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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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...

More News On Payload Ratings: GM Goes For The Mea Culpa, Ford Doesn’t Budge

The saga of payload capacity in the Class 3 truck market continues to be filled with drama. To bring you up to speed, this all started out with Ford and Ram taking shots at each other over who had...

On The Rocks: A Threesome Of Custom Jeeps We’d Love To Thrash

(Photos by Trevor Howard, Words by Trevor Howard and Chad Reynolds) Jeeps are cool. Yep, we said it, and you know it’s true, and this threesome is one your wife might actually approve of....

Watch the Mercedes AMG G63 6×6 Take On Ferraris and McLarens At A Track Day

Track days are all about getting your ride onto the track and letting it all hang out. Boosted rally rocket? Great! Italian supercar? All the better! Giant-ass six-wheel drive truck? Uh….what?...

eBay Find: The Deuce And A Half Of My Dreams – Not Only A Fire Truck, A Forest Fire Truck!

One of my first clear vehicular memories was visiting the fire station in town as a little kid. Being that I grew up and currently live in the same small town, may of the faces have changed but the...

Nissan’s NISMO Juke/Xterra Is The Stuff Nightmares Are Made Of

(Photos courtesy of Twitter/Nissan) The Nissan Xterra is a cool little SUV that has a strong off-roading pedigree. It doesn’t try to be soft and cuddly, but instead was built from the start to...

New Jersey State Assemblyman Submits Bill To Make “Coal Rolling” Illegal After Someone Blasted His Nissan Leaf

If you misbehave in front of the wrong person, they will see to it that your form of fun is forever banished. In New Jersey, State Assemblyman Tim Eustance was driving his Nissan Leaf  on the New...

Video: This Trucking Couple Makes Their Living In A Custom Volvo VNL Truck That’s A Rolling Palace

Volvo is running a series of videos lately that highlight different owners and operators of their trucks and how they are using their big rigs. We were blown away by this latest video because it...

Roadkill Video: Freiburger and Finnegan Find And Save A 1950 GMC From Eternal Junkyard Purgatory…Kind Of

Junkyards are the places where so many hot rod dreams start. They are also the places where the end of many hot rod dreams land. No matter where you are from of what you are into, a ‘yard is a...

This 1989 Pontiac Firebird Zombie Response Team Trar Is A Big Block Powered Winner

I know you people out there in readerland (is there anything worse than “you people”?) must think that I sit around and seek trars in all of their glorious forms all over the internet....

Watch An Icelandic Maniac In A Formula Off Road Truck Travel More Than 1,000ft Over Water

(If there were a standing record for a wheeled vehicle skittering atop water, this Jeep would have it and it would be on the salt RIGHT NOW resetting the damned thing) There are certain things that...

Meet the Terra Wind Recreational Vehicle. We Need This Now!

Say you’ve got about $1.5 million burning a hole in your pocket. What do you do? You could buy a house, but you probably already have several. You could buy land, but then you’ll be out...

The Sealegs Amphibious Boat Is Genius And BangShift Approved Idea, Plus You Can Actually Own One

(Because of the rainout of Bonneville, we’re running some stuff that would be of use or fun on the water logged Salt Flats today.) Virtually every day of my life I am confronted with...

This Combine Is 100% BangShift Approved: Clean Enough For Euro Standards, And Can Mow Through Wheat Better Than Anyone Else

It’s clean enough to meet European Tier 4b diesel emissions regulations. It’ll cut a swath of wheat up to 45′ wide, or maw through eighteen rows of corn stalks at a time, all while...