Category Archive: XL Spotlight, XL Truck News
Baja 500 Qualifying In Truck 100+ MPH Video From Galindo Motorsports, Plus Full Qualifying Results
This video is 6 minutes of off-road bliss. If this video doesn’t make you want to get behind the wheel of an off-road race truck and tear off across the desert for Baja 500 Qualifying, then you...
Watch a Violent European Tractor Pulling Wreck – The Sled is an Effective Battering Ram!
As we have showed many times in the past, stuff can go wrong in a hurry on the pulling course, especially when the machines are on the upper end of the power scale and the sled is weighed down like a...
The Parting Shift: Ride Along In Kenworth As The Driver Shifts Three Sticks Like A Ninja
For anyone out there who doesn’t believe that truck driving is an acquired skill, watch this video and have your opinion changed. This video shows the driver of a Kenworth W900L driving and...
Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Outside: More Killer Trucks From The Pomona Swap Meet
You knew this was coming, right? After you all goaded me into showing you some cars from the Pomona swap meet you knew I wouldn’t be able to just sit on my hands while I still had some sweet,...
What Do You Think Of This 3rd Gen Camaro TRAR? We Want To Like It But Are Not Sure. You Decide!
Our inner redneck loves TRARs. What’s a TRAR?… Please turn your BangShift card in as you leave. Okay, we’re kidding. Sort of. A TRAR is a Truck Chassis with a Car Body, and...
This 1957 FWD Four Wheel Drive Truck Is Sweet, Slow, And So BangShift Approved That It Hurts
We have to thank BangShift forum member Tardis454 for finding this gem of an old lumbering truck for sale on Craigslist in Grand Junction, Colorado. The truck is a rare 1950s era FWD which features...
Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Action Photos From Wild West Motorsports Park – Flying Trucks, Wreckage, Flames, More!
(Photos by Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series) – It was a wild weekend at the Wild West Motorsports Park in Sparks, Nevada last Saturday and Sunday as the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series came to...
Another Epic Original Find: This 1970 Ford F100 Will Make You Hate Us Rust Free Californian’s Even More!
Brian just commented on a series of photos from the Pomona Swap Meet of rust free trucks that he is totally jealous of. Sorry dude, here’s another one. This truck is even better because it is...
More Sweet Trucks From The Pomona Swap Meet – We Hate These West Coast Guys For All Their Clean Stuff!
Yes, we’re back with another group of photos featuring sweet trucks from the Pomona swap meet last weekend. These photos both bring joy and pain to my little heart. The joy comes from gawking...
This Weekend’s Baja 500 Is Full Of Favorites. Check Out The Full Entry List Here.
The SCORE Baja 500 is going on this weekend, and we can’t go. Which sucks. But hopefully some of you will head that way to see yoru favorite off road stars tear it up in Mexico. We just got the...
A Survivor 1971 Mopar That Is The Yin To Brian’s 1969 Roadrunner’s Yang. You Gotta See This!
Rarely do you find ’60s and ’70’s era cars with original paint, original interior, and little or no wear like the one below. The fact that it’s got 134,318 original miles on...
BangShift XL Photos: Sweet Trucks A The June 2014 Pomona Swap Meet – Big Ones, Tall One, Short Ones, Small Ones
Last weekend the massive Pomona Swap Meet went down and we were there, right in the thick of it all. There was so much neat stuff that we’re going to bust it up into chunks for you to take in...
Hedman’s New Swap Headers For 1954-1972 Ford F-100 Trucks Makes That FE Or 385 Big Block Swap A Breeze
We’re pretty sure that there hasn’t been more or better aftermarket support for the Ford FE and 385 series big block engines than there is today. From heads and cams to intakes and...
Watch A Syracuse, Utah Dad Use His Lifted Ram To Stop A Crazed Driver From Running Over Kids At A Park
(Words by Bryan McTaggart) – A fourteen year old decided that he would grab the keys to his grandfather’s Hyundai Veloster and go driving around Syracuse, Utah like he was used to doing on...