Category Archive: BangShift XL, XL Videos
Watch This Awesome Dodge Power Wagon Mega-Truck Successfully Complete A Back Flip – Awesome Clip
Jul 18, 2014Brian Lohnes3
A few days ago we showed you what happened when a huge truck tried to perform a backflip and instead the entire front suspension fell out of the truck in violent and spectacular fashion. Today we...
This Awesome Video Gives A Great Look At The History Of The Unimog From The 1940s Until Today – Unstoppable From Beginning To End
Jul 18, 2014Brian LohnesComments Off on This Awesome Video Gives A Great Look At The History Of The Unimog From The 1940s Until Today – Unstoppable From Beginning To End
It isn’t too much of a stretch to say that the Unimog can be considered the most versatile four wheel drive truck in the world. There are a couple available versions of the truck. One of them...
Listen To Former SR-71 Blackbird Pilot Colonel Buzz Carpenter Talk About Flying The Baddest Airborne Hot Rod There Ever Was
Jul 17, 2014Brian Lohnes7
When it comes to airborne hot rods, there are varying levels, just like their four wheeled cousins on the ground. There’s stuff that isn’t all that fast but rules like WWII bombers....
The Marines Are Testing Out A Gnarly New Landing Craft – This Thing Is A Monster….And Only Half The Size Of The Real One
Jul 17, 2014Brian Lohnes7
Let’s say that you are a bad guy and you happen to see this big boy coming your way…only it is twice the size, laden with Marines, tanks, and other things that will make you day end...
Five Huge Trucks And A Half Million Tires Help To Move This Load That Defines The Term Heavy Hauling
Jul 15, 2014Brian Lohnes9
Ok, the whole “half million” tire count is a rough estimate because I lost track at twenty. There are a flippin’ LOT of tires on the trailer/dollies being used to haul some insanely...
Watch This Monster Durango Go For Airborne Gold
Jul 09, 2014Bryan McTaggart1
Try, try, and try again. That’s what our mothers kept telling us when we were wanting to give up from repeated failure, in the hopes that if we pushed the limits one more time that we would...
Heavy Metal Wreckage Video: Watch A Tornado Topple A Mighty Freight Train – Mom Nature NEVER Loses
Jul 09, 2014Brian Lohnes4
(By Greg Rourke) – So what’s the story here? Not much to tell, just a freight train rockin’ down the rails, and a rare January tornado that had other plans for said train. The...
Watch As This 767 Narrowly Avoids An Airbus A340-Very Close Call
Jul 08, 2014Bryan McTaggart4
The words “near miss” in the aviation community make even the most jaded pilot pucker. What it means is that there was nearly a seriously bad accident, and it goes without saying that any time...
Watch A Trucker Hauling A Massive Steel Beam Miscalculate A Corner And The Disaster That Follows His Tiny Mistake
Jul 08, 2014Brian Lohnes17
(By Greg Rourke)-You think you’re having a bad day at work? This cat wishes he was having your bad day. Hauling superloads is a nerve wracking job. You are driving a truck that’s longer,...
Great Gearhead History Video: Men Bet Their Lives On It – Packard Merlin Engines
Jul 07, 2014Brian Lohnes4
If you like history, specifically history related to one of the greatest engines ever designed and built, the Rolls Royce Merlin this 20-minute film is not to be missed. While the boys at Rolls Royce...
Dyno Video: Watch A Wretchedly Overpowered Sand Car Lay Down 1300hp At The Tire With A TT 454ci Warhawk Mill!
Jul 05, 2014Brian Lohnes1
Few vehicles on Earth have the power to weight ratio that modern sand cars have. These tube chassis wonders that were once mostly powered by stock or warmed up VW engines now sport turbocharged V8s...
Mega BOOM: A Canadian Pulling Tractor Blows Up So Hard It Barfs Most Of The Motor Right Out Of The Chassis
Jul 02, 2014Brian LohnesComments Off on Mega BOOM: A Canadian Pulling Tractor Blows Up So Hard It Barfs Most Of The Motor Right Out Of The Chassis
Bryan Lively is the editor of Pro Pulling Magazine (ProPulling.com) and he’s a BangShifter as well. Bryan sent us a video link to some footage taken recently at a pull up in Canada. Things were...
Watch A Top Truck Challenge Competitor Roll His Massive Truck While Trying To Rip A Four Wheel Steer Donut
Jul 02, 2014Brian Lohnes7
The Top Truck Challenge is to hardcore off-road guys as Drag Week is to hardcore street/strip guys. Some of the nation’s biggest, toughest, strangest, and most awesomely built rigs head out to...
The 1939 Bantam Super Four Pickup Is A Little Rig We Never Knew Existed – This One Is For Sale
Jun 30, 2014Brian Lohnes3
Outside of a precious few of you we’re guessing that a very limited number of BangShifters had any idea that there was such a thing as a 1939 Bantam Super Four pickup, right? When I first saw...