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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Custom Coach: This 1975 Crown Bus Is Ready For An RV Conversion!

Does the average recreational vehicle have to be some fifty-foot long brick with a strange graphic pattern of blacks, tans and boat-sparkle silver? No, it doesn’t. We aren’t going to...

Money No Object: A 1952 Ford F5 Car Hauler With A Supercharged V-10 For Power!

This is pure indulgence. If you are in a position where you need a car hauler in your life to get your toys moved around, you’re already doing pretty well. You don’t need a monster...

Truck Feature: Dodd Bros. Wrecker Service 1941 Chevrolet Lives A New Life INSIDE A Children’s Hospital

(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Vintage tow trucks register pretty high on cool factor, and while the first impression of this colorful wrecker might have you scratching your head,...

You Make The Call: Is It Cooler To Pull and Engine Or A Kid’s Tooth With A Helicopter? We’ve Got Video of Booth!

We enjoy, encourage, and openly celebrate overkill here. Killing flies with a bazooka is not only fun, it is entertaining for the rest of us to watch as well. Today’s bazooka is actually a...

The Letourneau Tree Crusher Is Possibly The Coolest Thing We Have Ever Seen (Video)

What weighs more than 40 tons, is powered by multiple Detroit Diesel engines making electricity, is capable of literally knocking down and pulverizing forests, and looks like something out of a...

Engine Video Bonanza: Big Boy Edition – Only 12 Cylinders And Up Need Apply!

Here’s a collection of videos featuring engines that all have a minimum of 12 cylinders. Most of these are found in old Grand Prix cars but there are some surprises in this group as well....

Get An Up-Close And In-Depth Look At The Trophy LTD – Mad Max, Eat Your Heart Out!

One vehicle that I don’t know I’ll ever get sick of is Jon Baker’s “Trophy LTD”, a Kibbetech-built 1990 Ford Crown Victoria LTD that fits somewhere between a desert...

Morning Symphony: Semi, Tractor and Mini Modified Pulls At The Watson Diesel Michigan Nationals 2018!

No television coverage or YouTube video will ever compare to the sounds and sensations of a truck pull in person. Liken it to being next to the track during a Top Fuel run versus watching it on a...

Classic YouTube: The “Dragon Fire” Pulling Tractor – 8,765 Cubic Inches Of Radical Overkill

Tractor pulls might be the last bastion of unhinged, “screw it, let’s see what happens” kind of power. This is the place where five engines best suited for a Top Fueler dragster are...

Holy Crap! The Landing On These Long Jumps Is Brutal! This Is What Sudden Stop Means

Watch this! Seriously, when you see a Mega Truck hauling ass and flying through the air, you know good things are sure to follow. And this video will not disappoint as there is plenty of carnage and...

Rescue Update: The “Wild Cherry” Chevy Van Has Come A Long Way In Half A Year!

Right at the tail end of 2017 we learned about a 1975 Chevrolet G10 van known as “Wild Cherry” that had lived one hell of a life. A true 1970s custom build, the Chevy had been built by...

This 1968 Subaru Sambar Mini-Truck Is Little, Bright, And Really Cool!

Up until about a year ago, I had viewed the little Japanese Kei trucks with a jaundiced eye. They were just little weird things that did not seem to have any guts of any real purpose. Trucks are...

Another One Being Revived: This 1977 Dodge D100 Is Being Rescued After Sitting For Over Two Decades!

I told you that I was all about automotive revivals this year! While I’m still plugging away at my own setup (and nursing a wound on my hand, thank you drum brakes), others are going the...

Want To Put A Beefed 4L80E In Your Ford, Mopar, Or BOP GM Product? TCI Has Your Handled With The 4x Four Speed!

TCI’s 4x Four-Speed is a 4L80E based performance automatic that has been a staple of many GM performance builds over the last few years. The good news that that TCI recognized that keeping all...