Time Travel Video: Enjoy This Fantastic Look At 1980s Monster Truck Action
Mar 10, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on Time Travel Video: Enjoy This Fantastic Look At 1980s Monster Truck Action
If you were a kid in the 1980s and you are now a regular reader of BangShift.com, chances are you were into monster trucks. Those trucks were nothing like the race machines of today, nope, they were...
Video: Watch This Ancient Holt Crawler Tractor Plow A Field – The Real Story Is How A Guy Hand Built The Thing From Scratch In His Shop!
Mar 10, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on Video: Watch This Ancient Holt Crawler Tractor Plow A Field – The Real Story Is How A Guy Hand Built The Thing From Scratch In His Shop!
There are projects and builds that we have seem and had our breath taken away by but when you think about Don Hunter’s incredible construction of a turn of the century Holt crawler tractor from...
Watching A Locomotive Pull A Stuck Excavator Out Of The Muck Is Strangely Awesome
Mar 10, 2019Brian Lohnes1
Sometimes the place you are working makes for strange bedfellows. In this case we see a railroad crew trying to free a decent sized excavator that is hopelessly buried in the mud beside a track....
Watch This John Deere Pro Stock Pulling Tractor Make A Pull On A Hub Dyno
Mar 10, 2019Brian Lohnes1
Hub dynamometers are awesome machines that have gained lots of traction (no pun intended) in the USA recently. They have been seemingly more popular in other parts of the world but we know of at...
Cool Video: Check Out This Neat Australian Tracked Army Truck Being Put Through Its Paces
Mar 09, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on Cool Video: Check Out This Neat Australian Tracked Army Truck Being Put Through Its Paces
Army trucks and vehicles are cool because they are designed and built to fix a problem, meet a need, or surmount some sort of obstacle that existing means can’t In this case we have a old video...
This Is Our Kind Of Drift Machine: Hot Rodded 1946 Seagrave Fire Truck Spins Smokey Donuts For Fun
Mar 09, 2019Brian Lohnes2
It is Friday and therefore we can run a fun little video that features a dream vehicle for lunatics like me, anyway. This is a bobbed, chopped down, slammed, repowered, and otherwise unrecognizable...
BangShift Feature: The Story Of The Lost and Forgotten WWII Ford Sea Jeeps
Mar 08, 2019Brian Lohnes2
In late 1941, after signing off on construction of the original Jeep vehicles, the US government threw out a new challenge to manufacturers. That challenge was to design an amphibious version of the...
2019 Detroit Autorama Photo Coverage: Wall To Wall Badassery In Detroit – Check This OUT!
Mar 07, 2019Brian Lohnes1
(Photos by Mike Brooks) – We showed you the Great 8 Ridler contenders and the 2019 Ridler Award winner the other day, now it is time to take you deep into the 2019 Detroit Autorama to show off...
Engine Autopsy: Here’s A Look Inside The Ill-Fated DeBoss Garage 16-Cylinder Detroit Diesel
Mar 06, 2019Brian Lohnes1
About a week ago we showed you the DeBoss Garage video of the guys buying a junkyard Detroit Diesel V16 engine, getting it running, and then blowing the sucker up for fun. It was going to be crushed...
Life’s Not All Crushing Cars And Fun In The Life Of A Monster Truck Driver! Check This Out!
Mar 06, 2019Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Life’s Not All Crushing Cars And Fun In The Life Of A Monster Truck Driver! Check This Out!
How hard can it be to be a monster truck driver…really. You wake up, dress up in the kit, get into the truck, spend a couple of hours going balls-out for a screaming crowd, then you break the...
Big Fail: This Video Is Nine Minutes of Cringe-Worthy Dump Truck Fails – How?!
Mar 05, 2019Brian Lohnes2
Since I was a kid, I always wanted to drive a dump truck and for a while I got to do that. As a CDL holder and a guy who was hustling to pay the bills for a few years, I would pick up odd jobs and...
Historic Video: Watch How The Chinese Built WWII Air Bases By Hand in Less Than A Month – Incredible
Mar 04, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on Historic Video: Watch How The Chinese Built WWII Air Bases By Hand in Less Than A Month – Incredible
The level of global cooperation during WWII among the allies was nothing short of astounding. It was the only way that the war was won, really as no single nation was well equipped enough to take on...
NOS News: Dry Nitrous Plate For Sniper EFI Fabricated Race Series LS Intake Manifolds
Mar 04, 2019Brian Lohnes1
Here’s some fun news for anyone who has been using a Sniper EFI fabricated race series LS intake manifold on their engine! NOS has just released a dry nitrous plate that is designed to bolt...
Roaming Once More: Reviving A 1947 GM Bus That Has Been Sitting For Decades!
Mar 04, 2019Bryan McTaggart1
There is something about the shape of old buses. They were meant to be one thing and one thing only: a place for a bunch of weary butts to sit down while the driver took them to wherever they needed...










