Category Archive: BangShift XL, Videos, XL Videos

Best of 2018: Watch This Restored Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation Roll Out With Fire!

In the age of jet aircraft, the best assumption is that if there is fire blasting out of the engine, that you need to get the hell off of and away from that plane ASAP. There are situations where a...

Best of 2018: This Second-Gen Chevrolet Camaro Is A War Veteran! Check Out The Story Of The Stealth Camaro!

As the only writing member of BangShift who has seen legitimate combat, I can say that the virtues of speed for wheeled vehicles is the most underrated thing in the military fleet. A HMMWV struggles...

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Best of 2018: Check Out The “Hot Rod Lincoln” Mark VII Sled Puller!

Tractors, trucks, and lawn tractors with blown V8s in them. That’s what is normal at your given truck pull, and to be fair, it’s kind of like a drag race: once you see a well-sorted...

Best of 2018: A 1983 Ford Thunderbird That Flies Far Under The Radar – 460, Five-Speed, 4.10s!

First impressions are key. Within the first seven seconds of meeting someone, they’ve already made their mind up about you, regardless of whether or not you have opened up your mouth far enough...

Best of 2018: Watch As This Holden Barina Goes From Crapcan To Quick, Hillclimbing Crapcan!

If you’ve never seen a Holden Barina (or it’s European clone, the Opel Corsa B), here’s all you need to know: it’s a Geo Metro analogy, but smaller. They were sold as the...

Best of 2018: Watch This Time Lapse Of Santa Pod’s Complete Concrete Resurfacing Job

I have often professed my love of Santa Pod Raceway, the famed English drag strip that I have never actually been to. It’s been the site of some great history and it serves as the European...

Best of 2018: Watch As This Barn-Find Fiat 850 Spider Gets Drug Out And Brought Back To Life

I love it when a left-for-dead car is brought back to life. I’m not talking the car whose transmission crapped out two months ago, either…I’m talking D-E-A-D car, the kind where...

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Best of 2018: Behind The Pit Wall For An American Endurance Racing Miata

Many decry the effects that social media has on culture today. Too many people see society as a whole developing a worsening ability to deal in person versus an online persona. Here’s the...

Best of 2018: This 1985 Chevrolet Caprice Is Church-Fresh And Country Boy Wild!

Before I explain anything about the Chevrolet Caprice you are looking at, I should probably explain why I was standing in front of it shooting photos in the first place. We all know that Lohnes has a...

Best of 2018: MCR Tuning’s 1998 Ferrari 550 Maranello Is Ready For It’s Debut At LS Fest Bowling Green!

The drive from MCR Tuning’s headquarters in Horse Cave, Kentucky to the park we had chosen to shoot the car at is about thirteen miles. For thirteen miles, I was having one of the best shows...

Moroso Tech Video: Here’s The Theory And Practice Of Oil Pan Trap Door Baffling

It’s Wednesday so we figure that the collective brain of BangShift nation is firing on all cylinders today and is ready to learn. We came across this killer video from Moroso that explains the...

Best of 2018: This 1936 Chevrolet Standard Coupe Pick-Up Is A Vision To The Past

I could’ve sat there in the grass for an hour, just staring at what I was looking at. This could’ve easily been the 1930s…there was no noise except for my breathing and a slight...

Merry Christmas From All Of Us At BangShift.com!

On behalf of Brian Lohnes, Chad Reynolds, our families and our BangShift.com sponsors, we would like to wish all of our friends and you, our readers, a very Merry Christmas today. We are going to be...

Best of 2018: Somebody Please Get This 1985 Cadillac Coupe de Ville Racer Back On The Track!

We love the freaks here at BangShift! Ok, maybe it’s more that I personally love the freaks, but one look at this 1985 Cadillac Coupe de Ville and you should at least understand why I’m...