Category Archive: BangShift News, BangShift XL, ENGINES, HISTORIC, MISC, Videos, XL Videos
Cool Video: This Collection Of Large and Small Antique Engines Starting Up Is Really Fun (and Relaxing)
If you are having a lousy day and need to have a moment to refocus your attention, relax for a hot second, or just escapee’s reality for a minute, we have just the medicine for you. This video...
Fun Watch: This Look Back At The Maserati Quattroporte Is Informative and Convincing As To Just How Good It Was
It’s always fun to learn the stories behind the stories of cars that we either didn’t care much about when they were new or never knew they existed in the first place. In this case the...
Boss Of The Bulldozers: This 1946 Caterpillar Film Is Awesome And Speaks To A Country Headed For A Building Boom
If there is one thing companies like Caterpillar knew coming out of WWII it’s that the USA was headed into a supercharged building boom. There would be incredible strides made in housing, road...
How Amazon Made The 1 Million Lumen Flashlight Possible. But Are Real, And Possible, The Same Thing? Not Quite.
Everyone knows to take the specs on import tools with a grain of salt. After all, they are known for exaggerating to get sales. But realistically you know that an import tool that costs 1/10th of...
Absolutely Brilliant: Watch Mr Hand Tool Rescue Restore A 1920s IBM Computing Cheese Cutter – This Thing Is Amazing
Of all the stuff this guy has worked on and saved over the years, who’d have thought that a damned cheese cutter would be top five or even top three cool! This is not just a pivoting blade,...
A Legend In His Own Words: This Feature On Smokey Yunick Is So Awesome As He’s The One Telling The Stories
There’s few things more awesome than seeing old video of a legend telling their own stories. Yes, this is a relatively short clip, lasting a total of about five minutes but it’s fantastic...
One Bad Launch: Watch This Motorcycle Drag Racer In Bolivia Take Out The Scoreboard, The Tree, and Nearly The Starter! DOH!
We have seen some rough launches at the drag strip before but when a guy on a motorcycle can take out the tree, the scoreboards, and nearly kill the starter all in one fell swoop, that’s a new...
Drag Racing Time Machine: IHRA Top Fuel Action From Norwalk Circa 1990 – An All-Rookie Final!
Ahhhh, memories. That’s what this video brought back for me and it also brought back some smiles as well. You are about to watch some 1990 IHRA top fuel action from the then smallish Norwalk...
Crazy Historic Video: Crashing Planes On Purpose To Study Fire With The NACA Research Council
NACA is known to most hot rodders because of the “NACA duct” that was adopted and used by many race cars over the years for various purposes. NACA itself was the National Advisory Council...
Heavy History: This 1950s Clark-Michigan Wheel Dozer Video Is Awesome And Showed A New Breed Of Muscle Machine
I think my love of heavy equipment mirrors my love of drag racing because both genres of machines were developed with pretty well reasoned purposes. Of course on the drag strip it is getting to the...
The Flying Pumpkin Seed: This Video Tells The Story of The Railton Mobil Special Land Speed Racer
While we all know the story of the land speed battle between Craig Breedlove and Art Arfons but what of the fight between John Cobb and George Eyston in the 1930s? These two men had massive cars with...
Awesome Video: The Spectacular Evolution Of The Formula One Pit Stop – Great Racing History!
When it comes to knowing stuff about the history of different styles of racing, I can tell you that my granular knowledge of F1 is lacking. I know drivers and races and some notable cars, but the...
Epic Video: An Amazing Period Documentary About Apollo 13 Filled With NASA Footage – Incredible Stuff
Now this is something we did not expect to run into today. You are about to watch a truly riveting and incredible NASA documentary about the Apollo 13 mission. This was made in the time frame that...
