How Honda Forced General Motors To Eat Their Words, A Story Of Pride Going Before The Fall
Sep 19, 2020Bryan McTaggart5
General Motors has often found itself suffering from a sharp case of foot-in-mouth disease as the years pass on. From such fun issues as the X-body screwup and badge-engineering a Chevrolet Cavalier...
Listen To A Cool And Rare Detroit Diesel 1-71 Fire Up And Clatter Away – How Neat!
Sep 18, 2020Brian Lohnes4
When we talk about Detroit Diesel engines here at BangShift, typically we’re talking about the mighty 6/8/12 and larger variants of the two stroke family that gained life in the late 1930s and...
The American Powertrain Parting Shift: Meet America’s Most Unique Truck – The Three Trans Equipped Holy Smokes!
Sep 18, 2020Brian Lohnes3
Well, after 34,000 blog items, today stands as proof that there’s still an infinite universe of new and unique stuff to find out there. This time it is a 1966 Ford flatbed with a 390ci engine,...
Historical Footage: The 1970 American Motors Model Lineup Commercial – “What Would You Do?”
Sep 18, 2020Bryan McTaggart3
This wasn’t a swipe at the famous speech from the movie “Patton”, now was it? You can’t blame American Motors for reaching to whatever length they felt they needed in order to...
Check This Out: A Visual Timeline Of The Build Of This Mustang/Integra Mashup!
Sep 18, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Check This Out: A Visual Timeline Of The Build Of This Mustang/Integra Mashup!
Two Integra stories in one day…I’ve got to be losing my marbles. What is the likelihood that I find two BangShift worthy Integras? These are cars that I grew up hating! I can’t...
Awesome Historical Video: The Industrial Use Of Caterpillar Tractors – Mechanical Awesome From 1926
Sep 18, 2020Brian Lohnes1
Well this is perhaps one of the coolest things I have ever found on YouTube. You are about to watch a silent film (not apologizing for the lack of sound) called The Industrial Use of Caterpillar...
Respect Your Elders: Watch This 1927 Bugatti Type 35B Absolutely Scream At Goodwood 2017!
Sep 18, 2020Bryan McTaggart1
If, by some amount of sheer luck, I make it to my 90th birthday, I will not be the solid, stable human that I am today, much less the unhinged, over-caffinated, unleashed wild child that I was when I...
Listen To This 202ci Holden Red Inline Six Scream Out More Than Twice It’s Stock Horsepower Naturally Aspirated
Sep 18, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Listen To This 202ci Holden Red Inline Six Scream Out More Than Twice It’s Stock Horsepower Naturally Aspirated
This is awesome. So when we talk about inline six engines from Australia we often find ourselves yapping about the “Hemi six” that stood out as one of the most well know and celebrated...
The Wild Wonderful World Of Auto Racing Is The Best Video You’ll See Today – Check Out Racing In 1969
Sep 18, 2020Brian Lohnes1
Welp, you should probably just go ahead and quit working for the next half hour because once you press play below you are going to get sucked in to a black-hole vortex of awesome known as The Wild...
Classic YouTube: Ayrton Senna’s Footwork As He Beats A Honda NSX Around Suzuka Circuit
Sep 18, 2020Bryan McTaggart1
Ayrton Senna’s relationship with Honda has been well documented. After Senna started working with Honda in 1988, Honda decided that a great way to benefit from their new talent’s...
The Land The Man and White: This White Tractor Promotional Video Was Made As The Company Was Going Broke
Sep 17, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on The Land The Man and White: This White Tractor Promotional Video Was Made As The Company Was Going Broke
From the Iowa factory to the testing fields, this video from White, made in 1980 it is a look inside what the world of American industry looked like back then. Of course this is a sales film for the...
Crazy Skills: Check Out This Guy’s Sick Lego Builds – One Off GM Dually Truck, Jeeps, Hot Rods, More!
Sep 17, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Crazy Skills: Check Out This Guy’s Sick Lego Builds – One Off GM Dually Truck, Jeeps, Hot Rods, More!
The wonders never cease around here, that’s for sure. Anthony Ambrosio sent us some incredible links to a person who’s skills with Legos outstrip our skills with, well everything...
Rocky Mountain Race Week 2.0 Continues Today! Watch All The FREE LIVE STREAMING VIDEO THIS AFTERNOON!
Sep 17, 2020Chad Reynolds2
It’s time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2.0 folks and that means killer street car drag racing starting today! When Hot Rod Magazine cancelled Drag Week 2020, Rocky Mountain Race Week Promoter,...
First to 250: Watch The Pontiac Powered Boss Bird Nitro Funny Car Run 5.87/250mph at Norwalk!
Sep 17, 2020Brian Lohnes6
Milestones in drag racing come in all forms. We have seen dragsters do stuff over the years, we have seen funny cars break speed records, but one of the things we have not seen a lot of in recent...












