This 1940 Chevrolet Film Celebrates Engines In All Their Glorious Forms
One of the basic truths that we hold to be self-evident around here is that if you are reading BangShift you love engines. You like the noise they make, the smells they give off, the parts and pieces...
Video: 2018 JE Pistons Masters of Motors At SEMA – Picking The Coolest Engines At The Show!
2018 has been a killer year for experiencing and being involved in cool stuff. A personal highpoint was being part of the judging panel for an innovative new awards program that JE Pistons came up...
AutoMeter Hot Rod Holiday: EVERYTHING Is On Sale, Literally Everything! Check This Out
Many manufacturers run great sales around the holidays and they typically have some great deals to take advantage of. AutoMeter has taken this concept to the next level with their Hot Rod Holiday...
eBay Find: Have We Actually Reached The Era Of A $55,000 1988 Jeep Grand Wagoneer?
It is the constant debate when we look at everything automotive on eBay. How bad do you want it? How much money do you have to spend? How rare is it? How tough is it to find? These are the things...
Watch Tim O’Neil, Owner Of Team O’Neil Rally School Artfully Drift His F-450 Dually
Dave Nutting and I spent what is likely the most memorable day of our automotive lives at the Team O’Neil Rally School up in Dalton, NH a couple of summers ago. That was the day that we got to...
From Civil Servant To Slammed Super-Rig: This 1955 Chevrolet COE Gets Worked Over
(Photo: Cobblestone Customs) Let’s see here: we have a Chevrolet truck that is slammed down to the ground, sporting a Duramax/Allison powertrain, on air. That’s got Chad’s...
PRI 2018 Is In Full Swing And Here Is Our First Gallery Of Photos: Race Parts And Race Car Nirvana!
It’s December in Indianapolis and that means the PRI Show is in full swing downtown! The Performance Racing Industry Show is mecca for race car guys as every racing parts company is on hand...
Ever Wonder How They Get Those Massive 10-foot Tall Tires On Bigfoot? It Ain’t Easy! Here’s A Time Lapse Video
I think everyone who loves monster trucks over the age of 30 can probably the remember the first time they saw Bigfoot 5 either in person on or TV. This is the truck that wears the insane 10-foot...
This Compilation of 1990s Monster Truck Crashes Captures The Wildest Era Of Monster Truck Competition
The other day I posted a photo on my Instagram account (@BrianLohnes) of an old monster truck and one of the responses it got was a guy saying, “They actually raced these?” At first I was...
Hitting The Lottery: What Would You Do If You Found A Treasure Trove Of Trucks?
We’ve all dreamed of that mythical barn find at some point or another, where you find some building that hasn’t had a visitor since the day disco music died that was hiding the kind of...
The End of Big Muskie: Watch The Largest Piece Of Earth Moving Equipment Ever Get Blown Apart
53,000hp, a bucket that could move 220 cubic yards of material at a time, and a career that saw a singular machine move more Earth than was moved during the entire construction of the Panama Canal....
1980s Video Goodness: Battle Of The Monster Tanks – Loads Of Tracked Monsters We Never Knew About!
Some people may scoff at hardcore monster truck fans but we don’t. While we love looking back at the history of these trucks we don’t have the knowledge and wherewithal to build kick ass...
Rivan: The Electric Truck and SUV Startup That Caught Everyone’s Attention At The L.A. Auto Show
At the 2018 L.A. Auto Show, one truck and one SUV made waves, both made by a manufacturer that nobody had seemingly heard of: Rivan. The two concepts, the R1T pickup truck and the R1S SUV, are...
Wanna See What It’s Really Like Inside A Trophy Truck During The Baja 1000? Watch This!
Having been to the BAJA 1000 and having drooled over the thought of racing in it someday, anytime I can watch footage from the race I do. So when this cool video came up from the crew of the Terrible...
