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Category Archive: Project Cars, TRUCKS

BangShift Project Files Update: Checking In On A Toyota FJ40 That Has Been Given A Second Lease On Life!

If you go into the woods of Western Washington, there is no telling what you may find. There’s just about everything you can think of hidden among the blackberry vines and salal thickets and...

Watch As This Duramax Chevy Puts All Of That Torque To Good Use: Punishing Tires!

From the start: this Duramax Chevrolet is a bad, bad sumbitch. The burnouts are epic, the driver unrelenting, and the fog bank created by just the tires alone was probably visible on weather radar...

Not Every Aussie Hot Rod Has A Blower! Check Out This Sleepy Holden Commodore Ute!

Well, there goes the Outback. The 1320Video gang have taken the long plane ride around the back of the planet to Australia and have been checking out the offerings that we here in the states tend to...

BangShift Project Files: Ditching The Sports-Utility Vehicle For An Honest 1979 Chevrolet Pickup Truck

We aren’t completely against sports-utility vehicles, don’t get us wrong. Chad practically lives out of a Suburban during the summer months, it seems. But when you have multiple vehicles...

Unveiled: The 2016 Easter Jeep Safari Concept Vehicles! Which One Is Your Favorite?

It’s rare for a manufacturer to celebrate and thank the fans quite like Jeep does every year at the Easter Jeep Safari in Moab, Utah. 2016 is the 50th anniversary of the Easter Jeep Safari,...

BangShift Project Files: This 1988 Ford Ranger Is Now Packing A Turbocharged Nissan RB20DET!

What use would you have with a 1988 Ford Ranger that was all but ready for the junkyard? That was the situation that faced BangShift member “neongreen”…his Ranger had dutifully...

BangShift Project Files: A $1,000 Jeep Comanche That Is On It’s Way To Becoming A Jurassic Park Utility Truck!

When Jurassic Park came out in 1993, it set a high standard for what a movie could be. Fans were treated to the sights of a dinosaur park near Costa Rica as Murphy’s Law kicked in, and...

BangShift Project Files: A Rough Chevy Longbed Is Being Brought To Life By One Of Our Resident Mad Mechanics!

Many things are said to haunt the forests of Western Washington. If you are near the village of Olalla, you might hear the victims of Starvation Heights on a chilly night. If you hang around the Hoh...

BangShift Project Files: A Unicorn And One Of The Most Popular Trucks Of All Time, Rolled Into One In This 1985 Chevrolet C-10!

Between 1973 and 1987 (1991 if heavy-duty trucks are your thing), General Motors cranked out millions of pickup trucks. Whether you like them or not, you have to hand it to GM for finding a winning...

BangShift Holiday Shopping Guide: For The Enthusiast, How About A Tiny Subaru Tow Truck?

Chad likes low riders and bagged cars. I like malaise-era sleds and rally cars. Brian…likes tow trucks. Sing it with me, kids: “One of these things just doesn’t belong...

The Zingers inspired a generation of car geeks, and we talked to the guy who built them

  There was a time when custom car culture was as mainstream as professional sports. Back in the 1960s, custom car shows were huge events that hundreds of thousands of people saw over the course...

BangShift Project: Introducing the $200 Hauler…A Tow Rig on a BangShift Budget!

Although the economy is looking up, regular Joes like us are still hurting, and there are plenty of folks, like us, who just can’t afford a new tow rig. So, when the opportunity came for us to...