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Massive 1200+hp Turbo-Diesel powered Race TRUCKS attack the Goodwood Festival of Speed!

It’s amazing what you can do with a really big truck. After highlighting one of the world’s fastest mini trucks in a video today, now we are highlighting absolutely huge trucks, doing...

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Is This 1,400 horsepower Toyota, The Fastest Land Speed Racing Mini-Truck In The World? Larry Chen Check Out This Bonneville Speed Week Machine!

I’ve loved this truck since I first saw it on the salt at Bonneville a few years ago, and it continues to impress me every time I see it. It’s not just that it is fast, because it’s...

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SMALL TIRE GANGSTERS GO FOR THE $20K+ AGAIN!!!! LOSER’S BRACKET AT DIG OR DIE DIG DAYS 7 AT THE ROCK

If you like Dig or Die coverage as much as we do, then check out this race video from our friends at Spoold Media. Keep in mind, this race is worth more than $20,000 and it’s the losers bracket...

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Leroy Engine Teardown: Did Cleetus Tear Up This HED Beast? Or Is It In Great Shape Still And Ready For More Boost?

Anybody who knows Cleetus, knows that he can tear up just about anything. I can’t even begin to guess the number of engines he’s blown up over the years, but it’s an insane number....

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8×8 and 6×6 Truck Trials Competition: These Bad Ass Rigs Take On All The Mud, Climbs, And Obstacles You Can Throw At Them!

If you have never seen the Tatra truck trials, you are missing out. These 6×6 trucks are truly something special as they have insane suspension, locking diffs, and the ability to ascend and descend...

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Testing TikTok versus Instagram Tool Hacks: Testing a Fractal Vise versus a Dual Battery Behemoth. Are Either Worth Having?

You can imagine that being a tool testing channel on YouTube means digging through tons of comments telling you that you are wrong about the tools you test, or are testing the wrong ones all...

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Video: Garbage Truck Eats Car! Check Out How Easy This Is!

Some of the machines they use at wrecking yards and scrap yards around the world are insanely powerful so that they can tear up anything that comes in for recycling, but what you may not realize is ...

Video: New All Electric Taxi Cabs In New York? One More Nail In The Crown Vics Coffin

When Ford announced they would no longer be producing rear wheel drive Crown Victorias for Police or Taxi companies, another U.S. rear wheel drive platform died. And since then there have been...

Craigslist Find: A UNIMOG Who’s Life’s Work Was For The German Army. We’d Make A Motorhome Out Of It!

We have always though Unimogs were cool. With ultra flexible gearing, extreme ground clearance, tractor like simplicity and flexibility, plus a go anywhere attitude that won’t quit, they have...

FREE LIVE AUTOCROSS: All Day Saturday From The So Cal Challenge In Costa Mesa

The guys at BlackInkMedia are at it again this weekend with yet another SoCal Challenge event this weekend. BangShift’s Chad Reynolds will be on site announcing and broadcasting live so that...

Roadside Find: An Old (and Neat) Scoopmobile Articulating Front End Loader

Recently we were minding our business, rolling down the road, when we spied this neat old orange beast. This is a really cool machine made by the long dead Scoopmobile company. Aside from having a...

Mini-Feature: A 1957 International Welding Truck That’s The Same As It Was When It Left The Job Site

(Words and photos by Greg Rourke) – We sometimes see a guy at car shows with a 1957 International Harvester pickup. He tells us his grandfather bought the truck brand new, and converted it for...

Video: Watch The Australian Mercedes Plumbing Van Dip Into 7s With A Pissed Off Nitrous Snorting 632 Chevy

Outlandish drag cars and trucks have long been a part of the fabric of quarter mile competition and it doesn’t matter what part of the world you’re in for that statement to be true....

Video: The Miniature Slingshot From The Postman Pat Guys Hits The Strip!

Our pals over in England, the Postman Pat dudes have gotten their awesome little motorcycle powered slingshot dragster on the strip! The run you’ll see in the video below was made last weekend...

Bitchin’ Video: Watch A Corvette Grand Sport Rally Car Get Prepared For The East African Safari Rally!

A couple years ago we were geeked out by the dudes who attached the East African Safari Rally with an old Mustang. As cool as that was, another group of racers has risen to the challenge and built a...

Video: Monterey Historics At Laguna Seca Highlights

We’ve never been able to go to the Monterey Historics race at Laguna Seca in Monterey, even when we lived close by. It’s just always been on a weekend where something else was going on,...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Have You Had So Many Cars That You Actually Forget Some Of Them Sometimes?

This isn’t a bragging type of question. Trust us. We’re not lighting our cigars with $100 bills around here and forgetting that we have a Bentley parked around back by the servant...

Craigslist Find: A Never Titled Or Registered 1969 SS Camaro With Racing History

Robert Martin at MSD found this one yesterday and sent it over saying that this one was rare. You think? Hell yes it’s rare! Who else has a ’69 Camaro SS that has never been titled or...

Event Gallery: Corvettes At Carlisle – Street Freaks, Barn Finds, Race Cars, Restos, and More!

(Photos by Jeff Lee) – There’s no denying that the Corvette nameplate is one of the most deeply seated in the American high performance automotive world. From sports car racing to the...

PowerShift is BACK – Come Watch LIVE With Chad and Brian! The Show Starts At 6pm Pacific/9 Eastern!

After a couple week break, BangShift’s no-ready-for-primetime show PowerShift returns LIVE TONIGHT! We’ll be kicking things off at the normal time of 6PM Pacific and 9PM eastern time that...