The first episode of National Geographic Channel’s Showdown Of The Unbeatables aired Friday April 4 at 9PM.  It was machine vs. machine for three great showdowns.  A Chicago Pneumatic jackhammer mounted on an hydraulic excavator vs. a Brown Safe Co safe lined with concrete and ballistic steel; LineX Corp’s super strong coating material vs. the BCB Wallbreaker cannon; and perhaps most interesting, Chief AJ, world champion slingshot marksman vs the Real Sentry Turret Gun, a semi-automatic motion-detecting paintball gun.

That gives you an idea of the kind of thing X Factory has gotten itself into.  We faced very unexpected and ferocious opposition.

Each company gets about 5 minutes to show off its product in unusual ways.  The attached photo shows one of the stunts done by the X Factory X – 6 Cubed buggy, a drag race against a Porsche!  The Showdown film crew was going to rent a car for the race when Family member Oldman Billy volunteered his Porsche, and they said, “Great!”  Billy tuned up his beautiful car the night before and gave it his all.  We must have done the race a dozen times, as the film crew kept shooting it from different angles to get the best shots.

This is just one of the stunts we did during our segment.  Did Billy win, or Paul and the Cubed? And what happened in our Showdown?   Watch the show to find out.  Showdown Of The Unbeatables airs every Friday night at 9 Eastern & Pacific on National Geographic Channel.  The episode with X Factory will be in a few weeks – we’ll let you know which Friday as soon as we know for sure.

Photos courtesy GRB Productions Inc.  X – 6 Cubed photo taken at The R/C Factory, Jeffersonville, Ohio.  Race photo taken on location near Waterville, Ohio.