Category Archive: XL Event Coverage, XL Spotlight, XL Videos

The SCORE International San Felipe 250 Is LIVE Right Now! Off-Road Racing At It’s Finest!

It is an awesome day in the desert, and that means it is your chance to watch the SCORE International San Felipe 250 LIVE right here. If you love Trophy Trucks, buggies, dirt flying, high speed, and...

It’s Paint Time For The Big Bud Tractor! When Days Of Sanding Finally Pay Off!

Ask anyone who has painted a car properly: there is more sanding than you can comprehend. Even if you are just blasting on another layer of paint, you have to scuff up what is present and accounted...

The Most Infamous Hillclimb In The States: The Viagra Hill Climb

The video has been making the rounds for years now: Bobby Tanner attempting to go damn near straight up a slick rock wall with grunt and gusto…not easily done on wet tires. Tanner and his rock...

Lonestar Throwdown Is One Bad Ass Truck Show That Draws The Top Trucks From All Over The Country. Here Is The Video!

The Lonestar Throwdown is one of the most bitchin truck shows on the planet, and one where the top custom trucks can always be found. No matter what kind of truck you are into, from laying rocker to...

It’s Tops! This Historic Sales Video For The Allis-Chalmers HD-19 Crawler Tractor Is A Fun Watch

The Allis-Chalmer HD-19 was an important crawler tractor for the company and it was used everywhere from the farm to the battlefield over the years. They were shipped to England as part of the...

To The Rescue: A Traveling Vintage Bus Mechanic’s Rebuild Of A Dead Coach

Something that doesn’t get a lot of thought but should: all of those semi-tractors and buses that ply the roads for years, delivering faithful service…ever give a second thought to what...

Face Towards The Floor: A Driver’s Eye View In A Monster Truck Freestyle!

I have been to exactly one monster truck show, ever: Monster Jam in the Tacoma Dome, back around 1996-ish. As I walked around with the adults who brought me to the venue, I learned a lot about...

Awesome Video: How To Make A Blacksmith’s Anvil Out Of Railroad Track!

(By Greg Rourke) – When it comes to metalworking, you can buy all sorts of high zoot equipment. English wheels, planishing hammers, and all sorts of welding machines. When it comes down to it,...

In-Buggy Video: Ride Along In The Pressure’s On Swamp Buggy As It Roars Around The Mile O’ Mud!

As the season of racing across American limbers up and gets great to start going great guns, we have been seeking out more and more cool in-car videos. In this case we got our hands on an in-buggy...

Unhinged: Motorpool Daydreams Part Two – Putting The Big Trucks To Work

The last time I flashed back to what was in my head while roaming around the motorpool, we had a HMMWV absolutely killing the tires like I could only hope for. Every time I would hop into a HMMWV, I...

Swim For It: How Wrong Can Driving A Geo Tracker Underwater Go?

Ah, the Tracker. Sold as both the Chevrolet and the Geo Tracker, the Suzuki-built mini-SUV might have suffered an identity crisis when they were new…and most of them were that one color of teal...

Gearhead Zen Video: Getting This 1960s Vintage Homelite Gas powered Circular Saw Running Is Awesome

My kids were mystified. A GASOLINE POWERED CIRCULAR SAW?! What kind of freakish, medieval, bizarre implement of doom is this?! Obviously humans did not live in the realm of 18 and 20 volt battery...

Dumb Fun: Watch This Kid Put 4-Foot Wheel Spacers On A Pickup With Predictable (And Funny) Results

For starters, you need to check your attitude at the door here. If you do not approach this video with the idea that you are looking at a guy knowingly doing something goofy, you’re gonna get...

Horsepower, Flight And Mud: Mega Truck Mud Racing From Florida!

Ever since I learned what a “mega truck” was, I’ve seen them in two versions: the super-tall creations that seem happy to just kind of romp in the swampy mud water and look...