Category Archive: XL Off Road Feature, XL Spotlight, XL Truck Feature, XL Videos

This Doomsday Or Ultimate Adventure Ready Unimog Went From Fire Truck To Zombie Ready In The Most Epic Way

This is one hell of a Unimog. I have been drooling over them again lately, even though I know that I have zero time or money to put into one. But when I get ready to build an off-road expedition type...

Watch What Happens When A Pro Stock Pulling Big Rig Suffers A Universal Joint Failure While Hauling The Sled

We’ve showed you lots of videos of pulling trucks and tractors suffering big time engine failures while trying to drag the mighty sled down course. This is one of the first videos we’ll...

Scott Visits A Super Secret Stash Of Muscle Cars, And Shares It All With Us Right Here!

Every time you hear about a stash of muscle cars, or barn finds, or whatever, you think to yourself that there is no way there could be any more of these to find. And yet somehow there are. Of course...

Project Henry’s Hot Rod Update: Picking Off The Little Stuff And A Late Braking Issue That’s A Potential Nightmare

We’re back with another update on our 1940s mongrel N-series Ford tractor project. If you have not been following since the start, we scored this tractor on the cheap and made it run and...

Today’s Fab Project: A Custom Plate Rear Bumper You Can Build As Well. Click To Get The Plans For Yourself

If you missed the build of the front bumper, then click the link below so you can see that one go together too. In this video a great custom plate bumper goes together for the back of the truck,...

Awesome Historical Video: Celebrate The Amazing Success Of The WWII Red Ball Express Truckers With This 1941 Film

It has often been said that horsepower won WWII and perhaps there was no greater example of that than an 81-day period shortly after the D-Day Invasion of June 6th, 1944. Why? It was during this time...

DIY HiLift Jack Mods You Can Do At Home. This Is a Great Saturday Fab Project

If you’ve never used a H-iLift jack, it is very similar in operation to the bumper jacks that came in 1960s cars. That means that it is also sometimes just as clumsy. Of course the H-iLift is...

The Bad Apple 1947 Chevrolet Truck Is Patina Greatness. Watch The Build At Tre 5 Customs Now.

Video series that show the build of a custom car or truck are always fun to watch, and in some cases I really like seeing all the work, all the details, and all the drama. But sometimes I like an...

You’ll Never Believe How Stuck This Excavator Is! Watch Them Dig It Out And Move It With Another One

I’ve stuck a tractor or two in my day, and every time it sucks, even if you just need to hook the pickup to it and yank it out. But to rent a machine, and then bury a machine, to this level?...

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Mild To Wild: 700 And 1,000 Horsepower Gen 3 HEMI Builds You Can Do Too!

Our boy Richard Holdener is back at it, and this time he’s making big power with late model Gen 3 HEMIs. In recent years, with the development of the Hellcat platforms, Mopar has made...

Bad Shift: Listen To This Student Truck Driver Grind A Transmission Into Submission

As much as people do not want to admit it, operating a vehicle is a skill. It is a skill that you learn and refine over time. This is doubly true if you are a commercial driver who makes their living...

Built To Roam: UNIMOG EXPEDITION VEHICLE Walkaround And First Trip! – 1983 Ex-Army Mercedes Benz Unimog U1700L

Maybe I’m weird, but I’ve always thought that going out in an expedition vehicle to travel some of the world would be an epic adventure. Not only because you would be on a killer road...

Small Block Ford Intake Testing – Single vs Dual Plane On Both 351 Cleveland And Windsor

The world of intake manifolds is a diverse one, where dual plane, single plane, tunnel ram, IR, cross ram, long runner and short are available for just about every popular engine combo. And because...

Rust Repair How To: Fixing Trunk Flange Gutters The Right Way With Fitzee

Rust repair definitely ranks in the top 10 things most hot rodders and racers dread or fear, and I have to admit that I was one of those folks for a very long time. Now I’m no body work guy, so...