Category Archive: BangShift News, BangShift XL, FUNNY STUFF, HISTORIC, Videos, XL Truck News, XL Videos
Massive In Miniature: This 1988 USHRA Broadcast From The Pontiac Silverdome Is Bonkers!
Well, this is peak 1980s right here. You are going to see an awesome and totally bananas UHRA broadcast from the Pontiac Silverdome made in 1988. What’s crazy about this is not any one specific...
Awesome Video: The Story of The Royal Bobcat Package As Told By Jim Wangers
I really dig Pontiacs. I grew up with a dad who liked them and there’s something that the brand really captured in the 1960s that still speaks to me today. Jim Wangers was one of the guys...
Must Watch Video: This Could Be The Greatest Tuff Truck Video Ever Made – Wild Beyond All Imagination
This is the Citizen Kane of tuff truck videos. A 2021 highlight reel that captures everything great about the wildest motorsport in the country. There are insane jumps, insane wrecks, a guy driving...
Crank Up The Speakers: Watching and Listening To This Allard J2R At Goodwood In 1999 Is So Awesome – Cadillac Power!
Sydney Allard was one heck of a guy. He was the founding father of drag racing in England, was an awesome engineering, and came up with an epic blueprint on how to build a car that people would love....
The Aztek 200 Part 2! O’Reilly Auto Parts, Vice Grip Garage, Tony Angelo, Alex Taylor, And Tate Morgan Drag Race Pontiac Azteks In Tucson
Here is Part 2, where we’re drag racing Pontiac Aztek’s at Tucson Dragway, before really putting them through their paces in the desert. Oh, but not before some careful...
Weird Car On A Dead Track: 1985 Plymouth Colt Turbo Tested At Bridgehampton
The magic of the 1980s was that there were weird cars kind of falling out of the sky on a regular basis. Today, that does not happen anymore. There are very few surprises out there. People have their...
Promotional Goodness: This Chevrolet Pitch Video For The 1979 Nova and Monza Is A Fun Watch
By the time the late 1970s rolled around, the Nova had transitioned from a budget small or big block muscle car to a cruiser that was supposed to be “luxurious” when totally options and...
O’Reilly Auto Parts, Vice Grip Garage, Tony Angelo, Alex Taylor, And Tate Morgan Race Pontiac Aztek’s In The Desert And Invited Us To Join Them!
A few months ago, Derek Bieri, the man behind Vice Grip Garage and Roadworthy Rescue, gave me a call and said “I have a stupid idea and I want you to be a part of it.” My response was...
This Look At The Coolest Ferrari Movie and TV Cars Of All Time Is Great – 1980s Greatness and More
When we think of iconic TV and movie cars, there’s a short list that people default to. KITT, The General Lee, Herbie, and on and on we go. But what of Ferrari? Just when you think it’s a...
History Video: The Changing Architecture Of The Automobile Is A Neat Film About Styling History Made In The 1970s
History is a really neat thing to look at, especially when it comes to cars, right? We get to see the evolution of not only the mechanical end of the machines, we get to see the styling involved as...
Back In 1960 England You Could Cruise Your Steam Traction Engine To The Store, Slowly
Ahh, 1960. It was about 15 years after the end of WWII, the cold war was brewing up nicely between Russia and everyone else, England had returned back to its jolly ol’ self, and pipe smoking...
10 Minutes Of Brilliance: This Collection Of Vintage VW Television Ads Is Fantastic
When it comes to the advertising game on television, especially when we speak about it in terms of automobiles, there’s “before VW” and “after VW”. The way that...
The End Of The Line: This Review Of The 1991 Chevrolet Caprice Station Wagon Shows The End Of An Era
The 1991 Chevy Caprice station wagon was not some massive revelation in the automotive world but it was (and many people sensed it at the time) basically the closing chapter on something that had...
