Big Red is one of if not the single greatest road legal 1969 Camaro in history. Built by Dan and RJ Gottlieb and used to compete in dozens of different events, the car can run 220mph flat out during the Silver State Classic, clip 215mph at the Texas Mile, and haul the mail up a mountain [...]

We’re suckers for old-timey news reel style movies from car companies. This gem from Ford was made in 1940 as a device to tell people how great their factory replacement parts and service was. They did so by using animated engine parts like talking valves, a cheery piston and connecting rod combo, and the dastardly [...]

No hype, no BS, no exaggeration, this video is friggin’ awesome. This is footage from 1928 news reels showing the construction of a massive 3,600hp locomotive in Canada. It made us want to smash our computer on the ground for the simple fact that computerized automation and design has killed lots of the skill sets [...]

This vintage training video from the early 1950s was used by the Los Angeles Fire Department as a tool to train tillermen. What’s a tillerman? He’s the guy that drives the rear axle of the ladder on a super long fire truck of course. In large cities, having a tillerman meant that a big ladder [...]

Did anyone else know that the Army developed a 10 passenger Jeep during WWII? We certainly did not know anything about this awesome machine before seeing this newsreel video on YouTube. Not many details are given with respect to the engine and any other mechanical upgrades over the stock Jeep which is shown for comparison [...]

We have to thank our Mopar lovin’ tipster Elana for this killer 25-minute film depicting California Highway Patrol driver training in 1971. The police cars shown in this video are 1971 Dodge Polaras with 440ci motors. There are also a ton of other classics shown being used as “violators” or chase vehicles. The video is [...]

We were tipped off to this incredible seven minute film by a BangShift reader. It looks like B-roll footage from a production company or movie studio that was working on one of the myriad of hot rod exploitation films that exploded in the late 1940s and early 1950s. What you will see is an awesome [...]

It is Friday, more specifically, it is Friday afternoon. Let’s be honest with each other. You don’t want to be at the office any more. Leaving isn’t an option because the last time you tried that the boss saw your fake plaster of paris replica head roll off the chair and smash on the floor. [...]

We got a note from pal-o-BangShift Dawn Mazi-Hovsepian cluing us in the on the fact that she unearthed and posted an totally cool old drag racing documentary film called “Dynamite Run”. The movie was made at the 1974 AHRA Winternationals which was held at Arizona’s Beeline Dragway for years. Beeline has been closed up for [...]