Category Archive: XL Spotlight, XL Videos

Robby Gordon Helmet Cam From Baja 1000 Qualifying Last Night!

Baja 1000 Qualifying is a bad ass affair at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas, and for 2015 it got even crazier. Unfortunately I didn’t get to make the trip over to the track for a ride, but McTaggart...

Edelbrock Jumps Into The Diesel World With New Aluminum Duramax Cylinder Heads

It was a long way across the convention hall when I laid eyes on what I thought was an odd looking cylinder head at the Edelbrock display. It looked pretty long, it looked pretty wide, and it looked...

Video: What Happens When You Take A Twin Turbo Silverado Into The Dealership?

The guys at Armageddon Turbo recently played a joke on some unsuspecting technicians and service advisers at the local Chevrolet dealership when they took their twin turbo 2015 Silverado in to see if...

Dodge B300 Ramp Truck Greatness: This 1973 B300 Dovetail Has Got It All!

Custom Ramp Truck greatness yo! This Dodge B300 is one bitchin ramp truck. Unlike most, this one is more of a flatbed with a dovetail ramp out back, but we love it. And the B300 Dodge Van body is...

2015 SEMA Coverage: Trucks Of All Shapes and Sizes From Outside The 2015 SEMA Show

As promised, our coverage of the 2015 SEMA Show starts today. Technically the event does not begin until tomorrow but we got here early and cruised the massive area in front of the Las Vegas...

A Chevy Vega 4×4 Trar? Why Yes, We Really Like That!

I don’t know what it is about 24 Hours of Lemons events, but they always attract some really interesting daily drivers and other cool rides. I have now attended two Lemons events in my...

OMG This Could Be The Best Single Cab Dually Ever…Holy Crap This Thing Is Cool!

I’m a little excited about this one. This could be the best single cab dually ever, and I want it bad. If it was a crew cab and looked like this it would be sitting waiting for the...

The Truck Of All Trucks, QUAGMIRE IS FOR SALE!!! Buy This Epic Icon And Wheel It!

If you don’t know Quagmire then we might have to pull your BangShiftXL truck guy card. This truck was featured in all kinds of stuff in the 1990’s and was on the cover of Petersen’s...

Take A Look At This! A 1958 Ford C-800 Fire Truck Turned Ramp Truck Car Hauler!

The other day we put up a listing for a fire truck that was up for auction with no reserve and said that someone should get it and turn it into a ramp truck. Well that’s exactly what this guy...

Wow! This Is One Crazy International Harvester Rat Rod Pickup!

We are not always the biggest fans of the cartoon “Rat Rods”, but there is something about this one that we dig. In fact when I sent the link to Brian to check out his comment was...

Watch Peugeot Build A Team And Three Trucks For The 2015 Dakar Rally, From Scratch

I can’t say I’m some big Peugeot fan, but I can tell you that I’m a big Dakar fan. So when I saw this cool video that was put together by Peugeot to show what they went through to...

FAIL! Watch The Mad Maxx Mega Truck Fail At The Backflip

This was less than spectacular, and certainly not the way the driver of the Mad Maxx Mega Truck wanted this to go. It’s all wrong from the moment it hits the backflip ramp, and it only gets...

No Reserve! Buy This Fire Truck For Cheap! Ramp Truck Baby!

I know, we’ve been on a ramp truck kick this week, but we can’t help ourselves. Take a look at this 1979 Ford 800 Fire Truck that is for sale in Mississippi for NO RESERVE! As of the...

Military Motorhome In The Making! This 1994 M1079 LMTV Is Ready To Rock!

We dig big giant army trucks, I mean who doesn’t right? The M1079 was originally part of the 82nd Airborne of Fort Bragg, and is in awesome shape. It’s got a 6 cylinder CAT diesel with...