Newbern’s Ramp Truck Project Continues: Tearing Into Two Builds! C50 Cab Off Plus A Fox Body Engine Gets Pulled!

Newbern is back at it with another installment on the C50 ramp truck build. He’s taking a couple of donor vehicles and putting them together to make his dream ramp truck and we can’t wait...

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Big Power, Small Engine: Double Or TRIPLE The Power Of Your Predator Engine For Go Kart And Mini Bike Fun!

I don’t know any car guys and gals who don’t like mini bikes and go karts, and in recent years there is no better engine than a Predator from Harbor Freight. Freiburger and I built mini...

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This Crew Cab Dually Trade Road Trip Goes South For Mortske! Did He Get TAKEN Or Is This Just Lowered Dually Life?

When you make enough trades, there is no doubt that occasionally you won’t end up making out exactly as planned. Doesn’t mean the car or truck you trade for sucks, but maybe it just...

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Tool Testing: Mustard vs Ketchup DeWALT says their 1st Right Angle Die Grinder is 1.5X As Powerful As Milwaukee!

We love tool tests around here, and while we know many of you out there are super loyal to mustard or ketchup, aka DeWalt or Milwaukee, we’re not really that particular. Yes I understand why...

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Vice Grip Garage Annual Father Son Trip! ATTEMPTING 3,000 Miles In A VINTAGE BIG BLOCK RV! Cooking, Fishing, Museums and more!

A couple of weeks ago we shared the video of Derek picking up this machine and getting it ready to drive 850 miles home. Seemed like a pretty stout trip in an unknown RV, but that was nothing when...

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Freiburger Takes Us On A DRIVING TOUR of HISTORIC HOT ROD SPOTS Around Los Angeles! Too Many To Count!

There are tons of historic spots around Southern California that impacted hot rodding, racing, and custom car building over the last 80 years or so, but no matter how many you can think of there are...

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FIA European Truck Racing Starts This Month. Check Out The Highlight Video And Trailer For 2014

The FIA, most famous for being the sanctioning body of Formula 1, puts on tons and tons of other races. And the truth is that when they come to a particular race track for an F1 race, there are...

Check Out This Awesome Bed That Any Car Guy, Or Car Kid, Would Die To Sleep In

The guys at Bedwood and Parts put this up on their Facebook page yesterday and it rules. It’s a bed, for sleeping, made from the bed and back of the cab of a 1953-1956 Ford F100 and we dig it....

Spotted: The EarthRoamer XV-LT Is A Rarely Seen, Completely Awesome, And Big Dollar Go Anywhere RV

As I mentioned last week, I am spending the better part of this week in the Denver, Colorado working as the host of the 2014 Diesel Power Challenge. The event is pretty gnarly and it pits some of the...

Griztek Snow Challenge Hill Climb Racing Video That Has Us Wishing For White Stuff To Play In!

Last week we showed you cool video of what appeared to be sand drags, mud drags, and hill climb racers who were tearing it up going the wrong way on a ski slope, and it was awesome. Thanks to John...

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This Converted School Bus Just Might Be The Perfect BangShift LIVE Mobile Command Center!

Moriarty, the name Brian and I have given to the BangShift.com accountant, would literally die of a coronary if we were to acquire this fine specimen of underpowered, mobile command center greatness....

Fantastic Historical Video: WWII Deuce and a Half Submarine

This old film features an M35A2 Army truck, known more commonly as a “deuce and a half.” It was rated for 5,000 pounds of cargo capacity when off road and a 10,000-pound capacity when on...

Meet The Field For The 2014 Diesel Power Challenge – Big Power Heading To Denver

As some of you may remember, I was the host for the 2013 Diesel Power Challenge that is put on each year by Diesel Power Magazine. I’ll be reprising my role doing that this year. This is the...

eBay Find: This 1949 Diamond T 306 Truck Just Needs A Little Finish Work To Be Perfection

Hey, it is Sunday and as you are reading this, I am out announcing the ECTA Spring Meet where some of the fastest hot rods in the country are hauling ass at speeds well in excess of 200 mph on the...

This Duramax Powered Sand Rail Is One Coal Rolling, Hill Climbing, Paddle Tire Hot Rod

Diesel engines don’t normally end up in conversations about insane power to weight ratios because more often than not, those type of mills are mounted into large and heavy vehicles. This video...

Check Out This Pair Of Fords We Found On Craigslist And Would Combine To Make An Epic Ramp Truck

If this idea ends up sounding crazy to you, then we might have to revoke your BangShift card, or give you an award for being smart enough to know when to say when. We found a 1978 Ford F250 Super Cab...

More Photos Of The Chevy “Lumino” Emerge – We’re 100% Convinced This Was A Factory Job

Yesterday we showed you a lone photos of the Chevy “Lumino” that reader Tom Campanelli had spotted outside a Florida home improvement store. Well, we’re back with a lot more photos...

This Super Slow Motion Video Of Off Road Racing Trucks Wrecking, Jumping, And Racing Is As Hypnotic As It Is Awesome

There are few things more fascinating to us than slow-motion video. We’re not sure exactly when it showed up on network television but we’re sure glad that it did. Slow-mo is cool during...

This 1978 Dodge Power Wagon Tow Truck Is The Ultimate Road Trip Vehicle, Right?

Ok look, this is important. I have been hinting to my wife that this fantastically clean and sweet 1978 four-wheel-drive Dodge tow truck would be the ultimate road trip vehicle because we’d...

LIVE Streaming Video From The Formula Offroad Races In Sweden On Now!

You know how much we love Formula Offroad, the high flying, hill climbing, flipping, rooster tail throwing races held in Sweden and Norway. And here is your chance to watch it LIVE right here on...