Category Archive: BangShift XL, XL Off Road Feature, XL Truck Feature
Love It Or Hate It? Fred Williams’ Crazed 1973 Mad-Maxxis Off-RoadRunner Looks Tough At SEMA
Nov 06, 2015Brian Lohnes19
One of the most buzzed about vehicles at the SEMA show is the wild Mad-Maxis Off-RoadRunner built by Fred Williams on Dirt Every Day. Powered by a new Cummins V8 that would normally be found in a...
Unhinged: I Willingly Hopped Into Roger Norman’s Prerunner Ford During The Baja 1000 Qualifier At Las Vegas Motor Speedway
Nov 04, 2015Bryan McTaggart1
The best way to get me away from SEMA is to offer me the chance to see a bit of four-wheeled action, so when the folks at BFGoodrich offered up the chance to see the qualification for the Baja 1000,...
Sema Show 2015 Coverage: An Ariel Atom Meets Mad Max – The Most Off The Wall Thing Ever
Nov 02, 2015Brian Lohnes14
No, we’re not sure why someone would spend what had to have been years of their lives welding, bending, and manipulating seemingly miles of steel tubing like this but we’re damned glad...
2017 Ford F-Series Super Duty: This Is The Latest Weapon In The Heavy Duty Truck Segment
Sep 24, 2015Brian Lohnes1
(Photo by Ford Motor Company) – Here it is, the 2017 Ford F-Series Super Duty. This is Ford’s latest entry in an ever escalating battle between it, the GM brands, and the Ram brand, to...
This 1931 Ford Is Powered By An Old Diamond Rio Truck Motor and Has A Frame Made Of Old Light Poles – We Dig (Video)
Sep 07, 2015Brian LohnesComments Off on This 1931 Ford Is Powered By An Old Diamond Rio Truck Motor and Has A Frame Made Of Old Light Poles – We Dig (Video)
Mike Musto’s show “Big Muscle” on the YouTube Drive channel is a good watch. Every week he finds himself beating the stuffing out of a cool car in some part of the country. The cars...
This 1979 Ford F-100 Runs 12s On A Crazily Stock Turbocharged Ford 300 Inliner! Sleeper City
Sep 02, 2015Brian Lohnes4
There’s not much better than a smartly built combo that blows people away and has “well thought out” written all over it. We have to thank BangShifter James Pringle for tipping us...
Roadside Find: This 1968 FWD Tractioneer Is Being Road Tripped By Its New Owner…Slowly
Aug 10, 2015Brian Lohnes2
(Photos and words by Greg Rourke) – You never know what you might find around town. For example, this 1968 FWD Tractioneer plow truck. Never heard of FWD? If you live outside the snow belt, you...
Another 8×8 Extreme RV That Will Make You Want To Circle The Globe
Jul 07, 2015Chad Reynolds6
When we found an 8×8 Motorhome last week on Craigslist and showed it to all of you the response was awesome. Well boys and girls, here is one at another level again! Action Mobil builds these...
Best of BS 2015: Making A 1993 Ford Bronco Into A Late Model Ford Raptor Seamlessly Makes This Guy A Hero
Jul 05, 2015Brian Lohnes12
It is always cool when people integrate new stuff into older cars and trucks but sometimes that program doesn’t exactly work as planned. The newer bits can be awkward looking, just not fit...
With Only 60 Horsepower, Why Is This Flat Fender Willys CJ2A So Damn Cool?
Jun 26, 2015Chad Reynolds6
With only 60 horsepower, this 1946 Willys CJ2A is probably one of the lowest with BangShift approval. And while we understand the allure of them from an American icon perspective, after all the MB...
The 2015 Ford F150: All New, All Aluminum, A Refined Version Of Your Granddad’s Hammer – We Drive It
Apr 08, 2015Brian Lohnes13
(Photos by Dave Nutting) – I was pretty excited to get my mitts on a 2015 Ford F150 for obvious reasons. The thing is one of the world’s best selling vehicles and a keystone part of...
Truck Feature: This Hot Rodded Cummins Powered Lil’ Red Express Rips Low 10-Second Quarter Mile Times With 100psi Of Boost!
Mar 31, 2015Brian Lohnes7
(Words and photos be Jacob Marshall) – When I first saw Max Kirtley’s Little Red Express truck it was buried in the staging lanes of Royal Purple Raceway surrounded by numerous Nissan...
Ford Unveils Newest Generation F-750 With Mighty Ford F-750 Tonka Themed Dump Truck
Mar 07, 2015Brian Lohnes2
Ford has rolled out an all new F-650 and F-750 into their medium duty truck lineup and since they’ll be at all the big truck and equipment shows with it this year they needed to do something...
We’re Pretty Sure The Indy Haulers Are The Coolest Pace Trucks Ever – Here’s Their History
Feb 22, 2015Brian Lohnes10
(Words by Tony Sestito) – Over the years, there have been all sorts of official pace cars for all sorts of big races. Some of those cars were actually trucks. And in my humble opinion, one of...