Classic YouTube: The Heavy Hitters From Gravelrama 2017
Of all the things I shot last year, Gravelrama was probably the highlight. It is rare that I shoot anything off-road, it’s even rarer than I get to be that kind of close to the action (I...
Want To Learn How To Use An English Wheel On Your Own Projects? Watch This!
An English wheel is one of those tools that you only have if you are serious about shaping metal. Most race and customs shops don’t even have one. The art, and we do mean art, of using one...
This Ford Commercial Truck Promo Video From 1968 Shows Loaded Trucks Being Jumped And Mercilessly Beat Up On
Nothing beats manufacturer produced promotional videos like this one for the Ford commercial truck line in Great Britain for 1968. They show the trucks working hard and doing the kinds of truck like...
Spinning An Eaton M112 Supercharger With A Shop Vac Is Kind Of Awesome
This is a good video for a holiday. It is largely pointless, doesn’t rally prove anything, but at the same time it is entertaining in the gearhead fashion that we love. What is it? Basically it...
What Does It Take To Restore A Tractor? Follow Along As This Big Bud 525/50 Gets A Freshening!
Tractors do not have an easy life. They are the purest workhorses when it comes to an engine-powered vehicle. They go out and work and when they wear out, they…well, normally that’s that,...
This Modified Jeep FC-170 Project Could Be The Coolest Off-Road Camping Rig Ever!
If you are a regular reader of BangShift, you know right away that we LOVE the old Jeep Forward Control trucks. Built by Willys and Kaiser between 1956-1965, the Forward Control’s many variants...
Is This The World’s Quickest Mack Truck? Watch It Boil The Tires And The Run 11s At 120 +
We’ve showed you a little window into the wild world of high performance diesel big rig trucks and buses on the small island of Puerto Rico before and we all went nuts for it. These guys LOVE...
Get Sprung: COMP Cams New .660″ Lift Dual Valve Spring Kits for LS Engines – No Machining!
You’ve got an LS engine, you want to stuff some more camshaft in that bad boy. You want more lift, more aggressive ramps on the lobes, you want power, sound, and fury. What you do not want is...
The RideTech R-Joint Has Been Granted A U.S. Patent – Fresh Design Satisfies Customers and Patent Office
When we talk about new products in the high performance aftermarket, do you ever wonder how “new” they are? Is this something that someone invented or is this something that is an upgrade...
Win At All Costs: These Two Tough Truck XJ Cherokees Battle It Out!
I am of the mindset that if American Motors had managed to hang on just another four years, that we’d still have the Big Four. Hear me out: Their main products at the time were the XJ Cherokee,...
This Video Compilation Of Big Trucks Taking On Rivers And Winning Is Awesome
It is a Saturday and this is a Saturday type video. We ran across this collection of big rigs from around the world taking on rivers and winning. We don’t care who you are, how tough you are or...
Icelandic Formula Off Road Action – Watch A Bunch Of Different Rigs Dominate A Cliff Face
The world of Icelandic Formula Off-Road racing is pretty awesome. The rigs that they build are full tube chassis jobs often with big blocks sporting nitrous. Turbos are now making their presence felt...
Rise, Lazarus: Waking Up A Detroit Diesel 8V71 For A Dodge D900 Project
I’ve become addicted to the Bus Grease Monkey channel on YouTube. We’ve shown you his handiwork before…this is the guy that wakes up old GM buses and gets them back on the road. The...
This 1968 C10 Crew Cab Pickup Is Like A Wet Dream Come True! If Only Chevrolet Had Built Them This Way
There are a few companies around the country that build crew cab trucks from older GM and Fords that never actually came that way from the factory, and every time I see one I just drool. Even if the...
