A Bad C-Notch Not Only Looks Like Crap But Can Be Really Dangerous. Here Is How You Build One Right
Aug 31, 2017Chad ReynoldsTECH, Videos, XL Spotlight
As a minitrucker, I can tell you that building a C-Notch, or in this case a Step Notch, is one of the first fabrication projects you’ll do once you have a welder. A C-Notch sounds just like it...
Video: Big Engines, Dual Engines, Blown Engines, Diesel Engines, All Kinds Of Big Engines In Boats Hauling Ass!
Aug 31, 2017Chad ReynoldsENGINES, RACING & ACTION, Videos
This video of big engines in boats is cool as hell. The twin big blown big blocks are fun. The turbo small block in a jet sprint boat is cool. The twin 12 cylinders in an old wooden boat are down...
Rough Start: This 1968 Oldsmobile Delmont 88 Is Perfect! Don’t Change A Thing!
Aug 31, 2017Bryan McTaggartBUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, Craigslist Find
When I’m hunting through Craigslist, especially when I’m on a cheap-car hunt, I tend to do something: as I study a potential victim project car, I look to see what I would change. Is the...
Can’t Blame The Delivery Driver Anymore: Ford And Domino’s Partner Up To Study Autonomous Delivery Vehicles
Aug 31, 2017Bryan McTaggartBangShift News, FORD
(Photos: Ford Motor Company) For about six months in 2000, I worked at a Domino’s Pizza in Manitou Springs, Colorado. I learned plenty there: I was great at washing dishes, folding boxes and...
If You Had $500 To Buy A New Project, Which One Of These Do You Choose?
Aug 31, 2017Chad ReynoldsApex Online Find, Apex Spotlight
Every hot rodder has hung out with friends, talking about what cheap cars they saw online this week, and contemplating which ones they think would be cool to build. Invariably the discussion will end...
Classic YouTube: The 10-Second Plymouth Reliant At Cecil County Dragway
Aug 31, 2017Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, MOPAR, RACING & ACTION, Videos
For the 1980s, Ma Mopar traded out Hemis and 3×2 intakes for four cylinders and turbocharging. Call it a sign of the times, but in the smog-choked automotive world, that’s what got them...
This Home Movie From The 1969 NHRA US Nationals Will Put A Smile On Your Face
Aug 30, 2017Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
Dads and video cameras. What is it about that? As a kid in the 1980s, my dad would have the big shoulder mount home movie camera out taking footage of every road trip, vacation, and other thing we...
In 1932 Ab Jenkins Drove Nearly 120mph For 25 Hours STRAIGHT At Bonneville – Amazingly, Video Exists Of This Feat
Aug 30, 2017Brian LohnesHISTORIC, Videos
We have showed clips of Ab Jenkins streaking across the salt in a 1932 Pierce Arrow, its big V12 engine rumbling away as he drove in a seemingly endless loop of 10 mile circles for 25 hours straight...
The Video Of Terrifying Robots Falling Down Set To Benny Hill Music Is The Best Thing Ever
Aug 30, 2017Brian LohnesFUNNY STUFF, Videos
While it is true that someday the more advanced versions of the robots you see falling down in this video will control humanity, we’re going to have some fun at their expense right now. This...
Killer Training Video: How to be a Fire Truck Tillerman For the Los Angeles Fire Department Circa the early ’50s
Aug 30, 2017Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
This vintage training video from the early 1950s was used by the Los Angeles Fire Department as a tool to train tillermen. What’s a tillerman? He’s the guy that drives the rear axle of...
Ran When Parked…This 1969 GMC C15 Has Great Patina And Needs A New Home
Aug 30, 2017Chad ReynoldsXL Online Find, XL Spotlight
If this 1969 GMC C15 pickup was closer to us we’d be on our way to look at it right now. It says it ran a year ago when it was parked, which probably means three years ago, but it is a small...
How To Shave Door Handles: Eastwood Shows You How In These Two Videos
Aug 30, 2017Chad ReynoldsTECH, Videos
If you don’t follow the Eastwood guys on YouTube then you are missing out because they have cool tech videos, and live streaming tech, going up each and every week. You never know what...
Here Is Our Dream Cruiser Jet Boat For The River This Weekend
Aug 30, 2017Chad ReynoldsCraigslist Find
Since we’re on a Jet Boat kick this week, we decided to roll with one that we think is the ultimate cruiser and party boat. We’ll admit, a pontoon boat makes a REALLY good play for the...
Can’t Make This Up, Folks: A General Lee Clone Crashed Out In Nova Scotia
Aug 30, 2017Bryan McTaggartBangShift News, MOPAR
While there is varying numbers out there, it’s safe to say that a couple hundred 1968 and 1969 Dodge Chargers met their end after they had been painted bright orange and given the number...
