Category Archive: BangShift XL, XL Videos
Unadulterated Rocky Hell: The 24 Hell And Back Trail Challenge
When I first started reading off-road mags like 4Wheel and Off Road and Four Wheeler, the basic premise of off-roaders were easily grouped into categories. You had sand runners, you had mudders, you...
It Screams: A Twin-Engined Rotary Pulling Tractor From Australia!
Pulling tractors…what engine comes to mind? A stonkin’ diesel with compound turbos? Five alcohol-swilling Hemis that are just barely on the verge of sanity? Three turbines? All good...
Classic YouTube: Watch As This Mud Drag Driver Gets Rattled Inside Of The Cage Like A Shaken Bobblehead Doll
Strap into a race car of any type and you have officially accepted 100% of any and all risk that comes with operating it. It doesn’t matter what type of racing you do. A five horsepower early...
When The Announcer Becomes The Driver: Watch Mike Gallaway Pilot Bigfoot Around A Parking Lot Back In The Day
If you grew up watching pulling, mud bogging, or monster trucks, you know Mike Gallaway. He was a prolific announcer of that stuff and someone who’s voice would be coming through your TV screen...
All Four Turnin’: Outlaw Open 4×4 Trucks Pulling At Millers Tavern
Nothing against the built tractors, the radical Outlaws or even the wheel-standing 2wd classes, but for me, this is the pulling class that I came to watch. This is where pulling...
Beast On A Budget: Watch This 1,000hp Naturally Aspirated Big Block Get Built, Dynoed, and Bogged
Before you freak out and question our use of the word “budget” in the title, understand that in every case “budget” means something different. At 18 years old you were on a...
Odd Moment of Zen: This Video of Ships Intentionally Running Ashore Is Kind of Awesome
This is one of those moments when I really have to recognize how weird that I am. Watching this video was both entertaining and oddly calming to me and I have no idea why. What you are about to see...
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...
