Category Archive: BangShift News, BangShift XL, ENGINES, HISTORIC, MISC, Videos, XL Videos

Follow The Starting Procedure Of A Vintage DC-3 With The Most Experienced DC-3 Pilot On Earth – This Plane Is Flying Today!

The DC-3 is one of the most iconic and successful aircraft of all time. As versatile as a Swiss Army Knife and as durable as Sherman tank, these are machines that still have a place in the modern...

Wait, What? The Start Of The Jeep Grand Wagoneer Reveal Process Is Decidedly Weird

(By Tom Lohnes) – Just as the hype for the new Bronco simmers down, Jeep teased the expedition-sized Wagoneer in about the weirdest way possible. Releasing pictures of the back half of the...

Keeping It Simple: Thoughts On The Basic Pickup With This 1984 Ford F-250

I’ve been looking at trucks again. Work trucks. Basic, regular cab, long bed trucks. I might as well be hunting for a freaking leprechaun, the winning lottery ticket or my misplaced youth. For...

Unveiled: 2021 Ram 1500 TRX – A Love Letter To The Ford Raptor

Subtle? Not in the least. The unveiling videos are a cross between the introduction of a Bond film and the fever dream of a desert rat. FCA’s pre-introduction video was a mashup of clips from...

The Conclusion: See The End Result Of The Exhaustive Study Gale Banks Put Into Rear Differential Covers

We like so many others spent a bunch of time watching and learning the videos that Gale Banks made over the last year regarding rear differential covers. He took on a level of analysis and study that...

Here’s Every Bonneville Speed Week Photo Gallery We’ve Got From 2020! Check Them All Out Here!

Bonneville Speed Week 2020 is in the books, with George Poteet and the Speed Demon team once again taking home the Hot Rod Trophy, which is impressive as hell considering the challenging conditions...

OBS Clash: The Birth Of An Icon Meant The Sport Truck Era Was Born.

Anyone who reads BANGshift on any regular basis knows I’m a Chevrolet guy to the core, and that I love my Square Body Chevy pickups. But I love Chevrolet trucks in general and have owned...

Unadulterated Rocky Hell: The 24 Hell And Back Trail Challenge

When I first started reading off-road mags like 4Wheel and Off Road and Four Wheeler, the basic premise of off-roaders were easily grouped into categories. You had sand runners, you had mudders, you...

This 1949 Mack EF Dump Truck Is In Amazing Shape And Represents And Era Gone By

This is one beautiful truck and proof that on AllCollectorCars.com you can find whatever it is that you’re looking for. I was in a Mack mood today and there were a bunch to choose from but this...

It Screams: A Twin-Engined Rotary Pulling Tractor From Australia!

Pulling tractors…what engine comes to mind? A stonkin’ diesel with compound turbos? Five alcohol-swilling Hemis that are just barely on the verge of sanity? Three turbines? All good...

Classic YouTube: Watch As This Mud Drag Driver Gets Rattled Inside Of The Cage Like A Shaken Bobblehead Doll

Strap into a race car of any type and you have officially accepted 100% of any and all risk that comes with operating it. It doesn’t matter what type of racing you do. A five horsepower early...

All Hail The SUV King: The 2021 Bentley Bentayga Speed Is A 626hp W12 Powered Monster

(By Tom Lohnes) – The Bentley Bentayga is pretty well known for being one of the most expensive and luxurious SUV’s on the planet. Well, if you don’t want a “base” model with its puny...

When The Announcer Becomes The Driver: Watch Mike Gallaway Pilot Bigfoot Around A Parking Lot Back In The Day

If you grew up watching pulling, mud bogging, or monster trucks, you know Mike Gallaway. He was a prolific announcer of that stuff and someone who’s voice would be coming through your TV screen...

All Four Turnin’: Outlaw Open 4×4 Trucks Pulling At Millers Tavern

Nothing against the built tractors, the radical Outlaws or even the wheel-standing 2wd classes, but for me, this is the pulling class that I came to watch. This is where pulling...