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Watch Awesome Slow Motion Of A Nitro Powered Drag Bike’s Engine Exploding On The Track

Posted in CRASH & BURN August 8, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

We’ve grown to be kind of obsessed with slow motions videos as of late and after watching this video shot in Sweden, you’ll understand why. We’re not sure of the class that this motorcycle was running, but we believe that it is a fuel bike of some sort judging by the size of the rear [...]

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Video: Watch Lingenfelter Performance Engineering’s COPO #19 Make The Quickest COPO Run Ever At Norwalk

Posted in RACING & ACTION September 25, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

Of all the awesome stuff I saw at the inaugural Lingenfelter Performance Nationals last weekend, it was the run you are about to watch below that stole the whole show. It was the combination of Kurt Johnson’s amazingly well prepared drag strip at Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio, the brilliance and experience [...]

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Video: Watch A Bad Ass Sand Drag Truck With Slicks On The Back Rip Viscous Donuts At The 4-Wheel Jamboree

Posted in FUNNY STUFF October 3, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

In our continuing effort to stoke the flames of the (friendly) burnout war between Australia and the USA, we’re lobbing a donut grenade at the land down under with this video, shot at the yearly 4-Wheel Jamboree in Indy. The event is a celebration of trucks from show and shine monsters with chrome shocks to [...]

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Dyno Video: Watch A (Claimed) Stock Bottom End, Turbocharged 4.8 LS Engine Put Down 700+ HP To The Tire Of A 1971 Datsun 240Z

Posted in ENGINES November 27, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

Another day, another 100% bad ass turbocharged LS engine working on the dyno. Yesterday we showed you a 322ci combo making over 1,000hp on the engine dyno and today we’re back on the pump but this is a chassis dyno and the mill is the junior member of the LS family, the little 4.8 liter engine. [...]

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Screaming Detroit Video: The Valley Truck Parts Green Ghost Treats The Sled Like Like a Toy!

Posted in RACING & ACTION December 20, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

Be still my beating heart! This video features one of the coolest trucks I have ever seen, The Valley Truck Parts Green Ghost which appears to be a Hendrickson. The “big n’ little” tires are normally found on fertilizer spreaders used in the expansive fields of today’s farms. If they look like what you’d see [...]

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Video:Big Rig Burnout Video Counter Punch – A Working Mack Strikes Back Against The Aussies!

Posted in RACING & ACTION December 26, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

Chad’s video of the Bandag Bullet smoking tires is cute and all, but as he mentions in his blog item that truck is a specially built racing and tire frying machine. We’re not knocking it because frankly it is a big rig that hauls ass….BUT…we like our trucks employed and thanks to BS photo contributor [...]

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Sideways Video: In Car Action Footage Of A ProCharged Chevelle On A Cool Autocross Course

Posted in RACING & ACTION January 3, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

We have been and will continue to pound on our opinion that cars are meant to be used. It doesn’t really matter how, but they need to be driven, enjoyed, hammered on, slid sideways, ripped through the gears, and reminded who is boss on a regular basis. The local strip and autocross events are two [...]

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Video: Watch A Bonneville Record Holding 1950s Vincent Motorcycle Snort Nitrous and Shoot Fire On The Dyno In A Perfectly Tiny British Workshop

Posted in ENGINES January 15, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

I am not a big motorcycle enthusiast, but I have a weird affinity for old English bikes. If I were to own any motorcycle (and of course I’d have to be loaded up with cash to do it) I’d choose an old Vincent Black Shadow. These motorcycles were decades ahead of their day in power [...]

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Video: Watch A Wicked 1980s Crown Vic Wagon With Wood Paneling On The Side Tear Up An Autocross Course!

Posted in RACING & ACTION February 4, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

You know us, we love big stuff that turns. This 1980s boxy style Crown Victoria wagon that is all decked out in wood paneling hauls some serious mail around an autocross in this video. The wagon looks virtually stock from the exterior aside from a lower, more aggressive stance and a set of what look [...]

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BangShift Saturday Movie Day: Fred Dryer And His Bitchin’ ’77 Dodge Monaco Chase The Bad Guys

Posted in MISC February 16, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

Know why Chad is boned for whatever weiner stuff he is going to post tomorrow? Because I have freaking Lee Majors and Fred Dryer as my lead off acts. Dryer played 12 seasons in the NFL (Chad, that’s the game with the oblong ball, where the big fellows run into each other) before going into [...]

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BangShift Saturday Movie Day: William Shatner Jumps His Dodge St. Regis While Chasing A ’73 Plymouth As TJ Hooker

Posted in MISC February 16, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

Hear that noise? That’s Chad whimpering because I am bringing Shatner to the party and he is sky boxing his Dodge St. Regis police car a couple of times while in hot pursuit of a bad guy in a 1973 Plymouth. This chase rules because Shatner shows virtually no emotion through the whole thing even [...]

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Things You Don’t See Every Day: We’re Not Sure What To Call It, But The Reverse Wheelies Look Way Too Fun

Posted in FUNNY STUFF February 24, 2013  by  Chad Reynolds > >  6 comments

The title of the video calls this thing a wipkar, and we aren’t sure if it’s British or Redneck fabrication that created it. We say that, because the hunters of the south are very well known for mounting platforms on the top of trucks or SUVs and setting them up so you can drive from [...]

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Video: Watch An All-Steel 1932 Ford Drag The Bumper And Still Run A Haul Ass Eighth-Mile Pass At Irwindale!

Posted in RACING & ACTION March 1, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  6 comments

There’s only one thing better than video of a huge wheelstand and that’s video of a huge wheelstand that ends with the driver legging out a quick pass on top of it. That’s what happened in this video BangShifter Tim Gilbreth tipped us off to. Shot back in 2007 at Irwindale Raceway in California, the [...]

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Video: We Test Snow Tires At Miller Motorsports Park With NITTO! Pants Mandatory.

Posted in FUNNY STUFF March 4, 2013  by  Chad Reynolds > >  6 comments

Last week when I left town for Salt Lake City to attend the Nitto Winter Ride N Drive media event, I was wearing my typical Dickies shorts, flip flops and a BangShift.com shirt. I had an extra change of clothes, toiletries, and my helmet along with my camera and laptop. And… I wasn’t really expecting [...]

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Awesome Video: Watch A Dude In Lebanon Driving A 1973 Charger SE Equipped With A 440, Slot Mags, A Daytona Wing, And Side Pipes Own A Gymkhana!

Posted in FUNNY STUFF March 15, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  6 comments

If you ever needed proof that BangShifters live in all corners of the world, than let this video be it. Shot in Lebanon, it features a 1973 Dodge Charger SE that has been modified with side pipes, a huge Dodge Charger Daytona wing, slot mags, and a warmed up 440 engine. In some ways the [...]

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Incredible Burnout Video: The Most Wild Flaming Aussie Video We Have Ever Seen!

Posted in RACING & ACTION April 17, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  6 comments

Aussie BangShifter John Tearle tipped us off to this video of a Commodore Ute not only burning the tires off, but also nearly burning to the ground during an Aussie “power skid” contest. At points during this video, you can see plastic body panels melting off of the car…seriously! John believes that it probably has [...]

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