Category Archive: XL Online Find, XL Spotlight

This King Of The Hammers Ready Ultra 4 Jeep Would Make A Great Christmas Gift

No seriously. I mean who doesn’t like a Black Friday deal anyway? This one is 30% off! That’s a savings of over $40,000! Yeah, use that math logic on your wife and just make sure you are...

Wrecker Perfection! This 1956 International Is A Twin Boom Terror

(By Greg Rourke) – It’s no secret we love big trucks on BangShift. It’s also no secret we’re into old wreckers, as evidenced by the world famous Brutus wrecker owned, steered...

This 1973 Toyota Hilux Pickup Is Old School Perfection

Classic mini trucks are all the rage lately, and with more than the traditional mini truck crowd. Pro Touring racers are building them, drag racers are building them, and a lot of folks are just...

This 1949 GMC 3100 Is Laid Out Patina’d Perfection

I can’t tell whether it’s the patina, the stance, the artillery wheels, or the combination of all three, but what I can tell is that this truck is a bad ass. On the ground thanks to...

One Of The Coolest Jeep CJ-5 Renegades We’ve Seen Is Up For Sale! You Have To See This Thing!

A couple of years back, Jeep brought back the legendary nameplate Renegade to their lineup as an entry level vehicle to open the door to all things Jeep to a new generation of buyers. Many die hard...

This Land Rover Defender 110 High Capacity Pickup Is Off Roading Insanity. Sign Us Up.

When we saw this truck at the Off-Road Expo in Pomona last month we were blown away. You don’t see many right had drive vehicles around here period, but when combined with the fact that this...

Ramp Truck! Get Your Ramp Truck Here! Drooling…

I wish I could get a ramp truck. It might be my favorite dually ever. Although a bagged and laid out crew cab dually is the balls. But the ramp truck is so handy! So if I had to choose just one I...

Money No Object: This 2004 Chevrolet Express Just Might Be The Ultimate People-Mover – Turbocharged LS For Twelve, Anyone?

This isn’t the 1970s, folks. The days of looking at a full-size van and going, “Hmm…you know what…that would make a bitchin’ hot rod” are long, long gone. Right?...

eBay Find: This 1935 GMC Truck Would Be Stunning Restored But Will Anyone Do It?

This is one of those trucks that we look at and think about how awesome it is and then think about how literally awesome the task of restoring it would be. This would be a massive amount of work but...

Yes! We Found A Pristine and Functional 1933 Chevy Wrecker For Sale

Being a tow truck driver these days is tough and dangerous work. From the long hours on the road to the risk of some idiot plowing into you on the highway, there’s a lot of risks associated...

eBay Find: This 1973 Ford F-250 Ranger Is Longbed, Four Wheel Drive, Three Pedal Awesomeness

When you spend as much time looking at, talking about, writing on, and generally being around cars and trucks as we do, you occasionally develop an unhealthy obsession with a particular thing and...

Mighty Mites: Sometimes It Is Better to Buy Older When It Comes To Yard Tractors And Here’s Why!

(By Greg Rourke) – For various reasons, I haven’t built any cool rods are done much noteworthy for over 30 years. I always read all the magazines, attended a few races and car shows, and...

You Just Might Need This 4×4 Pacer In Your Life

The American Motors’ Pacer will, for better or worse, be one of the best-remembered cars in the company’s checkered past. Ungainly and overweight, it was the byproduct of a lot of things gone...

Go Long With This Unique And Cool 1940 Ford Flower Car – Ever Seen One Before?

We have seen lots of flower cars here at BangShift over the years and most of them have been of the type you’d expect. Lincolns, Cadillacs, and other big cars. It makes sense that those would...