Category Archive: XL Spotlight, XL Videos
8-Door Dually Donuts Are More Impressive Than You Might Think!
Nov 30, 2017Chad Reynolds4
Doing donuts in anything big is kinda weird and fun. Everything seems to happen in slow motion, until things go wrong and then they can’t seem to stop quick enough. Such is life when dealing...
Classic YouTube: Jeep CJ For 1983 – Bring In The Buffalo?!
Nov 29, 2017Bryan McTaggart5
By the time you are reading this in the morning, the Jeep Wrangler JL will debut at the LA Auto Show. We showed you the same teaser that FCA showed us at SEMA (which you can see HERE) but for the...
A 1939 Ford COE Truck And Matching Curtiss Aerocar Land Yacht Make A Bitchin Pair
Nov 29, 2017Chad Reynolds1
The vintage RV’s we normally see around are 1960’s and 1970’s models, with the rare 1950’s sighting, but you almost never see 1940’s or 1930’s RVs except on those...
Tough Truck Violence: Destruction-Testing In The Pacific Northwest!
Nov 28, 2017Bryan McTaggart1
I know that Tough Truck racing was originally meant to prove that you had the beefiest rig around, but somewhere along the line there was a split. On one hand, you have those who still try to survive...
Big Block, Turbo 400, And 4 Wheels Out Back Makes This Square Body A Great Start
Nov 28, 2017Chad Reynolds3
We’ve been in the market for a Square Body, 1973-1991, Crew Cab Dually for the past couple months and have looked at too many to count. We finally purchased one a couple weeks ago and are...
Crew Cabs Rule! This 1985 Dodge Ram W350 Crew Cab Is The Mopar Battlewagon The Air Force Loved!
Nov 27, 2017Bryan McTaggart3
Chad has been on a square-body Chevy kick ever since he got ahold of his 1987 Chevy dually. Can’t blame the guy, the truck is sweet, but when it comes to brand favoritism, I have to lean...
Rough Start: This 1990 Chevrolet Kodiak Is A Great Start For A Custom RV Or Hauler Build!
Nov 26, 2017Bryan McTaggart2
On one hand, I’m enjoying watching Chad dive back deep into the world of square-body GM trucks with his recently-acquired dually. He’s been dying to get an older crew-cab truck for a...
Parking Lot Heroes: Watch The Stock/Stock Modified Classes Run The Bogs In Texas!
Nov 26, 2017Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Parking Lot Heroes: Watch The Stock/Stock Modified Classes Run The Bogs In Texas!
Pro mud trucks are one thing. Nothing goes well like watching a thousand horsepower and tall, skinny tractor tires turn ye olde mud bog into short work. It’s something else entirely when your...
Dino’s Gitdown 2017 Is GM Truck Heaven. Thank The Grinder TV Guys For Killer Coverage
Nov 25, 2017Chad Reynolds1
We’ve never gotten to go to Dino’s Gitdown, because we’re always doing something else that weekend, but man we wish we had this year. If you are into GM trucks, and like them all...
If We Were Shopping For A New Body Style Dually, And Had A $15,000 Budget, This Would Be Our Jam
Nov 25, 2017Chad Reynolds1
Anybody that reads BANGshift.com on a regular basis knows that we love Crew Cab Duallies around here, and that we’re pretty excited about them regardless of what year. With that said, we do...
Smoked Turkey: A Cummins Diesel Blows All The Way Up! Cylinder Head and Most Of Block Launched Into The Air
Nov 23, 2017Brian Lohnes2
BangShift reader TruckPuller sent us a tip on the wildest engine dyno failure video we have seen in quite some time. It features a straight six diesel engine on the dyno, which we think is a Cummins,...
If At First You Don’t Succeed, Fail, Fail Again – Here’s A Rock Bouncing Video We’re Scratching Our Head Over
Nov 22, 2017Brian Lohnes3
Before you start hucking rocks at us here, understand that we like rock bouncing, we get rock bouncing, and we think rock bouncing is generally bad ass. This video however has us scratching our head....
Vintage Tractor Porn: This 1950s Allis-Chalmers Video About Crawler Tractors Rules!
Nov 22, 2017Brian LohnesComments Off on Vintage Tractor Porn: This 1950s Allis-Chalmers Video About Crawler Tractors Rules!
It has been far too long since I last indulged my love of old tractors here on the pages of BangShift so let’s fix this today, shall we? Here we have a 1950s video produced by the...
Suffering From Snow Worries? This 6×6 Suzuki Samurai Will Save Your Sorry Hide!
Nov 22, 2017Bryan McTaggart1
We are heading quickly from the colorful and crisp Autumn season to what I casually refer to as the “cold, gray bucket of suck” that is winter. (Ok, Brian Gordon from Fowl Language Comics...