Category Archive: BangShift News, BangShift XL, XL Truck News
Tough and Cheap: Jeep Now Offering Gorilla Glass Windshield Upgrade For Less Than $100!
(By Tom Lohnes) – Do you have a spare $95 and are frustrated that your jeep Wrangler’s windshield keeps breaking? Well, Jeep has the solution for you, and its OEM. Using the famed Gorilla...
QA1 Project Corkscrew Update: This Video Shows The First Pre-Build Drive Of The 1969 D100 Truck!
You don’t know where you are going if you don’t know where you came from, right? That’s the point of this QA1 Project Corkscrew update video. You are going to see this virtually...
Are You Feeling It: Ford’s Grand Small Truck Experiment Is Officially Underway With The Maverick
(By Tom Lohnes) – The return of the compact truck is upon us, and it seems to be a very interesting class of vehicle. The Ford Maverick is an extremely early entrant, and it packs a punch....
Squarebody Cinema: Check Out This Salesman Training Video On 1974-75 Chevrolet Trucks
Yes, we do want the “Dooley” as much as you do, but that’s jumping ahead. One of the greatly ironic naming conventions in automotive history belongs to GM and the line of trucks...
When The Trucks Were Trucks! Big Tow and Knight Stalker ON Byron Dragway!
Much like Grumpy Jenkins’ 1974 Pro Stocker set the course for the tube framed, nothing stock about them anymore world of that class, the first tube chassis monster trucks set the stage for the...
See A Dragline Rescue A Caterpillar D11 Bulldozer Like It Is A Toy
Mining is not an easy business. It is like the world’s biggest game of sand box Tonka trucks and like in the sand box, sometimes things happen. In this case an operator rolled a Caterpillar D11...
This 1908 Film Shows How A 12-Inch BattleShip Gun Was Manufactured
We’re completely fascinated by old manufacturing films. Previously we had dug up some videos showing locomotives being manufactured and serviced but this deal, the manufacture of a 12-inch gun...
This Kenworth T800 Fitted With A Roto Dump Rotating Body Is The Ultimate In Dump Truck Convenience
Practicality is an important facet of any machine that will be used to get a job done. While we can look at dump trucks and revel in their size and braun there’s also the fact that these trucks...
Ride Along With a Three Engine, 5000hp Pulling Tractor!
Pressing play on the video after the jump will probably put you in a place that you’ve never been before. That place is sitting virtually on top of three blown Hemi engines making a combined...
Video Of A Massive, Pre-Hydraulic LeTourneau Front End Loader Is Yellow Poetry In Motion
As I have established over the last thirteen years here at BangShift, I love old machines that completed huge tasks without the technology of today. Decades back, the work still had to get done and...
Video: Brandt Railroad Trucks Are The Coolest Big Rigs In The World –
I must have been sick the day that Brandt railroad trucks were discussed at the university of awesome because before today I had no idea that such a thing existed. Sure, I have seen HY-Rail pickup...
Video On The Manufacturing Of A Ship Propeller Is Awesome
On a seemingly daily basis these days we’re reminded how dumb people can be. From idiotic acts behind the wheel to the way problems are solved it seems like we’re a species that’s...
How To Build A Nitro Powered Drill
The world of the “How To” video is a strange one. These things range from the driest things you have ever laid your eyes on to some of the most entertaining footage you can imagine....
Check Out This Maine Logging Truck Stacked To The Rafters!
It is an argument as to what the harshest environment is where big trucks operate. The desert? The city? Mines? Those are all good options but for us, logging trucks have the hardest job over all the...