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Jeff Gordon Scares The Life Out Of A Used Car Salesman – Greatest Video Ever

Posted in FUNNY STUFF March 12, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

This is the greatest video ever. Jeff Gordon in disguise as a middle aged, mini-van driving car buyer takes a used car salesman out on the ride of his life in a new Camaro. The salesman goes ape-bleep as Gordon slides, jumps, and spins the car like a lunatic on the ride. The dude’s face [...]

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Video: Would You Watch This TV Show About Sportsman Stick Shift Drag Racing?

Posted in RACING & ACTION October 5, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

So we found this 10-minute “sizzle reel” for a reality TV show pilot called, “Shifters USA”. The show follows a group of southern stick shift drag racers as they compete at Farmington Dragway in North Carolina. Now, normally you’d read the words “reality show pilot” and shoot holes in your computer with a pistol, but [...]

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Replay and Results: The 2011 PSCA Street Car Super Nationals From Las Vegas - Watch the Stuff You Missed!

Replay and Results: The 2011 PSCA Street Car Super Nationals From Las Vegas – Watch the Stuff You Missed!

Posted in RACING & ACTION November 17, 2011  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

Click here for results from the 2011 SCSN!     CLICK HERE FOR RESULTS FROM THE 2011 SCSN                   

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Video: A Preview To The New Rich Christensen Drag Race Show – “Won And Done” – Will You Watch?

Posted in MISC February 12, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

Love him or hate him, Rich Christensen caught drag race lightning in a bottle with his shows Pinks and Pinks All Out which both had successful multi-season runs on the Speed channel before going off the air. He did what many said was impossible for decades and turned truly grassroots drag racing into must see [...]

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Amazing Video: Watch A Master Metal Worker Literally Hand Form A Rear Quarter Panel From A Flat Piece of Steel

Posted in MISC November 15, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

There’s bad ass and then there is BAD ASS. Australian Peter Tommasini is a master level metal worker and gearhead who runs a restoration shop down under and his skills are in full display during this video where he turns a piece of sheet metal into the rear quarter panel of a rare version of [...]

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Insane Video: Top Fuel Harley Rider Falls Off The Bike At Speed, Then Tumbles 1300 More Feet

Posted in CRASH & BURN May 8, 2013  by  Chad Reynolds > >  24 comments

The dudes that ride Top Fuel Harleys have giant stainless steel balls. Seriously, their testicles are bullet proof and you can hear them clank when they walk. Some would argue that all the cells normally reserved for your brain have moved farther south because nobody in their right mind would ride one of these beasts. [...]

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Watch Spectators Set a Barbed Wire Booby Trap and Wreck a Baja Buggy at the SCORE San Felipe 250

Posted in CRASH & BURN March 14, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

In my conversations with Bill Caswell and a few other guys who have participated in desert races like the Baja 1000 and others, the subject of spectator booby traps has come up. Mostly they are mounds of sand or dirt designed to launch cars as jumps or whatnot. In this case it goes to a [...]

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BangShift Sleeper Saturday: THE SECRET WEAPON – A 1980 OLDS WAGON WITH 496CI OF VORTEC BIG BLOCK AND A DOUG NASH 5-SPEED!

Posted in CAR FEATURES April 13, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  22 comments

This kids, is a hot rod. It is also a rolling mechanical orphanage. The motor in the car isn’t made any more. The rear end in the car isn’t made anymore. The components in the rear suspension are from a company that is out of business. The transmission hasn’t been manufactured in years and the [...]

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Russian Dash Cam Insanity: Watch An Out Of Control Van Fly An Incredible Distance Through The Sky!

Posted in CRASH & BURN May 21, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  22 comments

We were tipped off to this video by multiple BS readers were were left as slack jawed as we were once viewing it. We have no idea what the hell caused this car to hit a barrier at an amazing rate of speed and launch skyward like it is part of a movie stunt. We’ve [...]

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Watch A 62-Year Old Bad Ass Run 5.70s In The Eighth With A Screaming Small Block 4-Speed Camaro – Four Speed Perfection!

Posted in RACING & ACTION April 10, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  21 comments

It has been a while since we posted a really good in-car video of someone just flat getting it done with a manual transmission at the digs. This is a 62-year old dude named Kurt who has himself one nasty Camaro. The car runs deep into the 5.70s in the eighth mile, which translates in [...]

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Video: Are You Faster Than A Redneck Premiers TONIGHT! 7PM Pacific/10PM Eastern On SPEED!! Tune IN!

Posted in RACING & ACTION February 22, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

Tonight at 10PM Eastern the new SPEED channel series, “Are You Faster Than A Redneck?” premiers and we’ll be watching. You should tune in as well. We’ve seen a preview of the show and we think it is really good. It mixes some good humor with cool cars, tight racing, and professional levels of production. [...]

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The Parting Shift: Jamming Gears in an Ultra Rare 1973 Dodge 900 Big Rig

The Parting Shift: Jamming Gears in an Ultra Rare 1973 Dodge 900 Big Rig

Posted in MISC October 7, 2011  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

Not many people remember that Detroit’s Big Three were heavily involved with the Big Rig business in the 1970s. Dodge was in the mix along with Ford and Chevy/GMC. In some sense, they were out almost as quickly as they were in. Dodge was done producing big rigs by 1976. Few of them remain today [...]

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Watch A Boston Plow Driver Take Lots Of Pleasure In Burying Cars And Driveways After The Recent Blizzard

Posted in FUNNY STUFF February 26, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

WARNING: THIS VIDEO HAS LOTS…AND WE MEAN LOTS OF SWEARING BUT IT IS HILARIOUS. IF YOU ARE AT WORK, THIS VIDEO MAY GET YOU IN TROUBLE. THE DUDE IN THE VIDEO USES THE F-WORD IN EVERY WAY IMAGINABLE STARTING ABOUT 10 SECONDS IN. BE WARNED, THERE IS A TON OF SWEARING IN THIS VIDEO – [...]

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Last Day of Voting: The First BangShift Burnout Battle Ends Today!

Last Day of Voting: The First BangShift Burnout Battle Ends Today!

Posted in MISC September 8, 2011  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

Consider this a sneak preview of coming attractions here at BangShift. We’re planning on a weekly burnout contest called the BangShift Burnout Battle! The details are still being worked out between Chad and I but we wanted to get the ball rolling with this interesting pair of tire fryers. Talk about and unlikely pair! We’ve [...]

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Epic Burnout Video: Brasher Burnout Nationals… Held In His Backyard… Literally

Posted in CRASH & BURN July 20, 2012  by  Chad Reynolds > > 

Whoever the hell Mick Brasher is, he rules all. Every time Brian leaves town I have to run some Australian burnout video, and this one rules more than any other burnout video ever. The best part is the fact that this “event” is held in Mick’s backyard. Seriously.They have helicopter footage, on car footage and [...]

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Crash Test Video: Watch A DeLorean Fold Up Like A Wet Cardboard Box In A 40-MPH Crash Test!

Posted in CRASH & BURN January 10, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

There’s been some recent discussion in our BangShift forum are about DeLorean cars. I don’t have a whole lot of good stuff to say about them, but after watching this video, I can say that they fold up magically when involved in a crash at 40mph. We’re talking budget basement Chinese economy car levels of [...]

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