This Video Of The Massive, and Ill-Fated Penguin Antarctic Exploration Truck Is Spectacular
Between the years of 1937 and 1939 engineers and fabricators toiled to design and build a vehicle that would affectionately come to be known as “The Penguin” and in 1940 the massive beast...
Watch This Monster 1918 Vintage Hit and Miss Engine Fire Up And Run – Chuff, Chuff, BANG
We have shown plenty of videos of hit and miss engines here on BangShift over the years but we have never, ever seen one like this. A truly giant example of a working stationary engine, this thing is...
An Old Friend: This Is The Most BangShifty Short Film Ever – History, Friendship, And As Massive An Engine As You’ll Ever See
This is the best three minutes you will spend all day. With regard to short films we’re going on record as saying this is one of the best we have ever watched because in the amount of time for...
Rough Start: When There Is An Airborne Toyota In The First Picture, You Know You Are Making The Right Choice!
You’re ballin’ on a budget and you want to pick up a project car. Smart money says to pick up something that only needs minor touches or something easy to build, like a Fox body or a...
Video – Every Saturn V Launch At Once! The Coolest!
With respect to all of the great stuff America has accomplished, the Saturn V rocket is probably our ultimate bad ass hot rod. Yes, we have more refined and technologically advanced rockets today,...
This Look At The Liwa V8 Hillclimb Includes Header Flames, Massive Fire, And Pro Mod Levels Of Horsepower
Imagine our surprise when we looked at this video taken at the Liwa Oasis are of the UAE and we immediately started recognizing people. You’ll see blown alcohol engine builder and tuning master...
Using Two Pickup Trucks To Tear The Cab Off A Third Truck May Be Crude, But Wow Is It Effective!
Typically the “best” way to do things is the “right” way to do things. This is usually because the “right” way to do things is less fun and requires some sort of...
Ever Seen One Of These? This 1947 Crosley Pickup Truck Is As Astonishingly Stock As You Think It Is
It is always cool to see something that you have never laid eyes on before. In my case that’s this 1947 Crosley pickup truck! I have seen the goofy little Crosley “fire trucks” I...
Is There Anything Cooler Than Vintage Wheel Dozers? This Collection Of Vintage Photos Proves That There Isn’t!
I know that I am not the only freak for old heavy equipment around these parts and I’ll admit to keeping this awesome website in my back pocket for a while but now it is time to share it with...
Dirt Every Day Beats On A Chevy Avalanche In The Snow! Big Engine, Big Tires, Big Carnage?
Go big or go home, that’s what we hear all the time. Well, for this episode of Dirt Every Day, Fred and Dave went big: from the back catalog of 4Wheel and Off Road is a 2003 Chevrolet Avalanche...
The CJ5 Go-For-Digger – A True Mighty Mite (With Video of One In Action!)
People can knock Facebook all they want, but I’m into it. This post about what has to be the coolest freaking factory Jeep ever comes from a tip BangShifter Jeremy George sent me on FB. What...
From The Junkyard To The Dyno – Watch This Massive EMD Locomotive Engine Get Rebuilt and Tested
This is not the fanciest video but it is pretty awesome when you consider the subject and the circumstances. You are looking at a monster EMD 645E7 engine. This is a 16-cylinder monster with each...
The Combo Of A Rock Bouncing Buggy And Monster Truck Tires Is The Best Idea Of The 21st Century
There’s a good chance that we’re wrong about this but it seems to us that rock bouncing is to off-roading kind of like radial and small tire racing is to the drags. It is a wild off-shoot...
Mothers Of Invention: A Video Bonanza Featuring The Weirdest Home-Brewed Snow Plowing Vehicles We Could Find
I honestly like winter. I mean I hate the no racing part, the fact that it is dark by the time lunch is over, the days where doors of cars are completely frozen shut, and the fact that I have to say...
