Vintage TV Ad Perfection: Roger Penske and Mark Donohue Pitching Sunoco Fuels Circa 1968
Posted in HISTORIC February 6, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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Roger Penske could be the coolest guy alive. He’s rich beyond all comprehension, has been in racing for nearly 50 years now, and still stands as a very successful racing team owner in both open wheel and stock car series. The guy freaking bought Detroit Diesel from General Motors in 1988 and took it from [...]
Video: The Places They Raced – Episode One – Fantastic Racing History From California
Posted in HISTORIC February 13, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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A week or two ago we told you about an upcoming documentary series based on the great Where They Raced books by Harold Osmer. We’re happy to report that the first episode of the series has been released and we’ve got it embedded down below. As you’d expect, the first episode starts right at the [...]
Video: Where They Raced: Episode 2. “The Holy Grail” Southern California’s Racing History Explained
Posted in HISTORIC February 20, 2013 by Chad Reynolds
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The Where They Raced series is in full swing now, and you can expect to see a new episode from us each Wednesday here at BangShift.com. This is the second episode, and you will not be disappointed. It’s a tale of German, French, and American engineering going head to head at the French Grand Prix [...]
Video: Where They Raced Episode 3: Part 1 The Road Races
Posted in CRASH & BURN March 6, 2013 by Chad Reynolds
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We are fully addicted to the “Where They Raced” video series now. Episode 3 is a two parter, and here is Part 1 for you to enjoy. Not only do we enjoy the hell out of each one, but we learn stuff too! This episode talks all about the Santa Monica Road Races, which happened [...]
Bitchin’ Vintage Ad Video: 1967 Dodge Camper Special Truck With Bonus Chrysler Boat Footage!
This is a video that will make you smile and it’ll also serve as a reminder that there was an era when someone could walk into a car dealership and essentially order whatever they could dream up from a car company. These were not the days of selecting “option groups” or “packages” these were the [...]
Awesome Historic Video: A 1957 Chevy Truck Promotional Video Featuring NAPCO 4WD
Posted in HISTORIC January 17, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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It’s hard to imagine, but there was actually a time when people didn’t buy trucks for daily transportation and four-wheel-drives were a relative rarity. If you wanted a 4×4, you typically bought a Jeep. Companies like Marmom-Herrington focused on larger vehicles for industrial use, but in the early 1950s a company called Northwestern Auto Parts [...]
Bitchin’ Big Rig Race Video: The Great American Truck Race, Atlanta, 1980
Earlier today we dug up an old story that we ran about the Great American Truck Racing series from the 1980s and announced the creation of the ChumpTruck budget big rig racing series for 2014. This was the series that pitted hot rod big rigs against each other on speedways and super speedways across the country. The [...]
Amazing Historic Drag Video: The Mind-Boggling US Turbine 1 Dragster
Posted in HISTORIC July 24, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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The halls of drag racing history are filled with lots of little nooks and crannies. In those tiny spaces exist cars and people like the US Turbine 1 Dragster and George “The Stone Age Man” Hutcheson. This incredible creation was one bad pass away from permanent display at the Smithsonian, but instead lived to be [...]
Video Bonanza: Vintage Jeep Ads of the Kaiser Era
Posted in HISTORIC January 12, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Jeep is one of the most enduring brand names in the history of the American auto industry. Jeep has survived multiple owners and multiple attempts to dilute a strong, proud brand with namby pamby weiner mobiles that have no connection to the humble yeoman-like history of the vehicle. This collection of television ads from Jeep’s [...]
Historic Video Bonanza: The 1965 12 Hours of Sebring
Posted in HISTORIC April 5, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Road course competition was like international chess in the 1960s. There were battles for supremacy in virtually all classes and we’re not talking driver versus driver competition, we’re talking international corporation versus international corporation and country versus country. Shelby was hell bent on humiliating Enzo Ferrari at every bent corner course in the known universe, [...]
Historic Drag Video: Footage From the Long Dead Golden Triangle Drag Strip
Posted in HISTORIC April 14, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Golden Triangle Drag Strip, which was located just outside of Beaumont, Texas, has been dead for years. The former air strip is now crossed over by a highway, and serves as the backdrop of a little league field. Peacefully sleeping now, the track was a hotbed of door slammer madness back in the 1960s. This [...]
Awesome Historic Drag Video: Tommy Ivo Squares Off Against the Green Mamba Jet Car at Houston International Speedway Circa 1968
Posted in HISTORIC August 4, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Boy, this is a killer video! Shot in 1968 at Houston International Speedway, it shows Tommy Ivo in his fuel dragster taking on Doug Rose and the Green Mamba jet dragster. The coolest part is that they have the actual announcer audio on the film. It really is like a time capsule with the original [...]
Cool Video: Dr Jamie Meyer of GM Shows Six Significant Performance Cars From Chevy’s History
Posted in HISTORIC August 16, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Chevrolet turns 100 this year and the company plans to celebrate that fact loud and proud during the 2011 Woodward Dream Cruise in and around Detroit. In this video, Dr. Jamie Meyer, one of the driving forces of performance inside GM takes us for a quick walk through the GM Heritage Center and along the [...]
Vintage Drag Racing Video: Shuffletown Dragway Circa 1974
Posted in HISTORIC September 20, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Shuffletown dragway closed in 1991, leaving a gaping hole in the Charlotte, NC area drag racing scene. The track was a quaint place by modern standards, but had the type of historical provenance modern places will never have. It was the scene of big time match racing in the 1960s and one of the stops [...]
Killer Historic Drag Video: A 1970 Promotional Film From Great Lakes Dragaway and Bristol
Posted in HISTORIC October 20, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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This video, produced by the Schlitz Beer company is called, “Drag Race U.S.A” and it examines the sport of drag racing at what was arguably the height of popularity in 1970. In fact, the video claims that drag racing is the most popular spectator sport in the country at the time. All the big names [...]
Great Vintage Drag Film: Big Numbers – A Half Hour of Historic Drag Racing Perfection
It has been a little while since we highlighted some kick ass historic drag racing footage here on the blog, mainly because we have not seen anything truly bitchin’ pop up…until now. After the jump you’ll see parts one and two of an old 1960s drag racing film called, “Big Numbers”. All the usual suspects [...]
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