The True Story Behind The Fake Racetrack in Chrysler’s Latest TV Commercial
Posted in HISTORIC August 1, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Dodge’s latest television commercial is a spot plugging their Durango SUV. Rather than showing the vehicle backing over a flower bed or slowly ambling up a crushed stone driveway, the spot shows two of them flying around an abandoned oval course called Brixton Speedway. Brixton Speedway is a fake place, but the Middle Georgia Raceway [...]
Video: The Six Mile Trans Am Video from Ridetech
Posted in HISTORIC July 7, 2011 by Chad Reynolds
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A 6 mile 1979 Trans Am is something to gawk at, and when Kitterman Motors decided to auction theirs off, the internet was a buzz. Bret Voelkel and Jason Brady from Ridetech went to bid, and quickly decided they weren’t in for the $85,000 sales price, but not before shooting some cool video of the [...]
Video: Steve Evans Interviews Al Hofmann Back in 1998
Posted in HISTORIC June 14, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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This interview rules for a couple of reasons. Those reasons are Steve Evans and Al Hofmann. Recorded in 1998 shortly after Hofmann picked up GM Performance Parts as a primary backer of his Funny Car operation the interview is a multi-part piece that shows everything from the race shop to the sports bar where Hofmann [...]
Historic Drag Racing Video: 1960s Drag Racing From Washington State
Posted in HISTORIC May 10, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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This fifteen and a half minute movie that depicts the people, places, and race cars of 1960s drag fiend gearheads in Washington state is pretty special. Yes, you’ll get to see Don Garlits run his car, but in our opinion the highlights of this video have nothing to do with the greatest drag racer who [...]
Awesome Old Drag Video: Fuel Altereds, Floppers, and Other Stuff At Irwindale Raceway Circa 1971
Posted in HISTORIC April 29, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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This is a cool piece of video, twelve minutes to be exact, featuring a big event at Irwindale Raceway back in 1971. There are awesome fuel floppers, fuel altereds and slingshot Top Fuel dragsters that were inching toward competitive extinction as Garlits would make the “million dollar junk pile” out of them with the introduction [...]
Historic Promo Video: Chevrolet’s Promo Movie Selling Ram-Jet Fuel Injection for 1957
Posted in HISTORIC April 21, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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What a world it must have been for a gearhead in the late 1950s. So much was happening with aviation technology, and car companies were innovating, inventing, and experimenting with stuff that would have been considered voodoo magic just years (or less) before. This promotional video selling the virtues of “Ram Jet” fuel injection on [...]
Wednesday Time Killer: Fifty Years of Sideways – An Hour and a Half of Epic Video
Posted in HISTORIC April 20, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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We had the pleasant surprise of dining with BangShift house rally hero Bill Caswell earlier this week. Caswell is still chasing the dream of professional racing and he is also working on some totally awesome projects that we’ll be telling you about in the coming weeks. One of the things we talked about at dinner [...]
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 [...]
Insane Video: WWII Deuce and a Half Submarine
Posted in HISTORIC April 7, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Last week we brought you video of a Suzuki Samurai pretending to be a submarine. It was more like a semi-sub though because it came close, but never fully submerged. Unable to rest until we found something that actually was both a truck and a sub, we bring you the greatest piece of video in [...]
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, [...]
Bitchin’ Old Video: A Collection of 1936 Chevrolet Newsreels
Posted in HISTORIC March 9, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Old promotional newsreel films are always a gas. This collection of Chevrolet-centric films from 1936 does not disappoint. There’s a bevy of bathing beauties using the car as a water slide and then a diving board, and then packing about 20 of themselves inside. There’s a seven foot tall Chevrolet plant employee, an old guy [...]
UPDATED Video: NHRA Motorsports Museum Low Flyers Car Club Panel Discussion
Posted in HISTORIC February 18, 2011 by Chad Reynolds
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We are proud to be partnering with the NHRA Wally Parks Motorsports Museum to bring you all the history of drag racing and hot rods you can handle in 2011, presented by The Auto Club of Southern California. The Auto Club of Southern California continues to provide incredible support for the museum, and our hobby [...]
Great Vintage Drag Footage From Cecil County Dragway, All The Legends Battling it Out
Posted in HISTORIC February 14, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Cecil County Dragway in Rising Sun, Maryland first held drag races in 1963. Since then the track has become one of the most active drag plants in the mid-Atlantic region and plays host of a lot of neat events, including the YellowBullet.com Nationals. It is currently operated by nitrous Pro Mod maven Jim Halsey. We [...]
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Great Historic Drag Video: Nitro Funnies, Pro Stockers, and Top Fuel from Rockingham, Circa 1975
Posted in HISTORIC January 25, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Drag racing was in a transitional period in the mid-1970s. Gone were the free spirit days of the 1960s and in were the gritty days of match racing for a living, and slowly transitioning to a more corporately driven sport. This footage from an IHRA event in 1975 shows some of that transition happening. While [...]
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 [...]
Video Lead Off: Early 1960s Vintage Films of Guys Blowing Donuts
Posted in HISTORIC January 6, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Blowing donuts on dry pavement and in the snow is totally BangShift approved. We were tipped off to some footage from the early 1960s showing all kinds of cool old junk spinning out in different conditions. If you call yourself a BangShifter, it is virtually impossible for you to have missed the pure bliss of [...]
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