Category Archive: BangShift XL, RACING & ACTION, Videos, XL Videos

VSTOL Bronco: Watch This Monster Ford Go Vertical In The Parking Lot!

You have to hand it to the team at Hoonigan: there isn’t such a thing as a boring day. One minute, you’re scraping up the remnants of a car and making it into an internet meme…the...

Soviet Scrambler: These Ladas Get After It At Rally Legend! Who Knew A Repurposed Fiat Could Be This Wicked?

The design traces back to the 1966 Fiat 124, and somehow the shape was in production until 2012. The group of vehicles best collectively known as the Lada Riva were a staple of Russian auto...

Calder Park Drag Racing – V8s From Old And New Schools Making Noise!

We are about a month away from starting some test and tune days at Beech Bend with the Angry Grandpa Chrysler and honestly, the weather can’t clear up soon enough for us to start getting the...

Morning Symphony: The Highest-Revving Detroit Diesel-Powered Kenworth We’ve Seen Yet!

Diesels don’t rev. That’s just the truth of it. A couple of thousand RPMs and you’re in the upper limits for most oil-burners that have been produced. Four thousand RPM and...

This Cummins Powered Nova Was The Freakiest Car At Lights Out 9 And It Worked! Totally Awesome

In drag racing, freaky and different usually mean fun but they also usually mean slow. Well, this Cummins powered Nova was the freakiest car at Lights Out 9 and it was anything but slow. In fact this...

Riot! Check Out The Highlights From Jake Burkey’s 2017 Rockbouncing Season!

What you will see here is Jake Burkey’s last season with the old Riot buggy…for 2018 he’s stepping up to a newer, lighter rig that is expected to show up to the first event of the...

Hot Rod Haulers! Place Your Bets Between The 1UZ-Powered Flatbed And the 1JZ-Powered Van!

A Mazda flatbed truck and a Mitsubishi L300 van. I’ll take “Vehicles You’d Never See On A Dragstrip” for a thousand, Alex. Small, compact utility vehicles from Japan...

Morning Symphony: Retired Rally Cars On Snow! Watch As A Ford Focus RS, Ford Fiesta WRC And Peugeot 206 Go Play!

There are still a few weeks left of winter to deal with. That means that even though I’m looking at beautiful temperatures and sunny skies for the next couple of days around BangShift Mid-West,...

Monday Morning Madness: Sidecar Motorcross Jumps To Classic Van Halen!

I have to wonder how the conversation goes when a team for sidecar motorcross gets put together. It’s one thing to ask your buddies to help you out in the pits for a weekend for the promise of...

Stockholm Syndrome: The Stockholm Open-Winning Opel Ascona Went Full Bore At Drag Week

As 1320Video goes through their Drag Week 2017 footage, we have to make note of the Opel Ascona that Magnus Frost is infamous for. This is a car that is a legitimate, purpose-built street racer....

Yee-Haw! Watch Just How Quickly The Dodge Challenger SRT Demon Can Hit VMAX!

To just bluntly state that the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon is fast is like saying the sky is blue: it’s going to elicit a lot of eye-rolling and a general vibe of “thanks, Captain...

Off-Road Square Bodies For The Win! Which One Out Of This Compilation Works For You?

1973-87 for the light trucks, 1973-91 for the heavy trucks and sport-utility vehicles. That’s the year ranges where you’ll find what’s commonly called a Square Body Chevrolet or GMC...

Davids Versus Goliath: Mighty Car Mods Go Against A V8 Supercar In Their Project Vehicles!

You probably didn’t know that Marty and Moog, the duo behind Mighty Car Mods, have been at their game for about ten years now. They’ve done lots of projects, from building a...

Classic YouTube: TVR Tuscan Challenge At Snetterton In 1997

TVR has always been a strangely unhinged company. They eschewed safety gear like airbags and anti-lock brakes because they don’t add to the vehicle’s performance. They built a supercar so...