Ebay Find: A 1970 Chevrolet C50 Ex-NASCAR Ramp Truck
Aug 19, 2014Bryan McTaggart5
What use could you find for this 1970 Chevrolet ramp truck? Sure, it’s a bit rough around the edges, but that’s character. Everything that you need is there: a running 366 V8, a...
A New Angle Of The Blown Centless Pulling Tractor Catastrophe Emerges – Watch It In Slow Motion!
Aug 19, 2014Brian LohnesComments Off on A New Angle Of The Blown Centless Pulling Tractor Catastrophe Emerges – Watch It In Slow Motion!
Yesterday we showed you Kevin Chriswell’s “Blown Centless” tractor literallty coming apart at the seams and spitting blown hemi engines out like Skittles. We had some fan video that...
Wahhhh….A Road Racing Car Lost A Wheel – See How The Tractor Pullers Do Front End Failure
Aug 19, 2014Brian LohnesComments Off on Wahhhh….A Road Racing Car Lost A Wheel – See How The Tractor Pullers Do Front End Failure
Hey, who am I to take a swipe at McTaggart’s item right over there about the IMSA bodied Monza losing a wheel at Laguna Seca Raceway, right? That guy just have been angry, freaked, and...
eBay Find: This $200,000 Dodge Power Wagon May Actually Be Worth It – One Of The Rarest Ever
Aug 18, 2014Brian Lohnes8
So Tom Nolen basically discovered a unicorn on eBay in the form of a 1949 Dodge Power Wagon fire truck that also happens to be a woody. We’re a little confused on the originality of the woody...
Video: We’re Pretty Sure This Is The Smokiest Burnout Of All Time
Aug 17, 2014Brian Lohnes1
With respect to massive, smokey burnouts, they don’t get any more massive or smokey than the one shown in the video below. The truck is the Smith Transport Tornado II and from what our ears are...
Tractor Pull Carnage: This Ford’s Back Wheel Has A Word From Our Sponsor
Aug 17, 2014Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Tractor Pull Carnage: This Ford’s Back Wheel Has A Word From Our Sponsor
This video comes to us from the August 2, 2014 tractor pull in Lochem, The Netherlands. This Super Stock Ford, “Iessel Diesel”, starts off strong but right from the start you can see that...
Redneck Rocket Video: Watch A Massive Swamp Buggy, Equipped With A 632ci V8 Yank The Front Wheels On Pavement!
Aug 16, 2014Brian LohnesComments Off on Redneck Rocket Video: Watch A Massive Swamp Buggy, Equipped With A 632ci V8 Yank The Front Wheels On Pavement!
Its Saturday here in the BangShift newsroom, know what that means? Typically it means that we wake up surrounded by spent beer cans, old pizza boxes, and using a breaker bar as a pillow under one of...
Would You Rather: A 1937 Chevy Wrecker That’s In Tough Shape Or A 1950 Dodge Power Wagon That May Be Worse
Aug 15, 2014Brian Lohnes7
I’ve been jealous because both McTaggart and Chad have done a Would You Rather blog item so far and until this moment, I still had a goose egg in that category. Well that egg is present NO...
What Would You Do With This 1961 Mack Cabover Truck? We’ve Got Some Ideas
Aug 14, 2014Chad Reynolds7
Our friend Jay sent us this Craigslist Ad yesterday, and both Brian and I were super excited to see a cabover truck that neither of us had seen before. This 1961 Mack is one weird freak. With the...
More News On Payload Ratings: GM Goes For The Mea Culpa, Ford Doesn’t Budge
Aug 13, 2014Bryan McTaggart1
The saga of payload capacity in the Class 3 truck market continues to be filled with drama. To bring you up to speed, this all started out with Ford and Ram taking shots at each other over who had...
On The Rocks: A Threesome Of Custom Jeeps We’d Love To Thrash
Aug 13, 2014Chad ReynoldsComments Off on On The Rocks: A Threesome Of Custom Jeeps We’d Love To Thrash
(Photos by Trevor Howard, Words by Trevor Howard and Chad Reynolds) Jeeps are cool. Yep, we said it, and you know it’s true, and this threesome is one your wife might actually approve of....
Watch the Mercedes AMG G63 6×6 Take On Ferraris and McLarens At A Track Day
Aug 13, 2014Bryan McTaggart2
Track days are all about getting your ride onto the track and letting it all hang out. Boosted rally rocket? Great! Italian supercar? All the better! Giant-ass six-wheel drive truck? Uh….what?...
eBay Find: The Deuce And A Half Of My Dreams – Not Only A Fire Truck, A Forest Fire Truck!
Aug 13, 2014Brian Lohnes4
One of my first clear vehicular memories was visiting the fire station in town as a little kid. Being that I grew up and currently live in the same small town, may of the faces have changed but the...
Nissan’s NISMO Juke/Xterra Is The Stuff Nightmares Are Made Of
Aug 12, 2014Bryan McTaggart6
(Photos courtesy of Twitter/Nissan) The Nissan Xterra is a cool little SUV that has a strong off-roading pedigree. It doesn’t try to be soft and cuddly, but instead was built from the start to...