Category Archive: BangShift XL, RACING & ACTION, Videos, XL Videos
Surmount The Impossible For $50,000? Watch These Rock Bouncers Give It A Try In Tennessee!
Fifty thousand dollars can do a lot. That could be a hell of a race engine, a brand new project, or a new tow rig. Or it could simply be what’s needed to pay off the credit cards. Anybody can...
The Gathering 2016 Shows That The Custom Truck Scene Is Alive And Well!
Anderson, South Carolina is the home of the Gathering 2016, a truck and custom car show put on by the gang over at Common Treads. And not only is the show held at a great venue, but the level of car...
Slow Motion Calamity: Backing This Pipe Lugging Big Rig Onto An Unsecured Barge Was A Bad idea
(Words by Greg Rourke) – Imagine the shenanigans those darn Russians got into before cameras were pointed everywhere and at everything. I’m sure we missed some good stuff. Here we have a...
Crazy: Watch This Enormous RC Jet Fighter Disintegrate In Midair
The world of radio-control airplanes can be pretty insane. While I personally don’t know a whole lot about the technical side of things, people have started to build some really large RC replicas...
Definition Of A Bad Day: Watch This Locomotive Pulling A Derailed Locomotive Turn Over
Sometimes making a mistake when trying to correct a mistake is actually worse than the original mistake. If that fails to register with you, watch this video. You are going to see a crew working in...
Turbo Toyota Dune Climber Explodes On The Dyno: Being Able To See Through The Block Is Bad
We’ve seen worse, but only a couple of times. This is one bad blowup on the dyno as this dune climber Toyota kills an inline 6 with a giant turbo on it. According to the video it makes more...
He Made It! Eddie Braun Successfully Completes Rocket Jump Of Snake River Canyon
It took more than four decades. It took more than $1-million out of the bank account of Eddie Braun. It took the son of the original rocket scientist to prove his dad was right. It took all those...
EXPLOSION! Detonating a 10,000 POUND EXPLOSIVE Next To A U.S. Navy Ship
Holy crap! This is HUGE. Apparently the Navy is tasked with testing their ships on occasion for their ability to stay together when something explodes next to them. In this case that something was...
If You Like Custom Trucks, Then Scrapin’ The Coast Is A Must See. Check Out The Video.
There are a lot of car and truck shows around the country, but a lot of people say that Scrapin’ the Coast is arguably one of the biggest truck shows you’ll find. With more than 2000...
Giant Powerstroke Ford Nitrous Explosion On The Starting Line!
So apparently this Ford 6.0 Powerstroke is having some trouble starting behind the water box on the starting line at Salt Lake City. Well some of that may have been due to the nitrous that was being...
Russian GAZ Trucks Driving Sideways On a Rally Stage Look Like a Darn Good Time
Motorsport was never really part of the program for automobiles in Soviet Russia. Vehicles, like the Soviet ethos on people, were intended to work rather than to be used for trivial pursuits like...
Volvo’s Iron Knight Is An Awesome Truck – Just Stop Calling It The World’s Fastest
We love big trucks around here and this monster from Volvo is no exception. Called the Iron Knight it is a modern hot rodded big rig built by the engineers at Volvo to showcase what kind of power...
Watch BJ Baldwin, And A Ferrett, Show Why 6 Wheel Drive Is Awesome
Okay, so the Ferrett is the 6-wheel drive vehicle, but still, it’s the first time we’ve remarked on a Ferrett here at BangShift.com, and it makes us giggle like we are 12 year old idiots....
This Turbo-Compound Radial Was Cutting-Edge 70 Years Ago, Is Still Amazing
Remember the 1980s when turbocharging first became prevalent in cars? Manufacturers—many of whom were not even building cars—were quick to slap “Turbo” on anything that was supposed to be an...