Category Archive: BangShift News, BangShift XL, FUNNY STUFF, HISTORIC, Videos, XL Truck News, XL Videos
Fun Propaganda: 1974 Film Touting The Supremacy Of Chevy Trucks Over Fords Uses Some Wacky Tests
Automakers have been creating promotional sales videos since the advent of the moving picture, right? To us, they are great because even in the darkest of times, they were all talking about how...
This 900CC Ninja Engine Powered Toro Snow Blower Is Setting The Bar For BangShifty Snow Domination
Swedes. We love these guys because they come up with awesome methods to both play in and move snow. There seems to be no end to their creativity and this video is further proof. The builder of this...
Dirthead Dave Is Getting His Mini Truck On With Hand Made Airbag Mounts on the rear of his Nissan Minitruck
Dave Chappelle, the one that can weld and build killer trucks of all kinds, not the funny one on TV, is our kind of dude. One day he’s working on his horribly ugly, but cool, bagged Mustang II,...
Influence And Impact Episode 12: Mini Truck History Part 1 ’70s Van Crase and ’80s Euro, Tilt Beds and Airbags
I’m an unapologetic mini trucker. There was a time, not so long ago actually, where lots of folks in the hot rod and custom world didn’t think much of mini truckers and so many people who...
The Songs Of Sherman: This Video Shows Sherman Tanks With Their Various Engines – Radial Continental, Detroit Diesels, Chrysler Multi-Bank, and More!
We love engines and history around here so when we see a video where both of those things intersect in a perfect union, we’re all about it. This time it is a neat video filled with clips of...
Restoration Video: Watch A Hand Crank 1890s Blacksmith Forge Get Restored To Brand New Condition!
I’m a huge fan of restoration videos, especially those that involved the fixing and rebirth of tools and working implements. In this video we watch a dude take a rusty, seized, and basically...
Slow Motion Torque! Check Out This Radical Footage From The Great Lakes Big Rig Challenge
We have often reveled in the power and torque created by the huge engines that power hot rodded big rigs. From their chassis twisting grunt to their ability to sprint through a quarter mile in less...
Will It Run?!? Mortske Picked Up Another Failed Facebook Marketplace Project! Chassis Swapped 1953 GMC with EFI!!
I say all the time that some of the best deals on projects are those that someone has either been stumped by, ran out of money or talent on, or has just lost interest in because it has taken so long...
Watch Two Mammoth 100+ Year Old Steam Tractors Have A Reunion Of Sorts – A Slow, Cool Drive
Oh if these things could talk! This fun video takes a look at two big old steam tractors as they are fired up and driven to a common location to have a “reunion”. That’s probably...
Halfass Kustoms 1949 GMC Roadster Pickup Custom: Filling The Cowl Vent, And Scavenging The Yard For A Brake Master Cylinder!
The custom GMC roadster pickup project can’t have all this other custom metalwork and then still have a factory cowl vent, so in this video Brent is going to fill it in and smooth it over....
Paint Correction on 25-Year Old Black Paint – OBS Clash Build Restoration, This 2000 Chevy Tahoe Limited Really Shines Now!
The AutoRevolution boys did a great series called the OBS Clash where they got this cool OBS Tahoe low and cool like a proper sport truck. But the black paint on this bad boy has seen better days and...
Puddin Found Another Abandoned Truck. This 1980 JUNKYARD C10 is getting pieced together for CHEAP!
We recently shared a cool video series from Puddin where he takes a junkyard find longbed truck and makes it into a short bed, lowers it, and more to make it into the new Puddin’s Fab Shop shop...
NotStockPhoto Truck Feature: 1967 Ford F100 Custom Truck by Legens HotRods BTS Photoshoot for Classic Truck Performance
Here’s another great video from John Jackson at NotStock Photography, but instead of it being a show video this one is a behind the scenes video from the feature shoot of the Steve Legens built...
BangShifterPiece Theater: Monster Truck and Pulling Show From Indianapolis Circa 1989 – Truck Pull Drag Racing!
This is greatness. You are going to see a really well produced video from a 1989 Monster Truck and pulling show that was held in Indianapolis. Indy is a motorsports obsessed city that turns out for...