Category Archive: XL Spotlight, XL Videos
The Reign Of Rocks Rock Crawling Competition Starts Here: 8 Trucks, Big Challenges, And One Winner
The Reign of Rocks Rock Crawling Competition is looking to be one for the books, as 8 drivers and their rigs are pitted against each other and the rocks of Tennessee. Located at Chinquipin Off-Road...
This Homemade Russian Tractor Is An Incredible Mashup Of Dirt Bikes Parts, Chains, Jack Shafts, and Win!
It was Archimedes who said, “Give me a place to stand and a long enough lever and I will move the world.” It was this Russian guy who said, “Give me some JAWA 250 dirt bike parts, a...
Here’s How To Build Your Own Custom Plate Bumper Without Too Many Fancy Tools
Building customs bumpers can be a daunting task if you want something that fits nice, looks like it belongs, and is built tough enough to be useful. If you just want to cut a piece of pipe and weld...
UTV Takeover At Sand Hollow Utah Is One Bad Ass Event! Watch This Crazy Action!
When Blake Wilkey goes to an event and says it is amazing, you know it has to be good. When he says that it is one of his favorite spots, you know its really, really good. Such is the case with UTV...
Comedic Towing Failure Video: You Think You Know What’s About To Happen But There’s A Plot Twist
(WORDS BY GREG ROURKE) – File this one under “Apparently we don’t spend any time on Youtube and see that this happens EVERY DAMN TIME.” This appears to be India or Pakistan,...
Cool Video: This Computer Recreation Of The Red Baron’s Last Dogfight Is A Neat Look Into Old School Military Aviation
Being that it is Saturday we thought it was OK to stretch the bounds of our normal wide scope a little and share with you this video that is a computer recreation of Manfred von Richthofen, better...
Cool Old Video: Did You Know That GMC Worked With Lotus On Active Suspension For Trucks In The Late 1980s?
This is one of those, “wait…what?” moments for us. Apparently in the late 1980s General Motors and Lotus were working together on active suspension systems and the plan was...
Best of 2020: Fixing A Dump Truck’s Broken Rear Axle In Pakistan
If there was one really big automotive take-away from my time spent in Iraq, it was that if you had a medium-duty truck of just about any type, you had the ability to work. Flatbed, dump, stakebed,...
Best of 2020: This Kid Drives A Truck And Runs The Gears Better Than You
When I was nine years old, I thought I was leaps and bounds over everybody else by being able to drive a car. Get in, start it, move it around without hitting anything, even drive it around a little...
The Toyota Man Cometh: This Review Of The 1993 Toyota T100 Was A Wildly Prescient Look Into The Future
It was monumental news when Toyota said that it was going to step up its truck game in the early 1990s with the addition of the T100 model. This was going to be a small-ish truck that was kind of in...
Dyno Shootout Fun: Watch The Most Popular LSx Intake Manifolds On The Market Battle Head To Head!
The battle for the hearts and minds of aftermarket shoppers is raging, especially in the LSx world. Over the course of a year that saw so many facets of the world really suffer, the high performance...
Project Henry’s Hot Rod Video Update: The World’s Quickest And Easiest Swap Is Complete
If there was one thing that has been bugging me since taking our little Ford N-series project tractor home it was the stack exhaust that someone had added over the years. Not pleasing to the eye, not...
This 1960 GMC Video Heralds The Introduction Of The Latest Heavy Duty Trucks, Including The Famed Crackerbox
Here’s a short and sweet video from the GM Heritage Center that harks back to 1960 and the introduction of GMCs new heavy duty truck models. The main star of the show is a Viking cab-over truck...
