Category Archive: BangShift XL, XL Videos
Demo Derby In Car Video: Watch A Cadillac Take Four Minutes Of Pounding Before It Spits The Bit
Ahhhh, the demolition derby. Long a staple of county and state fair entertainment it is about as pure a concept as you can get. Bash your brains out and the last man or woman running wins. Being the...
What’s Worse Than Turning Your Pulling Tractor Over? Turning It Over And Blowing Up All The Engines
We have showed you plenty of pulling mishaps over the years but this one has a special class that it will end up in. Why? Not because of the rather gentle roll but because of the fact that after the...
Let’s Go WWII Wheelin’: This 1940s US Army Training Video Teaches Drivers How To Handle Tough Terrain
This is some awesome WWII history right here. You are about to watch a training film shown to WWII Motor Pool drivers to aid in their training with regard to how best to cover and traverse difficult...
Building our first customers roll cage for his C10: what we charged & how much profit we made! The Right Tools And Methods Are Key!
Video Description: In this video Matt and Kevin show you how to build a cage to fit a C10 Chevy truck. We start with a custom fitting while the customer is in the C10 truck. To do this we used our...
Did Project Farm Waste $4,000 For A DIY Transmission Rebuild Kit? Or Is This Smart Money To Spend?
Transmissions are one of the things that enthusiasts seem most hesitant to build on their own. Whether you are talking about automatic or manual transmissions, and whether a newbie or the most...
Superboss! Watch Tyrone Malone Mangle Tires In This Bandag Promotional Film From 40 Years Ago
Tyrone Malone was one heck of a self-promoting machine and a guy who made his living in some interesting ways. The former trucker is most famous for his fleet of hot rod big rigs that he ran under...
Flyin’ Film: This 1960s Promotional Piece For The Piper Cherokee Is Awesome – Personal Aviation Was Booming!
As the US economy boomed in the 1960s, loads of new markets and opportunities opened up for people and companies. The personal aviation industry, like other places in the transportation segment of...
This Three Wide Locomotive Drag Race From Finland Is Way Cooler Than You Are Expecting
If you are a big time steam freak or someone who is into locomotives and have known about hi-jinx like this for years, forgive us. We never knew that locomotives were drag raced! In this video (which...
Listening To This Aluminum Block 6V53TT Detroit Diesel Turn 3,275 RPM Is Nearly Religious
Many of you out there may not know that there were aluminum block versions of Detroit Diesels produced over the course of time. These aluminum block based engines were (as we understand) primarily...
Old Monster Truck Perfection Video: Some Of The Most Famous Trucks Of ’87 Sled Pulling
I was seven years old and completely wrapped up in the madness that was the 1980s monster truck scene when this video was made. The funny thing is, the stuff still captivates me today. It takes me...
Hip To Be Square: This 1977 Chevy Promotional Film For The K5 Blazer Has It All, Even The Blazer Chalet!
We kind of wish we had a backyard full of late 1970s K5 Blazers. Why? Because we’d be freaking billionaires. The money that these trucks are commanding now is just insane but hey, people are...
Restoration Video: Seeing The Process of Bringing A Vertical Steam Engine Back Is Mesmerizing
Now this is what we call a payoff! A few weeks ago we showed you the first part of a Hand Tool Restoration project involving a small upright steam engine restoration. That part was mostly getting the...
Video: The FoxJet Was The 1970s Mini-Corporate Jet That Was Set To Change The World, But Didn’t
There are certain ideas that come along which make perfect sense, seem to have the right people behind them, and then ultimately evaporate into nothing for varied reasons. Well, the FoxJet is kind of...
