Category Archive: BangShift XL, XL Online Find

This 1967 Pontiac Catalina Wagon Has A 400ci Engine, Air Bags, A Virtually Nothing We Would Change

As Chad live streams the March Meet this weekend, he has seen some cool push and tow cars dragging drag machines to the starting line area, no doubt. The first thing we thought of when looking at...

This 1983 Cadillac Fleetwood Flower Car Is Begging To Be Made Into A Hot Rod – How Would You Build It?

Nothing freaks out the neighbors quite like parking a car normally used for a funeral in the driveway, does it? Even if it isn’t the car that actually carried the body, just knowing that your daily...

Ebay Find: A 1935 International Harvester C35 Armored Truck…And One Of The Strangest Photo Sets We’ve Seen Yet To Sell A Truck

Finding an 80-year-old armored truck on eBay is sweet. Finding a fully restored one that is running, driving and as gorgeous as this truck is a needle in a haystack, and finding one with documented...

The Scaled Composites “Roc” Is In It’s Construction Phase And The Scale Is Ridiculous

Currently the largest aircraft in the world is the Antonov AN-225 Mriya, and it’s a freaking monster in a world of giants. Designed originally to haul the Soviet Buran spacecraft, the...

This 1937 GMC Wrecker May Look Like A Technicolor Mess, But There’s An Amazingly Intact And Complete Truck Here

I came shockingly close to rolling right past the listing for this 1937 GMC wrecker on eBay because let’s be honest, at first blush the thing looks like a disaster. The wild coloration of the...

Copart Cadaver: This 1972 Chevy C10 Was A Pretty Awesome Truck Before It Was Decapitated – How In The World?!

It has been a couple weeks since we last presented you with a Copart Cadaver and implored you, our readers to become crash investigators and tell us what in the heck happened to the vehicle shown....

This NAPCO Equipped 1959 Chevy Apache 3600 Is A No Nonsense, Go Anywhere Rig

Talk about cool, this truck is ice cold! A three quarter ton, 1959 Chevy Apache is a cool truck but when you add in the fact that it is also a factory NAPCO truck, the interest level (and price)...

Craigslist Find: A Properly Rat-Rodded 1948 International Wrecker With Minneapolis-Moline Power!

A cut down old wrecker with some hot-rodding touches and a tractor engine…if there was ever a Craigslist ad targeted straight towards Brian, I’ve yet to see it. While Brutus the Wrecker...

This 1936 Chevy Bus Was Made Into A Hose Hauler By The Fire Dapartment – Could It Haul Hot Rods?

So there will never be a day when we grow weary of seeing, scheming about, or dreaming of cool car haulers. This 1936 Chevy school bus was converted into a hauler of sorts many moons ago by a fire...

Classic Racing Footage: The 1989 Heavy Metal Challenge Race – Watch Robby Gordon and Walker Evans Battle It Out!

We love fast trucks around here, and we love loud and fast racing. By that measure, Class 8 trucks are high on our list of dirt toys we dream of being able to drive. You may have your favorites, but...

Ever Wonder What It Takes To Completely Repaint An Airliner? Virgin Australia Created A Time-Lapse Video Of The Process!

A couple of days ago we showed you what it takes to custom-paint an aircraft with the WestJet “Magic Plane”. And it got me thinking back to my aviation side, and one question kept coming...

This Old Ford N-600 Truck Needs A New Home And A New Paint Job Stat

1960s era Ford N-series trucks are some of my personal favorites. They have an almost cartoonish style about them that you can’t help but smile when you look at and they were used to haul...

This 1966 Austin Gypsy Needs To Be Bought And Saved Immediately – You’ll See What We Mean!

Some cars and trucks live weird lives and this 1966 Austin Gyspy is certainly right in the middle of a strange existence. As best we know, these trucks were never imported by Austin so this one got...

This 1948 Ford F-5 Monster Truck Has Some Awesome Driveline Components And An Engine You May Not Know

We’re not really sure why someone built this truck and by the wording of the ad, the seller isn’t so sure either but that doesn’t take anything away from our opinion about how...