XL eBay Find: A Hummer That Isn’t Really A Hummer But Is More BangShifty Than A Hummer
May 23, 2014Brian Lohnes3
Sometimes things are not what they appear to be and this truck pretty much sums that up to a T. What you think you are looking at is a military spec Hummer that has been upgraded, updated, and made...
Check Out This Crazy Cool And Rare 1943 CMP Chevrolet C8A Military Heavy Machinery Truck We Found On eBay
May 22, 2014Chad Reynolds2
This thing rules! According to the seller, and several references, this 1943 CMP Chevrolet C8A is called a ZL-1 and is one of just a few built. And, although it has been restored, it is all original...
The 2014 F-100 Supernationals – Vintage Ford Trucks And Sweet Blue Oval Cars Invade Tennessee!
May 21, 2014Brian Lohnes1
(Words and Photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – It was a busy weekend in the Southeast, with big shows in Nashville and Pigeon Forge, as well as the NHRA event in Atlanta. Tommy Lee Byrd spent the...
Huge Tractor Auction This Weekend In Oregon – One Of America’s Biggest Collections Of John Deere Machines
May 21, 2014Brian LohnesComments Off on Huge Tractor Auction This Weekend In Oregon – One Of America’s Biggest Collections Of John Deere Machines
It is a good thing that I’m contractually obligated to announce the NHRA event in Topeka, Kansas this weekend because if I wasn’t, I’d be on a plane to Oregon to take in and...
This 1977 F-250 Is Actually A Heavy Duty 2008 Ram In Disguise – Cool Old Ford Looks, Big Modern Cummins Power
May 20, 2014Brian Lohnes6
There are certain things we stumble upon while trolling eBay and other online marketplaces for trucks, tractors, cars, and parts which literally lap off the page and scream, “SHOW ME OFF ON...
This 1936 Divco Milk Truck Need To Be Bought, Stuffed With A Blown Hemi, And Given The Pro Street Treatment
May 18, 2014Brian Lohnes6
Sitting here watching the rain fall in Atlanta I defaulted to what every gearhead does, which is to say that I started cruising eBay for cool, weird, and interesting vehicles that could be...
Roadkill: Finnegan And Freiburger Convert The Muscle Truck Into A Screaming, Fuel Injected, Dune Bashing Warrior
May 17, 2014Brian Lohnes13
The muscle truck has lived a hundred lives at this point and one of them actually started on BangShift. Technically it started on the site that preceded BangShift but you get what we’re...
Ipswich Ale’s “Tapmobiles” combine our two favorite things: old trucks and cold beer
May 17, 2014Craig Fitzgerald1
The only thing I like better than old trucks is old trucks and beer. Last summer, I spent the afternoon watching an Olde Tyme Base-Ball double-header, and drinking beer out of “Shag,”...
Chevy Guys Will Cry – Someone Turned A Pretty Clean 1972 C10 Into A Grill?!
May 16, 2014Brian Lohnes3
We have to thank Matt Cramer of DiyAutoTune.com for the tip on this pretty incredible Craigslist find. Long story short, some guys converted a 1972 C10 truck into a huge grill that can be towed...
An Angry Old Guy In Oklahoma Closed His Junkyard In 1953 And Now The Entire Jordon Collection Has Come Up For Auction
May 15, 2014Brian Lohnes10
Oliver Jordon was just a guy looking to make a living. In 1945 he bought a wrecking yard in Enid, Oklahoma and picked right up from where the guy he bought it from had left the business. Cars were...
Motorized Freak of the Week: The AMF Sur-Trek
May 14, 2014Brian Lohnes2
This week’s Motorized Freak is a slick little 8×8 amphibious vehicle produced by AMF in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. It would make one bitchin’ pit vehicle at the dragstrip. We...
This 1951 Federal House Truck Is The Most BangShift Approved Home On Wheels We’ve Ever Seen
May 14, 2014Brian Lohnes5
Federal house truck? First off, we don’t mean liked Federal Government because if they built it, the tires would be flat, the roof would be caved in, and…Ok, I’m stopping there. The...
Cruise With Jay Leno In A 27-Liter Merlin Powered 1930 Bentley – This Thing Is Awesome
May 12, 2014Brian Lohnes4
It would crack me up months ago reading stories about people asking what Jay Leno would do when he finally left the Tonight Show and handed the keys to Jimmy Fallon. They were writing about the guy...
CL Find: This Beat Looking F-150 Has A Twin Turbo 351 And All The Makings Of The Best Sleeper In America
May 11, 2014Brian LohnesComments Off on CL Find: This Beat Looking F-150 Has A Twin Turbo 351 And All The Makings Of The Best Sleeper In America
Normally we limit ourselves to one Craigslist Find per day but the tip we just got on this sleeper Ford pickup that is currently for sale on Craigslist was too good to sit on, we had to run it! This...










