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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This 1971 Ford Econoline Van Is A Weekend Away From Cruiser Perfection!

If you cruised into the Mooneyes XMas Show, your local Cars and Coffee, or any Goodguys show in the country, with this van, lowered, on these US Mags or a different set of big and littles, everyone...

Desert Off-Road Testing Right Next To The Public Road In Plaster City!

Plaster City is a place that almost nobody outside of the off-road world, and most certainly Southern California, needs to know about. It’s desert, and not particularly pretty desert at that,...

This Awesome Tilt Shift Video From King Of The Hammers Makes Them All Look Like Toys

You might not be familiar with the term Tilt Shift Photography, but it is a style of time lapse if you will. Think Claymation and them from back in the day, but with real subjects that are actually...

This 1983 GMC C7000 4×4 Fire Engine Brush Truck Could Be The Ultimate Off-Road Machine

Every kid loves a fire truck. And everyone at some point has wished they could drive one. Well now is your chance, and this one could actually be turned into one hell of an off-road machine. We can...

Ow, My Spine: Watch These XJ Jeeps Go For Height In The Woods!

AMC might be most fondly remembered for the AMX, but credit really needs to be given to the XJ Cherokee. Conceived as one of American Motors’ last major projects before being purchased by...

Going For Broken: Mega Trucks Taking Flight At The Spring Sling!

The bigger, the louder, the brasher, the better. Mega trucks rock simply because they are the truly demented spawns of the off-road world. They aren’t the truly overkill monster trucks, and...

Edelbrock Tech Video: Here’s How To Adjust The Pushrod Guide Plates On A Small Block Chevy Head

Knowledge is power, right? Hell knowledge when it comes to engines, makes power so that means we should all try to be as smart about this junk as possible In this case we’re talking about the...

Truckin’ Through Time: These Images From 100+ Years Ago In Detroit Are Really Cool

(Photos from the Detroit Public Library Digital Archive) – See? I knew the smiling 1933 Stirling truck would pique your interest and send you clicking into this latest stack of moldy-oldie...

If Lohnes Doesn’t Lose It For This Ford F-800, There Is No Hope Left! Check Out That Bed!

Brian Lohnes’ big truck kink has been exploited over and over again here on the pages of BangShift, and I’m not about to stop the fun. He can join Chad in making fun of the cars I like...

As If Driving An Off-Road Race Truck Wasn’t Hard Enough, Brian Deegan Does It Will Taking Selfies!

We’re not making this up. Watch this latest video from the Deegan38 crew as they do some tire testing at Glen Helen here in SoCal. The majority of it is pretty much what you would expect, with...

1960s Video Awesomness: Check Out This Footage Of The Bell Aerospace Rocket Belt In Action

This is a perfect Friday video. Why? You are about to see 1965 footage of the Bell Aerospace Rocket Belt being tested and demonstrated in various different scenarios. The throttle equipped hydrogen...

Old Land Cruisers Rule, And This Guy Is Making Sure You Can Still Buy Them, Without Breaking The Bank

The Toyota Land Cruiser is an automotive icon. Whether you are talking about an FJ40, their bigger brother the FJ45, or the FJ55, they are all cool, capable, and fun. When the FJ60 came out in 1980...

2018 Lonestar Throwdown Photo Coverage: Old Trucks, New Trucks, Chassis, and More

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – You know a show has juice when the manufacturers start showing up to display their wares and make sure that everyone knows they are in the marketplace. This is the...

Need Serious Pushrods For Your LS Engine? COMP Cams XD-ATM Adjustable Pushrods Are The Ticket

If there is one critical area to concentrate your efforts on when building a serious mill, it is in the valve train. The more control you have over that aspect of your engine the more power you will...