Dodge Once Made The Coolest Cab Over Trucks In The World – The Story of The L600 and L700 Here
(By Greg Rourke) – We love old trucks here at BangShift, and I love cabovers in particular. Medium duty cabovers are now dominated by offshore produced trucks, but once upon a time we made...
SEMA 2016: Gone Truckin’! Here’s Another Fresh Collection Of Truck Photos
We’re back with another gallery of cool trucks here at the 2016 SEMA show. The looks and styles run the gamut from laid on the frame to sky scraping craziness with lots of ’em falling...
SEMA 2016: Here’s A Load Of Truck Specific Photos – Horsepower, Big Tires, and Fun
Trucks are a massive part of the SEMA 2016 experience. Their presence is humongous in the world of the size and scope of the SEMA 2016 world. When you think about the amount of money spent in the...
Mighty Mites: Sometimes It Is Better to Buy Older When It Comes To Yard Tractors And Here’s Why!
(By Greg Rourke) – For various reasons, I haven’t built any cool rods are done much noteworthy for over 30 years. I always read all the magazines, attended a few races and car shows, and...
Lohnes’s Two Favorite Cab Over Trucks From SEMA 2015 – One Ford and One Chevy
If you had told the engineers and designers that were making these trucks come to life decades ago that the yeoman equipment they were working on would be considered iconic Americana in the next...
You Just Might Need This 4×4 Pacer In Your Life
The American Motors’ Pacer will, for better or worse, be one of the best-remembered cars in the company’s checkered past. Ungainly and overweight, it was the byproduct of a lot of things gone...
Today Would Have Been Marvin “Killdozer” Heemeyer’s Birthday – Remember Him?
(By Greg Rourke) – Today would have been the birthday of Marvin Heemeyer. It’s been said that you cannot fight city hall. That may be true, but Marvin found a loophole. He ran over city...
Glorious Overkill: Meet The Whispering Giant – This Is What 11,560 Ft/Lbs Of Torque Can Do!
You would have thought that having multiple blown alcohol-fueled Hemis attached to one Unlimited pulling tractor would have been enough, right? One Top Fueler’s engine is a study in mechanical...
Watch These Down Under Stadium Super Trucks Drivers End Up Upside-Down
Robby Gordon’s Stadium Super Trucks series has found a home away from home with several races in Australia. The brutish off-road trucks look positively absurd navigating any temporary street...
Go Long With This Unique And Cool 1940 Ford Flower Car – Ever Seen One Before?
We have seen lots of flower cars here at BangShift over the years and most of them have been of the type you’d expect. Lincolns, Cadillacs, and other big cars. It makes sense that those would...
Work For That Money: Chasing Five Grand Up A Muddy Bounty Hill In Kentucky!
Normally, when we check in on the rock bouncer types, they are trying to fling themselves up a hill that looks to have been crafted by the Devil himself. There’s airborne rigs, there’s...
Weirdest Chevrolet Newsreel Ever: Man Goes Fishing With His 1936 Chevrolet Sedan – Uses Car As “Net”
Typically newsreel ads of the 1930s, especially those that showed cars highlighted stuff like their toughness, their robust construction, or their fuel economy. Chevrolet decided to go another way...
Insane Video: Watch This (Presumably) Road Raging Truck Driver Bulldoze A Car Down A City Street At Speed
When you start to think about the physics and hard math involved in moving a big rig down the road and the energy it has when moving as speed, you’ll either be terrified or respectful when you...
