Category Archive: BangShift XL, XL Videos
Odd Moment of Zen: This Video of Ships Intentionally Running Ashore Is Kind of Awesome
This is one of those moments when I really have to recognize how weird that I am. Watching this video was both entertaining and oddly calming to me and I have no idea why. What you are about to see...
Nasty Dyno Video: Watch This 1,000hp Turbocharged Buggy Make A Dyno Rip – Awesome!
Putting a 1,000hp turbocharged off-road buggy on the dyno rollers is bound to be fun but this video proves just how wild it is. Equipped with a super awesome Aussie built Albins trans axle and a...
Dragline Videos! This Big Old Machines Still Have Their Place – Especially In The BangShift Hall Of Fame!
(By Greg Rourke) – There are lots of ways to move a bunch of dirt. You can use a wheelbarrow and a shovel, but where’s the fun in that. Backhoes, bulldozers, skid loaders, and excavators...
Our Bonneville Speed Week 2020 Photos Continue! Bitchin Hot Rods On The Salt!
One of the ultra cool things about Bonneville are the number of cool old hot rods and customs that show up on the salt on Saturday and Sunday of the first weekend of racing action. It makes us cringe...
Morning Symphony: Wheel-Standing Mega Trucks On The Sled
I don’t know if it’s just me, but the one takeaway I remember from watching tractor and sled pulls on television back in the late 1980s was that everything that hitched up to the weight...
Video: The Sverige S1 Is A 2,000hp Mahogany Boat Built To Fulfill The Dreams Of Swedish Engineers From 80 Years Ago
We’ve run stories in the past telling you about the incredible racing boats of the 1920s and 1930s that were commissioned and operated by wildly rich guys of that era. Guys like Gar Wood and...
Watch A Pulling Tractor Destroy Four Blown Hemis Instantly – Multiple Hemis End Up In A Pile!
The only way to destroy four blown hemis quicker than it happens in this video would be to stuff them full of dynamite and explode them as they fell off a bridge into the ocean. Other than that,...
Awesome Video: See Big Red, Ford’s Massive, Turbine Powered, 1960s Futuristic Big Rig Cruise!
We have showed you photos and given you the history of Big Red, Ford’s experimental turbine powered big rig that was created in the 1960s. It was a massive truck standing 13-ft high and...
Brawny: 1947 Dodge Cab-Over – Paging Lohnes To The Courtesy Phone!
What’s there to say? It’s a mutt in the truest sense of the word. Powered by a Ford diesel made by Navistar, fitted with a GM steering column, and meant to be worked. No, that’s no...
Power To Its Core: This Neat Demonstration Shows An Optima Battery Powering Its Own Deconstruction!
Sometimes we all take for granted that everyone’s on the same page when it comes to the way that things work, right? For instance, when we talk about Optima batteries and tell you that they are...
Video From Inside A Tire While Driving Is Fantastic: A Weird View Of The Rolling World!
This is about the wildest video that we have seen in a while. Mounting a GoPro INSIDE a tire and driving around is the type of stuff that can only happen in 2020, right? It would not have been long...
Mopar Freaks Rejoice! There Ain’t No Party Like A MoParty! Holley’s Inaugural MoParty Pre-registration now LIVE!
Last year Holley went whole hog when they decided to have the Intergalactic Ford Festival in addition to Holley’s LSFest, but we knew more was coming. This year they’ve added a third...
Watching This Miniature Flat Plane Crankshaft Being Machined From A Piece Of Bar Stock Is Gearhead Zen
It may seem bizarre to say this out loud but some of the most honest and hardcore hot rodding in the world today happens in miniature engines. The guys who build these from scratch do not have a...
The “WTF?!” Files: 1981 Rolls-Royce Silver Spur Trar – Luxury Wheeling!
I get the feeling that somebody in Crewe, England is going to puke if they ever catch wind of what I’m showing you right now. You see, Rolls-Royce isn’t just a car, or a brand. A Roller...