Category Archive: BangShift XL, XL Videos
The Maine Snow Fighters Is A 1950s Film Full Of Great Cars, Trucks, And Man VS The Elements Footage
So I am on a snow kick, forgive me. This video from the 1950s was made by the state of Maine to promote their highway department and the hard work they put in every winter to keep the roads open and...
In-Truck Video: What It Is Like To Race A 900hp Pro-4 Truck On A Mountain In A Blizzard!
We covered the heck out of Red Bull Frozen Rush 2015. From action photos on the mountain at Sunday River, Maine to an awesome tire testing trail ride with the people at BFG, that was one heck of a...
Watch As The Crew Of An SR-71 Blackbird Prepare To Launch Out For Flight – It Was A Lot Of Work To Put One Of These Supersonic Marvels Into The Air!
It has been seventeen years since the last flight of the Lockheed SR-71 “Blackbird” spy plane, and fifty-one years have passed since the spy plane first flew. Nothing since has touched...
Outlaw Mud Truck Fun – D.O.T. Legal Tires And A Heavy Right Foot Makes For Some Excellent Video!
Wide open throttle on a full-kill race vehicle isn’t something that is achieved often, and when it is the results are always spectacular. Mud trucks do a good job of converting the raw power of...
Classic YouTube: A Look Back At The Early Years Of Monster Trucks! Bigfoot, USA-1, Awesome Kong, And More!
It seems long ago that monster trucks were something more than fiberglass and noise. Back when Bigfoot was without question a household name, but had other names following right behind: Awesome Kong....
Watch These Immense Liebherr Cranes Put On A Demonstration Of Strength By Lifting Each Other
(By Greg Rourke) – The boys over at Liebherr must be a fun loving bunch of guys. You’d think they would be just a bunch of engineering nerds, busy designing some of the biggest equipment...
Think The Snow Blower That Ate The Geo Was Cool? This Monster Makes It Look Like A Tonka Toy – Behold The Snow Wolf
Yesterday Chad showed us a cool video that had one of the more graphically awesome demonstrations of power we have seen in some time when a tractor mounted snowblower actually ate an automobile. Ok,...
Mini-Jeep Off Road Racing In The Netherlands Looks Like A Blast! (Video)
Like us, when you see this video you’re wheels will start turning and you’ll be trying to figure out how to build one of these bad ass little mini-Jeeps that are tearing around a dirt...
Awesome Wheels Up And Long Jump Film: Off Road Greatness From The Kleinschmidt Nats
The world of off-roading is as diverse as any other motorsport, if not more so, because there are side by sides, rock crawlers, mud trucks, sand cars/trucks/buggies, and much much more. The...
This M35A Testing Video Shows This “Eager Beaver” Driving Completely Under Water. Must See Cool Video.
M37 Dodge Power Wagons, and their big brothers the M35A “Deuce and a Half” and M923A 5-tons, are awesome rigs. All three have not only served Allied Troops for decades, but they have...
Watch Stacey David Install Giant Custom Bumpers On Sgt. Rock: Fabrication Is Fun!
Whenever I get the chance to weld on something, which unfortunately is no where near as often as it used to be, it’s like therapy. It’s one of the ways a car guy can find his Zen space....
Mega Truck Fun: If This Doesn’t Look Like A Good Time, We Don’t Know What Does…Wheelie City!
Mega trucks are cool, and they just keep getting cooler. For every builder who is putting together a chassis that is state of the art monster truck stuff but with a tractor tire instead of floatation...
This 1953 Chevy 6400 Fire Truck Is A Unique Knight In White (Not So) Shining Armor
Boy, I really love old fire trucks and there are always a healthy supply of these working heroes on eBay but few of them spin my crank harder than the one you see below. While I am sure that there...
This 1956 Film Shows How Ford Tractors Built Levittown, PA and Virtually Every Attachment Possible
If you have been reading BangShift for any time you know that I love nothing more when modern history and mechanical stuff collide and that is exactly what we have here in a pretty extraordinary...