Category Archive: BangShift XL, HISTORIC, MISC, Videos, XL Videos
Let’s Go WWII Wheelin’: This 1940s US Army Training Video Teaches Drivers How To Handle Tough Terrain
This is some awesome WWII history right here. You are about to watch a training film shown to WWII Motor Pool drivers to aid in their training with regard to how best to cover and traverse difficult...
Mortske Takes Us To An AMAZING Barn Find Auction! Tri-Five Hardtops, 1959 Elcamino, Coupes, Vintage Parts and MORE!
Estate auctions can be amazing ways to find awesome cars and trucks that have been sitting for years, and every time we see one we wonder how many more of these collections can be out there waiting...
Bathurst 1969 Video: At The Peak Of Total Performance Ford and Holden Fight An Aussie War
The battle of Ford vs Ferrari may have been the highest profile example of Ford’s “Total Performance” era but this was not just a fight between Ford and the Italian company, it was...
Flyin’ Film: This 1960s Promotional Piece For The Piper Cherokee Is Awesome – Personal Aviation Was Booming!
As the US economy boomed in the 1960s, loads of new markets and opportunities opened up for people and companies. The personal aviation industry, like other places in the transportation segment of...
Engine Building Video: How Babbit Bearings Are Poured And Some Legit Tricks In How To Build A Model A Four Banger
A short while back we showed you the Hagerty Redline Rebuild video that was focused around the reconstruction of a Model A Ford four cylinder. This was initially an engine that was built literally at...
Hip To Be Square: This 1977 Chevy Promotional Film For The K5 Blazer Has It All, Even The Blazer Chalet!
We kind of wish we had a backyard full of late 1970s K5 Blazers. Why? Because we’d be freaking billionaires. The money that these trucks are commanding now is just insane but hey, people are...
Restoration Video: Seeing The Process of Bringing A Vertical Steam Engine Back Is Mesmerizing
Now this is what we call a payoff! A few weeks ago we showed you the first part of a Hand Tool Restoration project involving a small upright steam engine restoration. That part was mostly getting the...
Fun History: This Preview Road Test Of The New 1994 Ford Mustang Is A Fun Look Back
It is interesting to watch this MotorWeek preview road test of the new 1994 Ford Mustang with the hindsight we are able to glance at it with now, right? Things were fresh looking, engines were...
Next Level: We’ve All Seen A Coffee Table Made With A Block and Rods But We’ve Never Seen One Like THIS
There are certain things we always look at and think they’re cool. Furniture made of car parts will never get old to us. Unfortunately due to the fact that there are multiple involved in the...
Will This 1950 Chevy RUN AND DRIVE 1,400 miles after 20 years? Vice Grip Garage Is About To Find Out!
He’s pretty good at this, but grabbing a car that has been sitting for decades, and trying to make it run and drive around the block is pretty easy. But to drive it 1,400 miles home is a pretty...
Forgotten History Video: The Incredible Story of Fast Masters – The Made For TV Racing Senior Series In Jaguar Supercars
Perhaps my favorite thing about the internet is that on any given day you can find something you had either forgotten about or never knew existed. That’s the case right here as this documentary...
Video: The FoxJet Was The 1970s Mini-Corporate Jet That Was Set To Change The World, But Didn’t
There are certain ideas that come along which make perfect sense, seem to have the right people behind them, and then ultimately evaporate into nothing for varied reasons. Well, the FoxJet is kind of...
Video: Here’s The Best Twin Stick Big Rig Video We Have Ever Seen – Explanation and Operation
Over the years we have showed you a multitude of videos featuring truckers running twin-stick big rigs down the road. Some of them have been funny, some of them painful, but none of them have been...
Amazing Video: Watch A Guy Turn An Automotive Air Conditioning Compressor Into A Running 3-Cylinder Engine!
A short while back we showed you a wild video where a guy took the little compressor from a refrigerator and made it into a little working engine. It as fun and crazy and required a lot of brains to...