Category Archive: BangShift XL, XL Online Find, XL Spotlight
Best Of BangShift: Is This The Worst Welding Job Ever? One BangShifter Got The Job To Fix This Disaster
Last night, I was cruising the BangShift forums and came across a thread titled, “You should not be welding anything”. Naturally I was pretty interested to see what that was all about and...
Best of 2014: An Ohio Scrap Yard Owner Bought A Bunch Of WWII Era Planes In The Late 1940s To “Save” Them – They’re Now All Rotting In The Woods – Amazing Photos
Walter Soplata must have been an interesting dude. After all, the guy went on a pretty amazing buying spree in the late 1940s, buying old warplanes that had participated in WWII in an effort to...
Red Bull Frozen Rush 2014: We Go Rollin’ With Ricky Johnson In A Pro 2 Truck Through The Snow! Big Fun With The Legend Himself
BangShift has afforded me a bunch of opportunities to do neat things with interesting people but I am not sure anything compared to ripping around in the snow with Ricky Johnson last week as a bit of...
Raminator Breaks Monster Truck Speed Record At Circuit Of The Americas
Monster trucks aren’t just for dirt arenas and this story will prove how much power and grace it takes to move 11,000 pounds with a 565 cubic inch HEMI during an attempt to set the “Fastest...
The Mega X2 Company Builds The Biggest And Most Awesome Custom Trucks We Have Ever Seen – Factory Quality On A HUGE Scale
That’s not a photoshop job in the photo above, that’s a sample of the work done by a Utah company called Mega X2. They take big trucks and make them even bigger by stretching the frames,...
Please Welcome Kelderman Air Suspension Systems To BangShift.com And BangShiftXL!
Brian and I are very excited to announce that Kelderman Air Suspension Systems has officially joined the BangShift Family of sponsors! And not only that, Kelderman will now be the BangShift XL...
Behind The Scenes Video Of The Big Rig Jumping The Formula 1 Car! Check it out!
We just found this brand new video of the recent World Record Big Rig jump, where Mike Ryan jumped a big rig with trailer OVER a MOVING Formula 1 car. You read that right, here is more video of the...
This Old School 1993 Dodge Monster Truck Is The Big Yellow Rig Of Our Dreams
There’s nothing cooler than a steel bodied monster truck. Just this weekend I was watching Return of the Monster Trucks with my sons and reveling in how cool all those old rigs were. No, they...
Ken Kelley’s 1956 Ford F-100 Is Fat In All The Right Places, Just Like An Effie Should Be And Now It Is For Sale
(Words and Photos by Kaleb Kelley) Here at BangShift, we like a little bit of everything. Some oddities that normally would be frowned upon, we love. We also like some of the iconic cars and trucks...
Trophy Truck Video: Robby Gordon Qualifies Number 1 For The SCORE Baja 1000
When Robby Gordon straps into a Trophy Truck, everyone on the planet knows he’s going to be fast. In fact, there are quite a few off road pros who say that he’s ALWAYS the fastest guy in...
BangShift Exclusive: An Incredible Inside Look At The Restoration Of A WWII B-17 – The Desert Rat Labor Of Love
(Words and photos by Bob Chiluk) – So BangShift Chicago gets a hotline call wanting to know if we would like to see some old metal that’s being restored locally. Silence for a split...
100% BangShift Approved: We Spend The Day At Diggerland USA – America’s First Construction Equipment Theme Park
(Full disclosure: In May, I wrote a blog item about a new theme park that was opening up in New Jersey called “Diggerland USA” the people at Diggerland saw that blog post and offered the...
Great Read: How An Old Willys Jeep Has Taken A Family Through 60 Years Of Fun And Adventure
We often show you cool videos from Petrolicious, but today we’re showing you a cool story from the website because it speaks to everything right and good about the gearhead world. We got tipped...
