Category Archive: BangShift XL, XL Event Coverage, XL Videos
Watch The Blue Blazes Pulling Tractor Go Out In A Blaze Of Glory – Photo Sequence And Video…The Carnage Is Incredible
This is the story of one of the sport of tractor pullings’ most legendary-and exciting-competitors, Mike Wilhite. The video and photos that go along with this tale are a few years old but...
It’s All About The Flow: This Short And Sweet Lesson On Priority Main Oiling From Dart Is Great
When we hear certain terms in the gearhead world we generally understand them but maybe a bit more clarity and education is always welcome, right? One of the big ones that gets thrown around a lot is...
The Slog: Bashing And Creeping Through The Pipeline From Hell Mud Bog
Thanks to the remnants of Hurricane Laura, which proceeded to turn the better part of Western Kentucky into utter swampland, mud is now a part of the daily routine and will be until things dry out....
Classic YouTube: Texas A&M Testing A New Truck-Resistant Barrier. Make No Mistake, It Works.
In a past life before BangShift, back when I was visiting locations that would require an up-front payment that even Bill Gates himself would choke to write out onto a check, we had a major problem:...
Lumbering Beast: Taking A 1957 Autocar On A Long-Overdue Drive
Autocar is one of the oldest names in automotive manufacturing…122 years old, in fact. They made a wide range of cars early on, but after World War II the company pretty much stuck their focus...
Classic YouTube: Watch the Boeing 787-9 Practice For The Farnborough Air Show
A common legend that runs through the halls of Boeing involves a test and demonstration flight of the Boeing 367-80, the prototype that became the Boeing 707. At the Seattle Seafair festival, Alvin...
Watch The Pakistani Truck Repair Guys Fix A Cracked Wheel On The Lathe. With A Million Alcoa’s Around Here It Seems Weird, But They Got Skills!
The Pakistani Truck repair videos often have crazy stuff going on in them, like the one where they mount a whole rear axle housing in the lathe. We laugh, and cringe, when we watch them but sometimes...
OBS Clash Episode 2: How The Sport Truck Became An Icon That Spawned Whole Industries
Here is Episode 2 of the OBS Clash Series folks! Anyone who reads BANGshift on any regular basis knows I’m a Chevrolet guy to the core, and that I love my Square Body Chevy pickups. But I love...
Monster Mack: Watch This Twin-Engine Aussie Mack Cruiseliner Cut Loose At Bindoon!
Diesel freaks bug me. Not those who extract maximum power out of engines designed to produce a ton of power, just those who insist that billowing black smoke out of a trash can from underneath a...
Video: A Big Block Chevy Powered Jeep Hikes Wheelies On The Street And Runs to 60 in Less Than 3-Seconds!
This is the kind of stuff that’ll put hair on your teeth! Take a Jeep Wrangler, jam a whole bunch of really pissed of Chevy rat motor in the front, add beefy axles, Cal Trac bars and Mickey...
Watch a Super Stock Pulling Tractor Lose A Massive Rear Wheel With Potentially Disastrous Consequences
This is one of those videos that depicts the best possible outcome for a situation that could have potentially resulted in mass casualties at a motorsports event. The event is an indoor tractor...
Beautifying The Buick: The Hagerty Straight Eight Redline Rebuild Heads For The Paint Booth
We have been following the saga of the Hagerty Redline Rebuild of a Buick straight eight engine for a while now. This thing has been a bear in more ways than one and at seemingly every turn the...
Heavy Metal Crunching: Check Out Truck Banger Racing From St Day!
Yes, you’re seeing that correctly: a rollback truck mounted on top of a cement barrier like a trophy, it’s nose shoved in. You almost feel sorry for the poor thing, don’t you?...
Boiling Off The Rear Tires On A White Road Boss Dump Truck, Because Why Not?
If there is one certainty we have around here, it’s that if we see something cool happening with any kind of vehicle, we will share it with you. That’s brought many, many things out from...