Category Archive: BangShift XL, HISTORIC, MISC, Videos, XL Videos
This 1970s Promotional Film For The Sikorsky UH-60A Is Kind Of Weird And Awesome
The Skiorsky UH-60A Black Hawk is an amazing piece of military machinery that has been serving the United States and countries across the globe for some 40 years now. First flown in 1974 and then...
Nightmare Video: Watch What Happens When A Massive Crane Loses Its Brakes On A Hill
(By Greg Rourke) – Once again, cranes scare me. They are called upon on a daily basis to do the seemingly impossible. Most of the time all goes as planned. But then again, sometimes they go...
A Bad Night At The Pull: Watch The Weight Box Fail On This Sled And The Tractor Head Off The End At Speed
To me the most terrifying thing that can happen if you are a puller is the scenario that comes to pass here. At a small pulling course in Pennsylvania last weekend a driver and team experienced...
Astonishing Carnage: Watch As The Industrial Injection Master Shredder Truck Explodes In Flaming Fury
When you take all the turbochargers, all the fuel, and all the nitrous and use them to make nearly 3,000 wheel horsepower in a full-race Cummins diesel engine, sometimes things go wrong. We have...
Listen To A Cool And Rare Detroit Diesel 1-71 Fire Up And Clatter Away – How Neat!
When we talk about Detroit Diesel engines here at BangShift, typically we’re talking about the mighty 6/8/12 and larger variants of the two stroke family that gained life in the late 1930s and...
The American Powertrain Parting Shift: Meet America’s Most Unique Truck – The Three Trans Equipped Holy Smokes!
Well, after 34,000 blog items, today stands as proof that there’s still an infinite universe of new and unique stuff to find out there. This time it is a 1966 Ford flatbed with a 390ci engine,...
Awesome Historical Video: The Industrial Use Of Caterpillar Tractors – Mechanical Awesome From 1926
Well this is perhaps one of the coolest things I have ever found on YouTube. You are about to watch a silent film (not apologizing for the lack of sound) called The Industrial Use of Caterpillar...
The Land The Man and White: This White Tractor Promotional Video Was Made As The Company Was Going Broke
From the Iowa factory to the testing fields, this video from White, made in 1980 it is a look inside what the world of American industry looked like back then. Of course this is a sales film for the...
Crazy Skills: Check Out This Guy’s Sick Lego Builds – One Off GM Dually Truck, Jeeps, Hot Rods, More!
The wonders never cease around here, that’s for sure. Anthony Ambrosio sent us some incredible links to a person who’s skills with Legos outstrip our skills with, well everything...
Classic YouTube: Autocrossing A Cummins Ram, Because Physics Doesn’t Matter!
Ok, this one is for every diesel-bro I’ve ever met who keeps telling me that their souped up PowerStroke/Cummins/Duramax/whatever is better in the long run than owning a musclecar or a sports...
Distance Learning Time: Watch This ARP Fasteners Seminar To Learn More About Bolts and Fasteners Than You Do Now!
Distance learning, remote learning, whatever you want to call it, your kids have been doing it for weeks and now you get to jump in on the fun. Why? Because we found an awesome seminar put on by ARP...
Double Down: Watch This Naturally Aspirated Jeep Inline Six Make 395hp – Twice The Stock Rating!
It’s one thing to build a hot rodded version of a cool engine. It’s another thing to combine all your skills as a fabricator, engineer, and engine builder to take a platform and double...
Godzilla Roars! Watch This 7.3L Ford V8 Make 789hp Naturally Aspirated As It Awaits A Blower
Ok, this is really starting to get awesome. Brian Wolfe the legendary Ford engineer, drag racer, and blue oval horsepower maker has really started to stand on his 7.3L Godzilla development engine and...
Hitting Peak: This 1994 Video Showing Off The New S-10 and GMC Sonoma Represents The Little Truck At Its Best
Small trucks have always been an interesting things to us. Obviously we are back in the middle of a small truck war as we told you about the new Ranger Tremor that Ford just released but the small...