Smoke Show Video: A 1993 Dodge Daytona Goes Out in a Fog of Glory
Posted in CRASH & BURN March 29, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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Let’s say that you have a 1993 Dodge Daytona that has thrown a rod and is emotionally dead to you. There are a couple of options to move on at that point. At least two of them involve a tow truck and a junkyard. These guys chose the third option. Pin the throttle wide open [...]
Pulling Video: A Vintage Ford Sporting V8 Power
Posted in MISC March 30, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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Since BangShift.com first got off the ground, we’ve not been shy of our affection for old tractors. We happened to be surfing YouTube as we do far too often and found some footage of an old Ford 9N (don’t believe the title of the video) that’s been muscled up with a big ol’ V8. This [...]
Carnage Video: Guy Stuffs a Viper in a Line of Traffic
Posted in CRASH & BURN March 30, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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To set the scene, you’re out bombing around in your Viper, maybe even with a hottie in the passenger seat. Traffic is heavy, but you are slicing and dicing like Fangio. Life is good, and as soon as you see daylight at the end of the tunnel you are cruising through you’re going to punch [...]
Cool Video: A Top Fuel Hydroplane Throwing Header Flames on the Water
Posted in MISC March 30, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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Top Fuel Hydros are the baddest mothers on the water. Take all the aspects of a fuel dragster or Funny Car, smoosh it down into a swoopy looking boat, and voila! You’ll be doing 250 mph on the water in less than five seconds. The coolest part of this video is the fact that it [...]
Insane Fail Video: How Not to Right a Tipped Over Tractor Trailer
Posted in CRASH & BURN March 31, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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This is one of the flat out nuttiest fail videos we have ever seen. It’s from a foreign country, which one we have no idea, and there’s lots of screaming and yelling in languages we don’t understand. Thankfully the language of carnage crosses all borders. Here’s a tip. If you are going to right an [...]
Dyno Video: A Boss 429 Screaming to Be Let Out
Posted in ENGINES March 31, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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The Boss 429 was certainly a bad hombre from Ford back in the day. As we told you a while back, there are companies where you can now buy new crate versions of the blue oval monster to bolt in your classic Mustang or other Ford product. Searching for cool videos involving tunnel ram intake [...]
Hilarious Video: The Old Driverless Van Trick
Posted in MISC April 1, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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We’ve obviously been having some fun with it being April Fool’s Day and all, but this clip from a Canadian comedy television show is truly good stuff. A troup of people manipulate a mini-van so that it appears to be moving around with no driver. The reactions of the people being stalked by the thing [...]
Awesome Muscle Car Video: Factory Promotional Video for the 1970 AMC Rebel Machine
Posted in HISTORIC April 2, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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After showing your the “mis-powered” 1968 Rebel in our Craigslist find, we had to get you some Rebel redemption. Here it is in the form of a cool old video that AMC sent to their dealerships to help sales people move the Rebel Machine into the hands of horsepower crazed young men in 1970 America. [...]
Groovy Video: 1970 Firestone Tires Commercial
Posted in HISTORIC April 2, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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Decades before the Ford Explorer debacle that would cost the brand dearly (and more than they deserved) Firestone was cranking out tires at a blinding rate for all different types of vehicles. Their famous “wide oval” sneakers were the hot ticket for muscle cars and sporty machines like the Corvette. This ad even seems to [...]
The Parting Shift: Street Driving a Pro-Shifted T5
Posted in MISC April 2, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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Being a gearhead is often about making sacrifices. Take this video for example. The guy driving the car obviously races it and because of that he had the T5 transmission “Pro-Shifted” by Liberty Gear. Through that process the stock synchronizers are removed and the gears in the transmission are replaced with cogs that have different [...]
Crazy Fail Video: Aussie Guy Almost Runs Over The Starter While Doing a Burnout
Posted in CRASH & BURN April 6, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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This is about as close a call as you’ll ever see at the strip. We can say that this is the only time we’ve ever seen a starter actually jump for his life to get away from a wayward car. Aussie Racer Rod Hadfield was behind the wheel of his ’32 roadster completing a burnout [...]
Road Racing Video: In-Car Action at the Rockingham Chump Car Race
Posted in RACING & ACTION April 6, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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Our pal Jeff Huneycutt, who is an ace freelancer and the operator of StreetMuscleAction.com sent us a cool video link of some in-car action at the Rockingham ChumpCar race. Huneycutt and crew won the race and if they performed the whole time like the two laps in this video, it as a cake walk. They’re [...]
Killer Truck Video: A Pair of Hellacious Chevys Crushing Cars
Posted in MISC April 6, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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There are few things cooler to our simplistic minds than watching large lifted trucks drive over cars. Call us names if you want, but the two trucks in this video, which take two divergent approaches to getting over said junkers, are bad ass. in fact, the red crew cab may be our favorite crew cab [...]
Killer Drag Video: Seven Minutes in Early Pro Stock Heaven
Posted in HISTORIC April 7, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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The birth of Pro Stock as a drag racing class is one of the clearest examples of mechanical evolution in racing. Starting in the early 1960s when the Big Three started funneling money into drag racing programs and promotion, Stockers got quicker, faster, and crazier. The great mechanical minds that populated NHRA Pro Stock when [...]
Doorslammer Drag Video: Pro Mod Action From the 1990 IHRA Fall Nationals
Posted in RACING & ACTION April 7, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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Since we’re on an obvious door slammer kick these last few days, the natural progression leads up to some awesome vintage Pro Mod footage from the first season that the class existed. In 1990, the IHRA debuted Pro Modified, a heads-up outgrowth of the Top Sportsman category that took racers who were at the top [...]
You’re Doing It Wrong Video: How Not To Unload an Excavator
Posted in CRASH & BURN April 8, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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There are lots of videos on the Internet of guys doing crazy impressive stuff with heavy equipment. This is not one of them. Luckily, according to the YouTube caption anyway, no one was hurt and the machine was righted quickly. It appears as though the driver was going to walk the big John Deere excavator [...]
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