New Junkyard Inventory: Dent Side Ford Pickup Trucks from the 1970’s! Including an XLT 4X4!

Chad Ehrlich is back at it with more new rides coming into the wrecking yard this week. Just when you think there can’t possibly be anymore old Ford trucks sitting around, he shows up with some...

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What Makes the East Coast Gear Supply KP 540 Axle Housing So Good? Ian Johnson Walks Us Through Them.

Heavy duty axles for off-road rigs have come a long way over the years and putting “tons” under a Jeep, or anything else for that matter, is the norm anymore. And you can buy all kinds of...

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Dyno Testing Dual Plane Intake Manifolds: Made in the USA vs Cheap Import Knockoffs – How Do They Compare?

We’re all about made in the USA parts when they make sense, but I’m very well known for saying that crap is crap, regardless of where it comes from. The point being that you should buy...

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Is This Thing An ABOMINATION or GREATNESS? This Is A Small Block Chevy Powered Ford F100! Installing a HUGE Cam and Engine Refresh With Derek.

I know that some of you are screaming already, but the reality is that it’s not like you can’t replace the Chevy with a Ford in this F100 if you buy it and want to “save” it...

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Freiburger and Finnegan Limo Truck Dyno Shootout! How Much Power Did It Make?

If you missed the awesome on the road engine build and swap in Finnegan’s Limo Squarebody truck, then you missed a lot and are going to want to use the link below. They literally built a brand...

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Vintage RV For Sale: This 1972 Chevrolet C30 Open Road Custom Camper Motorhome Is Retro Greatness!

Anyone who’s been hanging out around BANGshift for very long knows I have an affinity for old rv trailers and motorhomes. When I was a kid we had a Roll-a-Long motorhome that was a square body...

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Do Want: This 1938 Chevy Hot Rod Pickup Was Built Right With Some Rough Around The Edges Flair

While it appears that the insane, over the top rat rod thing has lost some of the wind in its sales, there’s no shortage of hot rods that are being built to look weathered and old while...

Watch This Awesome Twin Turbo Rock Buggy Claw Up An Impossible Trail And Backflip At The Very Top!

If you are one of the guys who is still on the fence about turbos and their usefulness on literally every mechanical device that uses an internal combustion engine, maybe the proof of their sweetness...

Go Big AND Get Home With Kelderman – This Video Of Their 8-10″ Lift Working On A Dodge Ram Truck Is Awesome

We live in a world where everything is shrinking, where the materials used to build things are being made thinner, lighter, and less robust, where quality is becoming something that people are having...

Watching This Explorer Crawl Through Box Canyon In Arizona Is Awesome – Off-Road Family Wagons Rule!

First-generation Ford Explorers make killer trail rigs. They’re comfortable, they have room, and since they’re Ranger-based, they can take a ton of off-road parts to become whatever you...

This 1967 Tatra T138 Is The Only Truck For Sale On eBay Right Now With A Massive Air Cooled Diesel V8

In the “stuff that is weird and awesome” department, we have this 1967 Tatra T138 truck that was (and may still be in) built in Czechoslovakia and served in a military capacity over...

Video: This Guy Turned A 1940s Art Deco Style Gas Station Into A Really Awesome House! BangShift Approved Living Quarters

While most of us get by with having a neat piece of automobilia hanging from the wall or maybe a shelf of cool car stuff in our home to signify our love of things that make noise and go vroom-vroom,...

Watch These Professional Hollywood Prop Builders Construct A Batman Tumbler Stroller From Scratch – This Rules!

Creative people are the reason that the world is fun place to live in, right? Thanks to the miracle of the internet, the creativity of people who otherwise would work in the shadows is able to be...

Air Traffic Control Has Cleared You For Takeoff! Truck Jumping Gone Wild.

Extreme Mud Trucks are awesome. Part monster truck, part swamp buggy, all bad ass. These things haul ass, tear it up like none other, and in this case have been cleared for takeoff. We don’t...

This 1935 International Wrecker Is An Incredible Original Survivor Truck – A Working Rig That Has Lived The Good Life!

With more than 40 bids and a current bid (as this was being written) of $13,000, we’re not the only ones in absolute love with this 1935 International wrecker that is currently for sale on...

Craigslist Fun: This Ad For An Old Slide In Camper Will Have You Laughing Like We Are

While this ad isn’t as good as the all time greatest CL listing ever for an MGB, it is still pretty awesome. The item in question is a crusty, tough looking old slide in style camper and the...

This 1972 Chevy C10 Mad Max Truck Is Either Insane Or The Very Definition Of A Hot Rod – You Decide!

BangShifter David Brown saw this wild creation on Craigslist and decided to send us the link. We are glad that he did because we feel like this truck will be a very polarizing creation. In our eyes,...

Monster Truck History Lesson! Check Out These 1980s Monster Truck Photos From An Event You May Have Seen On Video!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Here is another installment of the series showcasing photos I took when my years were much less.  I am going to guess the year was either 1983 or 1984....

This Turbocharged LS Powered Mud Truck Has Old School Looks But Ridiculous Modern Power

Mud guys and drag racers have more in common than they know, especially when it comes to horsepower. Both factions want as much as they can make and they aren’t afraid to use it. The mud guys...

Progress Continues On The World’s Largest Ship – Immense Craft Will Be Self Contained Natural Gas Refinery – SHELL PRELUDE

(By Scott Parker) – The Shell Prelude is the largest ship ever constructed and work continues in a South Korean shipyard as you read this to get the humongous craft finished, even as world...