NORRA Baja Livestream: The National Off-Road Racing Association Takes On The Mexican Desert May 1-7!

The National Off-Road Racing Association has been putting on races since 1967 and is known for their Baja race that is a little less hardcore than SCORE’s BAJA 1000. Not that the racing...

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Here’s The Story Of Freiburger’s Original Muscle Truck, And How We Helped Make This Awesome Squarebody A Thing!

I am willing to bet that there probably isn’t anyone who’s cut more stuff off of Freiburger’s Muscle Truck than I have. Since I was there for the original build, as part of our...

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New Junkyard Inventory! This 1963 Ford Custom Cab Pickup Is Cool! But Does It Check All The Boxes for a Custom Cab?

We’ve got more fun junkyard inventory from our friend Chad Ehrlich at Nobody Else’s Auto in Great Bend Kansas. This week Chad is sharing this awesome 1963 Custom Cab Ford pickup. These...

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The 2027 Dakar Rally Route Has Been Announced! Check Out Where It’s Going Below!

We’ve been fans of the Dakar Rally for decades, and we love to share coverage from the race here whenever possible. It’s been an interesting journey for the Dakar Rally in the last 10...

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Drill Press Meets Fab Table: Jason From Fireball Tools Built the Drill Press He’s Always Wanted!

Have you ever walked into someone’s shop or garage and seen a tool that got you excited because you realized it is something someone customized? I’ve done it too many times to count, and...

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This Awesome Dent Side Ford F100 Pre-Runner RIPS The STREETS, The Dirt, And More!

There is something awesome about vintage bodied pre-runner trucks, and this dentside F100 is a great example. My uncle had a SuperCab back then, and even though I was never a Ford fan growing up I...

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Best Of 2014: The Oddest and Most Badder Asser Pickup In America Does a Burnout and Makes a Dyno Pull

This truck is one of those rare vehicles that when viewed one way is the coolest thing ever, but when viewed another way, is a little on the freakish side. In doing some digging around the internet,...

Best of 2014: Awesome Video: A GM Truck Folds In Half Like A Wet Cardboard Box

THIS VIDEO IS NOT WORK SAFE, THERE IS SWEARING A-PLENTY! Having told you that, we’ll move onto the true meat of this video. A GM truck ended up in a frozen lake, boobs up somehow. In order to...

The Redneck Video To End All Redneck Videos – Guy Gets Launched From Truck Bed While “Logging With A 350 Chevy”

The words you need to pay attention to in this video are, “Hold on, let’s let Zack…” because while the guy doesn’t complete the sentence, we’re virtually certain...

Best of 2014: This 1958 Ford Two Ton Dually Project Is Awesome And Less Than A Grand Asking Price!

Never have two states starting with M been so far apart. I’m talking emotionally here folks, not physically. This truck is for sale in Montana, I live in Massachusetts. I want this thing so...

Best Of 2014: Watch This Huge Chevy Truck Battle The Weight Sled To The Death – The Most Hard Fought, Driveline Twisting Pull We Have Ever Posted

We have posted hundreds of truck pulling videos over the years. Some of them show trucks and tractors just dominating the course and others show explosions and various incredible mechanical failures....

Best Of BangShift: Is This The Worst Welding Job Ever? One BangShifter Got The Job To Fix This Disaster

Last night, I was cruising the BangShift forums and came across a thread titled, “You should not be welding anything”. Naturally I was pretty interested to see what that was all about and...

Best of BangShift: The Most Powerful Snow plow Ever?

We think we’ve located the most powerful snow plowing apparatus in the world. If you know of something with more grunt than two locomotives hooked together, please share. Keeping the tracks...

Best Of BangShift: The Twisted Tale of the Great American Truck Racing Series

Our quest for answers regarding a long-forgotten race series that featured massive big-rig trucks on asphalt and dirt ovals started with a thread on the Bangshift.com forum section. One of our...

Best of 2014: An Ohio Scrap Yard Owner Bought A Bunch Of WWII Era Planes In The Late 1940s To “Save” Them – They’re Now All Rotting In The Woods – Amazing Photos

Walter Soplata must have been an interesting dude. After all, the guy went on a pretty amazing buying spree in the late 1940s, buying old warplanes that had participated in WWII in an effort to...

Off-Roading Fun: This Early-1950’s Chevy Goes For A Romp In An Off-Roader’s Playground

It has an alcohol-swilling 540ci Chevy with a 12-71 blower under the hood that’s good for 1,300 horsepower. It has 2.5 ton axles front and rear hooked to a tube frame. It has beautiful black...

This Kelderman Equipped Monster F-450 Harley Davidson Edition Could Be Yours – Bug Out In Style…While Towing Your House

While we knew that Ford’s upscale Harley Davidson edition package extended through most of its truck line we did not know that it was available on the F-450 truck that the company sells. The...

BangShift Holiday Shopping Guide: Furniture From Vintage Aircraft Parts And Official Pictures, By Boeing!

Ever wonder what happened to all of the older aircraft that have been retired? Sure, there’s plenty of them sitting in dirt lots in southern Arizona, and quite a few of them are on their fourth...

This 1960 Chevy Wagon Has An Exhaust Stack, A Cummins Diesel Engine, And Not A Lick Of Paint – We Love It

McTaggart thought he was pretty tough stuff he found and posted the Cummins swapped Chevy truck the other day. In an effort to keep the man in his place, I offer you this 1960 Chevy wagon which has...

Historical Video: Monster Tanks And Trucks At the 1989 USHRA Anahiem Show

Monster trucks and monster tanks. How much more do you need to read? Considering the limitations that monster trucks had in the 1980s (read: backbreaking suspensions) it only made sense to try and...