Newbern’s Ramp Truck Project Continues: Tearing Into Two Builds! C50 Cab Off Plus A Fox Body Engine Gets Pulled!

Newbern is back at it with another installment on the C50 ramp truck build. He’s taking a couple of donor vehicles and putting them together to make his dream ramp truck and we can’t wait...

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Big Power, Small Engine: Double Or TRIPLE The Power Of Your Predator Engine For Go Kart And Mini Bike Fun!

I don’t know any car guys and gals who don’t like mini bikes and go karts, and in recent years there is no better engine than a Predator from Harbor Freight. Freiburger and I built mini...

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This Crew Cab Dually Trade Road Trip Goes South For Mortske! Did He Get TAKEN Or Is This Just Lowered Dually Life?

When you make enough trades, there is no doubt that occasionally you won’t end up making out exactly as planned. Doesn’t mean the car or truck you trade for sucks, but maybe it just...

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Tool Testing: Mustard vs Ketchup DeWALT says their 1st Right Angle Die Grinder is 1.5X As Powerful As Milwaukee!

We love tool tests around here, and while we know many of you out there are super loyal to mustard or ketchup, aka DeWalt or Milwaukee, we’re not really that particular. Yes I understand why...

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Vice Grip Garage Annual Father Son Trip! ATTEMPTING 3,000 Miles In A VINTAGE BIG BLOCK RV! Cooking, Fishing, Museums and more!

A couple of weeks ago we shared the video of Derek picking up this machine and getting it ready to drive 850 miles home. Seemed like a pretty stout trip in an unknown RV, but that was nothing when...

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Freiburger Takes Us On A DRIVING TOUR of HISTORIC HOT ROD SPOTS Around Los Angeles! Too Many To Count!

There are tons of historic spots around Southern California that impacted hot rodding, racing, and custom car building over the last 80 years or so, but no matter how many you can think of there are...

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Can A Locomotive Bounce? This Failed Attempt At Moving One With A Crane Gives Us The Answer!

(By Greg Rourke) – Have you ever been asked to help a friend move? Sure you have, silly question. And did that friend have a hide-a-bed that weighed a metric ton, and as you were carrying it...

This VideoOf Fighter Jets Landing And Taking Off On A Highway In Belarus Is Cool

Before you jump down our throats because of the fact that this isn’t all that out of the ordinary in many countries, we know. That being said, it is a cool video that shows multiple angles of...

Jeeptor! This Video Shows One Of The Most BangShift Approved Farm Machines Ever Built

Farmers the world over have been building their own machines to perform work for many, many years. While big shiny tractors are awesome, the homebuilt stuff is often times even more interesting...

This Bobbed M35a Deuce And A Half Won’t Fit In Your Garage…But It Rules

We LOVE big M35a Deuce and a Half trucks. The 6×6 is a trademark of big truck coolness, but it also is one huge ass truck that is hard to take into a lot of areas because of it’s sheer...

Two Minutes Of Non-Stop Flying Truck Destruction – The Magnum Opus Of Redneck Truck Jumping

A week or three ago, we showed you video of several basically stock trucks making huge leaps at Dennis Anderson’s off-road park. Well, the guys at Busted Knuckle video have outdone themselves...

This 1980s USHRA Compilation Will Rocket You Back To Your Childhood

Ok fine, if not all the way back to your childhood, at least about 30 years in the past. So my kids were off from school all last week and we did some fun stuff that I’ll be blogging about here...

This 1976 Ford (With a 1979 Nose Clip) Has Big Block Power, A Clutch Pedal, And Plenty Of Altitude

I have long shared my love of late 1960s through 1970s Ford trucks. It has to be a childhood thing as that’s where I first got hooked on these suckers, riding in the back of my dad’s king...

Best of 2016: Buddies Go Snow Wheelin’ After A Huge Blizzard In The Late 1970s – Vintage Truck Coolness

Talk to people on the eastern seaboard about the Blizzard of ’78 and they will talk about the huge storm that came up the coast and wrought havoc on every city it dumped snow on. Believe it or...

This 1956 Chevrolet 5100 Is 2 Ton Greatness That Deserves To Be A Ramp Truck

We don’t often see these mid-’50s big trucks, so when we do it gets us excited. This one in particular is just begging for life on a later model chassis so that it could become a really...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: Lincoln Park Pirates – A Ballad About Chicago’s Most Infamous Towing Company

(By Greg Rourke) – In 1972 Steve Goodman wrote this little ditty about a Chicago towing company, Lincoln Towing. They are actually Protective Parking Services, d.b.a. Lincoln Towing. Their...

Craigslist Chronicles: Who Do I Have To Kill To Buy A Truck On Craigslist?!

I’m killing some ass hat before this is over. I mean seriously, how hard is it to shoot photos with your phone, list the features, options, and mileage, and decide on a price? How hard is that?...

This Briggs Engine Has A Glass Cylinder Head!

Oh yeah, combustion is fully visible in this bad boy! Last week we had a video that showed a glass cylinder on an engine, but this is just one of the many videos the guys at 805RoadKing have put...

This Custom 6×6 Dodge Van Would Be The Most Bitchin Road Trip Machine

Vans are cool, but some of them are cooler than others. For us, our love of vans in dangerous because we like off-road vans, expedition vans, surf vans, race vans, cruiser vans, retro vans, and full...

BangShift Truck Review: The 2016 Ram Rebel – Is Ram’s Fun Truck Offering Just That?

The 2016 Ram Rebel is an interesting case in that it kind of created its own niche in the already populated pickup truck market. Not as hardcore as a Raptor or a Power Wagon but more capable than...