We were chatting up a gearhead buddy recently who is into the old stuff…like the real old stuff. This dude has real vintage parts like a Kong ignition,a pile of ancient Thicksun intake manifolds and he is on the hunt for a set of first run Ardun heads. The guy is like a parts detective [...]

Last week we showed you video of a fourth generation Camaro spitting both rear wheels out on the starting line at Beaver Springs Dragway in Pennsylvania. This week it is a 1957 Chevy on the starting line of  an unknown drag strip. The ’57 looks like a full on drag car with the huge by [...]

This is bar none, the craziest and most spectacular motorcycle save we have ever seen. The rider is Genki Hagata and the place is Infineon Raceway in California during a recent AMA race. Hagata was on track qualifying in the Supersport class when he came as close as we have ever seen to crashing without [...]

No matter what type of organized automotive activity that you’re into, there are bragging rights involved. The bragging rights are probably no bigger or more completely over the top than in the world of mud bogging and giant competition trucks. The proof of this statement comes in the form of the video below which shows [...]

Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park (formerly Norwalk Raceway Park) in Ohio is one of the fastest, nicest, and hardest hooking drag strips in the country. We’ve been there back when it was the IHRA’s home track, after NHRA took it over, and we’ve even spent a week there for the awesome and infamous Halloween Classic [...]

Freiburger and Finnegan are back with another episode of “Roadkill” their off-kilter adventure show where they do neat and humorous car stuff. Essentially we revel in their pain and suffering. We’re ok with that. This time the guys drive a 1969 El Camino that has been in Finnegan’s family since brand new to  the Sparks, [...]

Another week, another well positioned European rally photog nearly being killed at a race. This time we take you to Latvia. Know where Latvia is? Hell no, we don’t either. If asked we would vaguely point to eastern Europe  and say, “right here!” with total confidence. Despite sounding like a place where a fictional sitcom [...]

Back in March, Pro Mod racer John Hall suffered a massive wreck during the NMRA race in Bradenton, Florida. Hall was there testing his nitrous Camaro in preparation for the then upcoming ADRL season opener in Houston, Texas. As you’ll see in this video, the car launches and covers the eighth-mile in 3.99 seconds and [...]

Some videos aren’t cool because of trick camera work, killer sound, or zooty stuff like that. Take this one for example. It shows drag racing legend Jim Oddy firing up the very Austin gasser he raced all over the country in the 1960s. The car has been painstakingly restored by New York resident John Cassiol [...]

Wheel hop is one of the most violent sensations that you can experience in a relatively stock car. Anyone who has owned a Mustang Cobra of the SN195 variety has probably lived through it on the street or the strip. We sure know that we have. Instead of a Mustang, this video features a fourth [...]

We have seen lots of wacky helmet cam videos over the years here at BangShift but this one is on another level entirely. The video shows a quad rider running full speed down a dirt road in God knows what country. The guy’s machine is equipped with GPS and some other type of guidance device, [...]

Canadian restaurateur and Pro Mod ace Raymond Commisso suffered a massive crash at the ADRL Spring Drags contested on the famous Maple Grove Raceway drag strip. You’ll see the car launch and start to haze the tires. At about 150-200 feet down the strip the car makes a dead left and Raymond is unable to do [...]

Tony Stewart is one of the greatest NASCAR racers ever. We’d actually say that he is one of the greatest American race car drivers ever because he has been in sprint crs, Indy cars, and other stuff, not just stock cars. Stewart is a fearsome competitor and also has no problem speaking his mind. He’s [...]

Regular BangShift readers know Jamey Smith. He’s the stunt driver and gearhead that has appeared in Hot Rod  and a bunch of videos on both the internet and big screens of your local cinema. Smith is really good at driving cars up on two wheels and he recently decided to try and do something no [...]

The men who race in the crazy Norwegian Formula Off Road series are a breed apart. Piloting trucks that are hybrids of mud boggers, sand rails, rock buggies, and dragsters, these paddle tired world beaters can climb near vertical slopes, skip across the surface of water, and throw pea gravel into the upper reaches of [...]

The hotly awaited 2013 Ford Mustang GT500 has been spotted and captured on video making laps around the famed Nurburgring in Germany. The car sounds 100% bad ass when wailing along, that is for sure. Since the track was wet and it was raining on the day this video was shot, there have been no [...]