Category Archive: BangShift XL, FUNNY STUFF, MISC, Videos, XL Videos
Watch These Two Belgian Draft Horses Help Tug A Stuck Semi Up A Frozen Driveway
While things like tractors replaced horses for the majority of the work done at a farm, it was not because the horses were weaklings and this video, taken just about a week ago is living proof of...
Epic Story Time: Pat Musi, Rickie Smith, and Roy Hill Talk About How Things Were Done Back In The Day
Three of drag racing’s most legendarily intense competitors sitting around and telling stories. This is the kind of stuff that you cannot pay to see. Pat Musi, Rickie Smith, and Roy Hill...
Cool Suspension Video: Ride UNDER A 1988 Thunderbird As It Attacks The Autocross
We have not run a good “under car” suspension video for a while now and frankly, we’re sorry. The goal is to make up for lost time with this one, though. We’ll be riding under...
Shut Up, It’s A Great Idea: Furze’s Flame-Throwing Screw Tank Is Finished!
Imagine, just for a second, that you built something like this in the garage of your house. All your neighbors have heard for weeks on end is the sound of welding, of grinding, of drilling and...
Mad Mike Whiddett And His 4-Rotor Mazda Wants To Rip Your Face Off – Listen To The Racket This Thing Makes
We have featured Mad Mike Whiddett’s antics here on BangShift before. The Aussie drifter has had a string of pretty angry rotary powered Mazdas and the car he brought to Goodwood in 2018 was no...
Video: Hit And Miss Engines At Work – These Old Mills Revolutionized Life As The World Knew It 100+ Years Ago
(By Greg Rourke) – Hit and miss engines…no, I’m not referring to the engine I attempted to build for the slowest dragster in the Midwest. I’m referring to some of the earliest gasoline...
Video Bonanza: A Ton Of Great Television Ads for 1980s Gearhead Toys
As I speed toward my 35th birthday, I’ve been taking a little stock of my younger days. Growing up in the 1980s was a fun situation because there were so many awesome gearhead toys showing up...
A Look Back On The History Of The Audi Quattro Program – See How The Rally Monster Came To Be!
Quattro. The name that thoroughly disrupted rally racing in the early 1980s. Prior to the appearance of Quattro, the rally formula had become set in stone by Lancia: Lightweight, punchy mid-engine,...
Exit Stage Left: Chris Pearce’s Wall-Jumping Pinto Wheelstander At Byron
Until Kevin McMullin’s wall-riding Mustang crash at Ford Fest 2020, I could not tell you the last time I saw a car rail-slide the concrete crash barrier better than a skateboarder. Lohnes might...
Historic Footage: The 1977 24 Hours of Daytona, Seen Through The Camera Of Buzz Fyhrie
YouTube and the days of everyone recording everything are a recent trend. There is a reason that you do not see a ton of “behind the scenes” footage of racing before at least the...
French Delicacy: The Renault-Alpine A110 1600S – Over The Roads Avec Style!
One word that I often hear associated with the French is “arrogant”. It’s true. French people themselves will tell you as such. Their food is top-tier when done by the best chefs...
Transmission Tech Video: Reassembling A Chrysler A-833 Four Speed – Grabbing Gears The Old School Way
The four-speed manual transmission transformed the mighty cars go the early 1960s from slip sliding automatic equipped beasts to the straight line missiles that we all still admire and love. They...
It’s The Van, Man: This 1975 Chevrolet Promotional Film Hawking Vans Is Pretty Awesome
What’s old is cool again, right? In many ways that line is the truth for all automotive enthusiasts who love the machines that carried us around decades ago, but the van world is booming right...
