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Weird Science: Watch This Guy Fire Up A Small Engine Topped With A Wooden Cylinder Head!

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

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!

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!

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)

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

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!

(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...

Watch This John Deere Pro Stock Pulling Tractor Make A Pull On A Hub Dyno

Hub dynamometers are awesome machines that have gained lots of traction (no pun intended) in the USA recently. They have been seemingly more popular in other parts of the world but we know of at...

CLICK HERE To Watch The Mid-West Pro Mod Association Pro Mod Madness Event From Texas!

It is GO TIME for the 2019 Summit Racing Equipment Mid-West Pro Mod Series and they are kicking it off in fine fashion at the Texas Motorplex outside of Dallas. The name of the first event is Pro Mod...

CLICK HERE To Watch The K&N Southwest Showdown From Tucson – Big Money Bracket Racing

One half of our BangShift LIVE double header this weekend is streaming coverage from the 3rd annual K&N Southwest Showdown at Tucson Dragway. This event brings out the best bracket racers on the...

The Pomona Swap Meet Is Back And We Couldn’t Stay Away Even With The Threat Of Rain

It was most certainly not the busiest Pomona Swap Meet ever, but that certainly didn’t keep us from having fun, scoring deals, and helping friends buy cars. The rain that had fallen the day...

AFCO Custom Radiators Can Be Made For Virtually Any Space And Application

AFCO offers a dizzying array of radiators that have been designed to bolt into virtually any popular application you can think of. Not only to they bolt it, they also do a better job of cooling your...

The Mongrel Gets Paint Color And Rad New Wheels!

The Mongrel is getting close! So close in fact that colors are being chosen and wheels have been delivered! This little Ford 100E and Miata mashup is becoming cooler and cooler by the day and I love...

Dyno Video: 9,500 RPM Of Absolutely Wailing Big Block Ford!

Like drag race engines, truck pulling mills are designed to make maximum output for relatively short bursts. Sure, the intention is to have them hold together for as long as possible, but unlike say...