Nightmare Fuel: This 1950s Video Shows The Effects Of A Nuclear Blast On Vehicles – Insane
This 1953 film taken at a Nevada firing range known as Frenchman Flat is important, scary, and captures one of the most interesting moments in the history of America’s nuclear arsenal. This is...
This 1970s Promotional Film For The Sikorsky UH-60A Is Kind Of Weird And Awesome
The Skiorsky UH-60A Black Hawk is an amazing piece of military machinery that has been serving the United States and countries across the globe for some 40 years now. First flown in 1974 and then...
Holley’s New Hemi Swap Parts For The Jeep TJ Just Made Your Homebuilt Hemi Jeep A Reality
The idea of stuffing a Gen III Hemi into a new Jeep is not something that became cool yesterday. It’s been a thing for a little while but it has been a bit of an adventure to actually complete...
The GMC Hummer EV Is Coming And It’s Not Like Anything You Can Buy At The Moment
(By Tom Lohnes) – The GMC Hummer EV is coming, and it packs some really cool features. Stepping away from the giant, inefficient truck-based SUV and odd-looking pickup truck, this new Hummer...
Nightmare Video: Watch What Happens When A Massive Crane Loses Its Brakes On A Hill
(By Greg Rourke) – Once again, cranes scare me. They are called upon on a daily basis to do the seemingly impossible. Most of the time all goes as planned. But then again, sometimes they go...
Install Video: Check Out The Process Of Installing A Ridetech StreetGrip Suspension On A 2004-2008 F150 Truck
We’re definitely fans of the RideTech StreetGrip line of suspension systems. We have installed them here at BangShift we have driven cars with them installed and we have come away understanding...
A Bad Night At The Pull: Watch The Weight Box Fail On This Sled And The Tractor Head Off The End At Speed
To me the most terrifying thing that can happen if you are a puller is the scenario that comes to pass here. At a small pulling course in Pennsylvania last weekend a driver and team experienced...
Astonishing Carnage: Watch As The Industrial Injection Master Shredder Truck Explodes In Flaming Fury
When you take all the turbochargers, all the fuel, and all the nitrous and use them to make nearly 3,000 wheel horsepower in a full-race Cummins diesel engine, sometimes things go wrong. We have...
Roadtrippin’: Seeing Outside The Obvious…Fire Truck Dreams
(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) Ever come across a vehicle or an old building and see right past the obvious, to what it could be with just a little imagination? An old abandoned gas station...
Listen To A Cool And Rare Detroit Diesel 1-71 Fire Up And Clatter Away – How Neat!
When we talk about Detroit Diesel engines here at BangShift, typically we’re talking about the mighty 6/8/12 and larger variants of the two stroke family that gained life in the late 1930s and...
The American Powertrain Parting Shift: Meet America’s Most Unique Truck – The Three Trans Equipped Holy Smokes!
Well, after 34,000 blog items, today stands as proof that there’s still an infinite universe of new and unique stuff to find out there. This time it is a 1966 Ford flatbed with a 390ci engine,...
Awesome Historical Video: The Industrial Use Of Caterpillar Tractors – Mechanical Awesome From 1926
Well this is perhaps one of the coolest things I have ever found on YouTube. You are about to watch a silent film (not apologizing for the lack of sound) called The Industrial Use of Caterpillar...
The Land The Man and White: This White Tractor Promotional Video Was Made As The Company Was Going Broke
From the Iowa factory to the testing fields, this video from White, made in 1980 it is a look inside what the world of American industry looked like back then. Of course this is a sales film for the...
