Category Archive: BangShift XL, XL Event Coverage, XL Gallery
Mud Bog and Monster Truck Time Machine: Here’s The Scene, The Rigs, and The Muck From Newkirk, Oklahoma Circa 1984
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Here’s the latest installment of our mud bog and monster truck time machine stories. Heading further North on our wayback journey we turn to NewKirk,...
Craigslist Find: This 1974 Dodge Power Wagon Is Too Big For The City And Too Nice To Not Drive!
Reading the listing for this 1974 Dodge Power Wagon makes you feel outright sorry for the guy who is selling the truck, it really does. This Dodge was gone through three years ago in a frame-off...
Check Out This Brutal Tug-Of-War Footage! Sometimes Full Power Isn’t Your Friend!
By all respects, if you have several hundred horsepower on tap, enough rubber to afford traction and enough weight to keep those tires planted, then dragging another vehicle around shouldn’t be...
eBay Find: Boss Hogg’s Answer To The Duke Boys Once And For All – A 1971 Cadillac Eldorado Trar!
After three years, a car I remember seeing on Craigslist in Arizona is back on eBay! This 1971 Cadillac Eldorado trar looks like the kind of car that you would have expected to see as a result of one...
Watch The Pabst Boys Roadhouse Crew Build A JCR Offroad DIY Winch Bumper!
Every once in a while we watch the Pabst Boys Roadhouse videos and laugh. They do some good tech with a very very solid nod toward the funny side of things as well. In this video they are working on...
Craigslist Find: A GMC 702ci V-12 – How Does 585 ft/lbs Of Torque At 1,600 RPM Sound To You?
Subtle, this monstrous engine isn’t. You will never, ever be subtle with twelve cylinders making power. Not in a Ferrari, not in an Aston Martin, and most certainly not in a GMC Truck. This is...
This Might Be The Coolest 1966 GMC Suburban EVER! Cummins, Allison, Bluebird. Hell Yes!
There is a lot going on with this 1966 GMC Suburban. It’s stretched so that it has two sets of full size doors on each side. It has stepside fenders grafted on to the outside of the stock...
Dust Yourself Off And Keep Going! Watch As The Plowboy II Rockbouncer Goes For A Roll And Comes Back Fighting!
The trails are open, the weather isn’t complete crap out and the rock bouncers are up and going! We are looking forward to the upcoming year of watching footage as these absolutely insane...
Andrew Comrie-Picard, Chris Komar, and Brad Lovell To Take On Alcan Rally In Stock Jeep On BFG KO2s!
It is the craziest automotive event you have likely never heard of. The Alcan Rally is a 5,000 mile sojourn into the arctic that combines elements of a Time Distance Event with challenges, special...
Mud Bog Time Machine: More Rigs, More Muck, and More Action From Oklahoma In The 1980s
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Part three of our time-traveling adventure takes us to my hometown (Blackwell, OK) and the mud events there. I believe most of these were put on by the...
The Rest Of The Story On The Girl Who Drove The Big Rig Onto The Historic Bridge And Destroyed It – Honestly Fascinating
(Photo: Garet Cobb/Associated Press) – We were admittedly very rough on the 23-year old truck driver that piloted her big rig onto an historic Indiana bridge rated at six tons capacity and...
Best In The Desert Off-Road Racing Fun! Team Graf Tearing It Up At The 2016 Parker 425
The Best in the Desert series is pretty damn cool, and brings out the big guns. One team that knows how to run hard, and stay up at the top of the heap, is Graf Racing. Their Ford F150 is one bad ass...
It’s The Van Man… This Dodge A100 Is Classic Greatness
1970’s and 80’s vans, with the rake, custom wheels, and crazy paint, are bitchin! But so are the subtle ones. In fact, that’s my speed. Like this Dodge A100. Sure we’d letter...
