Category Archive: TECH, Tech Stories
Homemade Tools: This Pipe Anvil Will Come In Handy For Lots Of Sheetmetal Projects And Is CHEAP! Make Your Own Trans Tunnels, Driveshaft Tunnels, Rockers, And More!
I love DIY tools. I have a bunch of tools in my toolbox that have been modified or scratch built in order to fulfill a need, or to do a special task. Most of them are small, but when I see a home...
Best of 2020: Speedbird: The Story Of The EPA’s Plymouth Superbird Test Car!
Of all of the things I’ve ever heard of about a car “back in the day”, this one is by far the most amusing one. At the beginning of the 1970s, the Environmental Protection Agency...
Finnegan Ads Hatervision, AKA A Huge Holley EFI Dash, To His C10 Truck Which Is Getting Put Together!
Never have there been more choices in gauges and dash clusters for popular hot rods, trucks, muscle cars, and street machines. And whether you want to run traditional round gauges, or one of the...
Here’s The 12 Days of Burnouts 2020 In Their Entirety! See All 12 Smoke Shows Right Here.
Burnouts are great no matter what time of year, but there is something extra cool about burnouts during the holidays. Maybe it’s the Christmas trees on the roofs of high powered hot rods, maybe...
Best of 2020: Check Out This Fully Functional Remote-Controlled Ekranoplan!
When the KM ekranoplan was discovered by spy photography in 1967, Western countries could not understand quite what they were looking at. The idea of a ground-effect craft, or ekranoplan, was not on...
Best Of 2020: Ryan Newman’s Last Lap Crash At The 2020 Daytona 500
Nineteen years ago, I was in a classroom in a high school in Illinois, working on a project during a study hall session when I learned what happened: during the running of the 2001 Daytona 500 the...
Best of 2020: The Right And Wrong Way To Sell The 1982 Ford Mustang
One of the first rules of marketing is that once you’ve identified which product is your cash cow, you throw a majority of your efforts behind that to keep it front and center of the masses....
Best of 2020: Supercharged Rolls-Royce Meteor V-12 Out Of Zoomies
Oh, you’re a violent little thing, aint’cha? This one goes out to every 200-horsepower 350-powered hot rod that is around…we may never know for sure, but when the earliest hot...
Best of 2020: Check Out The Recovery Of This IH TD24 Crawler That’s Been Buried For 45 years!
There’s a line attributed to EOD bomb technicians. Reportedly, when asked about whether or not they were stressed out when it came time to defusing a bomb, the answer was something to the...
Best of 2020: This 1972 Ford Truck Commercial Is Crazier Than You Think It Was To Make
This tv commercial for 1972 Ford trucks is pretty good. There’s the requisite goofy premise and storyline to follow but there is also vintage dirt bikes, jumps, sideways action, and a whole lot...
Video: This Feature On The Summers Brothers Goldenrod Is Mandatory Must Watch Stuff
In the pantheon of legitimately amazing hot rods, there are cars that stand above the crowd. Machines that represent the pinnacle of achievement for their age. Machines that represent the pinnacle of...
Best of 2020: Flogging A Hemi Daytona At Mont Tremblec With Extreme Prejudice
In some road tests, the video will start off with some basic driving, or maybe some clean beauty shots of the car parked up, perfectly polished, looking like you hope your potential dream machine...
Incredible: Jack Bally Built A Flying 1/3 Scale B-17 Bomber From Scratch – Video and Info Here!
(By Scott Liggett) –We at Bangshift.com have such respect for the generation of WWII. Part of that respect includes the machines the men and women used to fight a world war against enemies...
