Drag strips are generally leery about letting people shoot photos on the top end of the track. Just about every experienced photographer that has shot big end photos can tell you a harrowing story of nearly being swept up by an errant parachute, dodging parts, and seeing some crazy wreckage up close and personal. The [...]

Finnegan and Freiburger have been one some wacky fun adventures since they started the Roadkill series on YouTube some time ago. They’ve wrecked cop cars, driven to Alaska, driven to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, and made us laugh in any number of ways. This time they drive the scariest pile of steel and [...]

Before the modern day towing and payload capacity wars between truck makers, the big selling point was how good the trucks rode. All kinds of different “tests” were use to illustrate this point, but this one from Ford in 1969 is a classic. Using a couple of sticks, a bunch of 4×4 lumber and a [...]

If this video doesn’t spin your crank, go ahead and leave your badge at the door on the way out! The car featured here is the XY GT Falcon of Aussie racer Dave Thompson. It was a rally car from way back in the day and after being dusted off, is back to terrorizing dirt [...]

When you see a high powered drag car completing a burnout at the strip, especially one with a short wheelbase, realize that the person behind the wheel is busy working to keep the car in a straight line. As you will see in this video, it isn’t the easiest task and things can go wrong [...]

This video is totally insane. When you press play, you’ll see a driverless golf cart flying through Cowboy Stadium, ultimately smashing into a crowd of football coaches and officials after a Texas high school football championship game. As best we know, none of the people that were mowed down were seriously injured. What’s really crazy, [...]

Every gearhead in the world with a rear wheel drive car think that they have mad drifting skills. This video is some proof that not all wheel men are created equal and that some race tracks can wreck your junk even if you don’t touch a wall. There is some serious comedic value here, especially [...]

Big motor plus small car always equals fun but when the small car is a cool little old school Japanese job and the engine is a 420ci Cleveland headed  Ford small block, we’re talking real fun! This video was made in Australia at a dyno/tuning day for this race car which can normally be found [...]

Oh this is one for the books! The Blazer you see with the blazing fire under it (see what we did there?) suffers what may be the single most violent engine explosion we have ever seen that didn’t involve lots of boost or nitromethane. This kid is involved in a truck tug of war with [...]

Next week, I’ll be in Denver, Colorado for the Diesel Power Challenge. That contest pits 10 of the toughest diesel trucks in America against one another in a variety of challenges and events. One such event is the dyno challenge which looks a lot like what the fellas in this clip are doing with their [...]

If you don’t check out Speed Hunters either on their site or their FB page, you are cheating yourself. Those guys do some killer work and profile bad ass cars from all over the world. This Volvo Amazon that has been fitted with a blown, gasoline burning, 331ci Hemi, straight axle, and a whole bunch [...]

If this isn’t a video documenting every possible wrong, misguided, and potentially lethal thing to do with a project car in your shop we don’t know what is. Basically, a 23-year old kid is building a project drift car. He’s never done anything like this before and in this video he has the motor mocked [...]

Jim Pace is our adopted maniac road racer here at BangShift. Pace is always wheeling something awesome and lots of times it is vintage or historic. In this video he is running an old Lola T70 Spyder Can-Am car around the Sebring road course. The track is being run in its 12-hour configuration and that [...]

In racing, no driver ever wants to come up short. This is especially true in Swedish Formula Off Road competition and these two videos below explain why. See, if you come up short in Formula Off Road like these guys, you end up flipping end over end (one truck does it stylishly backwards while the [...]

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 [...]

If this video doesn’t make you cringe or gasp in horror, you’ve got ice water in your veins because we did both the first time we watched it. We’re not sure what country it was filmed in, but judging by the cars, this seems to be in Europe somewhere. As you’ll see this video starts [...]