Category Archive: BangShift XL, XL Event Coverage, XL Gallery

Mud Bog and Monster Truck Time Machine: Here’s The Scene, The Rigs, and The Muck From Newkirk, Oklahoma Circa 1984

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Here’s the latest installment of our mud bog and monster truck time machine stories. Heading further North on our wayback journey we turn to NewKirk,...

Mud Bog Time Machine: More Rigs, More Muck, and More Action From Oklahoma In The 1980s

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Part three of our time-traveling adventure takes us to my hometown (Blackwell, OK) and the mud events there.  I believe most of these were put on by the...

Mud Bog Time Machine: Let’s Take A Trip Back To The Gumbo Of Hennessey, Oklahoma 1983/84

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – This is the second in a new, throwback (wow…) series I put together from my photo archive.  First stop is a mud bog near Hennessey, OK situated on the...

Mud Bog Time Machine: Early 1980s Mud Bog Action From Oklahoma – Awesome Rigs!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Part one of our expedition to yesteryear takes us to Perry, OK.  Situated just off Interstate 35, Perry is home to the Cherokee Strip Museum and the...

Nitto King Of The Hammers 2016: Unlimited Ultra4 Coverage You Can’t Miss!

If we had a time machine we’d move the invention of King of the Hammers back to the middle 1960s. Why? Because then we’d be able to see guys like Mickey Thompson, Bill Stroppe, Parnelli...

Unlimited Ultra4 Gallery: Nitto King Of The Hammers Off Road Action Photos Continue

(Photos by Chad) – One of the reasons lots of the country enjoys seeing photos and watching videos from events like King of the Hammers is because many of us don’t have access to the...

The King of The Hammers Photos Continue! More Ultra 4 Unlimited Craziness From Johnson Valley

(Photos by Chad) – What some people don’t realize about the NITTO King of the Hammers is that there are multiple classes of competition and like in any multi-class motorsport...

Ultra4 Nitto King Of The Hammers 2016 High Flying Photos Are Right Here!

The Nitto Tires King of the Hammers 2016 did not disappoint, it was an awesome event with tons of action and we shot an insane number of photos to share with you guys. In fact, we’ll have...

More King Of The Hammers Ultra4 Racing Photos Right Here!

We’re going to have even more photos for you over the coming days, but we couldn’t leave you hanging this Saturday before Super Bowl. Here are more of our Every Man Challenge photos from...

Tire Slog: We Test The BFGoodrich All-Terrain T/A KO2 In Muck, Mire, and Snow

(Words by Lohnes and McTaggart) – Just about a year ago, Nutting and I went into the wilds of Maine with the fine people of BFGoodrich to test our their All Terrain T/A KO2 tire. This is the...

Red Bull Frozen Rush 2016 Coverage – More Action From Sunday River!

Maine is exactly as I expected it to be: tranquil, beautiful, and cold. Sure, it’s not the -15 or so that Lohnes and Nutting got to experience last year, but there was snow on the ground and a...

Red Bull Frozen Rush 2016: More Snow-Flinging, Truck Flying Action

By now, the race teams are likely halfway across the country heading for home. See, the neat thing about Red Bull Frozen Rush is that while the competition happens in Maine, none of the teams are...

Truckin’ History: Historic Engines, Cool Trucks, And Old School Components At Mack Truck

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – We have showed you all kinds of cool stuff from Joe Grippo’s trip to the Mack Visitor’s center in Allentown, Pennsylvania and we’re capping it off...

Red Bull Frozen Rush Coverage: More High Flying Action From The Great Event In Maine

One of the overlying questions we had for the Red Bull Frozen Rush racers involved the mechanical approach to the event. Did they change the suspension systems, make tuning adjustments to the engine,...