Video: Extreme Rail Biking Looks Both Amazing and Terrifying At The Same Time – Check This Out!
Mar 11, 2019Brian Lohnes2
(By Greg Rourke) – Here we have something that’s a but quieter and a lot less powerful than what is usually found on these hallowed pages…extreme rail biking. Bicycling on former...
2019 Detroit Autorama Coverage: More Photos From The World’s Coolest Car Show
Mar 11, 2019Brian Lohnes4
(Photos by Mike Brooks) – You know it is getting serious when we pull out the classic funny cars, right? Yes, in this 2019 Detroit Autorama coverage you will see literally everything from...
Ride With Paul Dallenbach As He Roars Up Pikes Peak In A Nutso Open Wheel, V8 Powered Unlimited Entry
Mar 11, 2019Brian Lohnes1
Many people know the name Wally Dallenbach from his years as a successful professional racing driver in a couple of disciplines. While his brother Paul may not be quite as familiar a name, he should...
The Bang Shift Daily Tune Up: Vehicle – The Ides Of March (1970)
Mar 11, 2019Brian Lohnes2
As a kid, I played the trombone and without bragging, I was a pretty decent player. I gave up the horn after I got the college and discovered that beer and working on cars with my pals (often while...
This 1977 Dodge Aspen vs Chevy Nova Promotional Film Is A Sad Window Into Cars Of That Era
Mar 11, 2019Brian Lohnes4
As much as we joke and shake our heads at the cars of the late 1970s, there’s still some real entertainment value in watching videos like this which manufacturers made to showcase their cars...
Watch An Idiot Truck Driver Destroy A New Holland Tractor And Nearly Kill The Farmer Inside
Mar 11, 2019Brian Lohnes1
Anyone who has ever lived or driven through a rural area dominated by farms has no doubt had to pass a farm tractor at some point in their travels. Yes, tractors are large and lumbering machines that...
Pomona Swap Meet Photo Bonanza: Awesome Stuff For Sale and To See At The Massive ‘Meet
Mar 10, 2019Brian Lohnes3
(Photos by Chad Reynolds) – While Chad live streams the best bracket racing west of the Mississippi this weekend, he still has fond memories of recently cruising the aisles and acreage of the...
Weird Science: Watch This Guy Fire Up A Small Engine Topped With A Wooden Cylinder Head!
Mar 10, 2019Brian Lohnes2
Sometimes curiosity gets the best of people and drives them to do stuff that may not exactly advance the collective knowledge of humanity but it does make for interesting stuff. Case in point is the...
Time Travel Video: Enjoy This Fantastic Look At 1980s Monster Truck Action
Mar 10, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on Time Travel Video: Enjoy This Fantastic Look At 1980s Monster Truck Action
If you were a kid in the 1980s and you are now a regular reader of BangShift.com, chances are you were into monster trucks. Those trucks were nothing like the race machines of today, nope, they were...
Video: Watch This Ancient Holt Crawler Tractor Plow A Field – The Real Story Is How A Guy Hand Built The Thing From Scratch In His Shop!
Mar 10, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on Video: Watch This Ancient Holt Crawler Tractor Plow A Field – The Real Story Is How A Guy Hand Built The Thing From Scratch In His Shop!
There are projects and builds that we have seem and had our breath taken away by but when you think about Don Hunter’s incredible construction of a turn of the century Holt crawler tractor from...
Awesome Video: This Big Wreck At The 1984 Talladega IROC Race Had Derek Bell Fuming!
Mar 10, 2019Brian Lohnes1
Old school IROC racing was awesome. Sure, by the time the thing had petered out the series was a shell of its former self, but if you want to argue with the 1984 Talladega IROC race field you have...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: Brand New Cadillac – The Milkshakes (1984)
Mar 10, 2019Brian Lohnes1
At the behest of at least five, count ’em five BS readers who have suggested this tune over the last couple weeks, I’m featuring the song “Brand New Cadillac” today. I chose...
Watching A Locomotive Pull A Stuck Excavator Out Of The Muck Is Strangely Awesome
Mar 10, 2019Brian Lohnes1
Sometimes the place you are working makes for strange bedfellows. In this case we see a railroad crew trying to free a decent sized excavator that is hopelessly buried in the mud beside a track....
Epic Historical Drag Gallery: 1970s AHRA Action – Muldowney, Ivo, Grumpy, Jungle Jim, More!
Mar 10, 2019Brian Lohnes4
(Photos by Bob Boudreau) – Lots of people like to complain and gripe about Facebook and social media, but I’m not one of those guys because though those channels comes stuff like this...