Category Archive: XL Tech Stories, XL Videos
Ready For Adventures: Check Out This Cool Home-Built Crawler Hauler And Camper.
As the resident RV and trailer guy, I appreciate cool campers, rvs, car haulers, and the like. I have often thought about building my own toy hauler of sorts and this one certainly is cool....
Crazy Plus 100: How To Take A Ram TRX From 702hp To 802hp In No Time Flat
The Ram TRX is one of the most ridiculous pickup trucks ever produced by a factory, anywhere, ever. The 702hp truck was designed and created to take on the Ford Raptor, haul ass off road, and provide...
If You’ve Ever Thought About Turning A School Bus Into A Toy Hauler, Watch This For Inspiration And Some Tips!
School bus haulers and rvs are really cool, and we love seeing how creative people get when modifying them. Often referred to as Skoolies, they can be built into just about anything and because they...
Stadium Super Trucks Attack The Nashville Grand Prix Sideways, On Two Wheels, And Flying Through The Air
The Nashville Grand Prix has to be one of the most interesting and technical race courses you’ve seen in recent years. There are parts of this city road course that are so tight you wonder how...
Painting Mike Finnegan’s Toyota Mini Truck At A Truck Show! Wait, Mike Finnegan Has Another Mini Truck? That Runs?
If our friend Courtney Hallowell was still around, he’d be proud that some old mini truckers, like Mike Finnegan and I, still admit to being mini truckers. I want another mini bad. And...
Here’s The Dirt Equivalent To Outlaw Pro Mod Racing – These Dirt Drag Racing Rigs Are Nuts!
We’ll forever be fascinated with the application of massive horsepower to the ground whether it is on asphalt or something way less sold. This video falls into that “way less solid”...
Super Bitchin Video!!!! Driving a Turbo ’51 Dodge Dually Like a Sprint Car on Dirt! Rockabilly Ruckus 2021!
When Josh Dietrich sent me a Content Submission email yesterday, with a link to this video, I started to laugh a little. I laughed because this is what Josh said in his email. “This is my video...
Vertically Challenged: The Restoration Of This Upright Steam Engine Is Mr Hand Tool’s Most Ambitious Project
If there is one thing I truly love about the Hand Tool Rescue channel on YouTube it is that you can never possible have a clue as to what’s coming next. Will it be some apple peeler from the...
Edd China’s Workshop Diaries #19: Should Transmission Fluid Look Like Chocolate Sauce? Hmmmm
Here it is, the first time the Range Rover project will move under its own power. But for how long? Is this normal? Ugh there is some ugly going on here. It also gets its first cleaning and I can...
Buy A Military Truck, Hook It To Your Trailer, And Go! Simple Right? Well, Not So Much Unfortunately.
It should come as no surprise that for all the awesomeness that can be found on a military vehicle, there are also some things that make little or no sense in the real world. And it goes beyond stuff...
Take A C10 Truck To Mexico, Fix It Up, And Drive It Back Home. Sounds Easy Right? Well, Not Quite That Easy…
I love this story, because I have always wanted to drive a car down to Mexico to get a paint job or interior done in it over a couple of days while hanging out in Mexico. But I love Mexico, so maybe...
The Greatest Tuff-Truck Video Of All Time: Packed House, Lunatic Racers, Carnage For Days!
Tuff-Truck competitions have been around for a long, long time. They are a staple of many off-road shows, they happen at state fairs, and generally speaking, they are the four wheel drive...
Bruce Cooks Solid Axle Swapped NBS Chevrolet Project: Brackets, Axle Gussets, Customizing Knuckles And More!
In this installment of the solid axle swapped Silverado, Bruce is working hard on getting components ready for the front axle to go together while also getting the rear axle housing trussed and ready...
Watch This Crazy Junkyard Shredder Eat Entire Engines – Amazing Power And Destruction
The metal business is pretty interesting. After all, at the end of the day the raw value of the stuff in a junkyard is its weight in metal. The stuff gets sold, loaded onto ships, smelted down in...