Category Archive: BangShift XL, FUNNY STUFF, MISC, Videos, XL Videos

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...

Radial Heat: Watch This Radial Engine Run On A Trailer And Nearly Melt Its Own Exhaust Off!

This is an awesome video for a couple of reasons and the first one is the setting. It looks like this guy has started a radial engine mounted on a trailer in the middle of a residential neighborhood....

This Video Featuring The Manufacturing Of Huge Springs, Cranks, and Other Massive Metalwork Rules

Shaping and manipulating metal is one of the most important things that humans have learned to do in our existence. Whether be the heat and pressure of a forge, or by the precise cutting of a mill,...

Gearhead Zen Video: Getting This 1960s Vintage Homelite Gas powered Circular Saw Running Is Awesome

My kids were mystified. A GASOLINE POWERED CIRCULAR SAW?! What kind of freakish, medieval, bizarre implement of doom is this?! Obviously humans did not live in the realm of 18 and 20 volt battery...

Awesome Gearhead Video: The Wild Story of A True Barn Find 409 and A Buried 1955 Chevy

Tommy Lee Byrd tipped us off to this wild video form his YouTube page that will have you smiling, shaking your head, and leaning forward all at the same time. It’s about local knowledge, local...

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...

Historic Video: Watch How The Chinese Built WWII Air Bases By Hand in Less Than A Month – Incredible

The level of global cooperation during WWII among the allies was nothing short of astounding. It was the only way that the war was won, really as no single nation was well equipped enough to take on...

Mean Little Green: This Video About A Porsche 914 And Its Owner Is BangShifty Stuff

Perhaps the neatest thing about cars in general is how people respond so differently to so many different models, right? Stuff that you’d walk past on a used car lot others would be throwing...

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...

Hot Stuff: This 10-Minute Long Video Shows An Amazing Array Of Forging Techniques!

Mankind’s ability to not only come up with metal alloys but also work them into functional shapes, tools, parts, and pieces will forever stand as one of the key accomplishments that led to...

Thrifty Luxury: The Home-Built 1959 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa On The Streets!

Make no mistake about it, there is no such thing as a “cheap Ferrari” that is worth owning. None. Not even a beat-up Mondial is going to be easy on your pocketbook, so suffice it to say...

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Reminiscing At Length: Looking At A 1976 Cadillac Eldorado In A Different View

It is amazing to think that in the 1970s, having a two-door coupe as long as a Chevrolet Suburban was not only a good idea, but a great way to tell everybody who saw you driving down the road one...

Like A Boss: Watch This Kiwi Drag Racer Huck His Altered Into A Skid To Prevent Going Long At The Strip

New Zealand’s Neil Morgan was on another pass in his blown Ford T-bodied altered. Another bouncing, half-crazed, short wheelbase charge down the quarter mile that he handled nicely. It was time...

The Wintertime Crawl: A Trek Through The Woods Of An Old Junkyard

There is something peaceful and serene about an old junkyard. I’m not talking something like an LKQ or anything like that, no. I mean an honest-to-God old yard, the kind that has been in...

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