Category Archive: BangShift XL, RACING & ACTION, Videos, XL Videos
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...
A Gift For Chad: This Holden Campervan Is A Factory-Built RV Conversion!
As I’m typing this out, Chad is on his way to LS Fest West, where he’ll be spending a few days drowning in all things late-model GM. He’ll be in heaven, for sure, but unless some...
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...
Just Send It: A Rainy Day At The Nurburgring And A Raptor…Why Not Drift The Green Hell?
There is no question that this is a full-on PR stunt, but c’mon…putting a Ford Raptor on the Nurburgring alone is a pretty solid move, putting Vaughn Gittin, Jr. behind the wheel promises...
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,...
A Flippin’ Good Time: Ramping Beaters In Britain For Charity (And Carnage!)
There are limitless ways to send that old beater that nobody wants on to the great parking lot in the sky without just sending the car over the scales and collecting your cash. There’s...
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...
Classic YouTube: A Geo Tracker Climbing The Escalator On The Hell’s Revenge Trail At Moab!
Light, simple and when geared properly, plenty capable, Geo Trackers are a better memory to have of the small-car GM brand than the Metro and have aged better over the years. They are scrappy little...
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...
The Corvette ZR1 At Road Atlanta – The Weaponized Corvette Can Throw Down!
I’ve seen a few of them running around town, and I got to get up close with the parked display model and the precious few that were in owner’s hands at the Michelin NCM Bash a few days...
The Psychotic Doorstop: Take A Ride In A 1982 Lancia 037 Stradale!
It was the only two-wheel-drive rally machine that could show Audi’s Quattro that the driver still had a lot to do with driving to victory. It was Walter Röhrl’s favorite machine to whip...