Category Archive: BangShift News, BangShift XL, HISTORIC, MISC, Videos, XL Videos
1.16: The Forgotten Disaster – How America’s Worst Maritime Nightmare Happened In 1865 And Who It Happened To
The sinking of the SS Sultana in 1865 to this day stands as the greatest maritime disaster in the history of the United States. More people died in the middle of the Mississippi river on an April...
Watch The “Swamp Thing” Chevy Do What It Does Best – Work In The Mud And The Muck!
There’s a mindset that hard work requires you to get down and dirty. Grease under your fingernails, mud on your boots, dirt on your face, and sweat turning all of that into some kind of funky...
The Horsepower of Hydration: Listen To This Deep Dive Into The History of The Mighty Mack Super Pumper System That Protected New York City
There are lots of neat mechanical stories out there in the world. Some are more about the people that operated the machines and some are about machines that sold problems in an ingenious way for...
Vulgar Display: Off-Roading Rowdiness In “Holy Horsepower Vol. 6” From MadRam11
Does anything beat some good old, down and dirty fun? Not if you are into off-roading, it doesn’t. Where else can you bring as little or as much horsepower as you want and show off to your...
Isolation Restoration Video Update: Take A Quick Tour Of The Tecumseh On The Operating Table
It’s a funny thing. There’s so many downsides to this period of “life pause” we’re living in and may be coming out of now but there are a couple of benefits. It has been...
Project Isolation Restoration Product Test Video: Does Evapo-Rust Really Deliver? See For Yourself
If it is too good to be true it probably is, right? That’s the normal scene when it comes to anything in life. Whether we are talking about a car that looks too good to be priced so cheap, a...
Crushing History: This Recap Of The 1988 Monster Truck Racing Season Shows A Historic Year
Is a sport really a sport before there is a champion? We don’t really think so and that’s why the 1988 TNT Renegade Monster Truck racing season was such a big deal. It was the first year...
The Beast Lives: This 1969 Brockway U459 Was Created To Build Skyscrapers And It Did
When the New York skyline was reaching every closer to the clouds during the 1970s, there was a constant and insatiable need in the city. Steel. The metal that enabled structures that the world would...
Beast of Burden: Watch And Listen To This 427-based Ford Big Block Make 700+ Naturally Aspirated Horsepower On The Dyno!
Sometimes you just have to do it the hard way and that’s why we love the sound and the fury of a true max-effort naturally aspirated engine. This is so cool we can hardly stand it. Our man...
The Killer Plane And The American Hero That Tamed It: This Is The Story of Jimmy Doolittle and the Gee Bee R1
This was the fastest land based machine in the world in 1932. It had 45-mph on Sir Malcom Campbell’s land based monster, it had 172-mph on Gar Wood’s boat that packed four massive Packard...
Aluminum Overcast: The Convair B-36 Peacemaker In Action
Six turnin’, four burnin’. Maybe…depending on whether the carburetor on the 28-cylinder Wasp Major engines had iced up or not. Without a doubt, the B-36 Peacemaker is a jaw-dropping...
Engine Building Zen Video: Watching This 500hp, 12.7L Detroit Diesel Come Together Is Awesome
There are engine building videos that strike us as cool because of how they are shot, maybe some creative angle about the content, or a gimmick that we love. This is a totally different deal. This...
Get It Up There: Viagra Hill Attempts From The Busted Knuckle Vault!
Whoever decided to name the obstacle at Disney, Oklahoma “Viagra Hill” is one warped puppy. The obstacle, a rock wall with a water feature at the starting point, was for a long time...
More Shop Tips and Tricks From QA1: Quick and Easy Ways To Make Your Project Cooler and Wrenching More Fun
The last time we checked in with the crew at QA1 they were passing long helpful shop tips to help with your wrenching enterprises. That video was cool and successful so they’re back again with...