Category Archive: BangShift XL, Videos, XL Videos
Painting On A Massive Scale: Watch This Timelapse Of An Emirates Boeing 777-200 As It Gets A New Coat!
A typical fully painted Boeing 777 similar to this Emirates 777-200 wears almost a quarter-ton of paint on it’s skin, with a maximum thickness of about 0.005″ across the board....
Bad Shift: Listen To This Student Truck Driver Grind A Transmission Into Submission
As much as people do not want to admit it, operating a vehicle is a skill. It is a skill that you learn and refine over time. This is doubly true if you are a commercial driver who makes their living...
Chugga Chugga Tug Of Wars: These Videos Of Steam Tractors Applying Their Grunt Are Awesome
What’s heavy, slow, and makes a chuffing noise when worked hard? No, not me you jerks! I am talking about steam tractors. I went around and assembled a bunch of videos of these machines hooking...
Screaming Detroit Commuter Video! This 1951 Dodge M37 Has A 3-53 Under The Hood – BangShift Approved
BangShifter Ken Melrose has us all beat by a mile. The man recently restored a 1951 Dodge M37 truck with his dad which makes him a boss but the fact that he repowered the sucker with a 3-53 Detroit...
The Most Entertaining Video Ever About Cleaning Out An Intake Manifold – Fire Makes It Good
If you have a metal intake manifold that is all full of carbon and other junk, there are a bunch of different ways that you can clean it out. Multiple chemicals are on the market designed to break...
This May Be The Coolest Fire Truck Ever – The 1959 Dodge American LaFrance Little Mo – One Man Fire Dominator
For starters, trucks of the Dodge “Power Giant” era are some of the coolest on the road. The 1957-1960 trucks really have a unique look and whether we’re talking the W100 or larger...
This Video Of A Guy Stacking Beer Bottles With An Excavator Is Flipping Awesome
There’s a reason that guys who do this work are called heavy equipment “operators”. We think that some of them could probably perform surgery with the big machines that they use to...
Watch This Freightliner Sand Rail Scale The Dunes At Pismo Beach – The Beast Rules
If there’s a guaranteed way to be awesome in this world it would be to take a Freightliner truck and convert it into what amounts to a massive sand rail like you see in this video. We’re...
The American Powertrain Parting Shift: Ripping The Gears In A Detroit Diesel Swapped 1971 Chevy Mini-Rig
We are typically not fans of the “mini-rig” look for trucks where guys try to make a pickup look and act like a big rig but in this case, we’re kind of on board, ok all the way on...
Video: An Evel Knievel Jump And The World’s Richest Demolition Derby – Great Footage From 1973
It was February 1973 and Evel Knievel was among the most famous people on Earth. His star would continue rising for another year until his disastrous failure at Snake River Canyon. One of...
Laid Out On The Lake Is New Zealand’s Only Minitruck And Customs Show, And We Dig It.
With obscurity comes commitment. You can quote me on that one. It’s easy to build, show, and enjoy a 1932 Ford. No offense, but you can build one from a catalog and then go to a jillion events...
Adding LED Tail Lights To Your 73-87 Square Body GM Truck Is Super Easy Thanks To Brothers
If you have put together, or are putting together, a 1947-1987 Chevrolet or GMC Pickup then you know the name Brothers Truck Parts. They have restoration and custom parts for these years of trucks...
Morning Symphony: The Scream Of The C-5 Galaxy At Full Song
When I explain to people what I did before Brian and Chad decided that I’d work out fine here, I often get strange looks…”wait a minute. You were working on planes and...
Craziest Car Engine Ever? The Crankshaft Is Stationary And The Engine Rotates Around It! The Adams-Farwell
I have to thank BangShift tipster Tony Hoffer for the lead on this amazing video of what is probably the craziest automotive engine ever actually running. This is an Adams-Farwell rotating cylinder...