Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Stage 7 Racing Action! We Hope They Got Good Rest, Because The Desert Isn’t Playing!

It’s Stage 7, after a full day of rest, but the desert didn’t take a break. It’s ready to rock each and every day, and Stage 7 is no different. In the video below you’ll see Stage...

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Tool Tech: The BEST Swivel Adapters for Sockets! Putting Swivel Adapters Through Their Paces To Find Out Who’s Best

We’re back with more tool tests, which you know we love around here, and this time it’s swivel adapters that are being test. We all love a good wobbly socket, but if you don’t have...

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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Rest Day Action! Drivers, Navigators, And Race Machines Get A Break. The Crews, Not So Much!

It’s Rest Day at Dakar 2026, but that doesn’t mean that everyone is just sitting around. In the video below you’ll see where everyone stands now as drivers and crew, along with...

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Bodywork 101: Fixing BAD Panel Gaps! Tightening Up Your Gaps Can Make A HUGE Difference In Your Finished Project

There are a lot of differences between your average body shop paint and bodywork and something that someone like Kevin Tetz would do for a high end project. Sometimes projects don’t require, or...

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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Stage 6 Rally Racing Action! The Saudi Desert Is Fighting Back In This 48th Running of the Dakar Rally!

We’ve been sharing every day’s coverage from the 2026 Dakar Rally and today is no different. Watch the video to see all the Stage 6 action, highlights, and more below! Bodies and vehicles...

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Here’s What Happens When Two Drag Racers Team Up To Go Racing At The 2.4 Hours of LeMullets and Do GOOD!

You have to love the idea of Disco Dean and Kye Kelley as teammates for the 2.4 Hours of LeMullets in Florida. If you aren’t familiar with this race, it is a 2.4 hour long endurance race that...

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Watch The Blue Blazes Pulling Tractor Go Out In A Blaze Of Glory – Photo Sequence And Video…The Carnage Is Incredible

 This is the story of one of the sport of tractor pullings’ most legendary-and exciting-competitors, Mike Wilhite.  The video and photos that go along with this tale are a few years old but...

It’s All About The Flow: This Short And Sweet Lesson On Priority Main Oiling From Dart Is Great

When we hear certain terms in the gearhead world we generally understand them but maybe a bit more clarity and education is always welcome, right? One of the big ones that gets thrown around a lot is...

The Slog: Bashing And Creeping Through The Pipeline From Hell Mud Bog

Thanks to the remnants of Hurricane Laura, which proceeded to turn the better part of Western Kentucky into utter swampland, mud is now a part of the daily routine and will be until things dry out....

Classic YouTube: Texas A&M Testing A New Truck-Resistant Barrier. Make No Mistake, It Works.

In a past life before BangShift, back when I was visiting locations that would require an up-front payment that even Bill Gates himself would choke to write out onto a check, we had a major problem:...

Lumbering Beast: Taking A 1957 Autocar On A Long-Overdue Drive

Autocar is one of the oldest names in automotive manufacturing…122 years old, in fact. They made a wide range of cars early on, but after World War II the company pretty much stuck their focus...

Classic YouTube: Watch the Boeing 787-9 Practice For The Farnborough Air Show

A common legend that runs through the halls of Boeing involves a test and demonstration flight of the Boeing 367-80, the prototype that became the Boeing 707. At the Seattle Seafair festival, Alvin...

Watch The Pakistani Truck Repair Guys Fix A Cracked Wheel On The Lathe. With A Million Alcoa’s Around Here It Seems Weird, But They Got Skills!

The Pakistani Truck repair videos often have crazy stuff going on in them, like the one where they mount a whole rear axle housing in the lathe. We laugh, and cringe, when we watch them but sometimes...

OBS Clash Episode 2: How The Sport Truck Became An Icon That Spawned Whole Industries

Here is Episode 2 of the OBS Clash Series folks! Anyone who reads BANGshift on any regular basis knows I’m a Chevrolet guy to the core, and that I love my Square Body Chevy pickups. But I love...

Monster Mack: Watch This Twin-Engine Aussie Mack Cruiseliner Cut Loose At Bindoon!

Diesel freaks bug me. Not those who extract maximum power out of engines designed to produce a ton of power, just those who insist that billowing black smoke out of a trash can from underneath a...

Video: A Big Block Chevy Powered Jeep Hikes Wheelies On The Street And Runs to 60 in Less Than 3-Seconds!

This is the kind of stuff that’ll put hair on your teeth! Take a Jeep Wrangler, jam a whole bunch of really pissed of Chevy rat motor in the front, add beefy axles, Cal Trac bars and Mickey...

Watch a Super Stock Pulling Tractor Lose A Massive Rear Wheel With Potentially Disastrous Consequences

This is one of those videos that depicts the best possible outcome for a situation that could have potentially resulted in mass casualties at a motorsports event. The event is an indoor tractor...

Beautifying The Buick: The Hagerty Straight Eight Redline Rebuild Heads For The Paint Booth

We have been following the saga of the Hagerty Redline Rebuild of a Buick straight eight engine for a while now. This thing has been a bear in more ways than one and at seemingly every turn the...

Save BIG With OPGI’s SUMMER20 Promo Code – Up To 40% Savings – ONE WEEK LEFT

We live in weird, uncertain times. There’s some new wrinkle in the way we live our lives nearly every day. The good thing? Our cars are still there to keep us sane. You can socially distance...

Heavy Metal Crunching: Check Out Truck Banger Racing From St Day!

Yes, you’re seeing that correctly: a rollback truck mounted on top of a cement barrier like a trophy, it’s nose shoved in. You almost feel sorry for the poor thing, don’t you?...