Category Archive: BangShift XL, XL Videos
Classic YouTube: Watch the Boeing 787-9 Practice For The Farnborough Air Show
Aug 31, 2020Bryan McTaggart1
A common legend that runs through the halls of Boeing involves a test and demonstration flight of the Boeing 367-80, the prototype that became the Boeing 707. At the Seattle Seafair festival, Alvin...
Watch The Pakistani Truck Repair Guys Fix A Cracked Wheel On The Lathe. With A Million Alcoa’s Around Here It Seems Weird, But They Got Skills!
Aug 30, 2020Chad Reynolds4
The Pakistani Truck repair videos often have crazy stuff going on in them, like the one where they mount a whole rear axle housing in the lathe. We laugh, and cringe, when we watch them but sometimes...
OBS Clash Episode 2: How The Sport Truck Became An Icon That Spawned Whole Industries
Aug 29, 2020Chad Reynolds1
Here is Episode 2 of the OBS Clash Series folks! Anyone who reads BANGshift on any regular basis knows I’m a Chevrolet guy to the core, and that I love my Square Body Chevy pickups. But I love...
Monster Mack: Watch This Twin-Engine Aussie Mack Cruiseliner Cut Loose At Bindoon!
Aug 28, 2020Bryan McTaggart2
Diesel freaks bug me. Not those who extract maximum power out of engines designed to produce a ton of power, just those who insist that billowing black smoke out of a trash can from underneath a...
Video: A Big Block Chevy Powered Jeep Hikes Wheelies On The Street And Runs to 60 in Less Than 3-Seconds!
Aug 27, 2020Brian Lohnes2
This is the kind of stuff that’ll put hair on your teeth! Take a Jeep Wrangler, jam a whole bunch of really pissed of Chevy rat motor in the front, add beefy axles, Cal Trac bars and Mickey...
Watch a Super Stock Pulling Tractor Lose A Massive Rear Wheel With Potentially Disastrous Consequences
Aug 27, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Watch a Super Stock Pulling Tractor Lose A Massive Rear Wheel With Potentially Disastrous Consequences
This is one of those videos that depicts the best possible outcome for a situation that could have potentially resulted in mass casualties at a motorsports event. The event is an indoor tractor...
Beautifying The Buick: The Hagerty Straight Eight Redline Rebuild Heads For The Paint Booth
Aug 26, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Beautifying The Buick: The Hagerty Straight Eight Redline Rebuild Heads For The Paint Booth
We have been following the saga of the Hagerty Redline Rebuild of a Buick straight eight engine for a while now. This thing has been a bear in more ways than one and at seemingly every turn the...
Save BIG With OPGI’s SUMMER20 Promo Code – Up To 40% Savings – ONE WEEK LEFT
Aug 26, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Save BIG With OPGI’s SUMMER20 Promo Code – Up To 40% Savings – ONE WEEK LEFT
We live in weird, uncertain times. There’s some new wrinkle in the way we live our lives nearly every day. The good thing? Our cars are still there to keep us sane. You can socially distance...
Heavy Metal Crunching: Check Out Truck Banger Racing From St Day!
Aug 26, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Heavy Metal Crunching: Check Out Truck Banger Racing From St Day!
Yes, you’re seeing that correctly: a rollback truck mounted on top of a cement barrier like a trophy, it’s nose shoved in. You almost feel sorry for the poor thing, don’t you?...
McLeod Racing Unveils New Website – Fresh Look, More Interactive, Easy To Navigate Dealer Network!
Aug 25, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on McLeod Racing Unveils New Website – Fresh Look, More Interactive, Easy To Navigate Dealer Network!
Our friends at McLeod are always innovating, inventing, and evolving their product line. That’s why it only makes sense that their website follow the same pattern, right? In this case the...
Boiling Off The Rear Tires On A White Road Boss Dump Truck, Because Why Not?
Aug 24, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Boiling Off The Rear Tires On A White Road Boss Dump Truck, Because Why Not?
If there is one certainty we have around here, it’s that if we see something cool happening with any kind of vehicle, we will share it with you. That’s brought many, many things out from...
Dakar Hell Video: Watch A Racer Slog Through Sand And Then Blaze His Own Trail, Vegetation Be Damned
Aug 24, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Dakar Hell Video: Watch A Racer Slog Through Sand And Then Blaze His Own Trail, Vegetation Be Damned
The Dakar Rally sure beats the ever loving crap out of man and machine. While the treachery of racing thousands of miles across hellacious desert landscapes presents some obvious obstacles, sometimes...
Classic YouTube: Some Diesel Tire-Roasting From Speedworld In Arizona
Aug 23, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Classic YouTube: Some Diesel Tire-Roasting From Speedworld In Arizona
To date, the wildest event that I’ve attended since I was brought on to write for BangShift was a diesel race that devolved into a burnout contest so wild that the owner of the track rolled up...
Yes, It’ll Go: The 2021 Ford Bronco Sport Taking On Moab
Aug 22, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Yes, It’ll Go: The 2021 Ford Bronco Sport Taking On Moab
When the Ford Bronco was unveiled, fans rejoiced. From everything we’ve seen, Ford hit the nail directly on the head with a mallet…dead-on. The Bronco Sport, however, has left some...