Category Archive: BangShift XL, RACING & ACTION, XL Spotlight, XL Videos
The 2020 Dakar Rally Is On And Man Is It A Beast! Saudi Arabia, And It’s Crazy Variety Of Terrain And Sand, Is Home To This Historic Spectacle
I first started really watching the Dakar Rally back in the late 1990s and couldn’t believe just how cool this race was to watch on TV. For years I looked forward to it and thought it would be...
4 Teams, 4 Junkyard Trucks, $6,000, And 1 Week To Buy A Truck And Build It Into The Ultimate Off-Road Machine In Pursuit Of The $10,000 Prize.
The Horsepower Wars Junkyard Challenge presented by K&N is the ultimate test of 4 man teams in an effort to build the ultimate low buck off-road machine. Each team has been given $2,500 to buy a...
Hitting The Dusty Trail: Take A Tour Of This Converted TopKick Ambulance!
When I was a teenager, I dreamed of a setup like this: a large truck, a big box on the back to sleep in, and no reason to deal with anybody on the planet anymore. It made sense in my head, but...
Legends, Mate: The Best Off-Roading Shots Of 2019 From Sick Puppy 4×4!
I could simply write one sentence about this video and walk away. Seriously, one sentence – The chopped-up Nissan gets rolled before the opening credits roll, how good can this be? – and...
Best of 2019: The Man Who’d Rather Drive A Truck Than A Car – This 1975 Dodge Pickup Truck Commercial Is Fun
A tough looking truck sloshing through puddles, hauling hay, and driving over dirt roads in a vast landscape. That’s pretty much 67% of every truck commercial ever made from the present day all...
Best of 2019: Te Definition Of Tuff Truck: Watch This Jeep Cherokee Get Pounded!
We’re not sure if the driver ever walked in a fully upright position after completing this Tuff Truck run at the 2018 Lebanon Fair in Pennsylvania. We have seen plenty of gutsy tuff truck runs...
Best of 2019: If You Have Ever Wondered How A Roots Blower Works, This Animation Is Just The Ticket
They were a novel pump. The Roots brothers invented the design in Civil War America and Roots pumps were used for moving air into mines, moving water where it needed to go, and even used to feed...
Best of 2019: The Liwa Sand Dune Hillclimb In The UAE
Gearheads can be found in every corner of the planet. Every last one. From Chevrolet Opalas racing in the jungles of South America to the brutal off-roaders of the remote Russian forests, if vehicles...
Best of 2019: Katech Made Nearly 1,500hp With Their Stock Bottom End LT5 Before They Called it Quits
A couple of weeks go we reported on the 1,000+hp LT5 that Katech had created with the stock fuel system and minimal amounts of bolt on parts. That particular engine still had the stock camshaft in...
Best of 2019: Watch This Crusher Bound Detroit Diesel V-16 Two Stroke Go Out With Its Boots On
Many of you are going to hate this video because it involves the destruction of an engine and a cool engine at that. Many of you will be disgusted by seeing a crusher bound Detroit Diesel V-16 two...
Best of 2019: The Union Pacific #4014 Big Boy and #844 Steam Locomotives In Action
I don’t know of any little kid that isn’t fascinated by trains. Whether it was listening to the freight trains of the Illinois Central line rip past the backyard of my stepmother’s...
Best of 2019: Big Mess Video: Watch A Huge Crane Topple When The Earth Under It Gives Way!
(By Greg Rourke) – Having worked on a few job sites with big cranes on them, I have to say they scare the crap out of me. The biggest piece of equipment on the site lifting stuff that seems...
Best of 2019: The Marmon-Herrington Rhino, From Back When Creativity Could Get Weird Fast
Picture this: it is a nice, sunny day in 1954. All is quiet and peaceful…right up until the ground starts to rumble with the the pulsations of something heavy coming close. Soon, you see...
Dreamtime For Lohnes: Rtech’s Custom Trucks Visit Jay Leno!
We’ve seen both of the trucks you will see here at SEMA. Both of these trucks gathered a ton of attention, both of these trucks stand tall and broad, both of these trucks were the perfect...