Two And A Half Tons Of Fun: This Supercharged Toyota Tundra Is One Badass Tow Pig!
Jul 05, 2016Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, XL Videos
It’s not the race car. Ignore how low this Toyota Tundra is, ignore the subtle tweaks, the aftermarket wheels, and the snotty exhaust note. Pay no attention to the airbags or the dyno time, and...
Best of BS 2016: Ice Racing With Chainsaw Propulsion Makes Running With Scissors Look Like Amateur Hour
Jul 04, 2016Brian LohnesFUNNY STUFF, MISC, Videos
There’s not enough recreational activities that involve chainsaws. Sure the felling of trees, the occasional dismemberment, and scaring the hell out of innocent kids on Halloween are fine uses...
Best of BS 2016: Les Mayhew’s Incredible 2015 March Meet Film Is Right Here!
Jul 04, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
Perhaps the greatest gift a person can receive in life is to find their calling. To locate, however it happens, the one thing that makes your wheels turn harder than anything else. The one thing that...
Best of BS 2016: Greatest Automotive Prank Of All Time – Trailer Drives The Car!
Jul 04, 2016Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX
It can be said bluntly that 2015 was a nightmare for VW. The company got itself embroiled in what has turned into an international scandal which will cost it untold millions (billions?) of dollars...
Best of BS 2016: Must Watch! Best Auto Parts Commercials Ever?!
Jul 04, 2016Chad ReynoldsFUNNY STUFF
The truth is that most of the time when someone from an ad agency sends us something and says it’s great we usually know they are full of crap. This was not one of those times! We laughed our...
Best of BS 2016: This Naturally Aspirated Ultra Street Fairlane Thunderbolt Clone Run Five Flat In The Eighth
Jul 04, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
One of the craziest races in all of 2015 was the Outlaw Street Car Reunion which was held in Memphis last March. This was the famous “3s in the freeze” race where Jason Michalek ran his...
Best of BS 2016: Heresey At It’s Finest As A Rotary-Powered Chevy Nova Rolls Down The Quarter-Mile!
Jul 03, 2016Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, CHEVY
I swear, I watched this video several times, trying to see if someone dubbed over the audio of a well-built rotary motor over a Chevy Nova’s dragstrip run, and for the life of me, if it was,...
Best of BS 2016: Video – Everything Perfect About Vintage Racing – Sideways, Historical Awesomeness
Jul 03, 2016Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX
(By Eric Rood) – The SportsCar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) has quietly put together a tremendous little YouTube channel with great video recaps from their events, but this...
Best of BS 2016: An E-Mail Manifesto On The IHRA Saga So Good We Had To Print It
Jul 03, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320
(Editor’s Note: We get plenty of email from readers and it ranges from people calling us morons, to people insulting our mothers, to spam and every now and again something that stops us...
Best of BS 2016: Video Full Of Bitchin Engines You May Never Have Seen Before
Jul 03, 2016Chad ReynoldsXL Videos
Ever see a GMC 12 cylinder engine in person? Ever hear of them? Unlike the monsters folks are making from two engines or billet, this was a casting from GMC. And that’s just scratching the...
Best of BS 2016: See How A Student Crew Landed A B-58 Hustler With Damaged Landing Gear After Fourteen Hours In The Air!
Jul 03, 2016Bryan McTaggartHISTORIC, Videos
If there is one thing that will put the truest icy spike of fear into your spine, it is when something breaks on the aircraft you are operating. I once had the cable that operates the rudder on a...
Best of BS 2016: Watch A Disguised Petter Solberg Scare The Daylights Out Of Mechanics
Jul 03, 2016Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX
While this is not the first time someone has disguised a world famous driver and used him to scare unsuspecting victims, it never gets old to us. This time the driver is 2003 World Rally Championship...
Best of BS 2016: Watch A V8 Powered VW Pre-Runner Break Every Law Known In San Diego
Jul 03, 2016Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
UPDATE: YEAH, THIS GUY WENT TO JAIL. Blame Charles Wickam for this one. This short film titled “Urban Assault” shows an LS powered VW pre-runner that goes completely mental through the...
Best of BS 2016: Remote-Controlled Toyota Hilux Drives Underwater, Under The Ice!
Jul 03, 2016Bryan McTaggartFUNNY STUFF, Videos
A lesson I learned as a kid playing with electric-powered remote-controlled cars: electrical components plus water and mud equals shortened lifespan of the remote-controlled vehicle…and...
