Category Archive: BangShift XL, XL Videos
The Parting Shift: Ride Along In Kenworth As The Driver Shifts Three Sticks Like A Ninja
For anyone out there who doesn’t believe that truck driving is an acquired skill, watch this video and have your opinion changed. This video shows the driver of a Kenworth W900L driving and...
Watch A Syracuse, Utah Dad Use His Lifted Ram To Stop A Crazed Driver From Running Over Kids At A Park
(Words by Bryan McTaggart) – A fourteen year old decided that he would grab the keys to his grandfather’s Hyundai Veloster and go driving around Syracuse, Utah like he was used to doing on...
Watch Four Minutes Of Hilarious Trailer Loading Fails To Get Your Monday Started Right
We sure hope you had a fun weekend. The crappy part, as we all know is that a fun weekend ultimately comes to an end when Monday morning rolls around and that’s just one of the realities of...
Craigslist Find: Is There Anything Sadder Than A Clapped Out Former Jacuzzi Limo?
The career arc of a stretch limo is pretty interesting to consider. When new, they haul important people, bachelorette parties, prom dates, and drunken wedding goers around in high style. Then, like...
The BangShift History Of Railroad Crossing Signals PLUS Bonus Video Of A Locomotive Smashing A Big Rig In California Just Days Ago!
(Words and photos by Greg Rourke) – Streets and railroads sometimes have to share the same space. Trains always have the right of way, so there must be a way to warn traffic of their approach....
WTF Video: Please, Please, Please Help Us Figure Out Why This Virtually Submerged Big Rig Is Driving Down A River
We have posted nearly 11,000 blog items here on BangShift in the five (going on six) years we have been in business and NONE OF THEM has elicited the type of initial response that this video clip...
Roadkill: Finnegan And Freiburger Convert The Muscle Truck Into A Screaming, Fuel Injected, Dune Bashing Warrior
The muscle truck has lived a hundred lives at this point and one of them actually started on BangShift. Technically it started on the site that preceded BangShift but you get what we’re...
Motorized Freak of the Week: The AMF Sur-Trek
This week’s Motorized Freak is a slick little 8×8 amphibious vehicle produced by AMF in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. It would make one bitchin’ pit vehicle at the dragstrip. We...
This 1951 Federal House Truck Is The Most BangShift Approved Home On Wheels We’ve Ever Seen
Federal house truck? First off, we don’t mean liked Federal Government because if they built it, the tires would be flat, the roof would be caved in, and…Ok, I’m stopping there. The...
Cruise With Jay Leno In A 27-Liter Merlin Powered 1930 Bentley – This Thing Is Awesome
It would crack me up months ago reading stories about people asking what Jay Leno would do when he finally left the Tonight Show and handed the keys to Jimmy Fallon. They were writing about the guy...
The Black Knight Transformer Is A Helicopter AND A Truck – This Video Of It Driving And Flying Is Stunning
Call it a transformer, call it a flying cargo van, call it whatever you want but the Black Knight Transformer built by Advanced Tactics is one of the neatest things we have seen in action for some...
This Ratty Looking, Diesel Powered 1947 Chevy Truck Is Fugly, Functional, And Flippin’ Fun (Video)
As I have mentioned a couple of times this week, I’ve been hanging out in Denver with 10 of the toughest street legal diesel trucks in North America and hosting the action as they have been put...
1980s Video Greatness: The Story Of The Heavy Metal Monster Van – Evolution Of The Coolest Ford Van Ever
One of the neatest things about 1980s monster trucks is that most of the original machines started out as street trucks at some point in their life and eventually morphed into what were the first...
FIA European Truck Racing Starts This Month. Check Out The Highlight Video And Trailer For 2014
The FIA, most famous for being the sanctioning body of Formula 1, puts on tons and tons of other races. And the truth is that when they come to a particular race track for an F1 race, there are...