Carnage Video: Top Fuel Reverse Burnout and Guardrail Smash, OCIR, 1980By Brian Lohnes Posted 08/31/2010
Driving a Top Fuel Dragster is no easy feat. It wasn't any easier back in the early 1980s as this video will show you. Filmed at the now defunct Orange County International Raceway in 1980, this driver seems to make a critical error when... Read More >
Wreckage Video: The Greatest Save EverBy Brian Lohnes Posted 08/30/2010
We've showed you crazy videos of competition sand dune climbing from the middle east before and this one fits the bill. The truck is sponsored by the same Al Anabi backing that funds the likes of Alan Johnson and others here in the... Read More >
Rally Wreckage: A Brake Failure Sends a Rally Car Spectator BowlingBy Brian Lohnes Posted 08/27/2010
Amazingly, no one was hurt in this video, but man they came close! Apparently the car in this video suffered a brake failure of some kind, causing it to overcook the corner and head right toward a truck ringed with spectators. They all jumped out of the way, some flopping down what seems to be a grassy hill. This is another... Read More >
Wild Wreck Video: In-Car Footage of a Dragster Rolling Over at SpeedBy Brian Lohnes Posted 08/25/2010
The advent of the affordable on-board camera has made the wonder of in-car video a rather normal thing these days. Footage of cars crashing from the inside out never gets old in our book. We were tipped off to this video while cruising YellowBullet.com and were pretty blown away by it. Nothing like... Read More >
Crazy Crash Video: A Bad Motorcyclist Pays the PriceBy Brian Lohnes Posted 08/13/2010
Riding a motorcycle is a dangerous enough enterprise when you are talented at it and generally know what you are doing. It becomes a painful experience when you are an idiot, like the man shown in this wild video. This may be the first time that someone involved in a rear end style accident can use the video proof to show... Read More >
Video: Insane Flaming Engine Failure and Freefalling Crowd KillerBy Brian Lohnes Posted 08/11/2010
Oh man is this video nuts. Racing up sand dunes is a full-on motorsports frenzy in the Middle East and this video shows the absolute worst case scenario at a dune event. The hot roddy truck makes it most of the way up the hill and then... Read More >
All-Time Carnage Video: Coach Bus Crash TestingBy Brian Lohnes Posted 08/9/2010
We're total suckers for crash test video. We can watch cars smash into walls for days on end, but we're now going to up our requirements. This is video of a coach-style bus being crash tested in a scientific type setting. There is... Read More >
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Video Carnage Bonanza: More Circle Track Spectator Drags WreckageBy Brian Lohnes Posted 08/9/2010
Few things we have posted over the years here at BangShift.com have gotten us the response that the recent video bonanza featuring spectator drags wreckage from circle tracks across the country has gotten. The e-mails and messages we have received... Read More >
Carnage Video Bonanza: Wreckage From Circle Track Spectator DragsBy Brian Lohnes Posted 08/5/2010
There are few things more entertaining to watch than the spectator drags at a local circle track. Never seen them? After watching this grouping of videos you'll be seeking them out. Basically it is as the name implies. Two spectators bring their street cars onto the track. They leave heads up and race a single lap around the track. Winner stays, loser goes. The... Read More >
Insane Carnage Video: Open-Wheel Cars Make Crappy AirplanesBy Brian Lohnes Posted 08/4/2010
The nightmare scenario for any open wheel racer is tire-to-tire contact with a competitor, especially at high speed. One not need be a genius to see why it is a problem for the tires of these cars to touch at full bore. In the event you don't understand, consider this video a training opportunity. This dude lands... Read More >
Old School Carnage: Killer World-Wide Footage From the 1980's By Brian Lohnes Posted 08/3/2010
The 1980s were filled with lots of great racing. They were also filled with lots of great wrecking as this video shows. Taking footage from all over the world, you'll see everything from NASCAR to what appears to be Aussie super car action. The... Read More >
Crazy Euro Wreckage: A Spec Racer Flies, Flips, and Tries to Kill Turn WorkersBy Brian Lohnes Posted 07/28/2010
While we generally hate the hell out of "spec" racing, it does provide very tight action, expecially on road courses. That tight action can often lead to wreckage, normally it is not as wild as this though! Apparently no one was seriously... Read More >
Scary Carnage Video: Two Doorslammers Tango in TexasBy Brian Lohnes Posted 07/22/2010
We're going to get your morning started off with a Texas sized bang today. We were tipped off to this video which shows a pass down the strip that goes very badly for both racers. When the slower car in a bracket-style... Read More >
Epic Failure Video: Massive Cranes Folding Up Like An Erector SetBy Brian Lohnes Posted 07/21/2010
Cranes are amongst the most impressive machines in the BangShift universe. They serve a simple purpose, to lift heavy junk. The vast majority of the time they complete this task with little drama or difficulty, but when they don't, the failures are spectacular. This video... Read More >
Video: Hot Rod Magazine Hacks a Vette...And We Get to Help!By Chad Reynolds Posted 07/16/2010
It's not often that a story comes along in a magazine or online that really touches people. But when Hot Rod decided to tear up a perfectly good Cadillac back in the late '80s to see how much weight effected performance, people took notice. There isn't a hot rodder on earth that doesn't know about that story, and each one of them either loved it or is still pissed off about ruining a good Caddy. Well boys and girls, you might want to brace yourselves... Read More >
Crazy Carnage Video: A Collection of Russian Car Wreck FootageBy Brian Lohnes Posted 07/15/2010
After sitting through this nearly five minute long collection of Russian car crash footage, the only way we'd drive around in that country is if we were in the seat of a massive Kamaz rally truck. Some of these crashes are brutal and the fact that the roads themselves are about a mile wide allows some really high speed carnage to ensue. This... Read More >
Carnage Video: A Blow Over at the Mud BogsBy Brian Lohnes Posted 07/13/2010
Ever seen a guy dead hook in a mud pit before? Neither had we until we saw this video that we first heard about over at YellowBullet.com. This rear-engine machine has a blown, alky-burning motor, four-wheel drive and we're guessing more than 2,000hp. We forgot to... Read More >
Fire Video: One Mud Truck Flambe Coming Right UpBy Brian Lohnes Posted 07/6/2010
With our East Coast offices in the beginning stages of a horrific heat wave, it was only natural that we'd seek out some good old fashioned fire action. We got our fix with this footage of an Isuzu truck bodied... Read More >
Doing it Wrong Video: How Not to Winch a Stuck Land Rover Out of the MuckBy Brian Lohnes Posted 07/1/2010
If you've never experienced the fun of trying to extract a truck out of deep mud, consider yourself lucky. It's fun to laugh about hours after the job is done, but it can be pure misery. We've never had junk like winches on our rigs so it was all manual labor for us. The guys in this video show that even winches aren't fail proof and that Ford truck frames have their bad moments too. This is... Read More >
Mega Carnage Video: A Combine Demo Derby in All its Glory!By Brian Lohnes Posted 06/25/2010
The XXL carnage you'll see by watching this video of a combine demolition derby is truly awesome. Being that we're based in New England and Southern California we've never seen one in the flesh, but this video is nearly as good as being there. One thing... Read More >
