Category Archive: BangShift XL, Videos, XL Videos

Finnegan Sends The OG Ramp Truck In For Bodywork! Here’s What Bonneville Salt Can Do To A Squarebody!

I’m about 90% sure that it was Keith Turk who told me over and over to wash the holy hell out of my 2006 Monte Carlo SS after I took it onto the Bonneville Salt Flats back in 2009. I...

Godzilla or Not: This Video Shows A New 7.3L Gas Super Duty Ford On The Chassis Dyno Along With A 6.2L Truck

When Ford released the information that it would be introducing the modern equivalent of a gas burning big block engine for their Super Duty truck lineup a while back, the world reacted with a kind...

Classic YouTube: The Reason We All Sign Waivers At The Track!

If you haven’t had the thrill of being close by when a supercharger decides enough is enough and pops, allow me to explain in no uncertain terms what the experience is like when it’s...

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Ya Gotta Be Tough: Spills, Thrills And Carnage From Busted Knuckle Video!

The folks at Busted Knuckle Video get to some of the wildest off-roading there is in the States. Rockbouncers, hillclimbs, mega truck action, Formula Offroad-style time trials, bogging,...

That’s Different: This Toyota 86 And It’s Supercharged 2JZ Hit Summernats 33 Like A Bomb!

One of the best known Japanese-based speed combinations is rooted around the Toyota 2JZ inline-six from the 1990s. You boost the thing to the moon and make sure that the head is tied down enough so...

The Original Bullit Mustang Sells For $3.4 Million Dollars! Watch It Go Across The Auction Block Here.

There is no doubt that every car guy on earth has seen Bullit and thought “I can totally do that!” Well you might very well be able to pull it off if you had the original Bullit Mustang...

The Latest Project From Urchfab Has Only Two Wheels. Can This One Be As Much Fun As A 4-Wheeled Monster?

I’ve been wanting to put together an old small to medium sized motorcycle for some time. Something like a Honday CB350 or CB550, would be fun as hell to cruise around town on, and I have...

The 2020 Dakar Rally Is On And Man Is It A Beast! Saudi Arabia, And It’s Crazy Variety Of Terrain And Sand, Is Home To This Historic Spectacle

I first started really watching the Dakar Rally back in the late 1990s and couldn’t believe just how cool this race was to watch on TV. For years I looked forward to it and thought it would be...

The Mongrel Project Is Getting Some Paint! Watch How To Paint The Engine Compartment, How Not To Paint A Cage, And Then How To Pain The Cage!

Sometimes stuff just doesn’t go right on a project car build. It’s just one of those things when you are talking about building something from scratch and with mostly one off and custom...

The Challenger Revival, Part 8: The Crispy Frame Rail And More Sheetmetal Rot Removal

Seeing that the floorboards had rotted out of the Dodge Challenger that Dylan McCool has been grinding on for a while now isn’t a shock. Not that Chrysler products aren’t known for...

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Best 1990s Sleeper Ever: The 1996 Volvo 850R Sportswagon – Prove Us Wrong

Yeah, 20 years on and I still want one of these things. I remember chewing up every car magazine that came to my house when I was 16 years old and every single one of them lost their mind over this...

Lawn Mower Mudding – You Needed A New Mower Anyways, Right?

I was not expecting to hear my father-in-law say that he was going to bring out the lawn mower the other day. The area around BangShift Mid-West is currently a toss up between muddy and just about...

Classic YouTube: The 1955 Southern 500 at Darlington, Courtesy of Purolator!

Prior to the infamous 1979 Daytona 500, there were very few ways to see the entirety of a stock car race. Obviously, you could go in person to a track and watch as drivers battled it out for...

American Powertrain Parting Shift: Watch This H-Pattern Shifted Mustang Run 7s!

Lots of time when we show you a hardcore competition car as part of the American Powertrain Parting Shift it is not being H-pattern shifted. Maybe it has a sequential shifter or a Vertigate type deal...