Take a cool cutaway view of a 10,000 horsepower turbine’s compressor stages
If you’ve ever wondered how a jet engine works, this is a pretty great video by YouTuber AgentJayZ (Likely unrelated to the hip-hop artist) on what an axial compressor looks like. Modern airliner...
Go Or No Go? Does This Customized 1955 Chevy Truck Pass The BangShift Reader Coolness Test?
(Words and photos by Greg Rourke) – Spotted this 57 Chevy pickup at the local home improvement labyrinth. At first, I hated it. I don’t like the wrong bed on a pickup. Sticking a Dodge bed...
Video Re-Run: An Epic Bus Jump From 1980 – Flying Chevy Buses, Endangered Motorcycles, and ‘Staches
So McTaggart thought he was hot stuff with the big rig jump so I had to go into the BS blog archive to pull out the best jump video we have ever run. This 1980 bus jump is so spectacular it warranted...
Stop What You Are Doing And Check Out This Crazy Cadillac Prerunner… You’ll Thank Us Later!
Here at BangShift, you know we love vehicles that are built to do crazy things the manufacturers never intended them to do. One of these categories is the American Full-Size Sedan Prerunner. Now,...
This Time-Lapse Video Featuring The Rebuild Of A Ford Flathead V8 Engine Is Awesome
The Ford Flathead V8 is one of the most iconic engines in the history of the automobile. It brought more power to more people than any other engine and it did so as reliably as any engine of its day,...
These Kids Drive Like Rock Stars! Check Out The Air They Get In These Mini Monster Trucks!
We really need to start keeping up with the times. When we were kids, we were over the moon if one of our friends had a go-kart or a dirt bike, but apparently the game has been dramatically stepped...
Jeeps And Burnouts At The Donut Garage With Currie Enterprises. What More Do You Need?
Currie Enterprises has been one of the strongest names to go to when it comes to off-road axles. I know this because in every issue of 4-Wheel and Off-Road that I read as a kid, everything under the...
2 For 1: Twice The Rear Tire, Twice The Doors, Same Price! Dually Deals.
This Dually Deal right here is pretty sweet. It’s a 1988 Crew Cab Dually, from Chevrolet, which means TBI injection. Big Block, Th400, 14 Bolt, all the heavy duty stuff. And everything works....
Bitchin 4×4 Pathfinder Chevrolet Van! Custom And Off-road, All In One!
Vans are cool. Lifted trucks are cool. Well this Chevrolet Pathfinder 4×4 Van is both and it rules! With a set of Welds on it, and what look like 35s to us, this thing is bad ass. And it’s...
eBay find: This 1949 Ford T6 Wrecker is Flathead Powered Perfection
When it comes to seeking and finding tow trucks on the internet, I probably do it far too often. I love seeing these trucks in all of their various forms. That being said, this one came as a complete...
This Bobcat Mounted Automatic Chainsaw and Log Splitter Is Gearhead Genius In Action (Video)
There are few things that I find cooler than attachments that run off of tractors and equipment. From the old belt driven stuff hanging off the back of Ford tractors to dig post holes, run small...
We Wish Chevrolet Had Built Half Ton Crew Cab Short Bed Trucks Like This One
Now you can walk into your Chevrolet dealer and buy a brand new half ton short bed crew cab truck. But you couldn’t in the square body era. And that sucked. Don’t get me wrong, we...
Bitchin’ Photos: The Origins of Mud Boggers, Swamp Buggies, and Monster Trucks?
We were tipped off to some simply awesome photos from the early 1950s that depict scenes we believe to show the earliest forms of mud bogging, swamp buggies, and monster trucks. Like doodlebugs on...
One Owner 1977 Chevrolet Dually With Only 62,000 Miles! We Want.
Admittedly, a standard cab dually is not the most functional truck you could possibly buy but they sure do look damn cool. This 1977 Chevrolet Dually in particular is not only 1970’s...
