Category Archive: BangShift XL, XL Videos
Wreckage Video: A Weight Sled Failure Causes Major Impact At A Truck Pull
Mar 29, 2015Brian Lohnes2
Forgive our strange fascination with wrecks at truck and tractor pulls, but we cannot help ourselves. In this clip we see all the right elements add up to a big thumping crash at the top end of the...
Epic Craigslist Find: Holman-Moody’s 1967 Ford F-100 Shop Truck
Mar 28, 2015Bryan McTaggart6
Holman-Moody’s 1967 Ford shop truck is for sale for $14,000. Do you really need to know any more than that? Working with Ford products, Holman-Moody were the name in motorsports in the late...
This 1976 Jeep CJ7 Was Built To Be A Street And Dune Killer – Is It BangShifty Or Wrong?
Mar 28, 2015Brian Lohnes10
This is one of those rigs that will split opinions right down the middle between love it and hate it. The 1976 Jeep CJ7 you see below (and above) has a 500hp 383ci Chevy small block stroker, street...
The Parting Shift: A Screaming Detroit And Twin Sticks Make One Heck Of An Entertaining Video!
Mar 27, 2015Brian Lohnes12
We’ve been harping on the race car stuff with the last couple of Parting Shift blog items so I wanted to go back to my truckin’ roots here. This video is pure perfection because we not...
This 1953 Chevy Budweiser Delivery Truck Could Be An Awesome Resto Project Or Hot Rod Rig
Mar 27, 2015Brian Lohnes5
One of the interesting things about vintage medium and heavy duty trucks is that you don’t see a lot of them with original specialty bodies on them. Wreckers, big rigs, and dump trucks all...
Ebay Find: It’s a ’57 Chevy On A 1941 Military Weapons Carrier Chassis, Powered By A Small-Block Chevy – Is This The Most Epic Trar Yet?
Mar 27, 2015Bryan McTaggart2
If only one of us had the money…this thing would be good as sold. I promise you that. This 1957 Chevy four-door is sitting on the frame of a World War II weapons carrier, most likely a Dodge...
Do Want: This 1938 Chevy Hot Rod Pickup Was Built Right With Some Rough Around The Edges Flair
Mar 27, 2015Brian Lohnes4
While it appears that the insane, over the top rat rod thing has lost some of the wind in its sales, there’s no shortage of hot rods that are being built to look weathered and old while...
Watch This Awesome Twin Turbo Rock Buggy Claw Up An Impossible Trail And Backflip At The Very Top!
Mar 26, 2015Brian LohnesComments Off on Watch This Awesome Twin Turbo Rock Buggy Claw Up An Impossible Trail And Backflip At The Very Top!
If you are one of the guys who is still on the fence about turbos and their usefulness on literally every mechanical device that uses an internal combustion engine, maybe the proof of their sweetness...
Go Big AND Get Home With Kelderman – This Video Of Their 8-10″ Lift Working On A Dodge Ram Truck Is Awesome
Mar 26, 2015Brian LohnesComments Off on Go Big AND Get Home With Kelderman – This Video Of Their 8-10″ Lift Working On A Dodge Ram Truck Is Awesome
We live in a world where everything is shrinking, where the materials used to build things are being made thinner, lighter, and less robust, where quality is becoming something that people are having...
Watching This Explorer Crawl Through Box Canyon In Arizona Is Awesome – Off-Road Family Wagons Rule!
Mar 26, 2015Bryan McTaggart1
First-generation Ford Explorers make killer trail rigs. They’re comfortable, they have room, and since they’re Ranger-based, they can take a ton of off-road parts to become whatever you...
This 1967 Tatra T138 Is The Only Truck For Sale On eBay Right Now With A Massive Air Cooled Diesel V8
Mar 25, 2015Brian Lohnes4
In the “stuff that is weird and awesome” department, we have this 1967 Tatra T138 truck that was (and may still be in) built in Czechoslovakia and served in a military capacity over...
Video: This Guy Turned A 1940s Art Deco Style Gas Station Into A Really Awesome House! BangShift Approved Living Quarters
Mar 25, 2015Brian Lohnes5
While most of us get by with having a neat piece of automobilia hanging from the wall or maybe a shelf of cool car stuff in our home to signify our love of things that make noise and go vroom-vroom,...
Watch These Professional Hollywood Prop Builders Construct A Batman Tumbler Stroller From Scratch – This Rules!
Mar 24, 2015Brian Lohnes2
Creative people are the reason that the world is fun place to live in, right? Thanks to the miracle of the internet, the creativity of people who otherwise would work in the shadows is able to be...
Air Traffic Control Has Cleared You For Takeoff! Truck Jumping Gone Wild.
Mar 24, 2015Chad Reynolds1
Extreme Mud Trucks are awesome. Part monster truck, part swamp buggy, all bad ass. These things haul ass, tear it up like none other, and in this case have been cleared for takeoff. We don’t...