Category Archive: BangShift XL, XL Videos

Watch This Freightliner Sand Rail Scale The Dunes At Pismo Beach – The Beast Rules

If there’s a guaranteed way to be awesome in this world it would be to take a Freightliner truck and convert it into what amounts to a massive sand rail like you see in this video. We’re...

The American Powertrain Parting Shift: Ripping The Gears In A Detroit Diesel Swapped 1971 Chevy Mini-Rig

We are typically not fans of the “mini-rig” look for trucks where guys try to make a pickup look and act like a big rig but in this case, we’re kind of on board, ok all the way on...

Video: An Evel Knievel Jump And The World’s Richest Demolition Derby – Great Footage From 1973

It was February 1973 and Evel Knievel was among the most famous people on Earth. His star would continue rising for another year until his disastrous failure at Snake River Canyon. One of...

Building Blocks: There’s an eBay Listing Featuring 300 Bare Big Block Chevy Blocks For $500,000

So heres’s the latest massive cache of parts that has come up for sale on eBay and it’s biggie. Like the rest of them it carries the same question. Is it worth it? Is this an investment...

Looking For A Great Performing Distributor With The Right Look For Your Ford Flathead? Mallory’s Newest Offering May Be It!

There’s a million concerns on the minds of modern hot rodders, especially those guys building retro-style cars. You need to make it fit right, you need to make it run right, and you need to...

RacingJunk Find: This 1950 GMC 640 Series Truck Is Unique, Different, And Still True To The Original

If you wanted to buy a tough truck in 1950 to haul trailers with or do handwork you walked into the GMC dealer and bought one of their 640 series rigs. These things were configured in many different...

Original Owner Time Capsule: This Is One Of The Cleanest Early Dodge Ramchargers We’ve Seen In Ages!

One vehicle that is a rare treat to see on public roads these days is the Dodge Ramcharger. Even though they were less popular than the GM and Ford competition, they were solid rigs that could handle...

This 1974 Ford F-600 Rollback Truck Is Glorious! Anyone Need A Neat Car Hauler?

It’s one of those days again, where I feel like messing with the bosses, so first thing’s first…Lohnes and his big, lumbering utility truck fetish. I love looking for things that...

New Old Seriously?! This Set Of Chevy 348 Heads Have Never Been Assembled Or Installed On An Engine!

N.O.S or new old stock parts are kind of the holy grail for people doing really stringent restoration work. In the case of this eBay ad, the parts we are talking about are a set of 348 Chevy heads...

This Grandpa Fresh 1981 K20 Scottsdale Chevy Truck Is Almost Too Cool To Mess With…Almost

I have to be honest, it takes a special car to make me question whether or not it is a good idea to start messing with it. Some you certainly wouldn’t want to cut up, but pulling all the...

LSFest West Is Only A Few Weeks Away And Here Is One Guy Thrashing To Make It.

LSFest West is awesome!!! But like most events, some big percentage of the people participating are thrashing to get their projects done in time. Peter Guy is one of those dudes who is building...

Laid Out On The Lake Is New Zealand’s Only Minitruck And Customs Show, And We Dig It.

With obscurity comes commitment. You can quote me on that one. It’s easy to build, show, and enjoy a 1932 Ford. No offense, but you can build one from a catalog and then go to a jillion events...

Adding LED Tail Lights To Your 73-87 Square Body GM Truck Is Super Easy Thanks To Brothers

If you have put together, or are putting together, a 1947-1987 Chevrolet or GMC Pickup then you know the name Brothers Truck Parts. They have restoration and custom parts for these years of trucks...

Morning Symphony: The Scream Of The C-5 Galaxy At Full Song

When I explain to people what I did before Brian and Chad decided that I’d work out fine here, I often get strange looks…”wait a minute. You were working on planes and...