Best Of 2020: Ryan Newman’s Last Lap Crash At The 2020 Daytona 500
Dec 26, 2020Bryan McTaggart10
Nineteen years ago, I was in a classroom in a high school in Illinois, working on a project during a study hall session when I learned what happened: during the running of the 2001 Daytona 500 the...
Merry Christmas From All Of Us At BangShift.com!
Dec 25, 2020Bryan McTaggart6
A Merry Christmas to you, BangShifters! We hope that you are enjoying the magic that this day brings, whether young or old. Regardless of whether it’s presents, family time, or the time away...
Best of 2020: The Right And Wrong Way To Sell The 1982 Ford Mustang
Dec 25, 2020Bryan McTaggart8
One of the first rules of marketing is that once you’ve identified which product is your cash cow, you throw a majority of your efforts behind that to keep it front and center of the masses....
Best of 2020: Supercharged Rolls-Royce Meteor V-12 Out Of Zoomies
Dec 25, 2020Bryan McTaggart2
Oh, you’re a violent little thing, aint’cha? This one goes out to every 200-horsepower 350-powered hot rod that is around…we may never know for sure, but when the earliest hot...
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...












