Buckeye Skips 2026 Drag and Drive Photos Continue! Here’s Our First Day 2 Racing Gallery from Darana Dragway 42 in Ohio

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We’ve got Buckeye Skip’s drag and drive photos right here! We already shared photos from Day #1’s checkpoints and racing, but now it is time for Day #2...

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The World’s Largest All Ford Show And Swap Meet! Swap Meet And Car Show Photos From The Carlisle All Ford Nationals In Central Pennsylvania

Here’s our second gallery of photos from Carlisle, but if you missed the previous photos you can find them all at the link below. (Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) The world’s largest...

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More FJ40 Custom Fabrication! This Beast Gets An ECM Install, Branik Links, Custom Cooler Mounts, and A Stereo Install.

When you start making real headway on a project the jobs get smaller and smaller, but no less significant. Shannon and Jess are back at it on the cool FJ40 project and that means many small things...

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This Is The Ultimate Call Out Challenge! We’re Talking 3,000 Horsepower Diesel Trucks Battling It Out For Bragging Rights And More!

The 2026 Ultimate Callout Challenge was epic. The meanest, nastiest, and most no-holds barred diesel trucks in the country  gathered in Indy to do battle on the dyno rollers, on the drag strip, and...

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Video: The West Coast’s Largest All Ford Truck Show – The F100 Western Nationals 2026 Coverage Starts Here

We figured that if we were going to start sharing our Carlisle Ford Nationals photo coverage today, which is the largest all Ford show in the world, we might as well share the largest classic Ford...

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The World’s Largest All Ford Show And Swap Meet! We’ve Got Photos From The Carlisle All Ford Nationals In Central Pennsylvania

(Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) The world’s largest celebration of the Blue Oval went down a few weeks ago in Central Pennsylvania and of course, we were there. The 2026 edition of the Carlisle...

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This Video Compilation Of Homemade Tractors And Vehicles From Russia(?) Is Cool

So Greg Rourke and I have been locked in a simmering war of homemade tractor/farm equipment recently and I have decided to escalate the conflict with this video which is not one, not two, but many...

BangShift Approved Video: Watch Amazing Blacksmiths and Artisans Make A Gas Powered Chainsword!

The internet show “Man at Arms” has always fascinated me. While I am not a big video game player or someone who reads fantasy fiction books, I am enthralled at the metal working skills...

Think The Jeeptor Was Cool? How About the Bustor?

(By Greg Rourke) – Okay Lohnes, I’ll see your Jeeptor and raise you a freakin’ school bus tractor that I am hereby dubbing the Bustor. I’d like some details on this beast....

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?...