Category Archive: BangShift XL, XL Videos

Classic YouTube: Watch the Boeing 787-9 Practice For The Farnborough Air Show

A common legend that runs through the halls of Boeing involves a test and demonstration flight of the Boeing 367-80, the prototype that became the Boeing 707. At the Seattle Seafair festival, Alvin...

Watch The Pakistani Truck Repair Guys Fix A Cracked Wheel On The Lathe. With A Million Alcoa’s Around Here It Seems Weird, But They Got Skills!

The Pakistani Truck repair videos often have crazy stuff going on in them, like the one where they mount a whole rear axle housing in the lathe. We laugh, and cringe, when we watch them but sometimes...

OBS Clash Episode 2: How The Sport Truck Became An Icon That Spawned Whole Industries

Here is Episode 2 of the OBS Clash Series folks! Anyone who reads BANGshift on any regular basis knows I’m a Chevrolet guy to the core, and that I love my Square Body Chevy pickups. But I love...

Monster Mack: Watch This Twin-Engine Aussie Mack Cruiseliner Cut Loose At Bindoon!

Diesel freaks bug me. Not those who extract maximum power out of engines designed to produce a ton of power, just those who insist that billowing black smoke out of a trash can from underneath a...

Video: A Big Block Chevy Powered Jeep Hikes Wheelies On The Street And Runs to 60 in Less Than 3-Seconds!

This is the kind of stuff that’ll put hair on your teeth! Take a Jeep Wrangler, jam a whole bunch of really pissed of Chevy rat motor in the front, add beefy axles, Cal Trac bars and Mickey...

Watch a Super Stock Pulling Tractor Lose A Massive Rear Wheel With Potentially Disastrous Consequences

This is one of those videos that depicts the best possible outcome for a situation that could have potentially resulted in mass casualties at a motorsports event. The event is an indoor tractor...

Beautifying The Buick: The Hagerty Straight Eight Redline Rebuild Heads For The Paint Booth

We have been following the saga of the Hagerty Redline Rebuild of a Buick straight eight engine for a while now. This thing has been a bear in more ways than one and at seemingly every turn the...

Heavy Metal Crunching: Check Out Truck Banger Racing From St Day!

Yes, you’re seeing that correctly: a rollback truck mounted on top of a cement barrier like a trophy, it’s nose shoved in. You almost feel sorry for the poor thing, don’t you?...

Boiling Off The Rear Tires On A White Road Boss Dump Truck, Because Why Not?

If there is one certainty we have around here, it’s that if we see something cool happening with any kind of vehicle, we will share it with you. That’s brought many, many things out from...

Dakar Hell Video: Watch A Racer Slog Through Sand And Then Blaze His Own Trail, Vegetation Be Damned

The Dakar Rally sure beats the ever loving crap out of man and machine. While the treachery of racing thousands of miles across hellacious desert landscapes presents some obvious obstacles, sometimes...

Classic YouTube: Some Diesel Tire-Roasting From Speedworld In Arizona

To date, the wildest event that I’ve attended since I was brought on to write for BangShift was a diesel race that devolved into a burnout contest so wild that the owner of the track rolled up...

Yes, It’ll Go: The 2021 Ford Bronco Sport Taking On Moab

When the Ford Bronco was unveiled, fans rejoiced. From everything we’ve seen, Ford hit the nail directly on the head with a mallet…dead-on. The Bronco Sport, however, has left some...

Random Car Review: 1971 International Harvester 1010 “Johnnie Reb”

(Lead photo: Chris Castoldi) It isn’t every day that I find a vehicle that I know exactly nothing about, one that I have never heard of in my lifetime, one that even according to die-hard fans...

Basic Bad Ass: This K30 Is A Diesel Powered, No Frills, Wheeling Machine – Watch It In Action

There’s nothing wrong with liking fancy things. Hey, we occasionally like to put sprinkles on our ice cream so we know exactly what the finer things in life are. This K30 is not one of those...