Category Archive: BangShift XL, CRASH & BURN, HISTORIC, Videos, XL Videos
Classic YouTube: Ditching A B-24 Liberator In The James River, With A Crew Aboard!
More often than not, you don’t put the words “aircraft crash test” together. It’s an inevitability: if an aircraft crashes, it’s a bad day for all involved even on the...
Rough Start: Who Likes Their 1981 Chevrolet Malibu Chilled And Cheap?
“Spare vehicles”. If there was ever music to the ears of the budget-concious car shopper, it’s “spare vehicles”. When a vehicle is useful or desired, there’s...
The Original: Take A Closer Look At The 1938 Buick Y-Job, The First Concept Car
The amount of effort that goes into the planning and development of a new model of automobile is beyond scope for those who are not in the industry. Meetings, sketches, more sketches, design changes,...
Watch The Horrendous John Force Jonnie Lindberg Crash From The NHRA Arizona Nationals
The silence hung over the track like a lead curtain. You could have heard a pin drop for minutes as the NHRA Safety Safari tended to both John Force and Jonnie Lindberg after one of the scariest...
Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Potholes, Taxes, And Paradise!
You want weather? Got plenty of weather you can have! Between the flooding, the temperature changes, and let’s not forget the freaking tornadoes that walked around BangShift Mid-West this...
Awakening The Dead: Watch As Old Engines Are Brought Back To Life!
There is an immense joy to be had when an engine that hasn’t ran in forever kicks over and returns to life. It’s such a satisfactory accomplishment. You’ve done all of the checks to...
Going For Broken: Watch This Holden Blow Off The Supercharger At Over 10,000RPM!
A 327 Chevrolet can tolerate RPMs in the range of about 7,500 for only so long before a spinning a main bearing. That was the first lesson I ever learned about Engine Destruction 101. I didn’t...
Rough Start: 351 Cubic Inches In A 1991 Ford LTD Crown Victoria That Has Train Horns!
Crown Vics come in two flavors: cop and old person. That’s the way it’s been since full-size cars fell out of favor to mid-sizers. While everyone was snapping up Fairmonts, Fox LTDs and...
The Whittier Area Car Show In Southern California, Charity Never Looked So Good, Again!
(Photos and Words by Darr Hawthorne) Small town America is alive and well in the SoCal city of Whittier, in that part of town there’s a particularly huge collection of hot rods, cruisers, racers...
BANGshift Question Of The Day: At $10,000 Is This, Used To Be An Off Year, 1979 Z28 Camaro A Deal Or A Dud?
Remember when you used to hate these late 2nd Gen Camaros? I couldn’t stand them for decades. Now I dig them. And there isn’t any real reason that I can put my finger on for my newfound...
This DIY Metal Working Cart Is A Time And Space Save In The Shop For Sure.
We recently moved into a new shop space here on the west coast and I’ve been working very hard to make sure that everything is being organized and put away as we move it in. And along the way...
Behind The Wheel. Tradition Recrafted: Son Of Boyd.
Everyone knows the name Boyd Coddington. Even new hot rodders in their teens know him because of his fame almost a decade ago on reality tv. For the rest of us, he shaped hot rodding culture. Both...
Wow, Just Wow! I’m Not Sure How Anyone Could Think This Was Ready For Powder Coating.
If you are thinking about building a vehicle that is going to require welding, you probably should have a clue on how to actually weld. And if you don’t, you should probably find someone else...
