Great Gearhead History Video: Men Bet Their Lives On It – Packard Merlin Engines
If you like history, specifically history related to one of the greatest engines ever designed and built, the Rolls Royce Merlin this 20-minute film is not to be missed. While the boys at Rolls Royce...
Dyno Video: Watch A Wretchedly Overpowered Sand Car Lay Down 1300hp At The Tire With A TT 454ci Warhawk Mill!
Few vehicles on Earth have the power to weight ratio that modern sand cars have. These tube chassis wonders that were once mostly powered by stock or warmed up VW engines now sport turbocharged V8s...
Flowtech Releases New Shorty Headers For Late Model Trucks – GM, Ram, And Tacoma Applications
The shorty header is an interesting and great thing for late model performance enthusiasts that need to keep their vehicles emissions compliant for state inspections or any other reasons. Far...
Mega BOOM: A Canadian Pulling Tractor Blows Up So Hard It Barfs Most Of The Motor Right Out Of The Chassis
Bryan Lively is the editor of Pro Pulling Magazine (ProPulling.com) and he’s a BangShifter as well. Bryan sent us a video link to some footage taken recently at a pull up in Canada. Things were...
Project Cheap 10: How To Build A Gear Jamming, Budget Minded, Classic C10 In A Month With Our Pals At American Powertrain
(Words and photos by American Powertrain/Matt Graves) – Let me start off by saying all this is Greg “Snaps” Schneider’s fault. Greg works for Ridetech as owner Bret Voelkel’s...
Watch A Top Truck Challenge Competitor Roll His Massive Truck While Trying To Rip A Four Wheel Steer Donut
The Top Truck Challenge is to hardcore off-road guys as Drag Week is to hardcore street/strip guys. Some of the nation’s biggest, toughest, strangest, and most awesomely built rigs head out to...
SCORE Is Bringing Off-Road Racing to SEMA 2014, Including Night Racing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway
SCORE International, the off-road racing association associated with Baja and Dakar will have a major display at SEMA 2014, including an outdoor section that incorporates exhibits from numerous...
This 6BT Cummins-powered 1978 Ramcharger Is For Sale-We Want It Badly!
The words “Dodge” and “Cummins” just go together. When the W250 and W350 Rams got the 5.9 six in 1989, it was a direct departure from the indirect-injection V8 diesels that Ford and GM were...
Road Test: The 2014 Ford F-150 Tremor – The Sport Truck That Almost Is
I’m not sure if this is a brag or not but I’d venture to say that I logged more miles and drove an F-150 Tremor faster than any other automotive writer has to this point. See, my wife and...
The 1939 Bantam Super Four Pickup Is A Little Rig We Never Knew Existed – This One Is For Sale
Outside of a precious few of you we’re guessing that a very limited number of BangShifters had any idea that there was such a thing as a 1939 Bantam Super Four pickup, right? When I first saw...
The Oldest Known Peterbilt Truck In Existence Has Been Restored To Showroom Perfection – 1939 Model 260 Is Awesome
One of the reasons I love old trucks is because the vast majority of them were worked until their tongues were hanging out or they were so absurdly obsolete that they had no value at all and were...
Watch Mike Ryan’s First Post Wreck Interview From Pikes Peak 2014 – How Did The Truck End Up In The Woods? He’ll Tell You
You know how much we love Mike Ryan’s huge Freightliner around here, right? Chad has made hot laps sitting next to Mike, I have dreamed of actually sitting in the thing for years and we have...
Bottom Dollar Blazer – Episode 7: It’s Time To Start Thinking Paint, BangShift Style.
Well, it’s been a while since I posted my last update to the Blazer project. Class is wrapped up at Assabet Valley Tech, and I got a ton of the grunt work done. Now it’s time to think...
