Category Archive: XL Off Road Feature, XL Videos
Shreddy Life Is Building A Class 11 Volkswagen! This Is The Gnarliest Class At Baja Period
Class 11 is the nearly stock VW beetle class that SCORE runs in Baja and it is without a doubt the most difficult class to finish in each and every year. Any racer in Mexico knows that these...
LS Fest X Quick Take: Polaris RZR
Last year I got the opportunity to blast a Polaris RZR around on desert trails in southern Nevada as part of a BFGoodrich promotion for the Mint 400. Of all the things that I could say about the...
The Rtech Fabrications Built Ponderosa 1966 Chevrolet Crew Cab 4×4 Dually Truck Is One Awesome Beast
If you aren’t familiar with the crew over at Rtech Fabrications, you certainly need to be. They build trucks that never came from the factory and build them in a way that makes you question...
This Super C Motorhome Is A Military Grade Giant That Would Be An Epic Off-Road Adventurer
I like RVs and I cannot lie! Of course my norm isn’t something this gnarly and huge, but I’ll take it! This is one of those things that pulls into the campground or out on the beach and...
A Diesel Stroker That Isn’t A Cummins: Innovative Thinking And Machine Work Make This 383cid Power Stroker Fly
Normally when we talk about stroked diesel engines around here, we’re talking about Cummins inline six power plants. There are multiple options out there on the market for stretching the...
BangShift Feature: The Story Of The Lost and Forgotten WWII Ford Sea Jeeps
In late 1941, after signing off on construction of the original Jeep vehicles, the US government threw out a new challenge to manufacturers. That challenge was to design an amphibious version of the...
Meet Chupacabra, A 1955 Desoto Fireflite That Is Off-Road Perfection. Wait, What?
(Words by Olivia Scaffidi and Photos by Dave Mackey) The 1955 Desoto Fireflite owned and built by Dave Mackey of Marysville, Washington is a regular competitor in the Gambler 500, which we...
SEMA 2017: The After Shock Low Talent Recovery Side By Side Is BangShifty And One Bad Mother!
Now this is BangShifty! When we were cruising the aisles of SEMA 2017, we did not expect to find a killer modified side by side that is designed to help those who don’t know when to say when...
SEMA 2017 Coverage: OMIX-ADA Absolutely Slayed Us With This Amazing Collection of WWII Era Jeeps – Learn Stuff!
So each and every year in a corner nook of the upper south hall at SEMA a company called OMIX-ADA has a display of killer Jeeps. Not Jeeps parked on each other or Jeeps that are on 26″ wheels...
Motorized Freak of the Week: The LeTourneau L-2350 – W/Video!
This week’s freak hasn’t been chosen because it was a failure, quite the opposite actually. This thing is a (literal) huge success. The LeTourneau L-2350 is the largest front end loader...
The Baja Ranchero Is The Coolest Truck Build You’ve Never Heard Of – Until Now
When Allen Repashy reached out to us and said that we should take a look at the Baja Ranchero project he is neck deep into, it looked interesting enough. When we actually got in there and looked at...
BangShift (Off) Road Test: The 2017 Ram 2500 Power Wagon
(Photos by Dave Nutting and Tony Sestito) – Athletes come in all shapes and sizes. From the string bean marathon runners to the brutes that power lift twice their body weight, there’s a...
Power Wagon Week: This 1978 Dodge W100 Power Wagon Is Survivor Perfection
(Photos by Dave Nutting) – As sure as I am sitting here typing this, I can say that Jim Dayotas’s 1978 Dodge W100 Power Wagon truck is one of the coolest vehicles we have ever featured on...
Random Car Review: The 1957-1962 Tucker Model 222 “Sno-Kitten”
I don’t care if the Spring Equinox is a little over a week away, it’s Spring at BangShift Mid-West HQ. The grass is growing, the saturated fields are finally drying out, the house finches...