Category Archive: BangShift XL, HISTORIC, MISC, Videos, XL Videos
This 1979 Chevrolet Video Promoting The LUV Truck Is Cool – Slanted Comparison For The Win!
Jul 13, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on This 1979 Chevrolet Video Promoting The LUV Truck Is Cool – Slanted Comparison For The Win!
The Chevrolet LUV Truck was a home run for GM. Starting in 1972 when the hit the market, the LUV was a staple in the company’s lineup all the way into the early 1980s when it was replaced by...
Video – Hot Rodded Oliver Inline Six Tractor Engine Make 405hp And 560+ lb/ft On The Dyno Naturally Aspirated!
Jul 10, 2020Brian Lohnes2
When one thinks of an antique tractor pulling engine thoughts normally wander to updraft carbs and old oil and grease seeping around ancient bolt heads. If that’s what you actually think that...
SUV Of Doom: Watch This Denali Spin Both Rollers On An AWD Dyno To The Tune Of 775HP To The Tires!
Jul 10, 2020Brian Lohnes1
We’ve said it a lot over the years and the fact is nothing is cooler in our book than big and fast. Big is good, fast is good, but big and fast together? That’s as nice as beer and...
Slow Air In – Fast Air Out: This 60+ Year Old Film About Gas Turbines Is Awesome, Great History, Tech, More
Jul 09, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Slow Air In – Fast Air Out: This 60+ Year Old Film About Gas Turbines Is Awesome, Great History, Tech, More
While theory and ideas that make gas turbine engine function have long been known by humanity, it was really little more than 100 years ago that people had the means to make them into anything that...
Ever Seen A Locomotive Do A Burnout? This Is One Heck Of A Look At One!
Jul 09, 2020Brian Lohnes1
It seems impossible that something as insanely heavy as a locomotive could ever break traction on dry tracks but this video proves that these things make such immense torque through their diesel...
Short Stack Torque Maker: This Blown 400ci Small Block Chevy Makes 681hp and All The Twist
Jul 08, 2020Brian Lohnes1
Meh, a 680hp small block you say. Why bother watching the video, right? Just another engine that doesn’t make 1,000hp and doesn’t cause some dude’s YouTube project to pull a flaming...
More Mickey: This 1990s Profile Of Mickey Thompson Is Filled With Old Footage We’ve Never Seen
Jul 08, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on More Mickey: This 1990s Profile Of Mickey Thompson Is Filled With Old Footage We’ve Never Seen
A couple of weeks ago, we directed you to check out the little mini-documentary that Freiburger had made about Mickey Thompson and his quest to run 400mph on the salt. Well today we’re back...
Dyno Video: Watch This 383ci BluePrint Engine Go Through Its Dyno Paces!
Jul 06, 2020Brian Lohnes1
We have long talked about the guys and girls at BluePrint Engines and the quality of their product line. One of the amazing things is the fact that the company dyno tests every single engine that...
Off Road Action To The Next Level! Watch The Qualifying Loop At King Of The Hammers From Inside Bryce Menzies Truck!
Jul 05, 2020Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Off Road Action To The Next Level! Watch The Qualifying Loop At King Of The Hammers From Inside Bryce Menzies Truck!
High Speed Off-Road Racing is something I’ve never done but want to do so bad. It’s awesome. I love the sport, love the trucks, love the events, and therefore running BAJA or King of the...
Hunt For Grunt! LS Torque Cams: Do You Know What Really Works?
Jul 04, 2020Chad Reynolds4
In this video from Richard Holdener, he lets you in on yet another round of dyno testing Speed Secrets in the never ending Hunt for Grunt. LS Engines aren’t particularly known for being torque...
Adult Sandbox Video: Watch This Vintage Heavy Equipment Rearrange The Earth With Horsepower and Torque
Jul 01, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Adult Sandbox Video: Watch This Vintage Heavy Equipment Rearrange The Earth With Horsepower and Torque
(By Greg Rourke) – Did you have a bunch of Tonka trucks and equipment when you were a kid? Sorry, stupid question, of course you did. I built many millions of miles of Interstate highways...
When A Tractor Attempts To Help A Truck In Russia, Always Expect The Unexpected
Jul 01, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on When A Tractor Attempts To Help A Truck In Russia, Always Expect The Unexpected
So here we are in Russia…at least we think that’s where this was filmed. Anyway we have a truck with obviously too much weight out behind the rear axle and a tractor that has been brought...
1970s Chevy Truck Advertising Perfection: Watch This Pickup Drag 178 Tons Of Logs!
Jul 01, 2020Brian Lohnes1
The OEMs have totally failed in recent times at making over the top, ridiculous pickup truck ads. Sadly it has been Toyota that had cool stuff like their trucks dragging the Space Shuttle and...
Jolly Green Giant: Finnegan’s Green Ramp Truck Gets Blown
Jul 01, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Jolly Green Giant: Finnegan’s Green Ramp Truck Gets Blown
Boats and ho-ley moley, those are some huge trucks. We love ya, Mike, but dude, this truck fascination of yours is a bit out there, even for us…and yes, that does include all of the weird junk...