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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MudVic Saves The Day! Proof That A Crown Victoria Is A Badass Car!

Many auto journalists were keen to take a steaming dump on the grave of the Ford Crown Victoria when it finally ended production in 2012. They lamented that the car didn’t have a suitable...

Boosted Studes: These Two Studebaker Flatheads Are Different, Cool, and Love Forced Induction

Look, we know that neither of these engines make the kind of power that would impress most BangShifters but frankly we don’t care because they are two of the neatest little hot rodded engines...

Jeeper’s Creepers: Is This 1975 Cherokee Chief Different Enough To Be Cool Or Too Weird To Be Acceptable

We like different here. We like it because it shows that there is still a lot of creative thinking going on in the world of hot rodding. Now, not all different is great, right? Some different is...

Historic Truckin’ Photos: From The Turn Of The Century To The 1960s, These Images Rule

(Photos from Detroit Public Library Digital Collection) – From the earliest test versions of the Bantam Jeep to the slick press photos from the 1950s and 1960s, and the gritty days of the...

Did You Know That Truckers Have Jake Brake Contests? Seriously – Here’s The Video

(By Greg Rourke) – Truckers are no different than car people. If they can find a way to compete with other truckers, they will. Case in point: A Jake Brake contest! The Jacobs Engine Brake...

Fly Like A Brick: Watch The “Bad Company” Monster Truck Do Some Low-Level Flying!

I don’t follow monster trucks like I did when I was a kid. I grew up on the TNN showcases: rows of cars ready to be flattened and two machines going heads-up against one another in a race that...

Rough Start: This 1982 Dodge D-50 6×4 Is The Real Hardworking Truck

When I reviewed a stripper Ram Tradesman earlier this year, a comment was posted up that made a very interesting point by Aussie 351: “Why are your pickups so big? It’s only rated at...

More Holley LSFest West Photos For You To Check Out From Day One

We know we gave you are first gallery this morning, but we’re feeling generous and decided we should give you even more photos to take a look at today. We’ll load more in the system, to...

Holley’s LSFest West 2018 Is On And Here Are Our First Photos!

While I’ve been announcing at the event, Cole has been running around shooting photos like a mad man so that we have lots to share with you over the coming days. We’re talking autocross,...

A Workday Dream: Hooking A HEMTT Up To The Sled At A Pull!

This should qualify as cheating in some sense of the word. The Oshkosh HEMTT series of military trucks are beasts…Detroit Diesel powered, 8×8 beasts that weigh as much as a starter home...

Shaving The Gas Filler On A C10 Is Easy. Watch This!

C10 pickups are awesome, but the fuel tanks that sit behind the seat and slosh and leak and make noise are not cool at all. Unfortunately, getting rid of them takes more work than just unbolting them...

This 1992 Toyota Hilux Diesel Is A Killer JDM Import! How Quickly Would You Have This On The Trails?

We only knew it as the Toyota Truck up until it was given the name Tacoma, but the rest of the world knows it well by the name “Hilux”. Toyota pickup trucks are legendary for their...

Just Send It: A Rainy Day At The Nurburgring And A Raptor…Why Not Drift The Green Hell?

There is no question that this is a full-on PR stunt, but c’mon…putting a Ford Raptor on the Nurburgring alone is a pretty solid move, putting Vaughn Gittin, Jr. behind the wheel promises...

Rough Start: Whose Bright Idea Was It To Mate A Bronco II With A Porsche 944?!

Trars have always had a place here at BangShift, mainly because we’re strange enough to like most combinations that people have come up with over the years. From the mid-1970s Camaro with the...