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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Painting On A Massive Scale: Watch This Timelapse Of An Emirates Boeing 777-200 As It Gets A New Coat!

A typical fully painted Boeing 777 similar to this Emirates 777-200 wears almost a quarter-ton of paint on it’s skin, with a maximum thickness of about 0.005″ across the board....

MAHLE Piston Tech Video: Checking Out Skirt Wear and What It Can Tell You About Your Engine

Engines tell stories. They tell stories by how they run and what type of wear that they have. That being said, you need to be able to read the story to understand what the engine is telling you and...

Screaming Detroit Commuter Video! This 1951 Dodge M37 Has A 3-53 Under The Hood – BangShift Approved

BangShifter Ken Melrose has us all beat by a mile. The man recently restored a 1951 Dodge M37 truck with his dad which makes him a boss but the fact that he repowered the sucker with a 3-53 Detroit...

The Most Entertaining Video Ever About Cleaning Out An Intake Manifold – Fire Makes It Good

If you have a metal intake manifold that is all full of carbon and other junk, there are a bunch of different ways that you can clean it out. Multiple chemicals are on the market designed to break...

This May Be The Coolest Fire Truck Ever – The 1959 Dodge American LaFrance Little Mo – One Man Fire Dominator

For starters, trucks of the Dodge “Power Giant” era are some of the coolest on the road. The 1957-1960 trucks really have a unique look and whether we’re talking the W100 or larger...

This Video Of A Guy Stacking Beer Bottles With An Excavator Is Flipping Awesome

There’s a reason that guys who do this work are called heavy equipment “operators”. We think that some of them could probably perform surgery with the big machines that they use to...

Watch This Freightliner Sand Rail Scale The Dunes At Pismo Beach – The Beast Rules

If there’s a guaranteed way to be awesome in this world it would be to take a Freightliner truck and convert it into what amounts to a massive sand rail like you see in this video. We’re...

The American Powertrain Parting Shift: Ripping The Gears In A Detroit Diesel Swapped 1971 Chevy Mini-Rig

We are typically not fans of the “mini-rig” look for trucks where guys try to make a pickup look and act like a big rig but in this case, we’re kind of on board, ok all the way on...

Video: An Evel Knievel Jump And The World’s Richest Demolition Derby – Great Footage From 1973

It was February 1973 and Evel Knievel was among the most famous people on Earth. His star would continue rising for another year until his disastrous failure at Snake River Canyon. One of...

Building Blocks: There’s an eBay Listing Featuring 300 Bare Big Block Chevy Blocks For $500,000

So heres’s the latest massive cache of parts that has come up for sale on eBay and it’s biggie. Like the rest of them it carries the same question. Is it worth it? Is this an investment...

Looking For A Great Performing Distributor With The Right Look For Your Ford Flathead? Mallory’s Newest Offering May Be It!

There’s a million concerns on the minds of modern hot rodders, especially those guys building retro-style cars. You need to make it fit right, you need to make it run right, and you need to...

RacingJunk Find: This 1950 GMC 640 Series Truck Is Unique, Different, And Still True To The Original

If you wanted to buy a tough truck in 1950 to haul trailers with or do handwork you walked into the GMC dealer and bought one of their 640 series rigs. These things were configured in many different...

Original Owner Time Capsule: This Is One Of The Cleanest Early Dodge Ramchargers We’ve Seen In Ages!

One vehicle that is a rare treat to see on public roads these days is the Dodge Ramcharger. Even though they were less popular than the GM and Ford competition, they were solid rigs that could handle...

This 1974 Ford F-600 Rollback Truck Is Glorious! Anyone Need A Neat Car Hauler?

It’s one of those days again, where I feel like messing with the bosses, so first thing’s first…Lohnes and his big, lumbering utility truck fetish. I love looking for things that...