Category Archive: BangShift XL, XL Videos
Best of 2019: The Union Pacific #4014 Big Boy and #844 Steam Locomotives In Action
Dec 24, 2019Bryan McTaggart8
I don’t know of any little kid that isn’t fascinated by trains. Whether it was listening to the freight trains of the Illinois Central line rip past the backyard of my stepmother’s...
Best of 2019: Big Mess Video: Watch A Huge Crane Topple When The Earth Under It Gives Way!
Dec 23, 2019Brian Lohnes3
(By Greg Rourke) – Having worked on a few job sites with big cranes on them, I have to say they scare the crap out of me. The biggest piece of equipment on the site lifting stuff that seems...
Best of 2019: The Marmon-Herrington Rhino, From Back When Creativity Could Get Weird Fast
Dec 23, 2019Bryan McTaggart3
Picture this: it is a nice, sunny day in 1954. All is quiet and peaceful…right up until the ground starts to rumble with the the pulsations of something heavy coming close. Soon, you see...
Dreamtime For Lohnes: Rtech’s Custom Trucks Visit Jay Leno!
Dec 23, 2019Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Dreamtime For Lohnes: Rtech’s Custom Trucks Visit Jay Leno!
We’ve seen both of the trucks you will see here at SEMA. Both of these trucks gathered a ton of attention, both of these trucks stand tall and broad, both of these trucks were the perfect...
Watch This 4.6L Jeep Stroker Engine Make Solid Power That Would Have Your Jeep Roasting Mudders
Dec 20, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on Watch This 4.6L Jeep Stroker Engine Make Solid Power That Would Have Your Jeep Roasting Mudders
We all get hung up on engines that makes a zillion horsepower or are made of solid billet and cost as much as a small aircraft. The nature of this stuff is to zone in on the shiny stuff that makes...
Video: Check Out These 10 Amazing Engines From The 2019 PRI Show – Horsepower!
Dec 19, 2019Brian Lohnes3
The 2019 PRI show was packed to the rafters with new parts, cool race cars, industry celebrities, and activity galore, but the most important thing it was packed with? Awesome engines! This video...
Redline Rebuild: Watch A Chevy Stovebolt Six Get Saved From The Woods And Revived!
Dec 16, 2019Brian Lohnes1
The Hagerty Redline Rebuild series has been awesome and continues to be awesome because of variety. From top fuel engines to workaday power plants, this thing has really been chock full of the kinds...
Fire Man: Here’s How You Keep A Steam Locomotive Hot And Happy!
Dec 14, 2019Bryan McTaggart2
The image of the steam locomotive in action is a romantic sight, isn’t it? Puffing and chugging along the tracks, the plume of steam puffing along, the hissing and chuffing of the engine as an...
Bug Out ‘Stang: This 2009 Ford Mustang Has 11″ Of Suspension Travel, And Exocage, and An Evil Demeanor
Dec 09, 2019Brian Lohnes3
We have to thank BangShifter Chris Yocum for tipping us off to the existence of this creation the likes of which we have never seen before. Not a trar because it is all car, not a chassis swap of any...
Maximum VW: The Huge Bug Is A Masterpiece of Metal Working, Creativity, and Fun – 3,500 Custom Parts!
Dec 09, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on Maximum VW: The Huge Bug Is A Masterpiece of Metal Working, Creativity, and Fun – 3,500 Custom Parts!
Yes, this is truly a car that lives up to the name! The Huge Bug is something we should have known about forever ago but we didn’t. My pal Alan Reinhart sent along a link of the car at a car...
Are You Afraid To Recover Your Own Truck Seat? Here’s How Easy It Is To Do On A Squarebody Chevy Pickup
Dec 08, 2019Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Are You Afraid To Recover Your Own Truck Seat? Here’s How Easy It Is To Do On A Squarebody Chevy Pickup
My 1987 Chevrolet Crew Cab Dually is an amazingly clean truck that makes me happy each and every time I drive it. Sure, there are TONS of things I’m planning to do to it, but it’s really...
Do You Want To Know What This Looks Like From In The Car? Formula Off Road Greatness
Dec 07, 2019Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Do You Want To Know What This Looks Like From In The Car? Formula Off Road Greatness
Formula Off Road is some of the most gnarly racing on the planet. In fact in some ways it’s the grandfather of the new Rockbouncing craze. These guys climb huge pea gravel piles, on courses set...
Watch a Mi-26 Sling-load A Chinook Helicopter Like It’s A Toy
Dec 06, 2019Bryan McTaggart2
The Boeing CH-47 Chinook series of helicopters are big. The newest variant, the -47F, packs engines with 4,868 shaft horsepower and can cruise at 175mph with nine and a half tons of cargo aboard....
Morning Symphony: V8 Diesels…From Screaming Detroits To The Big Mack, Which One Sounds Best To You?
Dec 04, 2019Bryan McTaggart7
For nearly a decade, two engines that you will hear in this compilation pretty much ruled my world: the GM/Detroit 6.2-6.5L series that every single HMMWV used, and the two-stroke Detroit Diesels...