BANGshift.com Would Like To Wish All Of You A Happy And Safe Independence Day! We Hope You Enjoy The Celebration This 4th of July!

On behalf of myself, all our great BANGshift.com contributors, and all our families, BANGshift.com would like to wish you all a happy, healthy, and safe Independence Day. Happy Birthday to the United...

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Shop Tour Video: United by Trucks Visits Pennsylvania’s Hart Fab to Get A Look At What Makes Them Tick. This is UBT ON TOUR

I love shop tours. Who doesn’t? Seeing a hot rod or custom shop building cars and trucks is always fun to see, and when they do it right it is really fun to check out all their fabrication,...

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Laid On Its Balls! How This Custom NBS Went From Show To Scrap And Back To Life And On The Road!

This truck has got some interesting history and has lived a rough life but has been brought back to life in a big way. After being built, this truck lit the show world on fire as it was laid out on...

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Loren Healy and the El Bandito Ford Bronco Take First in Ultra4 USA at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb! Race Day Onboard 2026

Loren Healy is no stranger to going fast, no matter what he’s driving, but he’s most at home behind the wheel of his Ultra 4 Bronco in the dirt. So what made him want to take the El...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Making Fiberglass Doors Actually Fit, And Making The Steering Work Properly!

Doors that shut and wheels that turn might not sound super exciting, but they require fabrication and time in order to be right and that’s what we dig. This project has been fun to follow, and...

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A Train Wreck! How DO THEY CLEAN ONE UP?! Watch Them Move These Locomotives On Site! Insane Lifting.

While we were on Rocky Mountain Race Week a couple of weeks ago, we passed a train derailment that had happened in the not too distant past. The tracks were repaired, and some of the train wreckage...

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Funky Turkey: Watch This 1949 Euclid Dump Truck Run A Tough Truck Course – Run Maybe Overstating It

There’s an old question out there that we love asking. “Why be normal?” That is exactly what pertains to this video that was taken a while back at a state fair where a tough truck...

BangShift Thanksgiving Hero: This Guy Built His Own Steam Engine To Run An Alternator

(By Greg Rourke) –  It’s happened to all of us…you go out in the morning and find a dead battery in your daily driver. What to do? Well, you can pester a neighbor for a jump start....

The Good Kind Of Ugly: This 1963 Studebaker Zip Van Is Rusty And Busted But It Is Cool!

For many BangShift readers, the Studebaker Zip Van may be a kind of automotive revelation. The kind of thing that makes you wonder what the heck you missed back in the day and it’s a little bit...

Incredible: This Look Inside Powermaster Performance Is Beyond Awesome – An American Manufacturing Company!

Powermaster has been a longtime member of the BangShift family of sponsors and we have been proud of that fact for some time. This is an American company making high quality products in their Chicago...

Tire Destruction Magnificence: This Rat Motored Toyota Hates Mud Tires And Destroys Them In BangShifty Fashion

(By Jason Mazzotta) – Burnouts, fire, superchargers, donuts, and noise are everything car fanatics love and this video has it all in one crazed package known as BLWNLUX. Brett Battersby of...

Watch This Crazed Off-Road Nova Scream Up A Hill Climb While Catching Air – Who Is This Masked Man?!

We need your help! Thanks for a tip from BangShifter Christon Gerber we have video of a guy named Doug Smith hammering up a (dirt) hill climb that was held in Lisbon, Ohio. This is not the bendy,...

Cool Vans, Weird Tagline: This 1979 Dodge Van Commercial Gives The Model Line Up And A Weird Pitch

While the world wrestles with the COVID-19 pandemic, we look back to another scourge that came over the landscape, this one little more than 40 years ago and it was known as vanning. All of a sudden...

No Fear Whatsoever: The Trash Can Bronco Takes On The Cheap Truck Challenge

Nobody is going to confuse Kevin’s Bronco with any kind of showpiece. Not one person. It’s living one last time before the body completely and utterly bails the program, the engine gets...

The Southern Rock Racing Series Finals Are Full Of Rollovers And Crazy High Flying Action Right Here

If you haven’t seen Rock Racing before, then strap into your chair because it’s about to get crazy. This year the Southern Rock Racing Series visited Oklahoma’s Mid America Outdoors...

Sold: Crandon International Raceway In Wisconsin Purchased By Local Businessman/Racer – Big Plans For The Future

Crandon International Raceway, the world-famous off-road racing course that was carved out of a section of a farmer’s Wisconsin field back in the 1980s has been sold. The track has been bought...

Engineer The Quit Out Of It: This Tour Of The Optima Battery Manufacturing Plant Is Amazing

This is one of the coolest videos that highlight the manufacturing end of a product that we have ever seen. Not only do we get a peek behind the curtain of the manufacturing process for Optima...

The Desert Truck Of Your Mopar Dreams: This Dodge Bodied Class 8 Baja Truck Is Nearly Done – Unique And Awesome!

Chad’s usually the certified Baja racing freak around here but when I laid eyes on this model done, Dodge bodied class 8 Baja truck I could not stop staring. The project was started and nearly...

The Race To Nowhere: This Footage From The 1927 Dole Air Race Is Creepy – The Last Flight For Many

The 1927 Dole Air race will forever live as one of the most tragic examples of bravado preceding technology ever. The event was funded by James D Dole of pineapple empire fame. After Charles...

MAHLE Motorsport Celebrates a Century of MAHLE Automotive Innovation – Announces $100 PowerPak Piston Rebate

This is pretty awesome. MAHLE Motorsport is celebrating their 100th anniversary and they are doing by giving back to their customers. From October 15th through December 15th the company is offering a...