Category Archive: BangShift XL, eBay Find, XL Online Find
Ebay Find: Who Needs A Giant 1980’s Chevrolet Dump Truck?
This was just too cool to pass up. Oddly, I found it while hunting mid-80s El Caminos, so someone at eBay has a sick sense of humor. This is a 1981 Chevrolet C-series dump truck with all of the...
BangShift Test Drive: The 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee Summit Eco-Diesel – A Throwback To The Future
This was my second go around with a Jeep Grand Cherokee Summit Eco-Diesel in 2014. Earlier in the year Criag Fitzgerald, Dave Nutting, and I had taken one on a 2,000 mile weekend road trip that saw...
eBay Find: This 1969 Ford N600 Is Like A Big Red BangShifty Hope Diamond
I was scouring eBay last night for car haulers because those as things that I really want, cannot afford, and have no room to keep. Those are the key elements of any successful eBay searching...
B.J. Baldwin And Hoonigan Release “Recoil 2” Video: Flying A Truck In Ensenada, Mexico
Hoonigan and Monster Energy have been great about releasing racing videos that borderline on pure automotive porn for years. For rally racing, they have Ken Block’s Gymkhana series. Mike Ryan...
Action Gallery: Gravelrama 2014 – Competitors Attacking The Legendary Big Eliminator Hill! The Pea Gravel Mountain From Hell
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Let me start by saying that though we don’t have a race track or offroad park next door to us, Central Kentucky is close to some many venues for so...
Action Gallery: More Mud Flying, Wheelstanding, Barely In Control Action From the Brazoria County Mud Drags
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Just when you thought it was safe to go outside, we’re back with more cool photos from the recently held Brazoria County Mud drags. This MRA sanctioned event...
Off-Roading Greatness: The Upper Damnation Trail In Harlan, Kentucky
Summer is starting to slip away to Fall, and it’s a great time to go out to the woods. But what is there to do in the woods? For starters, there’s off-roading. Temperatures are cooler,...
Killer Action And Wild Mud Borne Hot Rods At The Brazoria County Mud Drags In Texas – Dirt Flinging Coolness
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Charles Wickam had been dying to get back out to the races lately. This summer hasn’t exactly been the smoothest on record for Team Wickam but the reality is...
Watch As This Mudder Explorer Goes For Broke At Michigan Mud Jam!
Mudding requires three things in order to not sink up to the door handles: traction, power, and wheel speed. Put mildly, this monster Explorer Sport has them all. The engine is making some very...
Listen To One Of The World’s Largest Diesel Engines Start Up And Run
When your diesel engine has several staircases attached to it so that all areas of the engine can be accessed, you have a huge engine and this one was at one time the world’s largest, from...
Drag Week 2014 Roadside Find: This 1957 Chevy 1-Ton Wearing An Old Camper Is Perfection
Here’s a sweet roadside find from the road on Drag Week 2014 that we ran into yesterday at a route checkpoint. The truck was kind of hidden in the back but once my wandering eye caught it, I...
Drag Week 2014 Roadside Find: Muffler Car! This (Was) A Running And Driving Promo Vehicle
One of my favorite parts about Drag Week is the fact that competitors have to drive on a predetermined route to the next track. On the route they have to pay attention, wear seat belts, and stop at...
Watch As This Toyota Land Cruiser Takes A Lesiurely Swim In An Australian River
The standard rule of thumb when it comes to crossing a river in a car of any type is: DON’T. Ask anyone in Phoenix right now who had the misfortune of learning the hard way this week. But...
It’s Ba-a-a-a-ack! The Hot Rodded Volvo Tractor Is Back, With A Video To Show Ken Block How It’s Really Done
When we first saw footage of this Volvo BM Terrier tractor ripping donuts in the countryside a couple of years ago, we went nuts. Just the fact that someone stuffed a built Volvo turbo motor that, by...