PRI 2016: My Favorite Engine In Indy Was This Wipe Out Enterprises DT466 Pulling Tractor Engine
Dec 15, 2016Brian Lohnes1
We have to give Valvoline credit for their booth at the 2016 PRI Show. They may have had the coolest and most varied assemblage of high performance engines we have ever seen in one place. From a...
Yield To Tonnage: Miller Transfer’s Massive Two-Truck Heavy Haul System In Action
Dec 14, 2016Bryan McTaggart1
Driving back from the PRI show in Indianapolis back to BangShift Mid-West took a little longer than expected, and it wasn’t due to the incoming snow storm the weather channels were predicting....
Cool Find: This Mid-1960s Ford N-Series Wrecker Is Rough And Tumble But Shows Major Promise
Dec 11, 2016Brian LohnesComments Off on Cool Find: This Mid-1960s Ford N-Series Wrecker Is Rough And Tumble But Shows Major Promise
Canadian BangShifter James Forgan had tipped me off to this cool 1966 Ford N-series wrecker that’s for sale up in the Great White North a while back and I dropped the ball. Thankfully no one...
The Eburg 9000 John Deere Tractor Pull Race Block Is Here
Dec 09, 2016Chad Reynolds3
Designed for, and legal in NTPA and PPL pulling events, the new Eburg 9000 is the ultimate tractor block for those using tractors based on John Deere models. Eburg Components is the brainchild behind...
The Dream Winter Wagon: A 1991 Jeep Grand Wagoneer That Has Been Cummins-Swapped!
Dec 08, 2016Bryan McTaggartComments Off on The Dream Winter Wagon: A 1991 Jeep Grand Wagoneer That Has Been Cummins-Swapped!
Jeep Grand Wagoneers (and other nice FSJ Jeeps) command coin, but the Grand Wagoneer is easily the most valuable at the moment. It was what the Range Rover became: a luxury sports-utility vehicle...
We Hit The Last Pomona Swap Meet Of 2016 And Here Are All The Photos!
Dec 05, 2016Chad Reynolds1
We’ve got almost 400 photos from the Pomona Swap Meet, and we’ll be putting up a gallery per day until they are gone! Here is the first gallery from all the cars in the show/car corral...
Buy This S&S Sand Car For A Fraction Of What It Cost New
Dec 04, 2016Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Buy This S&S Sand Car For A Fraction Of What It Cost New
When high horsepower sand cars became the thing that everyone had to have here in SoCal, they were commanding huge huge money, and then a lot of people lost their butts in the housing market and had...
This Steyr Puch Expedition RV Would Look Right At Home Anywhere In The World, On Any Terrain
Dec 04, 2016Chad Reynolds5
There is something about expedition rigs that just turns our crank. Ever since I was a kid reading about the Turtle Expedition, because of the stories in my favorite off-road magazines and especially...
Wheelies, Rooster Tails, Jumps, More Wheelies, And More Rooster Tails From Glamis Halloween
Dec 04, 2016Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Wheelies, Rooster Tails, Jumps, More Wheelies, And More Rooster Tails From Glamis Halloween
Watching this video, which is pure fun on the sand, and features nothing but buggies, trucks, bikes, and UTVs doing wheelies, throwing rooster tails, and jumping at the dunes of Glamis over...
Ramp Truck Heaven: This 1963 Dodge Club Cab Hauler Is Big-Blocked Awesome!
Dec 04, 2016Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Ramp Truck Heaven: This 1963 Dodge Club Cab Hauler Is Big-Blocked Awesome!
There are tons upon tons of 1970s Dodge-powered motorhomes out there in the world, and for the most part, all we see are massive engine donors and rolling crime scenes. But one enterprising...
A Ferrari An Adult Can Drive, And That Will Only Cost You $3000! A Ferrari Tractor That Is…
Dec 04, 2016Chad Reynolds4
It’s the real deal. Made in Italy. An actual Ferrari. This one without a body designed by Pininfarina, but a Ferrari none the less. This particular Ferrari Model 85 isn’t listed with...
This Solid Axle 4×4 1985 Chevy Van Is The Ultimate Off Road Adventure Rig
Dec 03, 2016Chad ReynoldsComments Off on This Solid Axle 4×4 1985 Chevy Van Is The Ultimate Off Road Adventure Rig
There is something about stuffing a solid axle under a van and then lifting it that makes it the coolest thing on the road. Always. Like the most f’d up example is still cool and you want it....
Getting Dirty In The Pit In Virginia! Who Knew A Lifted Mercedes Benz Could Be So Fun?
Dec 03, 2016Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Getting Dirty In The Pit In Virginia! Who Knew A Lifted Mercedes Benz Could Be So Fun?
Going mudding should be simple and straightforward: get into some deep mud, drill the throttle and keep going until you are out of mud or you’re stuck up to your beltline in soil. It’s...
OMG This 1956 NAPCO Equipped 4×4 Chevrolet Suburban Is A Bad Ass!!!
Dec 02, 2016Chad Reynolds5
Napco equipped 4×4 vehicles form the 1950’s were awesome. Sometimes you see them still, but not very often because they were typically worked really hard and therefore didn’t...