Category Archive: BangShift XL, ENGINES, FUNNY STUFF, Videos, XL Videos
Wind Machine: Watch This 14-Cylinder Hercules Radial Engine Fire Up And Sandblast Its Operator
This big fellah is really something. The Bristol Hercules engines were used to power a myriad of airplanes over the span of their life and these are not the typical radial engine as they are a slide...
Unhinged: Keep The Rivalries Alive And Good-Natured!
Automakers tend to be rather tame when it comes to advertising of the last twenty years or so. Instead of a hungry Pontiac Trans Am, we get a minivan that is trying to talk itself into your driveway....
Got Skills? Watch This Bulldozer Operator Stack Tires Around A Stake Using The Blade Of His Machine
They are games borne at lunchtime or out of bets made at the local watering hole after everyone has left the joist. They are contests of skill designed to separate those that can do from those that...
Cinge-fest: Here’s Three Minutes Of Doing It Wrong On The Chassis Dyno From Various Countries and Places
From stuck throttles to shredded tires, this look into the dark side of the chassis dyno experiences will certainly provide an eye widening look at what can happen when you are running your stuff at...
Vintage TV Ad Perfection: Evel Knievel In All His 1970s Greatness Hawking AMF Bikes
There were few people more famous in the 1970s than the late Evel Knievel. From jumping motorcycles to jumping canyons (Ok…trying to jump canyons) he was known around the world for his feats of...
Spontaneous Revival: How To Deal With The Surprise Rambler
I want to know something: how does one exactly get away with a “surprise Rambler” showing up in the middle of the day without a major showdown with the spouse? I don’t even have to...
Hard Landings: Check Out These Smashing Knight Rider Outtakes – Turbo Jumps!
It was a show that many of us watched. It was a show that I lived on as a kid. It was a show that made “The Hof” an international celebrity. That show was Knight Rider and while we like...
Swim For It: How Wrong Can Driving A Geo Tracker Underwater Go?
Ah, the Tracker. Sold as both the Chevrolet and the Geo Tracker, the Suzuki-built mini-SUV might have suffered an identity crisis when they were new…and most of them were that one color of teal...
Dumb Fun: Watch This Kid Put 4-Foot Wheel Spacers On A Pickup With Predictable (And Funny) Results
For starters, you need to check your attitude at the door here. If you do not approach this video with the idea that you are looking at a guy knowingly doing something goofy, you’re gonna get...
Heavy Duty Teardown: Go Behind The Scenes With Hagerty As They Blast Apart The World’s Nastiest 401 Buick
Well, this is handy! We found a cool series on the Hagerty YouTube Channel that documents the behind the scenes process for the next “Redline Rebuild” video that the company will release....
Funny Stuff: Tim Wilson Performs The Talladega Song – You Don’t Want To Be Near This Family At The Track
(By Greg Rourke) –Can you use a good laugh? Sure you can, we all can. Are you familiar with the musical stylings of the late Tim Wilson? In my opinion Tim was the Southern comedian Jeff...
Video: Extreme Rail Biking Looks Both Amazing and Terrifying At The Same Time – Check This Out!
(By Greg Rourke) – Here we have something that’s a but quieter and a lot less powerful than what is usually found on these hallowed pages…extreme rail biking. Bicycling on former...
Those Vintage Training Films? They All Came From One Guy, and His Story is Awesome
If you’ve been following BangShift for a while, you know we love to find those great promotional films from the 1930s through the 1950s. Sharp-eyed readers will notice that at the...
