Awesome Vintage Promotional Video: The Turbocharged Oldsmobile Jetfire V8
Posted in ENGINES January 18, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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With the current hot rodding love affair with turbocharging in full swing, it is important to see the domestic history of exhaust driven compressors. That tale starts with the currently dead Oldsmobile brand. In 1962 and 1963 they offered an all aluminum 215ci engine equipped with a Garrett T5 turbo which made 5psi of boost. [...]
Road Course Video: Take a Lap on the Roof of the DSE Camaro
Posted in RACING & ACTION January 17, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Kyle and Stacy Tucker at Detroit Speed are noted speed freaks. Between their skills on the autocross courses, road courses, and Kyle’s experience at the Baja 1000, driving skills are not questioned in the Tucker household. This video is another example of why. Shot during the Opitma Ultimate Street Car Invitational, it is footage of [...]
The Parting Shift: Suicide Shifting the Coolest Custom Harley We’ve Ever Seen
Posted in MISC January 14, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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In the nearly 100 Parting Shift items we have published over the last couple years, we never thought to include a motorcycle with a suicide shifter. Why? Clearly it is because we’re morons, but you knew that already. Instead of some hokey video of a guy on an old Indian or something we’re bringing it [...]
Video: 2010′s Wildest Doorslammer Close Calls and Wall Bangers
Posted in CRASH & BURN January 14, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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2010 was certainly a wild year at the drags. The small tire scene continues to be white hot and this video shows some of the craziest action from last year. Filmed at many southern tracks like South Georgia Motorsports Park, Houston Motorsports Park, and others, it is wall to wall action. Out favorite part of [...]
Horrific Wreck Video: Australia’s Debbie Reed Suffers a Massive Top End Crash
Posted in CRASH & BURN January 13, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Debbie Reed is a name very familiar to Aussie drag racing fans, but maybe not so for North American straight line followers. She’s been in the sport for 30 years and is a successful Top Alcohol dragster down in the southern hemisphere. She recently suffered one of the worst crashes we’ve seen in some time. [...]
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 [...]
Awesome Video: A Gathering of Vintage Dirt Track Iron Tearing up the Track
Posted in RACING & ACTION January 12, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Much of America’s racing heritage was built on dirt tracks by men driving dangerous machines on small rings all over the country. There wasn’t a fairgrounds in America without a horse racing track, and those venues became the perfect place to hold races. Vukovitch, Foyt, Ward, and hundreds of other aspiring race cars drivers battled [...]
Awesome Historic Drag Video: Dragsters, Altereds, and A/FX Action from Lions Drag Strip
Posted in RACING & ACTION January 7, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Oh, is this a winner! An awesome three minute home movie film from Lions Drag Strip back in the 1960s, it captures several fuel dragsters smoking the hides, and ultra rare footage of Hubert Platt’s insane Georgia Shaker Falcon yanking the front end a couple times on the same run! Also shown are Dickie Harrell’s A/FX [...]
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 [...]
Video: Wheels Up Aussie Drag Racing Excitement
Posted in CRASH & BURN January 5, 2011 by Chad Reynolds
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We are always entertained by the Aussies and their penchant for killer horsepower and burnouts. We also love their willingness to turn any flat piece of asphalt into a dragstrip. One of the best we’ve seen is the Ballarat Drags in Victoria where the Ballarat Drag Racing Club holds their events. The 1/8th mile drag [...]
Cool video: How to Pilot a Steam Locomotive
Posted in MISC January 4, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Our “list of stuff we want to drive” is pretty danged long. It reads like a hit parade of awesome iron. From a blown alky altered to a monster truck and multi-engine pulling tractor, the basic theme is excessive horsepower. Weirdly (or not) sitting above all of those is a steam locomotive. Amongst the biggest, [...]
Open Track Day Wreckage: How To Crash Your Evo While Not Wearing Any Safety Gear
Posted in CRASH & BURN January 3, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Open track days are riotous fun. They are the type of events that allow people who have always wanted to road race a shot at the track to test their mettle. In the case of this video, which shows a kid crashing his Mistubishi Evo with a passenger and sans any type of safety gear, [...]
Best of BangShift 2010: Insane Icelandic Hillclimb Action
Posted in RACING & ACTION December 31, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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Icelandic hillclimb racers must hate gravity. There’s just no other way to explain why they attempt to race their tube chassis Jeeps and trucks up near vertical cliff faces, often with disastrous results. Big blocks, lots of nitrous, paddle tires, and miles of steel tubing make this a BangShift.com approved motorsport. The fact that disaster [...]
Video Bonanza: Hurst Drag Racing Film Collection – The Best Set of Old Drag Racing Movies We’ve Ever Seen
Posted in HISTORIC December 30, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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We think we’ve found the end of the internet in terms of vintage drag racing videos. This nearly hour long compendium of videos was produced by the Hurst Company and it chronicles the US Nationals and other large NHRA meets from 1965 through 1968. You’ll see Grumpy Jenkins in his first Chevy II, Mike Snivley [...]
Video: The Mystery of the Psycho Pulling Truck Has Been Solved, Sadly
Posted in MISC December 30, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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Long about a year ago, we ran an item on the blog about George Stinnett’s legendary Psycho pulling truck. The old Ford Econoline truck became famous for dragging the sled with the front end five feet (or more) in the air. After running around the country for many years delighting crowds the truck vanished into thin [...]
Epic Drag Video Bonanza: The 1980 Popular Hot Rodding Championships
Posted in HISTORIC December 29, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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This is the longest and most complete set of videos we have ever found on YouTube with respect to a single drag race. It’ll blow your afternoon up and you will thank us for it. Run at US 131 Dragway in Martin, Michigan, this is the video coverage from the 1980 Popular Hot Rodding Championship [...]
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