Category Archive: BangShift XL, HISTORIC, RACING & ACTION, Videos, XL Videos

Best of 2018: Check Out The “Hot Rod Lincoln” Mark VII Sled Puller!

Tractors, trucks, and lawn tractors with blown V8s in them. That’s what is normal at your given truck pull, and to be fair, it’s kind of like a drag race: once you see a well-sorted...

Best of 2018: This Twin-Engine, 200,000lb Coal Dozer Is A Monster Machine We Never Knew About!

(By Greg Rourke) – What has 8 wheels, two big ass Cummins diesels, and weighs 200,000 pounds? This thing, the Melroe M-870 wheel dozer. Unless this is your first visit to these hallowed pages,...

Best of 2018: Watch as Mario Racicot’s 24-Cylinder Freightliner Argosy Threatens To Take The Weight Sled Home!

Information on what you’re going to see here is thin, but here’s what we have: You’re looking at a 2014 Freightliner Argosy that started out as a glider truck…that means you...

Best of 2018: Watch This Steam Tractor Pull A Lowboy Trailer With A Crawler Tractor On It Through An Intersection!

We have all been at a traffic light when a big rig comes around the corner with a lowboy style trailer hooked onto the fifth wheel and some sort of dreadfully heavy piece of equipment on its back....

Best of 2018: This 1960 Video Shows The Army Testing Rolling Fluid Transporters – Brilliant But Unsuccessful

Ideas, we all have them. Some are fantastic and go on to change the world, Spam as an example. Some are awesome on paper but in the end do not succeed in the real world and those typically out number...

When Kyle LeDuc Goes Christmas Tree Shopping, He Does It Right! Watch This!

When Lucas Oil Off-Road Champion Kyle LeDuc sets out to make a video about finding and delivering his Christmas tree, he goes all in. And we’re so glad he did! This is ultra bad ass! Take one...

Donut Media Tells The Story of The Cummins Engine Company – Good History With A Twist

Donut Media makes some pretty good stuff. Their videos are wide ranging and touch on a load of different automotive areas. The one we have posted below tells the story of the Cummins Engine Company...

Hell Bent: Tim Cameron’s Rock Racer Spent 2018 Going For Glory

A name is everything on a race vehicle. You are branding that machine, and whatever you name it, the combination of the driver at the wheel and the machine’s capability have to align right....

Enough Roasting: It’s Time To Build A Trans Tunnel For Finnegan’s Ramp Truck!

Ever since Mike Finnegan performed a Cummins swap on the Chevrolet ramp truck, he’s had issues. Namely, they involve his shoes turning into molten plastic as he develops a unique form of...

Monster Garage: Watch This Quarter Million Pound Komatsu D475 Get Rebuilt In Time Lapse

While the world can no longer produce a toaster that is repairable in the event of a problem, we can still make some bad ass heavy equipment that is designed to be serviced and rebuilt at regular...

AMAZING HISTORICAL VIDEO: A WING WALKER FROM THE TWENTIES CHANGES THE WHEEL ON A PLANE IN MID-FLIGHT

While we have our “extreme” athletes these days, back in the 1920s people just did insane things for fun. Proof of that fact is contained in this video of a woman named Gladys Ingle, who...

Science Time! What Happens When You Roll Coal Into A Bucket Of Water?

If there is one corner of the automotive kingdom I have utter contempt for, it’s the coal-rolling bro-dozer diesel crowd. I’m not talking diesel performers in general…there is some...

Driving The BAJA 1000 In A Single Seat Buggy Is Not For The Faint Of Heart. Watch This!

When the Green Army does the BAJA 1000, they don’t mess around. The #185 Buggy is a bad ass high powered machine, with performance much like a Trophy Truck, but in a package that has just one...

Monster Energy’s BAJA 1000 Prep And Race Recap Video Will Make You Crave The Dirt!

There is no off-road race like it. None. Period. Sure there are plenty of other awesome off-road races, including some in Baja, but none compare to the 1000. This is THE race of all races, and the...