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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This Turbo-Compound Radial Was Cutting-Edge 70 Years Ago, Is Still Amazing

Remember the 1980s when turbocharging first became prevalent in cars? Manufacturers—many of whom were not even building cars—were quick to slap “Turbo” on anything that was supposed to be an...

AutoMeter’s New Direct Fit Dash For Jeep JKs Is A Perfect Solution To Your Mounting Needs

The whole point of upgrading to nice AutoMeter gauges is to get accurate information on all the systems of your car and as a side bonus, really dress up the cockpit as well. You’ve likely seen...

This BAJA Karmann Ghia Is A Bad Ass And Rare!

You almost never see Karmann Ghia’s built into Baja style rigs. I guess that’s because they are kind of the girly VW and most are done up as cute cruisers. We much prefer bugs, square...

SCORE Series Gives You Some Tips and Good Info On Picking Out a Driver’s Suit

SCORE International, the series that holds the Baja 1000 along with a series of similar shorter off-road races, has assembled a great series of primers on the various aspects of off-road racing that...

No Cheese With This Whine: The Blower On This Top Diesel Engine Sounds Extra Nasty

Not all superchargers are created equal and when you’ve got your blower sitting atop a diesel drag-racing engine, you really ought to make sure that it sounds capable of reversing the earth’s...

Dare To Be Different In The Dirt: Check Out This Mud Dragging Bradley GT!

Between the mid-1960s and the point in the late 1970s when the drugs ran out, there were a ton of kit cars made, most of which seemed adapted to giving the Volkswagen Beetle a look that didn’t...

Money No Object: This 1983 Ford Ranger Prerunner Only Exists To Have A Blast In!

A prerunner truck…a true pre runner, not some hacked-up truck with fiberglass panels…only serves two purposes: it’s a riot of a four-wheeled toy and, as far as I’m concerned...

We Can’t Get Enough Of The Twin-Turbo Allison V12 In This Hydroplane

While the majority of the hydroplanes in H1 Unlimited have installed helicopter turbines to propel their boats more than 200 mph, a few hold-outs have hung onto piston engines. Go 3 Racing from...

This Airliner Takeoff From the 1990s Teeters On the Brink of Disaster

For an airline pilot, most days see at least a couple of a takeoff and landing cycles. Nearly all of them are routine and fade to memory, but we’re guessing the pilots on this Continental Airlines...

This Solid Axle Swap GMC Safari Van Is Begging To Be Your Bugout Vehicle

I know this is going to sound sick, but there is something about the Chevy Astro Van, and their brother the GMC Safari Van, that I dig. Laid out on air ride they are cool, and now that I’ve...

King of the Hammers Ready: This 2008 Toyota FJ Is One Mean Machine

We love King of the Hammers. LOVE IT! And someday we’ll compete in this awesome race. And if you have the same dreams, you can do it just by writing the check for this really bitchin 2008...

Dirt Every Day Gets Ambitious: Cummins-Swap A TJ Wrangler, Then Drive It Underwater!

We have to give credit to Fred and crew for creativity…not that driving underwater is a new thing (it isn’t, the military was doing that decades ago) but simply because it’s...

This 1975 Land Rover FC101 Is A Bad Ass – Rivals Unimogs, FC Jeeps, And More

Often referred to as the Land Rover One Tonne, because it was designed to haul one ton of ammunition for the L118 gun that it hauled around in the army, the Land Rover FC101 is a cool machine. The...

Watch Bryce Menzies Jump A PRO 2 Truck 379.5ft – Incredible World Record!

We know that there have been some big scientific breakthroughs over the last year. Rockets taking off and landing vertically, the potential discovery of some sort of intergalactic communication, and...