Category Archive: BangShift News, BangShift XL, MISC, RACING & ACTION, Videos, XL Truck News, XL Videos

Why Be Normal? This Video Features Weird, Cool, Different, and Just Plain Odd Stuff Hooked To The Pulling Sled!

As we all know, variety is the spice of life and the same goes for racing and automotive competition. In this case we are talking about truck and tractor pulling and how sometimes the oddball junk...

FJ45 Rock Crawler Project: It Might Be The Ultimate Rock Crawler But Will People Want To Kill For Cutting Up An FJ45?

If you know old Toyota Land Cruisers then you know that an FJ40 is an iconic off-roader. Like a Jeep CJ, it’s a short wheelbase little utility ride that can be built into anything. The FJ60 on...

Cool Video: Fabricating Headers For The Wild Banks Engineering SEMA Truck Build

You know when Gale Banks throws the combined efforts of his company into creating a truck to display their skills and ability at the SEMA Show, great things are afoot. As it turns out, this truck was...

This Mini Pinzgauer 6×6 Project Is A Cool Way To End Up With A Side By Side Nobody Else Will Have

With side by side UTVs being all the rage in recent years, whether for fun or utility, there is no shortage of options for whatever you are looking for. But what if you want something that is truly...

Cutting Vent Window Glass With An Angle Grinder: The General Gets New Vent Windows

Cutting glass isn’t a complicated task when you are talking about flat glass for a hot rod, custom, or truck, but that doesn’t mean you can’t screw it up or be intimidated by it. In...

Grinder TV Road Trips To C10’s In The Park For Chevrolet Truck Greatness

C10’s in the park is one of the must attend truck events in the country, and yet it has a very limited number of entries due to its small venue. That just makes it an awesome and exclusive...

Watch An Austrian Blacksmith Use A Drop Hammer Built Hundreds Of Years Ago

Old tools are a fascination for practically anyone who loves working on stuff. Old tools have an aura because they are direct extensions of the humans that used them. Whether we are talking about the...

The American Powertrain Parting Shift: 9-Gears, No Mufflers, An A Detroit Diesel

Any video that proclaims glee in breaking local noise ordinances is just fine with us! Here we take a ride in a 1985 GMC Brigadier truck as its owner leaves the local fueling station and cruises it...

Vannin’ Aussie Style: This 1970s Look At The Van Club Culture In Australia Is Awesome

It’s always wild how similar cultures kind of fall into similar things with very little way to know that each is doing it. In the 1970s, the “vanning” culture in America exploded....

This Crazy Video From The 1920s Shows Caterpillar Tractors Racing In A Way That Will Blow Your Mind

Before you go rolling your eyes and skipping this video give it a chance. This is completely mental and it is for reasons that you need to see to understand. We have no idea about the background of...

Saving History: This Restoration Of A 250-Year Old Colonial-Era Hammer Is Awesome

What are restorations but preservations of history, right? We like watching them for various reasons. In the arena of machinery we like them because we get to see the inner guts of different things...

Would You Buy This Online? Unboxing & Testing A Chinese “$2,000” ELECTRIC Truck!

Buying stuff online has become the norm in the past few years, but buying an electric truck that is designed and built in China and is not regularly for sale here in the United States is a bit of a...

DIY Gooseneck Trailer Build: Building a Gooseneck Trailer From Scratch!

If you don’t own a trailer of some kind, and have never looked at one close, then you might not have considered building your own trailer. But if you have ever looked at one from underneath or...

You Wish: This Comparison Between A Real Makita Electric Impact And A Wish Knockoff Is Pretty Great

This is some great stuff. Before today we never knew of the Torque Test Channel on YouTube. These guys have built all kinds of neat testing rigs to see if impact tools live up to their advertised...