Category Archive: BangShift XL, XL Videos

The Evans Auto-Railer Was A Bus And A Train That Unfortunately Went Nowhere

The idea of a vehicle that can both travel the rails and drive down the roads is not a foreign one for anyone who lives near a railroad track. There are service trucks that look like regular pickups...

Cool Video: This Collection Of Large and Small Antique Engines Starting Up Is Really Fun (and Relaxing)

If you are having a lousy day and need to have a moment to refocus your attention, relax for a hot second, or just escapee’s reality for a minute, we have just the medicine for you. This video...

Cool Vintage Video: This Footage Of Old Rokon Motorcycles Tackling The Terrain Is Great!

Rokon motorcycles are among the coolest things to ever come out of New England. The light, tough, two wheel drive bikes are like tractors on two wheels. They have been around since the 1960s and as...

Boss Of The Bulldozers: This 1946 Caterpillar Film Is Awesome And Speaks To A Country Headed For A Building Boom

If there is one thing companies like Caterpillar knew coming out of WWII it’s that the USA was headed into a supercharged building boom. There would be incredible strides made in housing, road...

Derek Bought A Basket Case Jeep SIGHT UNSEEN! Will Some Vice Grip Garage Love Make It RUN AND DRIVE After Being Parked For Years?

Every time you pickup another vehicle that has been sitting for decades, there are some pretty standard things you have to address. To run, any internal combustion engine needs fuel, air, and spark,...

2024 KOH in 45 Minutes: All The Insane Action From The Toyo Tires Desert Challenge At King Of The Hammers, Presented by Monster Energy

The Toyo Tires Desert Challenge is a pure desert race that happens during the much larger King of the Hammers race at Johnson Valley. While the Race of Kings, the premier race at KOH, features Ultra...

Insane video: Watch The Closest Call In Monster Truck Racing History – How Was This Guy OK?!

It was a night like many others back in the early 1990s on the monster truck racing tour. John Piant in Bigfoot was lined up against Jack Willman Sr. in the venerable Taurus. Two experienced drivers...

Absolutely Brilliant: Watch Mr Hand Tool Rescue Restore A 1920s IBM Computing Cheese Cutter – This Thing Is Amazing

Of all the stuff this guy has worked on and saved over the years, who’d have thought that a damned cheese cutter would be top five or even top three cool! This is not just a pivoting blade,...

Ford Bronco Suspension Tech: How To Install ADS Control Arms For Your 2021-2024 Ford Bronco

We’ve shared the ADS Coilover systems for newer Broncos here on BANGshift before, and if you’ve even seen one of their systems installed on a rig you know they are pretty bad ass. Not only do...

Our Mud And Dirt Racing Photos Continue: The Lee County Darryl Jones Memorial Race Was Full Of Great Mud Slinging Action!

(Words and Photos by David Whealon) With the unfortunate passing from a courageous battle with cancer back in 2021 of famed and beloved mud racer Darryl Jones, pilot of the legendary “Scooby Doo”...

Thee Minutes Of Muck And Pain: Wild Video Of Dirt Bike Racers Wiping Out In The Same Mucky Pit Following A Jump – Hilarious and Painful Looking

I admire people that race dirt bikes because in my limited experience on them, I barely had the skills to ride one in a wide circle let along fling off of jumps, slog through mud, and bash off rocks...

Ride Along In The Rear Of A Ladder Truck As A Tillerman Handles His Business

On my kid list of “things I someday want to be” ladder truck tillerman was pretty high up there. It is a fascinating position to be in. Way out back at the end of the truck by yourself,...

Make It Kustom, HalfAss Kustoms Cab Over Ramp Truck Build! The 1971 GMC Fire Truck Ramp Truck Is Getting A Custom Built DIY Rear Swaybar

In this video from the Fire Truck turned Ramp Truck, where Make It Kustom and HalfAss Kustoms have gotten together to thrash on Karl’s Make It Kustom rig, you’ll see the rear suspension get some...

Crazy Historic Video: Crashing Planes On Purpose To Study Fire With The NACA Research Council

NACA is known to most hot rodders because of the “NACA duct” that was adopted and used by many race cars over the years for various purposes. NACA itself was the National Advisory Council...