Category Archive: BangShift XL, XL Videos
This 1956 Video Profiling 11 Mack Trucks Driving Into The Arctic Is Awesome
Sep 16, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on This 1956 Video Profiling 11 Mack Trucks Driving Into The Arctic Is Awesome
This may be the coolest thing that you will watch today. Made as a promotion film for Mack Trucks in the middle 1950s, this video documents the trip of 11 specialty build behemoth Mack Trucks as they...
The Tijuana SCORE Desert Challenge Will Give You A Completely Different Look At Desert Racing… This Isn’t For The Faint Of Heart
Sep 15, 2019Chad ReynoldsComments Off on The Tijuana SCORE Desert Challenge Will Give You A Completely Different Look At Desert Racing… This Isn’t For The Faint Of Heart
Desert racing is a really tough experience for both drivers and co-pilots, but it goes far beyond the obvious physical stress of bouncing along at break neck speeds. There is so much more going on...
Building A Tracked Amphibious Vehicle At Home Sounds Crazy. Watching Him Do It Might Actually Convince Us He Really Is.
Sep 15, 2019Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Building A Tracked Amphibious Vehicle At Home Sounds Crazy. Watching Him Do It Might Actually Convince Us He Really Is.
There are a lot of project builds going on around the world right this minute, and some are more creative than others. Some are downright crazy when you see just what they are going to become and...
Video: Killer Trucks Take Over The Gulf Coast For Scrapin’ The Coast 2019
Sep 14, 2019Chad Reynolds1
Scrapin’ the Coast is just one of the big shows that takes over the Gulf Coast each year, but if you are into custom trucks then this is the one for you. What started out years ago as a show...
This Gas Monkey Built 1976 C10 Was Totaled And Then Bought By A Guy At Auction And Now He’s Going To See If It Can Be Fixed!
Sep 14, 2019Chad Reynolds3
It seems like Gas Monkey Garage builds seem to get beat on a bit more than the norm and sometimes they end up crashed. We’ve seen several of their builds that have been crashed by staff or new...
Watch The Rite Earthquake 750 Tractor Drag The Pulling Sled Like A Kids Toy
Sep 13, 2019Brian Lohnes1
The Rite Tractor Company of Montana was founded by the Curtis brothers back in the 1950s as a tractor dealer primarily selling equipment under the Wagner brand. They went into the tractor...
Watching Guys Weld Railroad Tracks Together In Siberia Using Thermite And Molten Steel Is Absolutely Awesome
Sep 13, 2019Brian Lohnes3
We mention Siberia only because it is a unique location, not because it is the only place where this practice is used. Now, we will say that further investigation yielded some more modern looking...
A Big Block, A Pulling Sled, 2.5 Ton Rockwells, and A High Hitch Point Add Up To One Heck Of A Wheelie
Sep 11, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on A Big Block, A Pulling Sled, 2.5 Ton Rockwells, and A High Hitch Point Add Up To One Heck Of A Wheelie
We all have our ultimate dream vehicles, right? For my kids at this moment those are the crazy exotics that cost millions of bucks. For older guys maybe it was the car that they could not afford in...
The Beauty In Brutality: The Story Of A Surviving Land Rover Discovery That Ran Camel Trophy
Sep 11, 2019Bryan McTaggartComments Off on The Beauty In Brutality: The Story Of A Surviving Land Rover Discovery That Ran Camel Trophy
The photos and video clips are seared into my brain: heavy mud, jungle tracts that would be a bitch to hike, let alone drive, river crossings, handmade bridges, the kind of stuff that if made today...
Watch This Right Hand Drive Kenworth Logging Truck Power Through Some Deep Water And Muck
Sep 09, 2019Brian Lohnes1
The work that all big rigs put in is pretty amazing but the work that logging trucks perform is about as brutal as it gets in the trucking world by our estimation. The rigs are loaded to the gills...
Vegas 2 Reno 2019 With Bryce Menzies: Off Road Desert Racing Greatness
Sep 08, 2019Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Vegas 2 Reno 2019 With Bryce Menzies: Off Road Desert Racing Greatness
Suspension travel is the key to hauling ass across the desert at big speed. So when you have more than two feet of suspension travel, you can find yourself feeling pretty invincible out on the desert...
These Rock Bouncers Find Out Just How Gnarly A Waterfall Climb Can Be! Flips, Spins, And Tumbles Oh My.
Sep 08, 2019Chad ReynoldsComments Off on These Rock Bouncers Find Out Just How Gnarly A Waterfall Climb Can Be! Flips, Spins, And Tumbles Oh My.
Rock bouncers are pretty awesome rides. They use speed and momentum to almost fly over and through some obstacles. But climbing shear faces and waterfalls takes all the right combo of power,...
Classic YouTube: Toyota’s 1990 Off-Road Racing Season – “Ironman” Stewart And Jeff Huber Flying Toyotas To Victory!
Sep 02, 2019Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Classic YouTube: Toyota’s 1990 Off-Road Racing Season – “Ironman” Stewart And Jeff Huber Flying Toyotas To Victory!
I don’t want to know how many quarters I dumped into an “Ivan ‘Ironman’ Stewart’s Super Off Road” arcade game when I was a kid…the figures might make me...
Finnegan Found A Good Trade For His Big Red Ramp Truck. Wait Until You See This Thing.
Sep 01, 2019Chad Reynolds1
Weeks ago Finnegan put the word out that he wanted to hear from all of you in the car world with any, and we mean ANY trades that you might be willing to make for his Big Red Ramp Truck. He told all...