Bryce Menzies Is No Stranger To Awesome Desert Race Performances, But This Video From His BAJA 500 This Year Is Great
Anyone who reads my posts here on BANGshift knows that I’m a big fan of desert off-road racing and that I want to race at BAJA so bad I can taste it. I also can’t get enough of the bad...
Go Fer Broke: Blow-Ups And Bad Breaks In The World Of Tractor And Truck Pulls!
Out of all of the automotive sports I’ve born witness to, truck and tractor pulling is probably the most overall violent in actual brutality. When things go wrong, they go wrong in a hurry and...
Wild Video! Watch This Botched Hercules Landing In Antarctica – Wild!
See that thing flying above the Brazilian operated Hercules airplane in the photo above? That’s the landing gear, or at least half of it. What you are going to see is one of the most amazing...
Awesome Rare Footage Of The Orange Blossom Express Tank Monster Truck Racing Bigfoot Fast Trax
If you were a monster truck and pulling fan as a kid in the 1980s the name Allan Gaines triggers an immediate smile. Gaines became well known for his beautiful Orange Blossom Special 1937 Chevrolet...
DIRT – A 1979 Film That Covers Virtually Every Form Of Off Road Racing – Baja to Swamp Buggies!
How this movie has escaped me to this point in my life I’ll never know but it seems to have escaped lots of people because when we stumbled upon it while trolling YouTube it only had about...
Here’s What It Looks Like When An F-4 Phantom Is Crashed Into A Concrete Wall At 480mph
We’re not sure what the first reaction of the engineers who worked on this project was when they found out about it but we’re thinking smiles and fist pumps were part of the program. It...
Pulling Action Coverage: 2019 NTPA Mule City 300 – Horsepower, Carnage, and Big Tractor Counts!
(Words and photos by David Whealon) – As always, the first weekend in June marks the time when Galot Motorsports Park gives the 1/8 mile dragstrip a break and opens the up the back gates for...
American Powertrain Releases New Pro-Fit 5-speed and 6-speed System For 1973-87 Chevy Squarebody Trucks
Know what’s hotter than the 1973-1987 GM truck segment right now? Not a damned thing. That’s what. The crew at American Power train knows this and that’s why they have released new...
This Look At The Buda Engine Company In WWII Is Spectacular – Horsepower History
The cycle of business and industry is a fascinating one. Companies can rise to the level of colossus in their particular segment and then slowly fade into the sand dunes of time. Such is the case...
Cool Video: The Story Of The Honey Bee, A Homebuilt 500hp Monster Of A Tractor
Farmers are just plain awesome. It does not matter where they are, what they are growing, or how long they have been in the business, they all share some common bonds. One of them is the ability to...
Monster’s Ball: Semi Tractor Burnouts At The Great Lakes Big Rig Challenge
In 1991, my brother and I got the chance to ride with my father up to Montana in the Kenworth he was driving at the time. From the sleeper section of the cab, we got to see more states than we had...
New Product: Chris Alston’s Chassisworks Releases Transmission Tunnel Kits – Great Solution!
If you are in the process of modifying your car and one of the obstacles you are dreading a solution for is the transmission tunnel, boy do we have good news for you. Chris Alston’s...
630hp and 1,600 lb-ft – This 8V92TA Detroit Diesel Won’t Have Issues Pushing Airplanes Anymore
As hot rodders, we see horsepower as a fun number, as something of an entertainment quotient that allows us to enjoy ourselves and impress our friends. Something that makes scaring your wife...
