Category Archive: BangShift XL, CRASH & BURN, ENGINES, RACING & ACTION, Videos, XL Videos

Flames Up Video! This Look Back At Craziness During The 2019 Pulling Season is Truly Awesome

This is not exactly what you’d call a “best of” video. Instead you’d call it a “bucks up” video because everyone featured in it had to lay down some seriously...

Random Vehicle Review: The Boeing 929 – When Passenger Jet and Passenger Ferry Collide

Say “Boeing” and the first image in your head is probably the 747 jumbo airliner, complete with it’s distinctive hump, or any of the other passenger planes that the company has...

Caspian Mud Monster: This UAZ Is Now A Swamp Beast!

It’s a real-world, full-size version of a Stompers toy. How else do you describe this thing? The tires are five and a half feet tall, the axles are from a GAZ 66 military truck, and the whole...

Heavy Duty Engine Swap: Shoving A Dodge’s Cummins Into A Komatsu Bulldozer!

When Dodge started jamming in six-cylinder Cummins diesel engines into Ram pickup trucks, they figured out the first step in revitalizing a lineup that hadn’t seen a freshening since 1981 and a...

Ripping It Up: Speed Plowing With A John Deere In Sweden!

I’d like to say that the strong, powerful engine noise that has been prominent around BangShift Mid-West has been due to yours truly. But it’s not. It’s not even due to the...

Awesome Watch: Monument To A Dream – A 1960s Documentary About Building The Gateway Arch

Today we revel in seeing things get conceived and built that no one dreamed possible in the past. Well, imagine the thrill for people more than 50 years ago when the 630-ft Gateway Arch was...

Jumping’ Stuff: This Compilation Of Truck Jumps Ranges From The Stupid To The Stupendous!

Jumping a car or a truck is one of those borderline stupid activities that makes being a geared truly fun. We’ve all done it in some shape or fashion whether it be taking a hump in the road...

HALT: Panic-Stopping Heavy Wheeled Vehicles (Plus Gratuitous Tank Crushing Footage Inside!)

Consider this video a three-in-one special, because that’s what you will get. Three different sections, all involving big machinery. We like our smaller, sporty machines just fine, but there is...

Morning Symphony: Saturn V Launch, Pure Audio Only

If you have never crossed into Alabama from Tennessee on Interstate 65, then you haven’t seen Alabama’s greeting to visitors. It’s a 224-foot-tall Saturn 1B rocket, the real thing....

KITT’s Hidden Mode: Watch This Firebird Mud Bogger Get Down!

The running joke about third-generation F-bodies is that they belong in the realm of the redneck and the mullet-wearing 1980s throwback. They don’t. They were GM’s power re-awakening,...

Watching The Restoration Of This 1940s Era Craftsmen Bench Top Metal Lathe Is Awesome!

There are few things more satisfying to us than seeing cool restoration videos. We have showed you various tools, cars, components, and other stuff being remediated over the last few years but this...

1900 Sheets Of Paper And 100 Tons Of Pressure Deliver More Entertainment Than We Expected!

It has been a while since we checked in on the Hydraulic Press YouTube Channel and as we suspected, our pal with the great accent has been up to his old tricks. We skipped the videos about crushing...

Nine Years And Counting: The Mud Pit In Moses Lake That Won’t Be Defeated

Let’s say, just for a moment, that you were in charge of a bounty hole mud pit that, if successfully navigated, would earn the driver coin. Would you put any rules down? Maybe one that says you...

Viking Funeral: Sending A Detroit 8V71 Off In One Last Fiery Farewell

Nobody wants to see the end to anything they cherish and hold dear. We mourn and feel anguish when a loved one dies. We shed tears and console ourselves as best as we can when a beloved pet makes the...