This 1978 GMC G-30 Shorty Van Is A Pathfinder Modified 4×4 Beast We Would LOVE To Drive!
4×4 vans are cool, I don’t care who you are. But they aren’t very common in comparison to your average white plumbers 2-wheel drive van seen all across the country. But even when the...
Best of 2020: 2003 Dodge Caravan Dump Truck. Yeah, That’s No Typo.
My official stance on trucks: If you need something sincerely heavy-duty, the kind of rig to tow cars home with, to tote a 5th-wheel or gooseneck camper with, the kind of machine you’ll haul a...
Best of 2020: 2017 IRPA Nationals – A Five-Way Sudden Death Match!
Every race is competitive…everybody wants to win. But there are different forms of winning. Take NASCAR, for example. Some want to catch every checkered flag, whether it’s black and white...
Best of 2020: Speedbird: The Story Of The EPA’s Plymouth Superbird Test Car!
Of all of the things I’ve ever heard of about a car “back in the day”, this one is by far the most amusing one. At the beginning of the 1970s, the Environmental Protection Agency...
Best of 2020: 1992 Chrysler Phantom R/T – The Mexicans Got The Good Mopars!
I’ll say it right now: between the end of the Musclecar era and the arrival of the Dodge Viper, the United States got shafted and Mexico got spoiled. Proof: We got the Dodge Dart Sport, the...
Dually Suburban For The Win! And It Is A Square Body! My Two Favorite Trucks Rolled Into One
Square Body Chevrolet and GMC Duallies have enjoyed a HUGE rise in popularity in the past few years and I understand why completely. I mean just look at them. They are some of the best looking dually...
Daydream Into Drift: A Bit Of Russian Sideways Action Courtesy Of A Mushroom Trip
There are some days, usually the sunny warm ones with the long hours, where reality can go and screw itself. These are the days when you are usually out “fishing” on the water, where the...
Finnegan Ads Hatervision, AKA A Huge Holley EFI Dash, To His C10 Truck Which Is Getting Put Together!
Never have there been more choices in gauges and dash clusters for popular hot rods, trucks, muscle cars, and street machines. And whether you want to run traditional round gauges, or one of the...
Best of 2020: 1966 Mercedes-Benz Unimog 406 Car Hauler
It’s easy to take a jab or two at Brian Lohnes’ love of big trucks, but his kryptonite, without a doubt, are Mercedes-Benz Unimogs. At least his rationale behind the obsession is...
Here’s The 12 Days of Burnouts 2020 In Their Entirety! See All 12 Smoke Shows Right Here.
Burnouts are great no matter what time of year, but there is something extra cool about burnouts during the holidays. Maybe it’s the Christmas trees on the roofs of high powered hot rods, maybe...
Best of 2020: Check Out This Fully Functional Remote-Controlled Ekranoplan!
When the KM ekranoplan was discovered by spy photography in 1967, Western countries could not understand quite what they were looking at. The idea of a ground-effect craft, or ekranoplan, was not on...
Best Of 2020: Ryan Newman’s Last Lap Crash At The 2020 Daytona 500
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!
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...
