Category Archive: BangShift XL, XL Online Find
Amazing – Smokey Yunick’s 1978 Luv Truck Is For Sale On Craigslist – It Even Has Experimental Tires On it!
BangShift tipster BigDad gets all the credit on this incredible Craigslist find. What is it? How about the personal shop truck of Smokey Yunick! That’s right, the “Best Damned Garage In...
GRAVELRAMA 2014 COVERAGE: Pea Gravel And Jeeps Fly At The Big Eliminator Hill – Action Photos Galore
(PHOTOS BY DOUG GREGORY) – One of the cool things about our BangShift army of contributors is that they have it as bad as the rest of us do. Doug Gregory has filed photos from drag strips, car...
Motorized Freak of the Week: The 1934 McQuay Norris Streamliner
Mechanically, this week’s oddity is nothing more than a V8-powered 1934 Ford. Stylistically, however, this thing looks as though it just came from outer space. This Motorized Freak is the 1934...
Event Coverage: Red Bull Air Races At The Texas Motor Speedway – Hot Rods Of The Skies!
(WORDS AND PHOTOS BY BRAD KLAASSEN) – Most folks make their annual trip to Texas Motor Speedway in Ft. Worth, Texas, to take in their favorite oval track races of the year, but for this...
Watch This 3.6L 2-Stroke Evinrude V8 Powered Sand Rail Make The Most Ear Splitting Sounds Ever On The Dyno
If you have ever wondered what it would sound like if you stuck a 3.6L 2-stroke Evinrude V8 that was formerly powering an outboard boat motor into the back of a sand rail with open headers and ran it...
Truck Feature: A Tale Of Two Chevy C10 Trucks – Late Model Turbo Power Or Old School Rumpity Cammed Goodness?
(WORDS AND PHOTOS BY DOUG AND TAYLOR GREGORY) – I’ve got a bit of an affinity for the Chevy C-10 having owned a ’66 and a ’70. Neither of mine were nearly as nice as the two you see...
This Scratch Built, Laid Out, Aluminum Bodied Dually With Big Block Ford Power Is One Is The Neatest Rigs Ever (Video)
Craftsmanship is something we really admire here at BangShift and it takes on many forms. There are guys who can machine stuff from hunks of metal so beautiful that it nearly brings us to tears and...
Big Burnout Video: A Compound Turbo Cummins Powered 1955 Chevy Truck Boils the Hides For A Long Time
Boy, is this some mean rig or what?! A bright red 1955 Chevy truck that is packing a seriously worked over B-series Cummins engine under the hood that clearly makes plenty of torque and horsepower....
Watch Champion Tractor Puller Larry Koester Suffer A Broken Wrist During A Violent Hook In His Shell-Rotella Mini-Rod Tractor
We’ve talked a lot at how wild and violent the little Mini-Rod tractors are when showing you pulling videos or photos. The super short wheelbase, the massive wheel speed, and the fact that they...
Wreckage Sequence! Watch A Mud Racer Lost The Handle On His Truck At High Speed With Disastrous Results
(PHOTOS BY CHARLES WICKAM) – Recently, Charles Wickam was shooting mud drag racing action at the Brazoria County Mud Drags in Texas. We’ll have all his awesome race coverage next week...
Ship Fail: The Cargo Ship Canadian Miner Was Supposed To Be Scrapped For Profit -Project Is $24-Million In The Hole – What A Mess! Photos and The Story Here
(By GREG ROURKE) – Most of us who regularly read BangShift don’t live in gated communities. As such, we all have someone in the neighborhood with junk in the back yard. Or maybe it’s you....
Check Out This Great Old Tractor Collection We Found At The Alameda County Fairgrounds In Pleasanton, California
So there I was, minding my own business looking at hot rods and muscle cars at the Goodguys show when I turned around and nearly swallowed my tongue. As it turns out the fairgrounds that the show was...
This Big Block Chevy Powered Astro Van Is The Coolest Sleeper Of 2014 – Complete Q-Ship!
We post lots of sleepers here on BangShift and that is mainly because we love them so much. The good news is that we know you love them because we get so many tips and emails about unsuspecting speed...
Ken Kelley’s 1956 Ford F-100 Is Fat In All The Right Places, Just Like An Effie Should Be And Now It Is For Sale
(Words and Photos by Kaleb Kelley) Here at BangShift, we like a little bit of everything. Some oddities that normally would be frowned upon, we love. We also like some of the iconic cars and trucks...