Category Archive: BangShift XL, XL Big Truck Feature, XL Truck Feature
WOW! These Apocalyptic Looking Buses Were Used to Shuttle People Onto A Canadian Glacier For Decades – Tracked Monster Buses!
Sorry if we just made your eyes bug out of your head. That was our initial reaction after getting an email from a Canadian reader who saw yesterday’s cool little tracked VW bus and then sent us...
A Freak And A Failure: The Sad Story Of The Coolest Tractor Ever Made, The Minneapolis Moline UDLX Comfortractor
A car, a tractor, and an epic fail. All three things describe this motorized freak, the ’38 Minneapolis Moline UDLX Comfortractor. In a twist of irony it is one of the most valuable collector...
Motorized Freak of the Week: The 1934 McQuay Norris Streamliner
Mechanically, this week’s oddity is nothing more than a V8-powered 1934 Ford. Stylistically, however, this thing looks as though it just came from outer space. This Motorized Freak is the 1934...
Truck Feature: A Tale Of Two Chevy C10 Trucks – Late Model Turbo Power Or Old School Rumpity Cammed Goodness?
(WORDS AND PHOTOS BY DOUG AND TAYLOR GREGORY) – I’ve got a bit of an affinity for the Chevy C-10 having owned a ’66 and a ’70. Neither of mine were nearly as nice as the two you see...
Ken Kelley’s 1956 Ford F-100 Is Fat In All The Right Places, Just Like An Effie Should Be And Now It Is For Sale
(Words and Photos by Kaleb Kelley) Here at BangShift, we like a little bit of everything. Some oddities that normally would be frowned upon, we love. We also like some of the iconic cars and trucks...
This 1950 Willys Jeepster Is Literally On Death’s Door – Junkyard Spotted And Crusher Ready
Having been away from the house for the previous week, I was looking to have some fun with the boys as they had the day off from school yesterday. Tom wanted to eat at his favorite diner so we hopped...
SEMA 2014: This Chuck Mallet Built Silverado Is Retro Done Right – Sometimes Just Enough Really Is Just Enough (There’s Lots Of Horsepower, Though)
I guess I was in a truckin’ mood yesterday because after seeing the tracked FC170 Jeep at Daystar, the next thing that froze me was this awesome Silverado which is living in the Kooks Headers...
SEMA 2014: Daystar Products’ Jeep FC 170 Truck With Hemi Power And Tracks Is 100% BangShift Approved
There’s love a first site and then there are the emotions that I felt when I rounded a corner at the 2014 SEMA show and saw the amazing creation that lies before you on these electronic pages....
SEMA 2013: Mini-Feature – Quik Silver The Custom 1957 Chevy Truck To Rule Them All
While the nooks and crannies of SEMA 2013 are filled with the cars and trucks that bear checking out, some of them stand above the rest. This 1957 Chevy truck called Quik Silver is one of those...
The 2014 Audi Q7 – Cruising The Beautiful Diesel Beast To And Around One Of America’s Great Tracks
(Words and photos by David Hakim) – With the low-speed grunt of a big-block muscle car and the fuel-sipping consumption of an eco-friendly four-cylinder ride, the 2014 Audi Q7 quattro...
BangShift Test Drive: The 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee Summit Eco-Diesel – A Throwback To The Future
This was my second go around with a Jeep Grand Cherokee Summit Eco-Diesel in 2014. Earlier in the year Criag Fitzgerald, Dave Nutting, and I had taken one on a 2,000 mile weekend road trip that saw...
Drag Week 2014 Roadside Find: This 1957 Chevy 1-Ton Wearing An Old Camper Is Perfection
Here’s a sweet roadside find from the road on Drag Week 2014 that we ran into yesterday at a route checkpoint. The truck was kind of hidden in the back but once my wandering eye caught it, I...
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....
