Category Archive: BangShift News, BangShift XL, FUNNY STUFF, HISTORIC, Videos, XL Truck News, XL Videos
Massive In Miniature: This 1988 USHRA Broadcast From The Pontiac Silverdome Is Bonkers!
Well, this is peak 1980s right here. You are going to see an awesome and totally bananas UHRA broadcast from the Pontiac Silverdome made in 1988. What’s crazy about this is not any one specific...
Multi-Engine Throwdown: This 1989 TNT Series Pulling Broadcast Is A Legit War Between Legendary Pulling Families
There’s something about a vintage pulling broadcast that gets me ever time. Maybe the fact that I work with Army Armstrong’s son week in and week out with NHRA, the fact that the...
Uproarious: This Video Profiles Every Detroit Diesel Two Stroke Engine From One Cylinder To 24!
This is really cool. You are about to see a video that profiles every to stroke Detroit Diesel engine from the 1 cylinder variety all the way up to the 24 cylinder behemoth and represents the largest...
Taking It To The Street: Watch These Pakistani Truck Mechanics Rebuild A Massive Diesel V8 On The Side Of The Street
We love celebrating the real-guy heroic feats found at events like Drag Week, Sick Week, and others. People overcoming long odds to get a job done in a hard environment where it seems like all the...
Pistons Falling From The Sky – Watch This John Deere Pulling Tractor Blow Up In Spectacular Fashion At A Pull
This is the first terrestrial engine explosion we have seen that actually makes it rain pistons. For real. After the engine gives up the ghost and the tractor stops, pistons and rods are still...
Teeth of Steel: This 1942 British Film Profiling Mechanical Excavators, Cable Shovels, and More Rules
We have showed you a lot of patriotic films made in the USA during WWII. Well, we were not the only country cranking out the content. This film, made in England circa 1942 is called Teeth of Steel...
Hours Of King Of The Hammers Everyman Challenge Qualifying Condensed To 45 Minutes Of The Very Best Action
The King of the Hammers Every Man Challenge is one of the most awesome races out of everything that is going on during Hammers Week, but like most of KOH it takes a lot of time to get in qualifying...
We Drive it: The 2024 Ram Rebel 2500 Heavy Duty – Cummins Power, Good Looks, Power Wagon Parts
One of the most important elements of modern auto-making is the ability for a company to use their entire toolbox in the creation and execution of a vehicle. This doesn’t simply mean slapping a...
Keep Yer Head On: ARP® Head Std Kit For Highly Boosted 6.7L Powerstroke V8
We don’t know much around here but we do know that boost is awesome, that diesel engines are stupidly strong these days, and that ARP makes the best fasteners in the automotive world. The...
Awesome Gearhead Americana Photos: Building Roads, Sawing Logs, Junkyards, More
The Library of Congress has a massive and public archive of photos and slides that they have digitized over the decades. There are hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of photos and images. I went...
Mt Vesuvius On Steel Wheels: Check Out This Steam Tractor Pulling The Sled For Fun
While this is not the first time we have showed an exhibition pull being made by an awesome and massive steam tractor, we think it may be the most majestic one we have ever showed. You are going to...
Hardhat History: This 1940s Allis-Chalmers HD5 Crawler Tractor Sales Video Is Great
It sounds weird to say but as we have seen cars evolve from the 1940s through today, many of the same things that have happened in cars have happened with heavy equipment. This 1940s Allis-Chalmers...
Historical Video: Sinking Ships, Making Steel, Slogging Through The Mud – WWII Footage
This is one of those videos that shows the incredible size and scope of what WWII was by the time it reached its peak at the end of the first half of the 1940s. The film you are going to see was...
Apollo Video: Check Out This Neat 1960s Footage Of The Grumman Lunar Rover Prototype – Weinermobile In Space?
The last missions of the Apollo program over the course of 1971-1972 are largely forgotten by many people and that’s kind of crummy. Lots of neat stuff was done on those trips to the moon and...