Category Archive: XL Spotlight, XL Videos
High Flying Short Course And Pre Runner Fun At TCB Ranch In SoCal
When we did the Junkyard Challenge off-road truck build show last year it was an absolute riot hanging out at TCB Ranch near Murrieta California. I called the ranch home for more than a week, and had...
The Mud Pit From Hell – Try As They Might, They All Sink To The Bottom!
Do you remember the kite-eating tree in the Peanuts comic strip? No matter what Charlie Brown did to avoid fate, his kite wound up getting taken out by the one single, solitary tree that just had it...
Video: Why You Shouldn’t Blow Donuts in Your Lifted Jeep
Modern automotive suspensions are awesome and complex, but the components and engineering that go into the suspensions of serious off road trucks are totally wild. Their abilities to bend and flex,...
BangShifty Resto Video: Watch This 100 Year Old Gasoline Powered Drag Saw Get Torn Down – So Cool!
This is the most ambitious project that Mr. Hand Tool Rescue has scooped up and begun the process on in his shop. It’s also the first video we have watched with his narration and that brings...
Behemoth Bogger: Off-Roading A Monster Cadillac Convertible Trar In The Woods
The beastly Coupe de Ville that Jacob Davis has been trying to will into life for some reason or another is alive and somehow is moving under it’s own power. How well? Don’t ask too many...
Watch This Elephant Turn A Pretty Big Truck Over After Playing With It Like A Toy
Strength is one of those relative things that we think we understand as humans but we really don’t. It is one thing to see a video of an elephant picking up a tree in the wild and throwing it...
This 1979 Chevrolet Video Promoting The LUV Truck Is Cool – Slanted Comparison For The Win!
The Chevrolet LUV Truck was a home run for GM. Starting in 1972 when the hit the market, the LUV was a staple in the company’s lineup all the way into the early 1980s when it was replaced by...
Video – Hot Rodded Oliver Inline Six Tractor Engine Make 405hp And 560+ lb/ft On The Dyno Naturally Aspirated!
When one thinks of an antique tractor pulling engine thoughts normally wander to updraft carbs and old oil and grease seeping around ancient bolt heads. If that’s what you actually think that...
SUV Of Doom: Watch This Denali Spin Both Rollers On An AWD Dyno To The Tune Of 775HP To The Tires!
We’ve said it a lot over the years and the fact is nothing is cooler in our book than big and fast. Big is good, fast is good, but big and fast together? That’s as nice as beer and...
Slow Air In – Fast Air Out: This 60+ Year Old Film About Gas Turbines Is Awesome, Great History, Tech, More
While theory and ideas that make gas turbine engine function have long been known by humanity, it was really little more than 100 years ago that people had the means to make them into anything that...
Ever Seen A Locomotive Do A Burnout? This Is One Heck Of A Look At One!
It seems impossible that something as insanely heavy as a locomotive could ever break traction on dry tracks but this video proves that these things make such immense torque through their diesel...
Short Stack Torque Maker: This Blown 400ci Small Block Chevy Makes 681hp and All The Twist
Meh, a 680hp small block you say. Why bother watching the video, right? Just another engine that doesn’t make 1,000hp and doesn’t cause some dude’s YouTube project to pull a flaming...
More Mickey: This 1990s Profile Of Mickey Thompson Is Filled With Old Footage We’ve Never Seen
A couple of weeks ago, we directed you to check out the little mini-documentary that Freiburger had made about Mickey Thompson and his quest to run 400mph on the salt. Well today we’re back...
