Category Archive: BangShift XL, XL Online Find
You Just Might Need This 4×4 Pacer In Your Life
The American Motors’ Pacer will, for better or worse, be one of the best-remembered cars in the company’s checkered past. Ungainly and overweight, it was the byproduct of a lot of things gone...
Today Would Have Been Marvin “Killdozer” Heemeyer’s Birthday – Remember Him?
Oct 28, 2016Brian Lohnes17
(By Greg Rourke) – Today would have been the birthday of Marvin Heemeyer. It’s been said that you cannot fight city hall. That may be true, but Marvin found a loophole. He ran over city...
Glorious Overkill: Meet The Whispering Giant – This Is What 11,560 Ft/Lbs Of Torque Can Do!
Oct 28, 2016Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Glorious Overkill: Meet The Whispering Giant – This Is What 11,560 Ft/Lbs Of Torque Can Do!
You would have thought that having multiple blown alcohol-fueled Hemis attached to one Unlimited pulling tractor would have been enough, right? One Top Fueler’s engine is a study in mechanical...
Watch These Down Under Stadium Super Trucks Drivers End Up Upside-Down
Robby Gordon’s Stadium Super Trucks series has found a home away from home with several races in Australia. The brutish off-road trucks look positively absurd navigating any temporary street...
Go Long With This Unique And Cool 1940 Ford Flower Car – Ever Seen One Before?
Oct 24, 2016Brian Lohnes5
We have seen lots of flower cars here at BangShift over the years and most of them have been of the type you’d expect. Lincolns, Cadillacs, and other big cars. It makes sense that those would...
Work For That Money: Chasing Five Grand Up A Muddy Bounty Hill In Kentucky!
Oct 23, 2016Bryan McTaggart2
Normally, when we check in on the rock bouncer types, they are trying to fling themselves up a hill that looks to have been crafted by the Devil himself. There’s airborne rigs, there’s...
Weirdest Chevrolet Newsreel Ever: Man Goes Fishing With His 1936 Chevrolet Sedan – Uses Car As “Net”
Oct 23, 2016Brian Lohnes1
Typically newsreel ads of the 1930s, especially those that showed cars highlighted stuff like their toughness, their robust construction, or their fuel economy. Chevrolet decided to go another way...
Insane Video: Watch This (Presumably) Road Raging Truck Driver Bulldoze A Car Down A City Street At Speed
Oct 22, 2016Brian Lohnes3
When you start to think about the physics and hard math involved in moving a big rig down the road and the energy it has when moving as speed, you’ll either be terrified or respectful when you...
Just What Brian Needs: A 1954 Dodge Job-Rated Truck With A 331 Hemi!
Oct 20, 2016Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Just What Brian Needs: A 1954 Dodge Job-Rated Truck With A 331 Hemi!
You know what we haven’t seen a lot of in a while? Big, lumbering trucks that are right up Lohnes’s alley. You know the kind: Classic styling, a torque-monster mill that is hooked to a...
This Eight Tire Equipped Jeep Looks Cool But Has One Massive Flaw – Can You See It?
Oct 19, 2016Brian Lohnes7
The first time I ever saw a monster truck pulling off the eight tire look it was the “American Eagle” truck which was attempting to drive across a lake or something in Florida and the...
This 1951 White Moving Truck Has A 427, A Turbo 400, And Tiny House Potential For Days
Oct 19, 2016Brian Lohnes2
We’ve got to admit to kind of loving this old truck. My wife and kids watch the tiny house show religiously and while they occasionally do something neat on there, we think that this rig has...
World’s Fastest Off-Road Vehicle To Be Debuted At Aeromotive SEMA Booth
Oct 18, 2016Brian LohnesComments Off on World’s Fastest Off-Road Vehicle To Be Debuted At Aeromotive SEMA Booth
There are many different things to get excited about with the 2016 SEMA show coming. There’s the new parts and pieces that we will see, there are the parties we’ll duck into, but...
Formula Off-Road In The States! Iceland’s Greatest Show Off Their Hydroplaning Skills In Tennessee!
Oct 16, 2016Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Formula Off-Road In The States! Iceland’s Greatest Show Off Their Hydroplaning Skills In Tennessee!
Formula Offroad is comprised of four-wheel drive vehicles that can, with the appropriate amount of throttle applied, completely and utterly defy physics. Mountain of gravel and ash? Oh, we’ll...
This Classic Bombardier Snowmobile Sounds Awesome With An Open Piped Chevy 350 Providing The Motorvation
Oct 16, 2016Brian Lohnes2
Shot just about two weeks ago in the mountains of Norway, this video shows a classic Bombardier snow vehicle driving around by a small village and the BangShifty angle of it is that the vehicle is...