone By The Awesome – Buy It!

So I have been on a hot streak with weird and awesome tracked vehicles as of late. This one came to my attention via OG BangShifter Shawn Anderson who posted this Craigslist ad on his Facebook page....

Historical Footage: The Air Force tests out the Avrocar I Between 1960-1961

The Avrocar project was an attempt by Avro Canada and the U.S. military to utilize the Coandă effect in order to achieve vertical take off and flight. The craft looked like a flying saucer and was...

1957 Chevy Factory Orrville Crew Cab Conversion – NAPCO 4WD and Power Steering –

Since today is Father’s Day I figured I would dig up this old item about one of the coolest trucks I have ever laid eyes on. This 1957 Chevy Factory Orrville crew cab conversion has NAPCO 4WD...

Ebay Find: 36,000 mile One-Owner 440-powered 1977 Dodge D300

When I was fourteen, my stepdad drug home a 1978 Dodge 3/4 ton that had been the unfortunate victim of a winter accident. The truck was very low mile, and only needed a new radiator core support,...

Look Out Larson And Reynolds! Here’s My Challenger To The World’s Fastest Street Truck – I’m Bringing The Biscuter!

I’ve been sitting here holding my tongue long enough. Ever since the Larson/Reynolds S10 went deep into the six second zone on Drag Week and ever since it went into the 5s at Las Vegas I have...

FAIL: Watch A Rickety Truck On Massive Tires And Axles Fold Up Like A Blanket While Trying To Jump A Junker

This was certainly the most exciting thing that happened at the trailer park last week. In this video you’ll see an older Ford truck that has been propped up on massive Rockwell axles from a...

The Hybrid You’d Actually Want: A Pulling Tractor With Twin 38.8L V-12 Turbodiesels and a 526 Hemi

(By Jason Sands) – (Editor’s note: We have run some video of this massive and insanely powerful tractor in the past but this is a fresh chunk of video goodness that Jason found so...

Mike Ryan, Look Out: This MAN Can Do The Big-Rig Gymkhana Thing, Too

You should be familiar with Mike Ryan, the driver behind the Freightliner drift truck that features in the “Size Matters” series of YouTube films and has run on Pikes Peak. There’s...

Do You Miss The Early 1990’s? Then This Body-Kitted Chevy 1500 Is For You!

The 88-97 GM trucks might be best remembered for their role in the creation of the “sport truck” modification craze of the 1990s. You couldn’t get away from them…dropped low,...