Category Archive: BangShift XL, CRASH & BURN, Videos, XL Videos
The Cold, Hard No: Watch As This Rockbouncer Rolls Back To The Bottom Of The Hill
Being told “no” sucks. It’s one of the first things you learn as a child and it sticks with you as you grow up and grow old. No, you can’t have another piece of candy. No, you...
Snow Monster: The Dynamics Of A Kamaz Dakar Truck Flying In Frozen Russia
I don’t know how many words in Russian we all know between the three of us, but there is one we all know without question: KAMAZ. That stands for ten tons of Russian race truck that uses about...
If I Live In Snow Country I Would Want This Track N Go Setup On My Truck!
There isn’t a single car guy or girl on earth that doesn’t think tracked vehicles are pretty cool. I mean who doesn’t want to drive a tank and blow stuff up! But tracks can go on...
Best of BS 2017: Watching This Trucker Pull Gears With A Three Stick Transmission Is Like A Circus Act
We’ve been hammering you with high winding race cars and hot rods in our Parting Shift videos over the last few weeks so now it is time to change gears (see what we did there?) to something...
Best of BS 2017: 1967 Film Shows How The Pieces Of The Saturn V Were Moved To Florida and It Rules
The Saturn V rocket remains the most powerful man-made vehicle ever constructed and it was the bad ass hot rod that carried the USA to a victory in the Space Race with Russia. Like any hot rod, it...
Best of BS 2017: This Supercharged And Turbocharged Cummins-Powered Dodge Charger Is A Freakshow!
Where do we start with WelderUp’s “Project Overcharged” 1968 Dodge Charger? It looks like an extra from the set of Mad Max: Fury Road. Hiked up on a completely custom frame and...
Best of BS 2017: Project FIRE – How They Tested Their Heat Dissipation Theories Before Making Astronauts Live Through It
If hot rodding is ultimately about solving problems and achieving new things, there has never been a better or more important group of hot rodders than the NASA engineers of the 1960s that drove the...
A Dirt-Cheap Baja Bug And A Bunch Of Cameras – Hoonigan Recorded Their Trip To The Baja 1000, Check It Out!
I’ve heard marvelous things about Baja California…the rugged desert scenery, the gorgeous Pacific coastline, the people, the food, and all of that. I’ve never been south of the...
This Classic Dodge Truck Sales Training Video Is Pretty Awesome – Watch It!
(By Greg Rourke) – Pickup trucks sure have come a long way. And so have the way the salesman tries to get you to sign on the dotted line to start your 84 easy payments. Witness this Dodge...
Freaky Forklift: This Machine Is Weird, Odd, Interesting, and Functional – This Video Shows You How
(By Greg Rourke) – Forklifts and I go way back. In the 70’s I worked in a tube warehouse, third shift. We had pneumatic tire 12,000 pound forklifts that were shockingly fast. Naturally...
The Bandag Bullet Has 1500 Cubic Inches And Is A Tire Smoking Machine!
Bandag is a tire retreading company, that is now a part of the Bridgestone Firestone brand, and they’ve been doing retreads for a very long time and having been touting their durability in the...
The After-Party: Rockbouncers and Side-By-Sides Go Play On The Hills In Tennessee!
The racers that run the Southern Rock Racing Series are an interesting bunch. They spend all year taking their monster tube frame buggies, modified RZRs and every now and then, a secondhand Power...
Tesla vs. Land Cruiser Tug Of War: Who Wins, Toyota’s Tank Or Elon’s Wonder Wagon?
The battle of the SUV heavyweights goes on and on, it seems, but here in Norway, a battle between the old way of thinking and the newest available option is about to meet up head-to-head to see who...
Your Winter Moment Of Zen: Whipping A HEMTT Around In The Snow
Far and above, the largest vehicle I’ve ever operated that didn’t fly was an Oshkosh HEMTT. These mothers are huge…Over twenty tons unladen at the lighter end of the scale,...