Category Archive: BangShift News, BangShift XL, FUNNY STUFF, HISTORIC, MISC, Videos, XL Videos
Vannin’ Aussie Style: This 1970s Look At The Van Club Culture In Australia Is Awesome
It’s always wild how similar cultures kind of fall into similar things with very little way to know that each is doing it. In the 1970s, the “vanning” culture in America exploded....
Blinding Speed: Ride On The Back Of A 700hp V-10 Powered Dallara SP1 As It Passes EVERYTHING At Daytona
The march of progress in motorsport is unstoppable. It’s what makes things faster, lighter, safer, etc. Sometimes it is tough to illustrate that progression until you actually put stuff on the...
Decade of Spills: Watch Mike Austin’s Horrendous 2012 Alcohol Dragster Crash – He Walked Away
As we continue to look back at some of the hairiest moments of NHRA drag racing over the last 10 years, we land in Pomona circa 2012 to see one of the most wildly insane top alcohol dragster crashes...
Big Block Power! 1,000 Horsepower Plus, Using Two $163 Ebay Turbos On A Junkyard Big Block.
Yep, it is totally possible to build 1,000 horsepower using two $163 cheap Ebay Turbos on a junkyard big block Chevrolet. Make no mistake, this isn’t a replacement for a high dollar race...
What Could Finnegan Possibly Want With A One Owner Big Block 4-Speed Corvette That Has Been Sitting For 40 Years?
Friends of Finnegans, or those that watch and pay attention to the channel enough, know that Mike would really like a C2 Corvette to build into a fun and fast street strip car. So when he heard about...
Saving History: This Restoration Of A 250-Year Old Colonial-Era Hammer Is Awesome
What are restorations but preservations of history, right? We like watching them for various reasons. In the arena of machinery we like them because we get to see the inner guts of different things...
Would You Buy This Online? Unboxing & Testing A Chinese “$2,000” ELECTRIC Truck!
Buying stuff online has become the norm in the past few years, but buying an electric truck that is designed and built in China and is not regularly for sale here in the United States is a bit of a...
DIY Gooseneck Trailer Build: Building a Gooseneck Trailer From Scratch!
If you don’t own a trailer of some kind, and have never looked at one close, then you might not have considered building your own trailer. But if you have ever looked at one from underneath or...
TRY This SIMPLE Trick to Build Curved Flanges for Inner Structures!! (Hammer Forming + Dimple Die)
More metal fabrication tech from Make It Kustom’s Karl Fisher. Because so many of you asked about how he made the inner bracing on the Model A project, he’s dedicated an entire video to...
How To Make This EASY Dimple Die Tool for Under 20 Bucks!!! ( With Just a Welder + Grinder!!! )
You know how much we love to make tools around here, and so whenever we find a video showing how to build one we’re all over it. One of our favorite tech channels on YouTube is Make it Kustom...
The Hamill SR3 Is An Insane Small Block Powered Roller Skate – Ride In One At Goodwood Here
The Can-Am racing of the middle 1960s was all a prelude to what would become the most famous road racing series in the world for a couple of years in the early 1970s. It was also the period of time...
Listen To This 482ci Tunnel Port Headed FE Engine Sing Beautiful Songs On The Dyno
I know I am kind of an FE fan boy but why shouldn’t I be? The insanely diverse and awesome engine family powered everything from trucks to NASCAR stock cars to NHRA nitro powered machines,...
Wagons, Ho: Junkyard Digs Dives Head-First Into AMC Eagle Lunacy!
AMC Eagles are a strange thing to me. On one hand, they are American Motors doing what they did best after 1970…which is to say, they’re re-heated Hornet leftovers that probably...
So Weird It’s Cool, So Ugly Its Beautiful: The Alfa Romeo SZ Is A Strange Car Built By A Sometimes Strange Company
This is a great video on a car we never knew existed. The video tells the story of the Alfa Romeo SZ which was the oddball dream of old school Alfa Romeo internal leadership that wanted to...