Look Out Below! This Classic Ford Truck Ad From 20 Years Ago Still Stands The Test Of Time – What A Jump!
(By Eric Rood) – By 1996, Ford had essentially built the same F150 pickup for nearly two decades, utilizing the boxy truck shape and same engine options for most of that time: a 4.9-liter...
Tow Rig, Spare Truck Or Just A Clean Big-Block Cruiser…This 1984 Chevrolet C-30 3+3 Can Do It All!
There is just something about a clean square-body Chevy dually. What that un-tangible thing actually is might be difficult to pin down, though. Certainly the lines of the 1973-87/91 Chevrolet trucks...
Man Van: This Four Wheel Drive E-350 Is For Sale And Boy Is It Nice
It’s weird how life works. The old saw, “One man’s loss is another man’s gain,” is a statement that’s about as true as they come. Take the case of this simply...
World’s Only 1968 Pontiac LeMans Safari Pickup Heading To Auction
Now THIS is cool. Coming in a couple of weeks, the Leake Auction Company will be holding their Oklahoma City Auction and with it are some really interesting cars, none more so than the one you are...
Texas Raptor Run Action Part 2 – More Fun Rippin’ It Up
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – We’re back with part two of Charles Wickam’s photo log from his visit to the Texas Raptor Run Raptor X event at the Texas Rally Ranch in Dale. As a...
This Nasty Twin Turbo Dodge Rumble Bee Truck Tries To Spin The Dyno Rollers Right Out Of The Floor
The Dodge Rumble Bee truck was kind of neat for its time. While it had no real discernible performance parts on it outside of the big 20″ wheels, the attitude was right. It wore a stripe...
This 1981 Toyota Truck Is Amazingly Clean And A Total Throwback – Want Is Strong!
There was a theme I picked up on as a kid here in New England. That theme was rapidly disappearing Japanese trucks. I don’t mean like being stolen by aliens, I mean like evaporating from road...
Mickey Thompson Set To Release New Deegan 38 All-Terrain Tire – Great For Towing And Wheeling
In today’s world, the all-terrain light truck tire is the workhorse of any tire company’s product range. Mickey Thompson had a solid lineup of truck tires already but things are going to...
Raptor Action! Check These Cool Photos From Raptor X At The Texas Rally Ranch
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – The Ford F-150 Raptor is one of the most interesting, cool, capable, and all-out bad ass trucks to ever roll off an OEM assembly line. The vast majority of them...
Diesel Zen Video: Big Rig Drag Racing At Tulsa Is Torquey Fun
Racing working big rigs on the quarter mile is certainly no new thing but we still smile every time we see it. The wildly modified trucks we sometimes show are cool but the trucks that actually put...
The Ghost Fleet Of Mallows Bay Is The Largest Collection Of Sunken Ships In The US – Here’s The Story
(By Greg Rourke) – In a little backwater on the Potomac River in Maryland lies the largest gathering of sunken ships in the US, and possibly the world. So how did this honor fall on Mallows...
Runaway Diesel Video Compilation: Watch A Bunch Of Diesels Run Full Bore On Their Own Oil
We have to thank BangShifter John Eken for the tip on this video featuring a multitude of runaway diesel engines. From BMWs to front end loaders, and locomotives, this video captures the nightmare...
Racing Season Needs To Hurry Up – We Need Things Like Nine-Second Diesel Trucks Again!
Is it spring yet? No…crap. At least time is on the march, because right now I’m missing the smell of PJ1 and race fuel. The strip is calling our name, and while Lohnes will be out for the...
This Chopped and Channeled 1971 Model R Mack Is Awesome – Take A Video Tour
(By Greg Rourke) – We see cool project cars on BangShift every day. What we don’t often see is the cool way some of these cars get hauled around. Here we have a guy who looked at a truck...
