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...
Remember The Time Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson Test Drove A Swamp Buggy? We Didn’t Either!
For decades the swamp buggy races in Naples, Florida have been bringing motorsports fans and gearheads together for fun and excitement on the Mile-o-Mud. Like many of you, we were turned onto the...
Watching This RC Car Hydroplane Across A Pond In Slow Motion Is Highly Entertaining
We have showed you full sized four wheel drive vehicles skipping across bodies of water before but never a remote control car like you will see in the video below. The guys at the RCFrenzy put this...
Speed Is Overrated: Watch This Massive Ford Crew Cab Slog Through The Deep Michigan Muck
Yeah the drag racing and pro touring guys like to brag about how fast their stuff accelerates or how many lateral g-forces it can exert on their bodies but the fact remains that the ultimate...
Awesome History: How Piston Ship Engines Were Built in the 1950s
Giant ship engines, especially of the piston type are amazing machines. Even in today’s high-tech world, their construction is mind blowing, so when we were tipped off to an awesome collection...
