AMAZING HISTORICAL VIDEO: A WING WALKER FROM THE TWENTIES CHANGES THE WHEEL ON A PLANE IN MID-FLIGHT
Posted in HISTORIC January 5, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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While we have our “extreme” athletes these days, back in the 1920s people just did insane things for fun. Proof of that fact is contained in this video of a woman named Gladys Ingle, who was a member of a famous LA-based stunt flying troupe called the 13 Black Cats. This video shows Ingle swapping [...]
Cool Old Video: AJ Foyt And Ray Harroun Apppear On A 1961 Game Show Together
Posted in HISTORIC December 21, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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It is a brutally slow news week around here but luckily while trolling the interwebs, we found a really cool video of 1961 Indy 500 winner AJ Foyt and 1911 Indy 500 winner Ray Harroun appearing on the 1961 game show “I’ve Got a Secret” together. Harroun, obviously up there in age even takes a [...]
Fantastic Vintage Drag Video: 1960S Footage From Atco And Englishtown!
Posted in HISTORIC December 20, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Atco Raceway and Englishtown Raceway Park are two of the quickest, fastest, and longest standing drag plants on the east coast. This awesome video, compiled by someone as a tribute to their deceased friend has some totally bitchin’ footage of everything from Super Stocks to Gassers and Altereds. It looks like the main focus of [...]
INCREDIBLE HISTORIC VIDEO: PRE WW2 DRY LAKES HOT ROD RACING – NEVER BEFORE SEEN
Posted in HISTORIC December 16, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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This is truly historic video. This is some of the earliest known footage of early hot rodders racing their stuff on the dry lakes in the western portion of the country. There are amazing roadsters, some truly beautiful coupes, and a bunch of customs rolling low and slow by the camera. Seeing these people and [...]
HISTORIC DRAG VIDEO: AMAZING FOOTAGE FROM NY NATIONAL DRAG STRIP CIRCA 1969 – FOUR WIDE RACING, JUNGLE JIM AND MORE!
Posted in HISTORIC December 14, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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In the realm of old school drag racing videos this footage from the summer of ’69 at the now dead NY National Drag Strip on Long Island is in the top 1%. The video itself is crisp and clear which makes it great to watch, it is set to a score of classical music which [...]
Awesome Historic Video: Road Racing on the Streets of Pontiac Michigan in 1975
Posted in HISTORIC November 30, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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In 1974 and again in 1975 the streets of downtown Pontiac, Michigan were turned into a road course that hosted a couple large scale road racing events. These were “outlaw” events in the sense that they were not sanctioned by the SCCA (as best we can tell). Another rarity in road racing was that the [...]
Historic Video: The Story of the Hogslayer – The Greatest Twin Engine Top Fuel Motorcycle of All Time
Posted in HISTORIC November 29, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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The early and mid-1970s were the pinnacle of the twin engine Top Fuel motorcycle. The bike that ruled the roost during that time was not a Harley powered contraption. Instead it was a Kenosha, Wisconsin based twin engined Norton that wore the awesome name, “The Hogslayer”. Legendary rider Tom Christenson and crew chief John Gregory [...]
Prehistoric Monster Truck Video: Jeff Dane’s King Kong Was a Monster Truck Before the Term was Invented
Posted in HISTORIC November 24, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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We were stoked to find this ancient video of Jeff Dane’s King Kong Ford Truck horsing around in the 1970s. This truck pre-dates the term monster truck and was one of the few vehicles, along with Bob Chandler’s Bigfoot that can be credited with creating the genre. The big old Ford had military axles under [...]
1973 Drag Racing Documentary: Burn On – See The Best Jungle Jim Video Interview Ever!
Posted in HISTORIC November 23, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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To us, nothing is cooler than old school drag racing movies coming out of hibernation and finding their way onto the internet. We were tipped off to the newest and coolest one out there today. It is a 1973 film called, “Burn On”. This one is especially awesome because it was filmed at the 1973 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Turbonique Video: A Five Minute Turbonique Promotional Video From the 1960s!
Posted in HISTORIC September 2, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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The story of Gene Middlebrooks’ Turbonique company has been told a zillion times on the internet. The company that made rocket propulsion available to the common hot rodder disappeared in a strangulation hold of red tape, litigation, and charges of mail fraud that Middlebrooks was eventually convicted of. While it lasted though, Turbonique made some [...]
Cool Vintage Army Training Video: Missile Men – A Look at the Dawn of the Guided Missile Age
Posted in HISTORIC August 30, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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We have proclaimed ourselves history dweebs many times here on the electronic pages of BangShift, so it should come as no surprise that we’ve dug up a killer old Army video that is quite BangShifty, even though it is about missiles and not cars. Made in the early 1950s, this film is an educational piece [...]
Killer Historic Stunt Video: The Astro Spiral Jump Circa 1972!
Posted in HISTORIC August 26, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Yesterday we asked what the coolest car related stunt you’ve ever seen was. One reader tipped us off to a rather legendary jump made back in 1972. Using the appropriate AMC Javelin, American Thrill Shows came up with the idea to perform a corkscrew style ramp to ramp jump they called the Astro Sprial Jump. [...]
Awesome Video: 27 Minutes Inside a Chevrolet Plant Circa 1936
Posted in HISTORIC August 24, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Recently, a nine-minute video of life inside a Chevrolet plant in 1936 has been making the rounds on the internets. You know what we say about nine minute videos? Screw ‘em! Why? Because we’ve got the whole 27 minute enchilada here for you. The short movie misses all the truly bad ass stuff like casting [...]
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 [...]
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