Category Archive: BangShift News, BangShift XL, HISTORIC, MISC, Videos, XL Videos
Cool Old Video: Did You Know That GMC Worked With Lotus On Active Suspension For Trucks In The Late 1980s?
This is one of those, “wait…what?” moments for us. Apparently in the late 1980s General Motors and Lotus were working together on active suspension systems and the plan was...
Best of 2020: Fixing A Dump Truck’s Broken Rear Axle In Pakistan
If there was one really big automotive take-away from my time spent in Iraq, it was that if you had a medium-duty truck of just about any type, you had the ability to work. Flatbed, dump, stakebed,...
Best of 2020: This Kid Drives A Truck And Runs The Gears Better Than You
When I was nine years old, I thought I was leaps and bounds over everybody else by being able to drive a car. Get in, start it, move it around without hitting anything, even drive it around a little...
The Toyota Man Cometh: This Review Of The 1993 Toyota T100 Was A Wildly Prescient Look Into The Future
It was monumental news when Toyota said that it was going to step up its truck game in the early 1990s with the addition of the T100 model. This was going to be a small-ish truck that was kind of in...
Dyno Shootout Fun: Watch The Most Popular LSx Intake Manifolds On The Market Battle Head To Head!
The battle for the hearts and minds of aftermarket shoppers is raging, especially in the LSx world. Over the course of a year that saw so many facets of the world really suffer, the high performance...
Project Henry’s Hot Rod Video Update: The World’s Quickest And Easiest Swap Is Complete
If there was one thing that has been bugging me since taking our little Ford N-series project tractor home it was the stack exhaust that someone had added over the years. Not pleasing to the eye, not...
This 1960 GMC Video Heralds The Introduction Of The Latest Heavy Duty Trucks, Including The Famed Crackerbox
Here’s a short and sweet video from the GM Heritage Center that harks back to 1960 and the introduction of GMCs new heavy duty truck models. The main star of the show is a Viking cab-over truck...
Best of 2020: Boeing B-52 Stratofortress On Takeoff From The Cockpit
I first saw a B-52 mounted on posts on the grounds of the Air Force Academy. 55-0083, a B-52D model in full olive camo color, made for an imposing sight for a mounted aircraft. My grandfather...
A Go-Kart Sized Monster Truck With A Big Block Chevy Engine Looks Like One Heck Of A Good Time
If there was a record for the most favorable power to weight ratio, we’re thinking that the creation in the video below certainly qualifies. We’re talking about a miniature monster truck,...
Watch A Farmer Accidentally Rip A Friend’s Tractor In Half While Trying To Pull Him Out Of The Mud!
The lead image above captures the exact moment when things went from annoying to really bad for the owner of the tractor that’s being ripped in half. He was annoyed because somehow he managed...
Henry’s Hot Rod: We Investigate, Remediate, and Get Our Little Mongrel Ford Tractor Up And Working!
Well, we have a running tractor now! After the first installment of our Henry’s Hot Rod project it was time for the fun stuff, actually wrenching on our tractor that is parts 2N, parts 9N, and...
Fun Video: Watch This LEGO Harley-Davidson Fat Boy Build Itself From Scratch!
Millions of kids across America got LEGO kits for Christmas. From the little kids who will make small and basic structures with them to the older kids who work with the kits that have motors, moving...
Best of 2020: Watch The Last Massive Pacific P12W3 Truck Roll Out Of The Shop And Cruise The Nieghborhood – Awesome!
Pacific trucks may not be a name that is wholly familiar to everyone outside of hardcore truck geeks but it probably should be. This company built some really neat stuff over the years and they had a...
