Logging Redwoods: This 1946 Video Provides An Amazing Glimpse Into How The Giants Came Down
There’s a part of us that winces when we see a video where some of the oldest things on Earth are crashing to the ground but the reality is that California Redwood was (and still is) a pretty...
Watch Dave West’s Massive Racing Big Rig Crash From New Zealand
BangShifter Brenhan Chapman sent me an email with a link to the footage below and it is pretty stunning stuff. You are about to see racer Dave West in a Freightliner Argosy suffer the worst wreck we...
The World’s Most Pissed Off One Cylinder Engine Is Turbocharged AND Packs A Screw Blower!
First thing we have to do here is tell you that the audio in the video is kinda of sucky. That’s not a deal breaker for us though because it is good enough to hear this single cylinder engine...
Watch This Massive English Road Locomotive Make A Tight Turn And Power Up A Hill…In Traffic!
The British hung onto steam power for road going vehicles lots longer than we did, especially on the heavy duty side of things. There was good reason for it. As wild as it sound to say out loud...
Watching This Miniature Air Cooled Inline Six Engine Run With An Exposed Crank Is The Neatest Thing!
Miniature engines have been featured many, many times over the years here at BangShift because they are awesome. Most often these are creations completely handmade by their owners and they represent...
Happy Birthday To The BUFF! The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress First Flew On This Day In 1952!
April 15th, 1952 is a significant day for aviation. It is the day that the YB-52 prototype aircraft, the predecessor to the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bomber, first flew with A. “Tex”...
Awesome Video: 1966 Footage From The Swamp Buggy Races In Naples, Florida
What lots of people did not know in the 1980s when American Sports Cavalcade started covering swamp buggy recession Naples, Florida is that the “sport” has started long before the...
Amazing Machine: This Video Of An Inter-Drain Trenchless V-Plow Drainage Pipe Layer Had Us Spellbound
As I have said many times before, it is easy to lose faith in the human race on a day to day basis but when you’re able to get past the top layer of badness, we’re still doing some...
World’s Fastest Wrecker -The Story Of A Big Block Chevy Powered, Holmes 440 Equipped, Speed Machine
This is the kind of stuff that we love. Like literally love. Who out there knew that in 1979 the Ernest Holmes company decided to set the world’s closed course speed record for a wrecker and...
The Big Bud Tractor Restoration: Paint, Paint And More Paint!
Paint jobs. Big money, big time sink, lots of preparation and materials needed on even the smallest jobs. I’ve had my hands on a few paint jobs, from taping and masking to some basic shooting....
Watch The Scaled Composites Stratolaunch Take To The Skies For The First Time!
It’s wingspan is bigger than the length of an American football field by twenty-five feet. Empty, it weighs in at a half-million pounds, and it has a maximum take-off weight of 1.3 million...
2019 Buffalo Autorama Photo Bomb: Bikes, Trucks, Drag Wagons, More!
(Photos by Mike Brooks) – Here’s some cool diversity for you. From custom motorcycles to vintage snowmobiles, to a drag racing station wagon, and even a brass era cruiser from way, way...
This Blown, Arias Hemi Headed 427ci Small Block Ford Is Just Dying For The Right Car To Power
And frankly it does not have to be a car, right? This thing in a pulling truck would probably be pretty freaking outstanding as well! You are looking at one of the neatest 427ci Ford engines we have...
