Category Archive: BangShift XL, CAR FEATURES, MISC, Videos, XL Spotlight, XL Street Truck Feature, XL Truck Feature, XL Videos

Freiburger Got THE DEAL OF A LIFETIME and HIT THE ROAD! Even He Has To Admit This Might Be Too Nice For Him.

When a viewer and fan offers you a really cool truck, at a really cool price that you’d never get otherwise, you jump at it if you can. I know I would! And Freiburger is no idiot, so he surely...

Is Finnegan’s New Trailer The BEST Drag And Drive Trailer EVER Built?! A Few Stand Out, And This One Might Be At The Top Of That List

Drag and Drive trailers range from the sublime to the ridiculous and everything in between. I’ve built big ones, small ones, and medium sized ones, but at each drag and drive event you see more...

ROAD TRIP! Freiburger Takes Us On A ROUTE 66 ROAD TRIP And Can’t Miss JUNK HUNT For Car Guys And Gals

While Route 66 originally went from Chicago to Santa Monica, and is arguably one of the most famous roads in the world, there isn’t a lot of it left in some areas of the original route. It was...

Personalized Plate Drama: The Texas DMV Says This Houston Man’s Incredibly Creative License Plate Is Offensive.

We’ve all spent time admiring personalized, or vanity, plates on different cars and trucks at show, events, or around town. If you are like me, you have spent even more time trying to figure...

Is This How To Build The Cheapest, Most Professional Fixture Table Available? This Is The Fireball Tool Maverick Series Fixture Table.

We talk about welding and fixture tables around here a lot and there is a good reason why. It’s because they are awesome, that’s why. And I like creative DIY solutions, factory built...

Drone Footage From California Speedway Show The Demolition, New Construction, And Maybe Hope For More Racing?

Rumors fly all the time about the fate of California Speedway in Southern California. While living there, we were regularly at the speedway for autocross racing, drag races, and more. This facility...

What’s Your Ultimate OBS Chevy Look Like? Dave at Willomet Fab Is Road Tripping What May Be The Ultimate OBS Chevy Off-Road Rig.

The ultimate of anything is a hard thing to quantify. I mean us car and truck folks have been working for over 100 years to try and create the “ultimate” hot rod, race car, off-road rig,...

The Hot Rod Hoarder Is Sacrificing Two Old DRAGSTERS To Get A Flip-Top OPEL GT. Can You Guess Who From?

I knew there would be trouble if these two got together, and it finally happened. And you know what happens when you have two guys who can’t stop collecting cool stuff, and they get together...

Best Of Iron Trap 2024 – This Episode Talks About The Best Cars And Adventures Of 2024, And Goals For 2025!

If you follow the Iron Trap Garage crew, or watch the videos that we share of theirs throughout the year, you know that there is never a dull moment at the Iron Trap Garage. They are constantly...

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Behind the Build Episode 2: John McGann Leads The HOT ROD Shop Tour with Hollywood Hot Rods

If you are like us and are always interested in finding out what goes on behind the scenes at a shop, or during a car build, then this new series from John McGann and the gang at Hot Rod is going to...

Q&A With DULCICH and FREIBURGER from Roadkill Garage: What Does The Future Hold For Both Of Them? This And Much More!

The Motor Trend world has been a flurry of energy, excitement, and dread for the past few weeks as the world found out that the Motor Trend studios portion of the business was shutting down. That...

PowerShift Podcast: 2024 In Review And What’s To Come In 2025 At BANGshift and Beyond!

We kicked off 2025 right with the Happy New Year edition of the show. There were no toasts, or confetti, or resolutions going on, but we did talk a bit about 2024 and then made some predictions and...

Best of 2024: NHRA Shares Their Best Behind The Scenes Moments You Never Saw On A Broadcast

I’ve done a lot of livestreams, and tv shows, and the like, and it is pretty well known that often the magic stuff happens when you least expect it. When the cameras are “off” and...

Drive All The Way ACROSS THE USA in a 1941 ARMY JEEP with Péwé and Freiburger! What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

We recently shared the video of Freiburger and Pewe getting this 1941 Army Jeep running after sitting for nearly 40 years. The plan was for David and Rick to get in and drive this sucker 2,500 miles...