Category Archive: BangShift XL, XL Videos
Nasty Dyno Video: Watch This 1,000hp Turbocharged Buggy Make A Dyno Rip – Awesome!
Putting a 1,000hp turbocharged off-road buggy on the dyno rollers is bound to be fun but this video proves just how wild it is. Equipped with a super awesome Aussie built Albins trans axle and a...
Dragline Videos! This Big Old Machines Still Have Their Place – Especially In The BangShift Hall Of Fame!
(By Greg Rourke) – There are lots of ways to move a bunch of dirt. You can use a wheelbarrow and a shovel, but where’s the fun in that. Backhoes, bulldozers, skid loaders, and excavators...
Morning Symphony: Wheel-Standing Mega Trucks On The Sled
I don’t know if it’s just me, but the one takeaway I remember from watching tractor and sled pulls on television back in the late 1980s was that everything that hitched up to the weight...
Video: The Sverige S1 Is A 2,000hp Mahogany Boat Built To Fulfill The Dreams Of Swedish Engineers From 80 Years Ago
We’ve run stories in the past telling you about the incredible racing boats of the 1920s and 1930s that were commissioned and operated by wildly rich guys of that era. Guys like Gar Wood and...
Watch A Pulling Tractor Destroy Four Blown Hemis Instantly – Multiple Hemis End Up In A Pile!
The only way to destroy four blown hemis quicker than it happens in this video would be to stuff them full of dynamite and explode them as they fell off a bridge into the ocean. Other than that,...
Awesome Video: See Big Red, Ford’s Massive, Turbine Powered, 1960s Futuristic Big Rig Cruise!
We have showed you photos and given you the history of Big Red, Ford’s experimental turbine powered big rig that was created in the 1960s. It was a massive truck standing 13-ft high and...
Power To Its Core: This Neat Demonstration Shows An Optima Battery Powering Its Own Deconstruction!
Sometimes we all take for granted that everyone’s on the same page when it comes to the way that things work, right? For instance, when we talk about Optima batteries and tell you that they are...
Video From Inside A Tire While Driving Is Fantastic: A Weird View Of The Rolling World!
This is about the wildest video that we have seen in a while. Mounting a GoPro INSIDE a tire and driving around is the type of stuff that can only happen in 2020, right? It would not have been long...
Watching This Miniature Flat Plane Crankshaft Being Machined From A Piece Of Bar Stock Is Gearhead Zen
It may seem bizarre to say this out loud but some of the most honest and hardcore hot rodding in the world today happens in miniature engines. The guys who build these from scratch do not have a...
Foose Does The XJ: Check Out This Cool Video As Chip Foose Sketches Up His Own Personal Dream Jeep
One of the things we have loved about this series of Chip Foose videos on the Hagerty YouTube channel is that he takes these iconic cars and kind of breaks down their basic design elements while...
Mall Cruiser Or Mud-Bogging LuxuryLiner? Bogging In Trars In The Woods!
I’ve seen HMMWVs sunk up to the top of the windshield frame and LMTVs that couldn’t find any traction whatsoever in the slop. I’ve seen a K5 Blazer on 35-inch tires sunk up the tops...
The Drag Saw Rescue Is Done: Check Out The Big Finish Of Final Assembly And Running This 120 Year Old Man Eater
This right here is some good stuff. A couple of weeks ago we posted the first part of the restoration of this 120 year old gas powered drag saw that was used by loggers to hack up trees into chunks....
This WWII Video That Shows B-29 Bomber Crewman Inspecting Their Badly Damaged Plane After Returning To Base Is Amazing
I was cruising the Critical Past YouTube channel recently because it is chock full of amazing footage from the last 100 years of American history, particularly WWII. The video I found that really...
TRAR Heaven: Odd Off Roaders At The First Deathwish Mud Buggy Adventure
Oh, lord…thank you, Josh Mazerolle, for giving us an idea that we didn’t know we needed to entertain. Look at the lineup…a Dodge Charger, a Volvo wagon, several Panther-bodied cars,...