The American Powertrain Memorial Day Sale is now LIVE! Save $150 off any 5 or 6 speed kit May 18-26!

That’s right folks, the American Powertrain Memorial Day Sale is on now through Tuesday the 26th, so if you want to save $150 off any 5 or 6 speed kit use the link below and tell them we sent...

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Turning This Old Farm Truck into a Killer Street Machine Using Scrapyard Ford Parts! Bumpside Ford Goodness!

I love donor vehicle builds like this one. What I mean by that is when you buy a car, or parts from the wrecking yard, to build something new and exciting in a way it never was before. My 1956 Chevy...

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EASILY Bend Rubber Hoses Without Kinking Them! Does The Hot Water Trick Actually Work Or Not?

I’ve heard about this trick a few times, but have never actually tried to form my own molded rubber hose using it. But this guy seems to suggest it is not only possible, but very very...

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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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Bad News ISIS: A-10 Warthogs Are Headed To See You – Flying Tractor Of Doom Won’t Be Retired Anytime Soon Despite Earlier Plans

Back in September of 2013 we reported on news that the A-10 Warthog was going to be retired by the Pentagon in the 2014/2015 time frame. The reasons were many. The role of the airplane had been...

TheThump Truck – A 23,000lb Kenworth That’s About to Run 13s (w/video)

With this Labor Day Weekend’s “theme” around here being working vehicles, we knew we couldn’t pass up another chance to share this insane tire shredding dump truck we have...

This Bobbed, Tracked Ford Is Weird But The Weird Is Outshone By The Awesome – Buy It!

So I have been on a hot streak with weird and awesome tracked vehicles as of late. This one came to my attention via OG BangShifter Shawn Anderson who posted this Craigslist ad on his Facebook page....

Historical Footage: The Air Force tests out the Avrocar I Between 1960-1961

The Avrocar project was an attempt by Avro Canada and the U.S. military to utilize the Coandă effect in order to achieve vertical take off and flight. The craft looked like a flying saucer and was...

1957 Chevy Factory Orrville Crew Cab Conversion – NAPCO 4WD and Power Steering –

Since today is Father’s Day I figured I would dig up this old item about one of the coolest trucks I have ever laid eyes on. This 1957 Chevy Factory Orrville crew cab conversion has NAPCO 4WD...

Ebay Find: 36,000 mile One-Owner 440-powered 1977 Dodge D300

When I was fourteen, my stepdad drug home a 1978 Dodge 3/4 ton that had been the unfortunate victim of a winter accident. The truck was very low mile, and only needed a new radiator core support,...

Look Out Larson And Reynolds! Here’s My Challenger To The World’s Fastest Street Truck – I’m Bringing The Biscuter!

I’ve been sitting here holding my tongue long enough. Ever since the Larson/Reynolds S10 went deep into the six second zone on Drag Week and ever since it went into the 5s at Las Vegas I have...

FAIL: Watch A Rickety Truck On Massive Tires And Axles Fold Up Like A Blanket While Trying To Jump A Junker

This was certainly the most exciting thing that happened at the trailer park last week. In this video you’ll see an older Ford truck that has been propped up on massive Rockwell axles from a...

The Hybrid You’d Actually Want: A Pulling Tractor With Twin 38.8L V-12 Turbodiesels and a 526 Hemi

(By Jason Sands) – (Editor’s note: We have run some video of this massive and insanely powerful tractor in the past but this is a fresh chunk of video goodness that Jason found so...

Mike Ryan, Look Out: This MAN Can Do The Big-Rig Gymkhana Thing, Too

You should be familiar with Mike Ryan, the driver behind the Freightliner drift truck that features in the “Size Matters” series of YouTube films and has run on Pikes Peak. There’s...

Do You Miss The Early 1990’s? Then This Body-Kitted Chevy 1500 Is For You!

The 88-97 GM trucks might be best remembered for their role in the creation of the “sport truck” modification craze of the 1990s. You couldn’t get away from them…dropped low,...

Watch The World’s Baddest Sounding Hot Rodded Garden Tractor Rip Donuts and Do A Humongo Burnout

This tractor has been around for a while but we just stumbled upon this video of the radical machine tearing around on a burnout pad and then roasting its rear tires almost to the cords. The tractor...

Evel Knievel’s “Scramble Van” trailer resurfaces in Worcester, Massachusetts

For the better part of the last three decades, at the corner of Winter and Water Streets in the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, there was a single-axle trailer parked in a fenced-in lot. If you...

Roadside Find: This Big Ass Truck Looks Like One That The Guys At Big Ass Trux Would Build!

While running errands yesterday look what we found! In a land that is dominated by four predominant classes of car, finding something outside the box is awesome. The predominant car categories near...