Category Archive: BangShift XL, ENGINES, HISTORIC, MISC, Videos, XL Videos
This Look At The Buda Engine Company In WWII Is Spectacular – Horsepower History
The cycle of business and industry is a fascinating one. Companies can rise to the level of colossus in their particular segment and then slowly fade into the sand dunes of time. Such is the case...
Cool Video: The Story Of The Honey Bee, A Homebuilt 500hp Monster Of A Tractor
Farmers are just plain awesome. It does not matter where they are, what they are growing, or how long they have been in the business, they all share some common bonds. One of them is the ability to...
Monster’s Ball: Semi Tractor Burnouts At The Great Lakes Big Rig Challenge
In 1991, my brother and I got the chance to ride with my father up to Montana in the Kenworth he was driving at the time. From the sleeper section of the cab, we got to see more states than we had...
630hp and 1,600 lb-ft – This 8V92TA Detroit Diesel Won’t Have Issues Pushing Airplanes Anymore
As hot rodders, we see horsepower as a fun number, as something of an entertainment quotient that allows us to enjoy ourselves and impress our friends. Something that makes scaring your wife...
More Like It: Jay Leno Checks Out Two Mil-Spec Modified HMMWVs!
When you spend years hoping, praying, bargaining with motor pool mechanics, attempting to bribe officers and still get nowhere, you tend to dream up builds for the HMMWV. Or was that just me?...
Vintage Promotional Video Win: Watch Ford’s Big Red Turbine Big Rig In Action
Over the years we have posted lots about Chrysler’s turbine program and talked about how it was the most robust automotive turbine program that any of the OEM companies had embarked on. While I...
Morning Symphony: Fully-Loaded Drag Racing From The 2019 Great Lakes Big Rig Challenge
One event that we need to see in person is Rodéo du Camion-style semi-truck drag racing. The premise is simple: two trucks hitch up to a B-train trailer setup that is weighed down with forty-five...
This Is What It Takes To Win The Baja 500. Watch The Action Behind The Win
Desert off-road racing is a completely different beast than any other kind of racing. I’m not saying that winning races in any series isn’t hard, because winning takes work, but there is...
Happy National Donut Day: Watch This Hot Rodded Big Rig Turn Slow Motion Smokey Circles
Hey, it’s National Donut Day! While this means that some of the more, ummm, motivated among us will be rip roaring to various bakeries and donuts shops for deals on their favorite flavor, it...
The One That Got Away – A Saab Driver Manages To Violently Escape A Tow, But At What Price?
The other day, we showed you a crazed Irish guy attempting to back his truck off a European crane style tow truck that was looking to cart his junk away. He may have failed miserably but thanks to...
Video Bonanza: Insane Firemen Drill Team Drag Race Ladder Climbing
The only thing we know about this sport is that it involves teams of firemen, high performance cars and trucks, high speeds, and ladders. Some of the teams use cars that look like circle track...
Insanity: In ’62 Chevy Sent A Group Of Corvairs And Trucks Through The South American Jungle – This Is Incredible Video
In the realm of the craziest things people don’t talk enough about, that fact that in the 1960s GM sent people, a group of Chevy Corvairs aand trucks driving straight through the jungle in...
Watch The Two Most Famous Caesar’s Palace Fountain Jump Fails Ever – Evel and Gary Wells
So we’re getting ready for the 2019 NHRA Menard’s Heartland Nationals in Topeka, Kansas and got to thinking about Evel Knievel. See, the Evel Knievel museum is in Topeka right down the...
