Best Of BangShift: Is This The Worst Welding Job Ever? One BangShifter Got The Job To Fix This Disaster
Last night, I was cruising the BangShift forums and came across a thread titled, “You should not be welding anything”. Naturally I was pretty interested to see what that was all about and...
Best of BangShift 2014: Crazy Story – 36 Neglected And Abandoned Corvettes Saved From NYC Parking Garages – The Legendary Peter Max Collection Is Being Restored
Back in 1989, I was nine years old and happened to see a television commercial on the VH-1 music video channel for a crazy contest they were running. The gist of it was pretty simple. You dialed a...
Best of BangShift: The Most Powerful Snow plow Ever?
We think we’ve located the most powerful snow plowing apparatus in the world. If you know of something with more grunt than two locomotives hooked together, please share. Keeping the tracks...
Best Of BangShift: The Twisted Tale of the Great American Truck Racing Series
Our quest for answers regarding a long-forgotten race series that featured massive big-rig trucks on asphalt and dirt ovals started with a thread on the Bangshift.com forum section. One of our...
Best Of BangShift: Watch A Wicked 1980s Crown Vic Wagon With Wood Paneling On The Side Tear Up An Autocross Course!
You know us, we love big stuff that turns. This 1980s boxy style Crown Victoria wagon that is all decked out in wood paneling hauls some serious mail around an autocross in this video. The wagon...
Best of 2014: Watch A Master Metal Worker Literally Hand Form A Rear Quarter Panel From A Flat Piece of Steel
There’s bad ass and then there is BAD ASS. Australian Peter Tommasini is a master level metal worker and gearhead who runs a restoration shop down under and his skills are in full display...
BangShift.com Re-Writes The 12 Days Of Christmas
While Brian and I cannot carry a tune in one of Brian’s dream dump trucks, we can hum a Christmas tune with the best of them. We’re going to ask you to do the same, as we present to you...
Actual Two Lane Blacktop 1955 Chevy Movie Car To Hit Block At Barrett Jackson Scottsdale 2015
How’s this for a scoop? One of the actual 1955 Chevys used in the making of the gearhead cult movie hit Two Lane Blacktop will hit the auction block in Scottsdale come January at the giant...
Best of 2014: An Ohio Scrap Yard Owner Bought A Bunch Of WWII Era Planes In The Late 1940s To “Save” Them – They’re Now All Rotting In The Woods – Amazing Photos
Walter Soplata must have been an interesting dude. After all, the guy went on a pretty amazing buying spree in the late 1940s, buying old warplanes that had participated in WWII in an effort to...
Best of 2014: Watch A Violent Double Dragster Wreck From NHRA Brainerd – Top Dragster Competitors Survive Horrible Incident
Racers Monte Green and Don Kritzky were involved in one of the scariest double top dragster crashes in recent memory yesterday during the NHRA race in Brainerd, Minnesota. As the cars were flying...
Best of 2014: Stupidity Has Never Been More Hilarious: Watch A Dude Jump A Fridge And Washing Machine On Motorized Chair
This video has absolutely no redeeming value of any kind on the mechanical, social, or intelligence front but it is funny as hell and there’s merit to that, right? To make a short video...
Best of 2014: Woman Gets An Oil Change And A Surprise On Her Window Sticker. Someone’s Getting Fired…
There is honesty, there is brutal honesty, and then there’s shooting yourself in the foot. Whoever changed the wording this oil change reminder sticker at the AutoMax in Pearland, Texas aimed a...
Best of 2014: Watch A 270hp Golf Kart Based Electric Dragster Power Wheelie Itself Completely Over Backwards At The Hit Of The Throttle
When we say the words, “golf kart based electric dragster” don’t go making some assumption that what we’re about to show you sucks…because it doesn’t. The vehicle...
The Most Awesome Road Racing Video We Have Ever Seen Involves Tiny Stock Hatchbacks Being Driven With Absolute And Total Abandon
That lead photo is no special effect. In fact, that’s the window being blown out of a tiny racing hatchback as it was being sideswiped, AFTER it was up on two wheels and on the grass next to...
