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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This 1964 International Harvester Travelall Ambulance Is A Classic Meat Wagon That You Can Own

Consider this a new one on us. We’ve seen ambulances made out of Buicks, Cadillacs, Fords, and other large vehicles but we had never seen one made from an International Travelall before today....

Cheap Truck Challenge Video: Beater Trucks Go Head-To-Head Off Road For Fun

Every year, Fred Williams gathers up a group of his pals and challenges them to buy and modify a clapped out truck for the purposes of competing in a “competition” of sorts out in the...

You Could Have A Unimog, But Wouldn’t You Really Rather Have A 6×6 Power Wagon?

Anyone who has read BangShift knows that Lohnes does a transformation whenever he sees a big truck that has all of the speed of a farm tractor: His eyes go as wide as a Disney princess’s, he...

Would You Rather Unimog Edition: Is It The One With The Loader Bucket And Backhoe Or The VW Eating Snowblower On The Front Of It?

So there I was, aimlessly searching the internet for Unimogs because that’s what I do. Lo and behold, I stumble upon not one, but TWO of the fantastic German built machines and each one is...

Russian Reckage: Watch This Nutsto Bus Wreck Unfold Like Something From A Michael Bay Movie

This is apparently the week where ALL the wreckage and carnage happens because the videos have literally been flowing in from around the globe. It has been a long while since we have highlighted any...

Ebay Find: A 1970 Chevrolet C50 Ex-NASCAR Ramp Truck

What use could you find for this 1970 Chevrolet ramp truck? Sure, it’s a bit rough around the edges, but that’s character. Everything that you need is there: a running 366 V8, a...

A New Angle Of The Blown Centless Pulling Tractor Catastrophe Emerges – Watch It In Slow Motion!

Yesterday we showed you Kevin Chriswell’s “Blown Centless” tractor literallty coming apart at the seams and spitting blown hemi engines out like Skittles. We had some fan video that...

Wahhhh….A Road Racing Car Lost A Wheel – See How The Tractor Pullers Do Front End Failure

Hey, who am I to take a swipe at McTaggart’s item right over there about the IMSA bodied Monza losing a wheel at Laguna Seca Raceway, right? That guy just have been angry, freaked, and...

eBay Find: This $200,000 Dodge Power Wagon May Actually Be Worth It – One Of The Rarest Ever

So Tom Nolen basically discovered a unicorn on eBay in the form of a 1949 Dodge Power Wagon fire truck that also happens to be a woody. We’re a little confused on the originality of the woody...

Video: We’re Pretty Sure This Is The Smokiest Burnout Of All Time

With respect to massive, smokey burnouts, they don’t get any more massive or smokey than the one shown in the video below. The truck is the Smith Transport Tornado II and from what our ears are...

Tractor Pull Carnage: This Ford’s Back Wheel Has A Word From Our Sponsor

This video comes to us from the August 2, 2014 tractor pull in Lochem, The Netherlands. This Super Stock Ford, “Iessel Diesel”, starts off strong but right from the start you can see that...

Redneck Rocket Video: Watch A Massive Swamp Buggy, Equipped With A 632ci V8 Yank The Front Wheels On Pavement!

Its Saturday here in the BangShift newsroom, know what that means? Typically it means that we wake up surrounded by spent beer cans, old pizza boxes, and using a breaker bar as a pillow under one of...

Would You Rather: A 1937 Chevy Wrecker That’s In Tough Shape Or A 1950 Dodge Power Wagon That May Be Worse

I’ve been jealous because both McTaggart and Chad have done a Would You Rather blog item so far and until this moment, I still had a goose egg in that category. Well that egg is present NO...

What Would You Do With This 1961 Mack Cabover Truck? We’ve Got Some Ideas

Our friend Jay sent us this Craigslist Ad yesterday, and both Brian and I were super excited to see a cabover truck that neither of us had seen before. This 1961 Mack is one weird freak. With the...