Need A V16? This Mammoth Marmon V16 Could Be Yours!
Apr 04, 2015Brian Lohnes4
As the country was plunging into the Great Depression, automakers were still clinging to the idea that there was plenty of money floating around to buy ever bigger and more powerful cars. The fact...
The Story Of U-1206, The German U-Boat With The Worst Story In The Fleet – It’s The Toilet’s Fault
Apr 03, 2015Bryan McTaggart7
The German U-boat occupies a very dark chapter in history. Between World War I and World War II they were feared, a legitimate danger to practically any vessel plying through the Atlantic Ocean. Less...
Neat Video Bonanza: How Dudes in Bolivia Float Trucks Across the River with Two Canoes
Apr 02, 2015Brian Lohnes2
BangShifty solutions to problems are born different ways. Creativity can be used to work around a limited budget, lack of proper tools, and in this case, lack of a bridge to cross a large river in...
Trucks, Trucks, and ONLY Trucks From The 2015 Carl Casper Show – Big Ones, Small Ones, Short Ones, Tall Ones
Apr 02, 2015Brian Lohnes5
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – I would consider this the utility group, but I’m not sure many of these could handle much of a load these days or be pressed into hard service. The...
Nowhere To Go But Down During This Rockcrawling Event In Congress, Arizona
Apr 02, 2015Bryan McTaggart3
Congress, Arizona is situated between Prescott and Wickenberg, west of Phoenix and is right at the base of Arizona’s biggest geological feature: the Mogollon Rim, the 2000′ separation...
Buy Your Own Gamma Goat! A Rare Shot At Owning This Military Glorious Semi-Failure
Apr 02, 2015Brian Lohnes7
If you like to own big, cool, noisy things than boy do we have a deal for you! This 1971 built Gamma Goat is for sale on eBay and since there are not many of them left around, you better act know and...
This Is A Thing? Speed Plowing In Sweden…”Let’s Get Ready To Cultivate!”
Mar 31, 2015Bryan McTaggart2
Early spring at BangShift Mid-West means many things…the trees are finally starting to leaf out, daffodils are blooming, my allergies are raging, and fields across the region are being torn up...
Truck Feature: This Hot Rodded Cummins Powered Lil’ Red Express Rips Low 10-Second Quarter Mile Times With 100psi Of Boost!
Mar 31, 2015Brian Lohnes7
(Words and photos be Jacob Marshall) – When I first saw Max Kirtley’s Little Red Express truck it was buried in the staging lanes of Royal Purple Raceway surrounded by numerous Nissan...
Freak For Sale: Cummins 4BT Powered 1970 Nova Dually – Eight Lug Wheels And The Soul Of A Big Rig?
Mar 31, 2015Brian Lohnes11
For the pure freak factory, this could be the weirdest single car I have ever posted on BangShift. Not weird in the sense that it is horribly ugly or looks like it was victimized by a bad plastic...
Busted Knuckle Video Has Released “Mega Trucks Gone Wild 2”: High Horsepower, High Flying Mud Truck Action
Mar 30, 2015Bryan McTaggart2
There aren’t many places that allow any owner of a vehicle with thousands of horsepower to exercise it freely. Land speed arenas, drag strips, and monster truck venues come to mind, but there...
Wreckage Video: A Weight Sled Failure Causes Major Impact At A Truck Pull
Mar 29, 2015Brian Lohnes2
Forgive our strange fascination with wrecks at truck and tractor pulls, but we cannot help ourselves. In this clip we see all the right elements add up to a big thumping crash at the top end of the...
Epic Craigslist Find: Holman-Moody’s 1967 Ford F-100 Shop Truck
Mar 28, 2015Bryan McTaggart6
Holman-Moody’s 1967 Ford shop truck is for sale for $14,000. Do you really need to know any more than that? Working with Ford products, Holman-Moody were the name in motorsports in the late...
This 1976 Jeep CJ7 Was Built To Be A Street And Dune Killer – Is It BangShifty Or Wrong?
Mar 28, 2015Brian Lohnes10
This is one of those rigs that will split opinions right down the middle between love it and hate it. The 1976 Jeep CJ7 you see below (and above) has a 500hp 383ci Chevy small block stroker, street...
The Parting Shift: A Screaming Detroit And Twin Sticks Make One Heck Of An Entertaining Video!
Mar 27, 2015Brian Lohnes12
We’ve been harping on the race car stuff with the last couple of Parting Shift blog items so I wanted to go back to my truckin’ roots here. This video is pure perfection because we not...










