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

Fly Like A Brick: Watch The “Bad Company” Monster Truck Do Some Low-Level Flying!

I don’t follow monster trucks like I did when I was a kid. I grew up on the TNN showcases: rows of cars ready to be flattened and two machines going heads-up against one another in a race that...

20 Years Ago This Is What The Mustang vs Camaro Battle Looked Like – A Cobra And An SS Fight!

What a different 20 years can make, right? This video is cool because it is an accurate look back at the pony car war that Ford and Chevy were still fighting and would fight for a couple more years...

Ramble On: Watch As This Rambler Hornet Throws Down On The Skidpad!

When sold in Australia, the Rambler Hornet was more or less a luxury option. Think about that for a second: American Motors’ compact car, in sedan form, packing only inline-six power, was a...

British Lawnmower Racing: Somewhere Between A Push Mower, A Go-Kart And A Quad!

Lawnmower racing is a great way to have a lot of fun on a little budget. The basic lawnmower only has so long to be useful before the wear and tear of mowing down that jungle you unashamedly call a...

Hazardous Weather Outlook: This Ford Lightning Is Quick Enough To Earn The Name

Yeah, I see that Kentucky license plate on the back of this first-gen Ford Lightning. And I can say that I do not remember seeing this rig anywhere recently, so I have more questions than answers...

A Restomod, A Ute And A Mopar: This CL Valiant Ute Is A Dream Concept Come True!

Chad thinks that within a couple of years, that he’ll have me in a “traditional” Mopar. I think that means that he believes that he’ll find a way that I’ll suddenly fall...

A Workday Dream: Hooking A HEMTT Up To The Sled At A Pull!

This should qualify as cheating in some sense of the word. The Oshkosh HEMTT series of military trucks are beasts…Detroit Diesel powered, 8×8 beasts that weigh as much as a starter home...

This 1955 Chrysler Promotional Film Touts The Famous $100,000,000 Look – Great Watch

1955 was a huge year for the auto industry in America and Chrysler needed it to be a good one. In typical Chrysler fashion, they didn’t completely slay it but they did make some hay while the...

Get A Grip: Big Tire And True Street No-Prep Racing From Ozark Raceway Park!

If you’re going to roll into an event with some big-ass tires steamrolling underneath your ride and still have a license plate bolted onto the ride, two things should happen: you need to prove...

Watch The 1988 NHRA Winston All-Stars From Atlanta Right Here – Really Fun Stuff!

As you read this I’ll be heading to or working at Atlanta Dragway as part of the 2018 NHRA Southern Nationals. Atlanta Dragway was still a pretty new joint back in 1988 when this video was made...

Eff The Rule Book: Demolition Drag Racing Is What Happens When The Patients Run The Asylum!

Drag racing is an ORGANIZED sport! Organization is what gave drag racing some legitimacy during the days where hot-rodders were looked at as a plague on society in their chopped-up gow jobs,...

Watch The 1988 NHRA Southern Nationals Right Here – This Was A Race For The Ages

Ahhhhh yes, as we continue on with the 2018 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing season Atlanta Dragway looms large on the horizon. That’s where we are racing this year as one of the tour’s true...

Morning Symphony: The Gringo Malibu Launching Like A Missile!

Growing up, a four-door G-body Malibu would’ve been labeled a “parts car” and pushed out into the far sections of the yard. One in particular stayed in memory: a white Malibu, tan...

Video: The 1993 Ford Taurus SHO Was A Good Car – But How Good Was It? First Year For The Slushbox

Maybe because it was the late 1980s and early 1990s. Maybe it was because I was a pre-teen and then a teen. Maybe it was because this was an era where pretty much every car that everyone was making...