Watch This Upside Down (But Right Side Up?) Ranger V770 12-Cylinder Engine Run and Spit Fire!
Oct 03, 2023Brian LohnesComments Off on Watch This Upside Down (But Right Side Up?) Ranger V770 12-Cylinder Engine Run and Spit Fire!
The Ranger V770 12-cylinder engine was a stalwart power plant for a slew of airplanes that included a bunch of trainers that were used to get pilots ready for war during WWII. A single overhead...
This 1973 Jeep J2000 Truck Sales Promotional Film Has Us Looking For A Dealer – 70s Greatness
Oct 03, 2023Brian LohnesComments Off on This 1973 Jeep J2000 Truck Sales Promotional Film Has Us Looking For A Dealer – 70s Greatness
It is pretty hard to argue against the overt coolness of the Wagoneers and J-trucks of the early 1970s. They were really well built, intentioned to get out there into the wild, and they look great as...
Quick and Weird: The 1992 VW Passat GLX Got A VR6 Engine But Kept The Awkward Looks
Oct 03, 2023Brian LohnesComments Off on Quick and Weird: The 1992 VW Passat GLX Got A VR6 Engine But Kept The Awkward Looks
We always talk about the early 1990s as the time that muscle started to arrive back into the product lines of American car companies. It’s important to recognize that it was not just the...
Let’s Get Weird: This Video Looks At The Strangest Concept Cars Of The 1980s
Oct 03, 2023Brian LohnesComments Off on Let’s Get Weird: This Video Looks At The Strangest Concept Cars Of The 1980s
When it comes to concept cars, the game sure has changed in the modern world, right? With huge traveling car shows drying up before COVID and then ceasing to exist during it, no one really knows what...
Watch A New Holland Pulling Tractor Blow ALL THE WAY UP During A Pull
Oct 03, 2023Brian LohnesComments Off on Watch A New Holland Pulling Tractor Blow ALL THE WAY UP During A Pull
While we have tons and tons of respect for the guys in the drag racing world that run “a lot” of boost, they have nothing on the pulling tractor guys. These guys have been force feeding...
New High-Torque Sleeper Impact Guns Aim to Upset M18 Gen 3 Launch: Metabo HPT 1/2″ & 3/4″
Oct 02, 2023Chad ReynoldsComments Off on New High-Torque Sleeper Impact Guns Aim to Upset M18 Gen 3 Launch: Metabo HPT 1/2″ & 3/4″
The torque test channel is back at it, and they have the biggest and baddest cordless impact guns going head to head. With new tools being introduced soon from Milwaukee, the other brands are trying...
Video: Watch This Vintage Ferrari Flat 12 Engine Scream, Shoot Fire, and Turn 10,000 RPM
Oct 02, 2023Brian LohnesComments Off on Video: Watch This Vintage Ferrari Flat 12 Engine Scream, Shoot Fire, and Turn 10,000 RPM
The late 1960s were not exactly awesome for the Ferrari Formula One program. There were winning on average of about one race a year and the company’s once dominant place in the sport was...
Video Of A Massive, Pre-Hydraulic LeTourneau Front End Loader Is Yellow Poetry In Motion
Oct 02, 2023Brian LohnesComments Off on Video Of A Massive, Pre-Hydraulic LeTourneau Front End Loader Is Yellow Poetry In Motion
As I have established over the last thirteen years here at BangShift, I love old machines that completed huge tasks without the technology of today. Decades back, the work still had to get done and...
You Ugly: This Video Looks At Seven Race Cars That Can Literally Never Win A Beauty Contest
Oct 02, 2023Brian LohnesComments Off on You Ugly: This Video Looks At Seven Race Cars That Can Literally Never Win A Beauty Contest
As things have evolved in racing, looks have been largely pushed to the side for functionality. It’s the nature of the business. Teams do not show up with the sole goal of earning “best...
This Video Of Paul Longenecker Power Wheelstanding His Top Fueler Over Backwards In 1973 Is Nuts
Oct 02, 2023Brian LohnesComments Off on This Video Of Paul Longenecker Power Wheelstanding His Top Fueler Over Backwards In 1973 Is Nuts
When we think about Top Fuel Dragsters blowing over backward our thoughts usually hone in on the infamous mid-1980s Garlits blow over at Englishtown or Eddie Hill’s horrifying wreck at the 1989...
AA/FUEL DRAGSTER – WALLY PARKS NHRA NOSTALGIA NATIONALS VIDEO LIKE NEVER BEFORE (FULL COVERAGE)
Oct 01, 2023Chad ReynoldsComments Off on AA/FUEL DRAGSTER – WALLY PARKS NHRA NOSTALGIA NATIONALS VIDEO LIKE NEVER BEFORE (FULL COVERAGE)
Les just sent us the link to his new AA/Fuel Dragster video from Bowling Green, and we knew we had to share it right away. If you loved all our March Meet and California Hot Rod Reunion livestreams...
This Insanely Huge Collection Of Flathead Ford Intake Manifolds Belongs To Just One Man! How Did He Get, And Keep, This Many?!
Oct 01, 2023Chad ReynoldsComments Off on This Insanely Huge Collection Of Flathead Ford Intake Manifolds Belongs To Just One Man! How Did He Get, And Keep, This Many?!
Some folks collect cars, other hubcaps or wheels, some memorabilia, but then there are the folks that collect just one kind of engine part or another. We’ve all seen them online or in the swap...
Can Finnegan Tow Doubles With His Cummins Diesel-Swapped Chevy or Is It Gonna Get Dangerous?
Oct 01, 2023Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Can Finnegan Tow Doubles With His Cummins Diesel-Swapped Chevy or Is It Gonna Get Dangerous?
Everyone knows I’m a huge fan of ramp trucks, and so is Mike Finnegan. He’s owned several, gave Newbern the bug so bad he’s building his own, and now he wants to haul more than one...
Easy Bolt On Steering Upgrade For OBS GM Trucks! Saturday Morning Borgeson Steering Box Swap That Really Works!
Oct 01, 2023Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Easy Bolt On Steering Upgrade For OBS GM Trucks! Saturday Morning Borgeson Steering Box Swap That Really Works!
OBS GM Trucks have never been hotter, and there are TONS of parts available for everything from suspension to power adders, engines swaps, and so much more, but one place they really respond to...












