Category Archive: XL Spotlight, XL Videos
The 2015 Nitto Tires King Of The Hammers Week Is LIVE RIGHT HERE!!!!
That’s right folks, we’ve got Nitto King of the Hammers Off-Road Racing action coming to you live tonight and throughout the week. BangShift will also be on site getting you photos this...
Legends: Interview With Baja Royalty, Malcolm Smith, Winner Of The 1st Baja 1000
In 1967 Malcolm Smith heard about a race that would run all the way down the Baja Peninsula in Mexico, and was just crazy enough to think it was a great idea. If that was the only great thing he ever...
This Kelderman Built 2015 Ford F-350 King Ranch Tops The Charts In Size, Capability, And Comfort
(Words by Kasey Sutherland – Photos by DWS Photography) – When you see a truck that catches your eye, sometimes you just have to have it. When Todd Peverill came across a Super Duty on...
Tire Thrash: We Test The New BFGoodrich All-Terrain T/A KO2 Through Snow And Ice In Sub-Zero Temps!
(Trail Action Photos by Dave Nutting – Tire Photos by BFG) – Along with the coolness of the Red Bull Frozen Rush event that Nutting and I covered a few weeks ago, there was also some...
The Camaro TRAR Or The Kids In The Photos? Which Is Cooler?
When BangShifter Tyler Garrett, who drives a 4000 horsepower Coast Guard Cutter by the way, sent us this Craigslist ad for a 4th Gen Camaro TRAR (Truck Car), the email just said “Welcome to...
Best Of BangShift: Is This The Worst Welding Job Ever? One BangShifter Got The Job To Fix This Disaster
Last night, I was cruising the BangShift forums and came across a thread titled, “You should not be welding anything”. Naturally I was pretty interested to see what that was all about and...
Best of 2014: An Ohio Scrap Yard Owner Bought A Bunch Of WWII Era Planes In The Late 1940s To “Save” Them – They’re Now All Rotting In The Woods – Amazing Photos
Walter Soplata must have been an interesting dude. After all, the guy went on a pretty amazing buying spree in the late 1940s, buying old warplanes that had participated in WWII in an effort to...
Red Bull Frozen Rush 2014: We Go Rollin’ With Ricky Johnson In A Pro 2 Truck Through The Snow! Big Fun With The Legend Himself
BangShift has afforded me a bunch of opportunities to do neat things with interesting people but I am not sure anything compared to ripping around in the snow with Ricky Johnson last week as a bit of...
Raminator Breaks Monster Truck Speed Record At Circuit Of The Americas
Monster trucks aren’t just for dirt arenas and this story will prove how much power and grace it takes to move 11,000 pounds with a 565 cubic inch HEMI during an attempt to set the “Fastest...
The Mega X2 Company Builds The Biggest And Most Awesome Custom Trucks We Have Ever Seen – Factory Quality On A HUGE Scale
That’s not a photoshop job in the photo above, that’s a sample of the work done by a Utah company called Mega X2. They take big trucks and make them even bigger by stretching the frames,...
Please Welcome Kelderman Air Suspension Systems To BangShift.com And BangShiftXL!
Brian and I are very excited to announce that Kelderman Air Suspension Systems has officially joined the BangShift Family of sponsors! And not only that, Kelderman will now be the BangShift XL...
Behind The Scenes Video Of The Big Rig Jumping The Formula 1 Car! Check it out!
We just found this brand new video of the recent World Record Big Rig jump, where Mike Ryan jumped a big rig with trailer OVER a MOVING Formula 1 car. You read that right, here is more video of the...
This Old School 1993 Dodge Monster Truck Is The Big Yellow Rig Of Our Dreams
There’s nothing cooler than a steel bodied monster truck. Just this weekend I was watching Return of the Monster Trucks with my sons and reveling in how cool all those old rigs were. No, they...
Ken Kelley’s 1956 Ford F-100 Is Fat In All The Right Places, Just Like An Effie Should Be And Now It Is For Sale
(Words and Photos by Kaleb Kelley) Here at BangShift, we like a little bit of everything. Some oddities that normally would be frowned upon, we love. We also like some of the iconic cars and trucks...