Category Archive: BangShift XL, FUNNY STUFF, Videos, XL Videos
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...
Big Fail: This Video Is Nine Minutes of Cringe-Worthy Dump Truck Fails – How?!
Since I was a kid, I always wanted to drive a dump truck and for a while I got to do that. As a CDL holder and a guy who was hustling to pay the bills for a few years, I would pick up odd jobs and...
The Stupicharger: Hoonigan’s Lab Rat Firebird Returns With More Forced Induction!
On one hand, we have to say that we do not miss the “turdos” that used to be mounted on this Pontiac Firebird one bit. The car looked like a fan of Russian ekranoplans went way overboard...
The Steak, The Steam, The Suffering: Finnegan’s Woes Leading Up To The Showdown
By now you already know how this story plays out: Mike Finnegan packed his 1955 Chevy, “Blasphemi”, into his newest car hauler, grabbed a couple of friends to come along, and headed west,...
More Is Better, Right? It’s Now A THREE-Engined Lada, And It Still Drives!
Three engines. Twelve cylinders. A combined displacement of four liters. And no, it’s not a Ferrari mill. Instead, it’s the little red Lada that we’ve been showing you for the last...
Radioactive: This Collection of NASCAR Team Radio Communications From Atlanta Is Awesome
Any time we can get a window into the world of professional racing that we don’t typically get, we love it. In this case it is a video featuring radio communications from a bunch of the NASCAR...
Happy-Go-Pukey: Watch This Ford Ka Goes Into Spin Cycle Mode
At some point, being the mad scientist can be a hell of a lot of fun. Experiencing weightlessness in a Pontiac Catalina after the phrase “Let’s hit Banner Jump!” came out was...
Video: Boost and Nitromethane For The See Through Engine! Hand-chanical Fuel Injection
We have been following the saga of the guy with the YouTube channel and the obsession with Briggs and Stratton engines for some time now. He first kind of burst onto our radar when he ran one of his...
Pinch Buggy: 1320Video Found The Stubbiest VW Beetle We’ve Ever Seen!
We’ve seen numerous shortened cars before. Just off of the top of my head, I can remember a shrunken Nova, a stubby Chrysler Fifth Avenue and a chopped early 1990s Chrysler minivan. In most...