Best of 2020: 1980 GMC C35 With Holmes 480 Towing Equipment
Dec 25, 2020Bryan McTaggart1
I swear, I’m not doing this on purpose. Teasing Brian with big trucks that we all know he loves dearly sometimes is fun. But I’m pretty sure that over the last couple of months, that...
Best of 2020: Check Out The Recovery Of This IH TD24 Crawler That’s Been Buried For 45 years!
Dec 25, 2020Bryan McTaggart11
There’s a line attributed to EOD bomb technicians. Reportedly, when asked about whether or not they were stressed out when it came time to defusing a bomb, the answer was something to the...
Best of 2020: Watch The Last Massive Pacific P12W3 Truck Roll Out Of The Shop And Cruise The Nieghborhood – Awesome!
Dec 24, 2020Brian Lohnes1
Pacific trucks may not be a name that is wholly familiar to everyone outside of hardcore truck geeks but it probably should be. This company built some really neat stuff over the years and they had a...
Best of 2020: This 1972 Ford Truck Commercial Is Crazier Than You Think It Was To Make
Dec 24, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Best of 2020: This 1972 Ford Truck Commercial Is Crazier Than You Think It Was To Make
This tv commercial for 1972 Ford trucks is pretty good. There’s the requisite goofy premise and storyline to follow but there is also vintage dirt bikes, jumps, sideways action, and a whole lot...
Video: This Feature On The Summers Brothers Goldenrod Is Mandatory Must Watch Stuff
Dec 24, 2020Brian Lohnes3
In the pantheon of legitimately amazing hot rods, there are cars that stand above the crowd. Machines that represent the pinnacle of achievement for their age. Machines that represent the pinnacle of...
Best of 2020: Flogging A Hemi Daytona At Mont Tremblec With Extreme Prejudice
Dec 24, 2020Bryan McTaggart8
In some road tests, the video will start off with some basic driving, or maybe some clean beauty shots of the car parked up, perfectly polished, looking like you hope your potential dream machine...
Which Would You Rather Get For Christmas? A New Project, Or The Money To Finish An Old One You Still Have?
Dec 24, 2020Chad Reynolds16
I have multiple project cars sitting waiting to be finished or even started. In my defense, I have a shop that we are currently building that when done will allow me to work on these projects, but...
Incredible: Jack Bally Built A Flying 1/3 Scale B-17 Bomber From Scratch – Video and Info Here!
Dec 24, 2020Brian Lohnes1
(By Scott Liggett) –We at Bangshift.com have such respect for the generation of WWII. Part of that respect includes the machines the men and women used to fight a world war against enemies...
Best of 2020: Subaru’s Forester Special For The Singapore Motor Show Is One For The Books!
Dec 24, 2020Bryan McTaggart5
(We’re still disappointed this didn’t happen. -Ed.) Outside of a couple of STi-swapped examples that I’ve seen courtesy of Pacific Import Auto in Tacoma, Washington, a hot-rodded...
Old School Video: This Footage Of A British Firefly Racing Dinghy Boat From 1958 Rules
Dec 24, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Old School Video: This Footage Of A British Firefly Racing Dinghy Boat From 1958 Rules
The English have always been pretty proud of their boat building skills and rightfully so. From the battleships that lead them to be the world’s first super power and effectively rule the...
Best of 2020: New C8 Corvettes Busted Street Racing In Bowling Green
Dec 24, 2020Bryan McTaggart7
(Editor’s note: One word, folks. OOPS. -ed.) The stories from back in the day are legend. On streets like Woodward Avenue and Telegraph Road in Detroit, teams of engineers from the...
Best of 2020 – Historic Video: The Race Of Two Words Was Run At Monza in 1957 and 1958 – USA vs The World!
Dec 24, 2020Brian Lohnes1
It is an event that has all but been forgotten by history. An international race so wild that during the first running, most of the teams pulled out of competition after qualifying. An event that...
Best of 2020: Cleetus Takes Toast, The Camaro To The Skidpad At Summernats For The First Time!
Dec 24, 2020Bryan McTaggart5
It’s a brassy move to go meet someone on their home turf with their own rules with the goal of showing up and showing off like you own the place. That’s why we had our eyebrows raised a...
Best of 2020: Watch This Large Barge Of A 1970 Cadillac Eldorado Hit The Chassis Dyno And Groan
Dec 24, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Best of 2020: Watch This Large Barge Of A 1970 Cadillac Eldorado Hit The Chassis Dyno And Groan
Things like the chassis dyno and the drag strip do not always give us the answers and numbers that we want but they also don’t really lie to us either. That can be painful at times but it is...












