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Cool Video: Watch A 1927 Atlas-Imperial Diesel Tug Boat Engine Start Up – So Many Valves, Knobs, and Handles!

There’s something about watching massive old engines start up that we cannot get enough of. While this engine is certainly not the largest thing we have ever showed you and some may even argue...

Listening To Dave McClelland Call A 1980s Stadium Off Road Race Will Make Your Day

Mickey Thompson’s Off Road Warriors was a film produced the 1980s to act as a promotional tool for short course off road racing, a sport that the man had himself invented and was promoting...

It Was A HOT ROD CHRISTMAS ! The 3rd Annual Fort Worth CHRISTMAS CRUISE 2023 Made For A Fun Christmas Night!

We hung out with our friends on Christmas night for the 3rd annual Christmas cruise to Fort Worth, and it was a fun time had by all. Racers and hot rodders hanging out and bench racing before hitting...

They Hit The Walls, And Each Other Trying To Win What Has To Be One Of The Most Epic Winged Sprint Car Races You Will EVER See!

I grew up in Northern California in a drag racing family. We went to Fremont Dragstrip quite often when I was growing up, and drag racing was what we did. We didn’t autocross, or road race, or...

Edd China Is Dunking A Rusty 1986 Range Rover Chassis in 1935 Litres of Evaporust. Will It Actually Work?

I’m a fan of Evaporust, I’m not gonna lie. I’ve been using it since it came in a jug with a label that barely had a logo on it and have used it to repair and clean rusted tools,...

Jay Leno Takes Us For A Ride In Boyd Coddington’s 1989 Chopped Sport Truck – This Truck Helped Shape The Sport Truck Movement!

This Boyd Coddington built 1989 C1500 GMC is one of the most iconic custom trucks built in the last 35 years. This truck has been credited with starting the sport truck movement that we all know and...

Weird No More: The Saab 900 Turbo Wasn’t An Oddball In The 1980s, It Was A Window Into The Future

Before General Motors got their hooks into Saab and drove it straight into an iceberg, the Swedish auto manufacturer was an unlikely and awesome success story in the industry. An airplane...

Watch Two Steam Locomotives Work To Plow The Tracks On The Cumbres and Toltec Line

We love us some steam locomotives here at BangShift and have run hundreds and hundreds of pieces of content over the years showing them doing their thing in various configurations and settings. This...

Video – The Great Achievement: In 1958 Sir Edmund Hillary Drove To The South Pole On A Tractor

In 1958 Sir Edmund Hillary lead the first motorized expedition to the South Pole. His choice of vehicle? Massey Ferguson tractors and these were not huge Massey Ferguson tractors but pretty humble...

Video: Crash Testing A Golf Cart At 31mph Ends About As Badly As You’d Expect

Here’s a weird thing. Of all the races I have been to as a journalist, a spectator, or an announcer, the number of injuries and deaths that have happened in the pits dwarfs the number I have...

The Experts Said It Couldn’t Be Fixed. Jared Did It In Two Hours. For Free! Have You Ever Been This Lucky?

The Questionable Garage is usually doing fun stuff, but they are also usually kind of wacky. That’s not a bad thing, but sometimes a project like this one is what we really need to inspire us....

This Hidden 1938 Ford Convertible Hot Rod Was Found In An Old Garage In Upstate New York And Saved After 50 Years!

The Iron Trap Garage boys have been BUSY in 2023 and we’re sure 2024 is going to be much the same. In this series of videos you are going to see this cool 1938 Ford Convertible, that was found...

Is This Really Australia’s Ultimate Street Car? Jekyll & Hyde, The 1800hp VL Commodore, Just Might Be The Ultimate Australian Street Car

If you know Australian Drag and Drive racing then you have seen this car before. This is the Jekyl and Hyde Commodore, and despite looking like your average family sedan from across the parking lot,...

CHEAP $89 JUNKYARD M90 SUPERCHARGER MAKES 537 HP! HOW TO RUN A CHEAP V6 SUPERCHARGER ON A 4.8L V8!

Less than $90 for a supercharger that bolts onto your LS engine? Sounds too good to be true, and of course there is more to it than that, but yeah it actual works! Without the blower on it, this LS...