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Category Archive: BangShift News, MISC, Videos

PowerShift: Ridler Great 8 And Winner, Plus California SB 712 Just Might Change Hot Rodding Forever!

Last week’s PowerShift podcast was a good one. We only got sidetracked a couple of times, which might just be a record for us, but we spent real time talking about California’s Senate...

Stories N Steel: Interviewing Brad King: Proof That Fear of Failure Can Sometimes Be A Character Flaw.

I first met Brad King during the California Hot Rod Reunion in 2012 when I put a dent in his awesome hot rod Chevy pickup. The BANGshift.com $200 Hauler Suburban had been stolen two nights before,...

Derek Purchased ALL The MOTORTREND Cars From Roadworthy Rescues! Check Them Out, And How Is He Getting Them Home?

With the closing of Motortrend’s production studios, and shuttering all their shows, comes a lot of cars, trucks, tools, and equipment that need a new home. The studio gave all the show hosts...

The Original Urban Outlaw: Catching Up With Magnus Walker – A Tour Of His Porsche Collection And More With Larry Chen

Magnus Walker is one of those guys that got real popular doing things that weren’t real popular. Larry Chen refers to him as the original urban outlaw, and in some ways he most certainly was,...

RebelDryver’s Garage New Project ’76 El Camino’s First Road Trip! And, They Find A Bunch of Cool Cars!

When Liggett got his new project El Camino, to use as a winter vehicle while working on his old beater truck, he seemed to think he’d be able to leave it alone. We knew better. He did all the...

Dylan McCool With A Chevrolet? Wait, What? Will Get This V8 1957 Chevy To RUN and DRIVE After 40 plus Years?

Does he even know how to work on a Chevrolet? I kid of course, because Dylan does like stuff that didn’t come from Mopar, but he really does have more of them than anything else. He’s...

King of the Hammers 2025 Rig Tour: You’ve NEVER Seen Anything Like The Fun Rides That Show Up At King of the Hammers.

The 10 days that make up King of the Hammers is insane, not just because there are thousands of people that move onto the lake bed in Johnson Valley for days and days worth of off-road racing, but...

Is This The Ultimate RV? This SPACE CRAFT Built Custom Fifth Wheel RV Is Insane! Your Dually Is NOT Towing This Sucker!

I’m a sucker for RVs, Motorhomes, and Travel Trailers and especially love vintage stuff. I also dig school bus conversions, military truck conversions, and all the things. It doesn’t...

How It’s Made: Take A Tour Of The Craftsman Toolbox Factory And See How Real USA Made Toolboxes Are Created

Toolboxes are awesome, and we all love them, but boy are there a lot of different options out there. You can buy them in every color in the rainbow, at just about any price point, and with any...

Alex Is Building a Hot Rod to Roadtrip! 🔥What Does Newbern Have To Do With This All Steel 1934 Ford Tudor Sedan?

I’m a big fan of the Tudor sedans and I love that Alex recently got this one for a fun driver project. If you want to know what is in store for this project, you’ll find out a bit in the...

Stories ‘N Steel With Kenny Youngblood: Talking Life, Art, And Racing With One Of America’s Favorite Automotive Artist.

I’ve known Kenny for years now, but meeting him for the first time was a pretty special thing. I can remember running into him the second and third time I ever met him and thinking how cool I...

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...