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

1.16: The Forgotten Disaster – How America’s Worst Maritime Nightmare Happened In 1865 And Who It Happened To

The sinking of the SS Sultana in 1865 to this day stands as the greatest maritime disaster in the history of the United States. More people died in the middle of the Mississippi river on an April...

Watch The “Swamp Thing” Chevy Do What It Does Best – Work In The Mud And The Muck!

There’s a mindset that hard work requires you to get down and dirty. Grease under your fingernails, mud on your boots, dirt on your face, and sweat turning all of that into some kind of funky...

Fear No Fording Situation: Check Out This Neat Jeep Delta Force Snorkel Intake System

If you are someone who regularly does hardcore off-roading with your Jeep or someone who sure wants to look like it, Flowmaster has released the air intake for you. This Jeep Delta Forse snorkel...

Oldies, But Goodies? Let’s Look At The Three Oldest Trucks On The Market Today – Do They Stand Up?

(By Tom Lohnes) – Age is a thing no person or object can escape. With almost all modern cars on the market getting introduced or redesigned in the 2010s, only a few survive from the 00s. There...

Son Of An Alco: The 2020 GMC Sierra 2500 Denali Is A Road Going Luxury Locomotive

If you are shopping the top end of the domestic pickup truck market you are looking at heavier duty rigs, likely with all the bells and whistles, a diesel drivetrain, and as much chrome as you can...

The Horsepower of Hydration: Listen To This Deep Dive Into The History of The Mighty Mack Super Pumper System That Protected New York City

There are lots of neat mechanical stories out there in the world. Some are more about the people that operated the machines and some are about machines that sold problems in an ingenious way for...

The Behemoth Returns: Ford Will Bring Back The Excursion – The Large By Huge SUV Isn’t Dead Yet

(By Tom Lohnes) – The Ford Excursion was and is a valuable car. Based on F-250 underpinnings, the Excursion could be had with a yeoman 5.4-liter Triton V8 or a tough as nails 7.3-liter Power...

Vulgar Display: Off-Roading Rowdiness In “Holy Horsepower Vol. 6” From MadRam11

Does anything beat some good old, down and dirty fun? Not if you are into off-roading, it doesn’t. Where else can you bring as little or as much horsepower as you want and show off to your...

Tech Tips From BluePrint Engines: Whether You Are Buying An Engine or Not, This Tech Advice Will Help You

Knowledge is power, knowledge is winning, knowledge is saving money and having fun. All of these and many more are the reasons that BluePrint Engines has a multitude of great tech pages and tips on...

Suspicious Eye: Is Ford’s New Potential Mini-Truck Right For The American Market? A 13-Year Old’s Hot Take

(Words Tom Lohnes – Renderings Motor Trend) – The Ford F-series has long been the best-selling brand of trucks in the US. Ford recently released the new-ish Ranger to the United States....

Mark Williams New XK & XJ Series Jaguar Upgrade Means More Strength and Safety!

If you are running a IRS in your hot rod and that IRS is a Jag style unit that employs the basic Jaguar design, there are some parts of that program that aren’t all that great. Mark Williams...

Isolation Restoration Video Update: Take A Quick Tour Of The Tecumseh On The Operating Table

It’s a funny thing. There’s so many downsides to this period of “life pause” we’re living in and may be coming out of now but there are a couple of benefits. It has been...

Quick Drive: The 2020 Ford Explorer ST – Size Matters, Horsepower Matters, and Displacement Apparently Does Not Anymore

We officially live in the age of displacement replacement. The old hot rodding adage that has been used so many millions of times just doesn’t really have the same teeth as it once did. Why?...

Project Isolation Restoration Product Test Video: Does Evapo-Rust Really Deliver? See For Yourself

If it is too good to be true it probably is, right? That’s the normal scene when it comes to anything in life. Whether we are talking about a car that looks too good to be priced so cheap, a...