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 domestic manufacturers pumping some iron at that point, virtually everyone was getting in on the party. European car makers were perhaps […]
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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 the future of that genre looks like. It was those shows where, for decades, manufacturer concept cars really […]
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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 basically gone. The Cosworth DFV engine was the plant of choice for winning teams and it seemed that the world has […]
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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 the Earth still needed to be moved but how was that accomplished without the hydraulic wonders of today? Simply stated, […]
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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 appearing” honors, they show up to win races and that means a car built to win doesn’t necessarily equate to a […]
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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 Winternationals. Fact is, this is something that dragster pilots have been fighting since the early 1970s. Yes, there were instances of sling shots […]
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