Category Archive: BangShift XL, FUNNY STUFF, Videos, XL Videos
Now You’re Just Showing Off: One Wicked Bounty Mud Pit And …A SHERP?
A dug out trench that looks more like an evaporation pit than anything even remotely close to natural and a bunch of mega trucks nearby can only mean one thing: the bounty mud hole is open for...
Classic YouTube: Sylvain Noël vs. Mario Racicot At The 2014 St Joseph de Beauce Race!
Out of all places, it’s gotta be Quebec that has some of the most wicked semi trucks doing more than just hauling the daily load. Any camion racing that goes down in the Francophile province...
Street Car Takeover Bowling Green! The Throwdown Of Big Boys Was A Battle!
While Chad and I watched pair after pair of machines try to make mincemeat out of each other in St. Louis, the Street Car Takeover Bowling Green event was going down, with Beech Bend Raceway hosting...
Meet The Beast! Burnout Legend Kranky Gives Hoonigan A Lesson In Tire Frying!
As we learned early on in BangShift’s existence with Burnout Mondays, if you think an Australian is down for taking the silver medal in the tire-frying competition, we have some very bad news...
Hard To Starboard: The Project Neighbor Crown Vic/Shelby Mustang Mashup Goes Drifting!
The most fun vehicles I’ve ever thrashed, or have been around during the thrashing, haven’t been sports cars, or muscle cars, or any kind of purpose-built machine. No…they have been...
Morning Symphony: Got Cummins? This Monster Of A Challenger Sure Does!
Diesel power works, folks. The engines do everything from farmers with the power to get things done to giving ocean-going workers the ability to cross the seas with ease. They are beastly and you...
Please Secure Your Belongings Before Departure: This Malibu Got It’s Rear Window Knocked Out At Launch!
You’d think a drag race is a simple affair: point car at the finish line, don’t hit anything, and be sure to stop at the end and you’re fine. You’d think it’d be...
Welding Aluminum The Right Way: How To Make It Easy, Pretty, And Strong
Stacking dimes, laying down a bead, whatever you call it, a pretty weld is a weld to be proud of. As longs as it is at least as strong as it is good looking. The skills and techniques used to get...
Take A First-Person Walk Through CTC Auto Ranch, A Treasure Trove Of Machines!
I love going to North Star Dragway in Denton, Texas. It’s got a proper small-strip feel without feeling like you’re at a sketchy, fend-for-yourself kind of place. It’s got a great...
Watch The “Open Container” Boat/Truck Capsize At A Northwest Tuff Truck Competition – 100% BangShift Approved Action!
Dave Tucker of Oregon is a man we want to drink beer with. He owns and operates a welding and fabrication business that does lots of work with off road guys, he has built his own monster trucks, and...
Thursday BOOM: Funny Car Blower Explosions
As evidenced by the wild lead photo of the funny car belching fire from every possible place, blower explosions in drag race machinery can be spectacularly awful. With the modern advent of burst...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s Your Best “Yard Car” Memory?
We called it the “War Car”. It was a 1975-ish Dodge Coronet two-door that somehow had earned a target for elimination, a sentence of death by torture. The big brown barge of a Mopar...
One-Family Owned Masterpiece: This 1965 Chevrolet Corvair Monza Ignited A Passion!
Maybe Ralph Nader was genuinely trying to save humanity from a mechanical demon that was flawed. History has shown that the first generation Chevrolet Corvair did indeed have handling issues that...
Watch A Huge 48-Foot Power Boat Take Flight While Speeding Over The Wake Of A Yacht – This Is An E-Ticket Ride!
If there’s a group of motorsports enthusiasts crazier than the wheel driven contingent it is the boat guys. The machines are incredible but they are also astronomically expensive to buy,...