Category Archive: BangShift News, BangShift XL, HISTORIC, MISC, RACING & ACTION, Videos, XL Truck News, XL Videos
Multi-Engine Throwdown: This 1989 TNT Series Pulling Broadcast Is A Legit War Between Legendary Pulling Families
There’s something about a vintage pulling broadcast that gets me ever time. Maybe the fact that I work with Army Armstrong’s son week in and week out with NHRA, the fact that the...
Uproarious: This Video Profiles Every Detroit Diesel Two Stroke Engine From One Cylinder To 24!
This is really cool. You are about to see a video that profiles every to stroke Detroit Diesel engine from the 1 cylinder variety all the way up to the 24 cylinder behemoth and represents the largest...
Ride Along On Bill Newlon’s Exhibition Puller – A Farm Tractor With An Allison V12! This Rules
The Minneapolis-Moline G1000 was produced between 1965 and 1969. These were 100hp tractors designed to do hard work on the farm and they were sold in a few different configurations to best meet the...
GM Built The World’s First Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powered Vehicle In 1966 And We Found Video Of It – Sweet Van!
This unassuming GMC Handivan is actually one of the great feats of automotive engineering in the history of the disciple. Known as the “Electrovan” this was the first vehicle that ever...
The American Powertrain Thursday Shift: Watch This Guy In A Classic Ford Rip Three Shifters Through Like 100 Gears
Well this is interesting. What we have below is a classic Ford truck that has been equipped with a manual transmission, some sort of a manual gear splitting transmission, and then a Brownie overdrive...
Roadside Magic: Watch These Young Guys Craft A Fresh Radiator Out Of Pieces From An Old One
“We have done so much with so little for so long, we can now do anything with nothing.” – Dave Marcus had this saying posted above the door of his shop and while we have read it a...
So Cool Video: Watch This Guy Take A V-Twin Compressor and Turn It Into A V-Twin Gas Engine
This is 100% a “because you can” project and that is why we’re kind of in love with it. You are about to watch a guy take a V-twin style air compressor and turn it into a V-twin gas...
Taking It To The Street: Watch These Pakistani Truck Mechanics Rebuild A Massive Diesel V8 On The Side Of The Street
We love celebrating the real-guy heroic feats found at events like Drag Week, Sick Week, and others. People overcoming long odds to get a job done in a hard environment where it seems like all the...
Watch The Legendary Orange Blossom Special Of Alan Gaines Pull The Sled Out The Back Door With The Wheels Up
BangShift contributor ace Doug Gregory has a YouTube page and he has posted links that we saw to videos that really spun out crank, specifically these were clips of 1980s pulling and monster truck...
Must Watch Video: This Could Be The Greatest Tuff Truck Video Ever Made – Wild Beyond All Imagination
This is the Citizen Kane of tuff truck videos. A 2021 highlight reel that captures everything great about the wildest motorsport in the country. There are insane jumps, insane wrecks, a guy driving...
Mondo Machining: This Video Shows Milling and Turning Processes And We Could Watch It All Day
Know that deal around Christmas time when there’s a channel you can flip on and watch nothing but a burning Yule Log all day? There needs to be a gearhead version of that which would go 365...
Homemade Heroics: Watch A Wild Vertical Take Off Airplane Get Built At A Guy’s House In 1950s America
This is one of those videos that makes you realize just how much the world has changed over the years, right? Yesterday we showed you Franklin Dobson and his cool hovercraft that you could have built...
Grunt Force Trauma: Watch A Mack E9-V8 Churn Out Big Power And HUGE Torque On The Dyno
The Mack E9-V8 engine was a 998ci behemoth of a diesel that powered several models in the Mack lineup over the years. Powerful and fairly compact, the engine has its champions and detractors. It did...
Pistons Falling From The Sky – Watch This John Deere Pulling Tractor Blow Up In Spectacular Fashion At A Pull
This is the first terrestrial engine explosion we have seen that actually makes it rain pistons. For real. After the engine gives up the ghost and the tractor stops, pistons and rods are still...