Category Archive: BangShift XL, XL Videos
The Last Dinosaurs: The Story Of The Northwestern Steel and Wire Steam Locomotives That Worked Until 1980!
(By Greg Rourke) – Long after steam was dead on most railroads, a few soldiered on. No, we don’t mean on tourist trains and such. These were working hard in a very non glamorous task....
Holy Rocks: A BangShifty Look At The Evolution Of How Man Learned To Drill Rock
Mastering the world around us has been a constant quest of mankind since the first quasi-humans started grunting at each other and living in caves. Rocks have always provide an amazing array of...
Hagerty Redline Rebuild Time: Davin Pulls Down A Mystery 440 Destined For A Project Car
We love us some Hagerty Redline Rebuild series around here and there’s a new one coming. How do we know? This behind the scenes video that shows him pulling down a 440ci Chrysler big block that...
Classic YouTube: Durability Testing A Volvo Dump Truck By Letting A Four-Year-Old Operate It
Certain things in life are inescapable truths. Volvo, regardless of who owns them, has always been hell-bent on making sure that every vehicle that carries their name is safe for anyone, anywhere,...
Follow The Starting Procedure Of A Vintage DC-3 With The Most Experienced DC-3 Pilot On Earth – This Plane Is Flying Today!
The DC-3 is one of the most iconic and successful aircraft of all time. As versatile as a Swiss Army Knife and as durable as Sherman tank, these are machines that still have a place in the modern...
Keeping It Simple: Thoughts On The Basic Pickup With This 1984 Ford F-250
I’ve been looking at trucks again. Work trucks. Basic, regular cab, long bed trucks. I might as well be hunting for a freaking leprechaun, the winning lottery ticket or my misplaced youth. For...
OBS Clash: The Birth Of An Icon Meant The Sport Truck Era Was Born.
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 Chevrolet trucks in general and have owned...
Unadulterated Rocky Hell: The 24 Hell And Back Trail Challenge
When I first started reading off-road mags like 4Wheel and Off Road and Four Wheeler, the basic premise of off-roaders were easily grouped into categories. You had sand runners, you had mudders, you...
It Screams: A Twin-Engined Rotary Pulling Tractor From Australia!
Pulling tractors…what engine comes to mind? A stonkin’ diesel with compound turbos? Five alcohol-swilling Hemis that are just barely on the verge of sanity? Three turbines? All good...
Classic YouTube: Watch As This Mud Drag Driver Gets Rattled Inside Of The Cage Like A Shaken Bobblehead Doll
Strap into a race car of any type and you have officially accepted 100% of any and all risk that comes with operating it. It doesn’t matter what type of racing you do. A five horsepower early...
When The Announcer Becomes The Driver: Watch Mike Gallaway Pilot Bigfoot Around A Parking Lot Back In The Day
If you grew up watching pulling, mud bogging, or monster trucks, you know Mike Gallaway. He was a prolific announcer of that stuff and someone who’s voice would be coming through your TV screen...
All Four Turnin’: Outlaw Open 4×4 Trucks Pulling At Millers Tavern
Nothing against the built tractors, the radical Outlaws or even the wheel-standing 2wd classes, but for me, this is the pulling class that I came to watch. This is where pulling...
Beast On A Budget: Watch This 1,000hp Naturally Aspirated Big Block Get Built, Dynoed, and Bogged
Before you freak out and question our use of the word “budget” in the title, understand that in every case “budget” means something different. At 18 years old you were on a...
Odd Moment of Zen: This Video of Ships Intentionally Running Ashore Is Kind of Awesome
This is one of those moments when I really have to recognize how weird that I am. Watching this video was both entertaining and oddly calming to me and I have no idea why. What you are about to see...