Category Archive: BangShift XL, XL Videos

Wild Video: Watch These British Navy Guys Cheerfully Disarm A Mine In 1940

WWII in England had to have been a time of indescribable feelings. There was the patriotism involved in defending their country, the terror of knowing that missiles could rain down at any moment, the...

This 1940 Ford Truck Promotional Film Features About Every Cool Model The Company Made At The Time

The world has moved on the backs of trucks for many decades now but it was a different story in 1940. It is not as if there were still lots of horse drawn carts moving stuff from place to place but...

Watching This 1956 Dodge Power Wagon With A Willock Swivel Frame Off Road Will Mess With Your Mind

We’ve long praised and drooled over classic Dodge Power Wagon trucks but only today have we learned of the super rare and very cool Willock Swivel-Frame option that was available to Power Wagon...

Nightmare Fuel: This 1950s Video Shows The Effects Of A Nuclear Blast On Vehicles – Insane

This 1953 film taken at a Nevada firing range known as Frenchman Flat is important, scary, and captures one of the most interesting moments in the history of America’s nuclear arsenal. This is...

This 1970s Promotional Film For The Sikorsky UH-60A Is Kind Of Weird And Awesome

The Skiorsky UH-60A Black Hawk is an amazing piece of military machinery that has been serving the United States and countries across the globe for some 40 years now. First flown in 1974 and then...

Nightmare Video: Watch What Happens When A Massive Crane Loses Its Brakes On A Hill

(By Greg Rourke) – Once again, cranes scare me. They are called upon on a daily basis to do the seemingly impossible. Most of the time all goes as planned. But then  again, sometimes they go...

A Bad Night At The Pull: Watch The Weight Box Fail On This Sled And The Tractor Head Off The End At Speed

To me the most terrifying thing that can happen if you are a puller is the scenario that comes to pass here. At a small pulling course in Pennsylvania last weekend a driver and team experienced...

Astonishing Carnage: Watch As The Industrial Injection Master Shredder Truck Explodes In Flaming Fury

When you take all the turbochargers, all the fuel, and all the nitrous and use them to make nearly 3,000 wheel horsepower in a full-race Cummins diesel engine, sometimes things go wrong. We have...

Listen To A Cool And Rare Detroit Diesel 1-71 Fire Up And Clatter Away – How Neat!

When we talk about Detroit Diesel engines here at BangShift, typically we’re talking about the mighty 6/8/12 and larger variants of the two stroke family that gained life in the late 1930s and...

The American Powertrain Parting Shift: Meet America’s Most Unique Truck – The Three Trans Equipped Holy Smokes!

Well, after 34,000 blog items, today stands as proof that there’s still an infinite universe of new and unique stuff to find out there. This time it is a 1966 Ford flatbed with a 390ci engine,...

Awesome Historical Video: The Industrial Use Of Caterpillar Tractors – Mechanical Awesome From 1926

Well this is perhaps one of the coolest things I have ever found on YouTube. You are about to watch a silent film (not apologizing for the lack of sound) called The Industrial Use of Caterpillar...

The Land The Man and White: This White Tractor Promotional Video Was Made As The Company Was Going Broke

From the Iowa factory to the testing fields, this video from White, made in 1980 it is a look inside what the world of American industry looked like back then. Of course this is a sales film for the...

Crazy Skills: Check Out This Guy’s Sick Lego Builds – One Off GM Dually Truck, Jeeps, Hot Rods, More!

The wonders never cease around here, that’s for sure. Anthony Ambrosio sent us some incredible links to a person who’s skills with Legos outstrip our skills with, well everything...

Classic YouTube: Autocrossing A Cummins Ram, Because Physics Doesn’t Matter!

Ok, this one is for every diesel-bro I’ve ever met who keeps telling me that their souped up PowerStroke/Cummins/Duramax/whatever is better in the long run than owning a musclecar or a sports...