Video: Day of Destruction Starts Now with Old-School Daredevils
Oct 05, 2009Brian LohnesCRASH & BURN, Videos
As we announced on Friday, today, October 5, 2009, is the landmark first-ever BangShift.com Day of Destruction. We’ll bring you great compilations of automotive stuff getting trashed every hour...
Video: 7-Second AMC-Powered Gremlin!
Oct 03, 2009Chad ReynoldsRACING & ACTION, Videos
BangShift member Eagle Kammback tipped us off to this Gremlin that just ran 7.91 at Milan with a 463-inch AMC motor that uses the stock block and stock-based crank! It also has a Liberty five-speed,...
Video: Swingin’ 1961 Chevrolet Commercial
Oct 03, 2009Brian LohnesHISTORIC, Videos
This is a mind-blowing, nearly 2-minute commercial from back when GM was in a good mood. The piece from 1961 looks more like the opener for a Doris Day comedy than it does a car commercial, but it...
The Parting Shift: Getting it Done With a Five-Gear
Oct 02, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Here’s a new weekly feature that we’ll use to lower the curtain on a week’s were here on the blog. Each week we’re going to fearure a video of someone really rowing a...
Who The Hell Owns Richard Petty Motorsports?
Oct 02, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
It seems that every other week we’re hearing news about Richard Petty’s NASCAR team and none of it ever seems to be good. There was the rumor of Dodge leaving them high and dry, a rumored...
Exhaust Violation May Lead to Capture of Murder Suspect
Oct 02, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Can a pair of oddly placed exhaust stacks on a truck that has no business having exhaust stacks lead to the capture of an Illinois murder suspect? Authorities hope so. The truck was spotted in...
Carnage Video: Nasty Mazda Rotary Tumbles in the Lights
Oct 02, 2009Brian LohnesCRASH & BURN, Videos
You may think that import cars are weak sauce, but the guys in Puerto Rico figured out the Mazda rotary engines long ago and they have some insane action there on the country’s four drag...
Paxton Blow-Through-Carb Superchargers for Small-Block Mopars
Oct 02, 2009Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
This really isn’t that new, but it’s just so bitchin’ that we wanted to remind you that Paxton makes blow-thru-carburetor systems for small-block Mopars. Boost is good, and it can...
Coming Monday: The Day of Destruction
Oct 02, 2009Brian LohnesCRASH & BURN, Videos
We’ve been dropping videos of carnage on you over the last week, placing them here and there in the blog. We’ve had flying Corvettes, spinning big rigs, and even someone driving through a...
History Channel Announces New Shows; One Sounds Like A Glorious Trainwreck
Oct 02, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
The History Channel is on a reality show kick. We’re admittedly hooked on Ice Road Truckers. It sounds like lots of others are too as the channel’s web site has announced that THC will be...
Epic Hoon Fail Bonus: Teens Crash Car Through House, Pin Elderly Woman
Oct 02, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
If you thought our report on the kid who got busted doing burnouts hours after getting his license was bad, then you are really in for it when you hear the story of another hooning Aussie teen who...
Epic Hoon Fail: Australian Kid Busted By Cops Less Than 7 Hours after Getting License
Oct 02, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
An Australian teenager (not the driver shown) tasted both victory and defeat recently after he earned his license in the morning and had his car impounded before dark. The kid was caught doing...
eBay Bonus Pick: The Baddest Jeep Forward Control Truck in the World
Oct 02, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
We have to thank BangShift.com forum member (and college chum!) Paul Lafayette for the tip on this bonus eBay Pick of the Week. We believe this to be the most off-road-capable Jeep Forward Control...
Carnage Video: Incredible Flying Corvette Launches into the Catch Fence
Oct 01, 2009Brian LohnesCRASH & BURN, Videos
Here’s a fairly new video on Streetfire of a fairly old crash. It depicts a 1989 Corvette Challege race, where driver Stu Hayner ran over a wheel and tire that fell off of another car, and got...
