Remembering Our Friend Kyle Loftis – The Man Behind 1320video Will Be Missed More Than He Ever Realized

It has taken me several days to be able to post something like this on BANGshift. Posting it the day we found out about the loss of our great friend would have been the smart thing for page views and...

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HIGH FLYING FORMULA OFFROAD RACING FROM ICELAND’s HELLA 2026! COURSE 3 RACING ACTION

If you are new around there then you might not know that we seriously dig Formula Off-Road racing here at BANGshift.com. This is high flying, loud, and intense racing that involves what look to be...

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Camden Murphy Sets Monster Truck World Speed Record at Monster Jam at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway

Monster Trucks are awesome machines, and the things they are capable of doing are mind boggling at times. But as fast, and crazy, and high flying as they are, top speed is not the thing you think of...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Custom FJ40 Tailgate Mount + Jeep Beach Prep Begins With Shannon and Jess Campbell

Shannon is back at the fab work on the FJ40, with the rear bumper and fender flares complete, it’s time to wrap up the rear with the tailgate mounts. But these aren’t just any flares, as they...

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Car Guy Confessions With Jeff Smith – Bangshift’s Chad Reynolds and LS Swap Book Author Jefferson Bryant Steal The Show!

This one was really fun. Our friends Marcel and Jason, the guys behind Auto Revolution and their Car Guy Confessions, Influence and Impact, and several other podcasts, invited me and our friend...

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How Much Horsepower Does An Engine Driven Cooling Fan Really Take From Your Engine?

We tested alternators, engine driven fans, and other accessories on the dyno years ago and I can tell you that most of the accessories on the front of your engine take very little power to turn under...

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Blog War: This Vintage Tonka Dually Ramp Truck Is Proof The Old Toys Really Were Better

Both McTaggart and I have gone into to “unconventional warfare” mode over this whole dually fight and I’m keeping my end of the bargain up today by lobbing this sweet, sweet vintage...

Blog War: This Vintage Tonka Mighty Wrecker Looks An Awful Lot Like Someone’s Project Vehicle…

How the hell do you argue against a vintage, all-steel Tonka toy? It’s impossible. I still have my all-steel Mighty Dump Truck I’ve had since…hell, since Regan was president,...

Blog War: No Hard Work Required With This Caddy-Powered 1953 Chevrolet Flatbed

Brian took a safe swing today with the Ford wrecker. Does it tick all of the right check marks? Of course, and it’s in decent shape to boot. While I struggle to understand how someone who...

Blog War: This 1954 Ford F600 Wrecker Has Lived In A Body Shop For Three Decades And Is Minto

So the dually blog war is in full swing now. Both Bryan and I fired our opening shots yesterday and we’re back today. Since he started off with a heavy duty truck, I’m following up with...

Blog War: This 1972 Ford Country Squire Dually Station Wagon Is The Best Of About 50 Worlds

McTaggart was spittin’ mad after his public defeat during our station wagon blog war last week so he started yelling over the fence at me about duallies and how he was really going to take me...

Blog War: The First Strike Is Delivered By A B-1…This Restomodded 1949 Dodge B-1

Just because the Wagon War wound down doesn’t mean that I agreed to a ceasefire. Watching Lohnes slide the pocket ace that was that L72 Kingswood drag wagon was like pouring jet fuel on a tire...

Watch This Naked Mud Truck Wreck At The Mud Down In T-Town – Crazy Stuff

While you may know Tulsa Raceway Park as one of the best strips in the country and the beginning and ending point of multiple Drag Weeks, the place has evolved and captured a big mud racing crowd as...

Ebay Jaw Dropper: The World’s Only 33 Window VW Bus Is For Sale In Hawaii And The Price Is As Long As The Thing Itself

I am not a “VW person” per se. I like cool old VWs as much as the next guy but I don’t live and die by them. That being said, I was blown away by this cool VW bus which has been...

Chaos: Watch What It Looks Like When Two Dakar Rally Participants Wreck HARD In The Bolivian Desert

We’ve often talked about the risks and dangers associated with races like Baja, Dakar, and others of their ilk. That being said, we’ve never seen a more stark representation of what...

This 1962 Willys Station Wagon Is Cool, Needs Work, And In Stock Form Would Lose A Drag Race To A Steam Tractor

So McTaggart and I have essentially agreed to end the station wagon blog war that we have been engaged in over the last couple of weeks. Much like the Korean War, we have not declared a truce or...

The Camaro TRAR Or The Kids In The Photos? Which Is Cooler?

When BangShifter Tyler Garrett, who drives a 4000 horsepower Coast Guard Cutter by the way, sent us this Craigslist ad for a 4th Gen Camaro TRAR (Truck Car), the email just said “Welcome to...

Will The New 5.0L Cummins Diesel V8 Save The Nissan Titan? We’re Dying To Drive One!

With compound turbos, dual overhead cam heads, loads of Cummins engineering behind it and 555 lb/ft of torque to churn the ground with, the new Cummins 5.0L V8 which made its world debut in the...

A British Airways Boeing 777 Set A New Speed Record Across The Atlantic – Just Barely Under The Speed Of Sound!

A British Airways Boeing 777-200 just set a speed record on the New York-London route by using the jet stream to bring the wide body jet to within 16 mph of the speed of sound. BA114 completed the...

Blog War Secret Weapon: An Immaculate 1939 Ford Woody Wagon 4×4 – This Thing Is AMAZING

Look, we’ve both rolled out wagons with crappy fake woodgrain on the sides but I’m the first to actually drop the woody hammer in this blog war and I am dropping it HARD. My choice for...