Abe Lincoln Was America’s First True Gearhead President And He Has The Patent To Prove It
When we think of Abe Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, we normally default to the major accomplishments of his presidency. He oversaw one of the darkest, if not the darkest time...
Pulling Carnage Video: When the Weight Sled Fails, Bad Things Happen
The weight sled at a pulling event is the great equalizer. Like an engine dyno or a drag strip it has humbled and conversely, made heroes of many pullers over the course of time. Funny thing is, you...
This Unstoppable Kiwi 4×4 Uses A Diesel Engine, Logs, Angle Iron, And A Truck Frame To Own The Swamp
The tired old adage, “less is more” has never been better applied than it is to the truck you will see driving completely submerged and slogging through the muck in this video. The video...
This Tractor Has The Most Complex “Wheels” Ever Made – Howard Rotopads Rule!
Many of you have likely seen old tractors with track conversions that used rubber or steel tracks that looped around the rear driving wheels and the front wheels to give farmers and other workers...
Runaway Anchors! Watch What Happens When Ships Lose The Handle On 100 Tons Of Iron
Mankind has made a habit of building machines to deal with things and forces which are too strong for our comparatively feeble bodies. Ships are one of the machines that we have crafted as a...
Insane Video: Operator Fells A Smoke Stack on Top Of His Excavator
The Avondale Mills smoke stack had been a pretty significant local landmark in Pell City, Alabama for a long, long time. The mill that it once was attached to had been there since the 1980s and in...
Classic YouTube: MotorWeek’s Unusual Test Of The 1991 Mack CH613
With Brian’s note of the new Mack Anthem semi-tractor hitting the market, I had to look back to an episode of MotorWeek I remembered watching as a little kid. How I remembered this particular...
Watch The Kenworth From Hades Pull Off High Speed Drifts, A Tire Smoldering Slalom, And More Wild Tricks At Sanair Speedway
Previously we have showed Sylvain Noel’s Kenworth W900 beating a BMW M5 into submission at the drags, beating up on other big rigs in a street race while fully loaded and empty, and generally...
Would You Spend $60,000 For A Non-Running Engine, Even If It Is Kind Of Awesome?
So pretty much everyone that reads BangShift has some sort of a non-running engine or vehicle laying around. Sometimes multiple. That’s a fact of the matter for many car and truck enthusiasts...
This 1972 International Harvester Travelall Limo By Stageway Is Ridiculously Huge And For Sale!
We’ve gotta thank Charles Wickam for pointing this gem out to us indirectly on social media. What you are looking at is a 1972 International Travelall which was converted into a 15-passenger...
Street Gas Truck Pulls From The Thumb Tractors Pulling Association: Shut Up And Hook Up!
I have an issue when it comes to truck pulls. Not the actual pulls themselves or the professional teams that come put on a show, I love them. My issue lies within the stands and parking lots outside...
Stunning Video: Watch Physics, An Alert Trucker, And A Maintained Truck Prevent A Tragedy – This Big Rig STOPS
A poor decision by someone driving a tiny car nearly cost them and a passenger their lives in what looks to be Russia last year when this video was taken. What you are about to see is a combination...
Truckers, Let’s Hear It: The All-New Mack Anthem Truck Is Here, What Do You Think? (Videos)
It isn’t every day when one of the major truck manufacturer’s in the country releases a fresh rig but that’s exactly the case with the all-new Mack Anthem that the company recently...
Is This The Nicest NAPCO Equipped 1957 Chevrolet Suburban On Earth? It’s Gotta Be, Right?
This big fella is a real stunner. I’ve never been accused of going easy on the hyperbole around here but when I raised the question as to whether this is the nicest nicest NAPCO equipped 1957...
