Category Archive: XL Online Find, XL Spotlight
Ran When Parked…This 1969 GMC C15 Has Great Patina And Needs A New Home
If this 1969 GMC C15 pickup was closer to us we’d be on our way to look at it right now. It says it ran a year ago when it was parked, which probably means three years ago, but it is a small...
If You Are Looking For Something To Blow $500 On This Week, Maybe This Monster VW Bug Is It
I’m roughly 100% certain that Daphne would cut my nads off if I were to go out and bring this thing home, but I have to tell you it seems like it could really be a riot. This VW Bug is sitting...
Watch This Guy Try To Stop A Runaway Diesel Using All The Common Myths…And Blow It Up!
There are a few different schools of thought on how to stop a runaway diesel engine, but once one is on a tear like that it does not want to stop for anything. We’ve seen different ways of...
Cause Who Doesn’t Want A Street Legal Class 5 Baja Bug To Race AND Drive!
Try doing a search on Craigslist using just the words Race Car and you will end up finding some pretty cool stuff, at least here in SoCal anyway. And when I did that search yesterday, I found this...
By This 1977 Funco Buggy And Go Vintage Off-Road Racing
I’ve raced a lot of cool cars, but my list of things I still want to drive is pretty long. With that said, over the past few years racing something off-road has moved further and further up the...
This Restored 1970 Ford Econoline Pop Top Camper Van Is Road Trip Perfection
Any regular reader of BANGshift will know that I have an addiction to motorhomes, camper trailers, and vans among other things. I don’t personally own a van, but I have wanted a cool window or...
This Video Of An Intake Elbow Being Welded Will Either Inspire Or…Well You Know.
TIG welding is fun, but definitely more difficult than MIG welding for example. Putting together perfect welds takes time, patience, and practice. The latter clearly something that the guy in this...
The Need For Speed Continues At Bonneville Speed Week 2017
And we know it isn’t just the racers who feel this need, but also all you fans out there. Luckily for you, my son Cole and I have been shooting everything we can on the salt and have a bunch of...
Citizen’s Band: The Internet of the 1970s
Unless you were sitting up and taking oxygen between about 1973 and 1978, it is impossible to understand just how pervasive the Citizen’s Band radio was in that period. It reached every corner...
The Mecca Of Speed: Our Bonneville Speed Week 2017 Photos Just Keep Coming
Warning: Bonneville Speed Week attendance will result in an uncontrollable urge to build cars to go speeds no man was intended to reach. You have been warned. We’re not sure of the severity of...
Grab Some Lunch, We’ll Bring The Salt. Our Bonneville Speed Week 2017 Coverage Continues!
Everywhere we look there are cool things to see here at Bonneville Speed Week, and Cole Reynolds and I have been running around shooting photos like mad men so we can share all the cool stuff with...
Here’s Your Morning Serving Of Bonneville Speed Week 2017 Photos!
If you want Bonneville Speed Week 2017 photos, results, and more, BANGshift.com is the place to find them. We’ve been out every day jamming photos of everything we can find, and that means tons...
WTF? Is This Shortened C10 As Weird To You As It Is To Us? Long Bed Wheelbase, Short Bed Length
People do weird things to perfectly good vehicles, and this is one prime example. We aren’t going to fully throw the seller of this thing under the bus, because to each his own, but we are...
This Rock Crawling, Track Equipped, Rig Can Rock Crawl Under Water!
Anything amphibious is cool. Lets face it, we all grew up wanting a hovercraft or one of those 6 wheel golf cart/go cart looking things that also floated, or anything else that could drive in both...