Category Archive: XL Spotlight, XL Videos
Behind The Scenes Video Of The Big Rig Jumping The Formula 1 Car! Check it out!
Dec 02, 2014Chad Reynolds3
We just found this brand new video of the recent World Record Big Rig jump, where Mike Ryan jumped a big rig with trailer OVER a MOVING Formula 1 car. You read that right, here is more video of the...
Ancient Video: Walter Snow Fighter Trucks Battling Blizzards in the 1930s
Dec 01, 2014Brian LohnesComments Off on Ancient Video: Walter Snow Fighter Trucks Battling Blizzards in the 1930s
With large swaths of the US being blasted by heavy snow and high winds, crews in heavy equipment have been working around the clock to keep roads and cities moving. We take things like dump trucks,...
Watch This Sleeper Dodge Work Truck Run 12.50/100 – Heck Of A Hay Hauler!
Nov 30, 2014Brian Lohnes3
Today you literally never know what’s sitting next to you at a traffic light or at the tree at the strip. Back in the day if you wanted a 12 second pickup truck it would have been a pretty loud...
Video: Airborne Mud Trucks! Big Power, Big Air, Big Mud
Nov 30, 2014Chad Reynolds1
Check this out. The Trucks Gone Wild crew put on a levee jump at the Louisiana Mudfest with some huge mud trucks catching really big air, and this video shows it all. Gas powered or diesel, whichever...
Video: The Chainlink 4×4 – Perhaps The Most Extreme 4×4 Ever?
Nov 30, 2014Chad Reynolds4
If you haven’t seen video of the Chainlink 4×4, then you have been missing out. This beast doesn’t sound extreme when you start with the 5.0 Ford, C4, and 9″ with an ARB Air...
Ass Over Tea Kettle Video: Watch Two Guys Wreck Hard At The World Championship Roto-Tiller Races – Hilarious and Painful Looking!
Nov 28, 2014Brian Lohnes3
So let’s start by telling you that there is such a thing as the World Championship Roto-Tiller Races and those races are held in the bustling metropolis of Emerson, Arkansas. There are classes...
Holy Flying Lorry…Mike Ryan and Lotus F1 Gain A World Record By Launching A Truck Over Their Expensive Racecar
Nov 22, 2014Bryan McTaggart2
Vacation is over, and as I type this I’m watching the sun set over the regional jets parked at Washington-Dulles as I endure a six-hour layover. Not exactly my idea of fun, so the first thing I...
Watch This 3.6L 2-Stroke Evinrude V8 Powered Sand Rail Make The Most Ear Splitting Sounds Ever On The Dyno
Nov 18, 2014Brian LohnesComments Off on Watch This 3.6L 2-Stroke Evinrude V8 Powered Sand Rail Make The Most Ear Splitting Sounds Ever On The Dyno
If you have ever wondered what it would sound like if you stuck a 3.6L 2-stroke Evinrude V8 that was formerly powering an outboard boat motor into the back of a sand rail with open headers and ran it...
This Scratch Built, Laid Out, Aluminum Bodied Dually With Big Block Ford Power Is One Is The Neatest Rigs Ever (Video)
Nov 16, 2014Brian Lohnes6
Craftsmanship is something we really admire here at BangShift and it takes on many forms. There are guys who can machine stuff from hunks of metal so beautiful that it nearly brings us to tears and...
Big Burnout Video: A Compound Turbo Cummins Powered 1955 Chevy Truck Boils the Hides For A Long Time
Nov 16, 2014Brian Lohnes6
Boy, is this some mean rig or what?! A bright red 1955 Chevy truck that is packing a seriously worked over B-series Cummins engine under the hood that clearly makes plenty of torque and horsepower....
Watch Champion Tractor Puller Larry Koester Suffer A Broken Wrist During A Violent Hook In His Shell-Rotella Mini-Rod Tractor
Nov 16, 2014Brian LohnesComments Off on Watch Champion Tractor Puller Larry Koester Suffer A Broken Wrist During A Violent Hook In His Shell-Rotella Mini-Rod Tractor
We’ve talked a lot at how wild and violent the little Mini-Rod tractors are when showing you pulling videos or photos. The super short wheelbase, the massive wheel speed, and the fact that they...
A Spacecraft Called Rosetta Will Be Landing On A Comet Today And You’ll Be Able To See Photos And Video – Incredible Stuff!
Nov 12, 2014Brian Lohnes6
We live in incredible times and while this has nothing to do with blown hemi enignes, hot rodding, or lighting up the scoreboards with the lowest elapsed times, it does have to do with the highest...
The Guys With The Insane Dual Russian Tank Engine Pulling Tractor Have Added A Blown Hemi, Because Why Not?
Nov 11, 2014Brian Lohnes10
Of the more amazing creations we have ever featured on BangShift is a European pulling tractor called Slaedehunden (sled dog) which uses a pair of massive 40-liter Russian tank diesel engines that...
Gumbo Video: A Bobbed 5-Ton Truck On Tractor Tires Pull a Monster Ford Out of an Impossible Mud Pit
Nov 09, 2014Brian Lohnes1
If you happen to own an old five ton Army truck, we’re jealous. If you own a 5-ton Army truck and decide to bob the chassis, add what look to be 50 inch tractor tires, and proceed to kick the...