This Holden Gemini Is A Screamer! It’s Made Nearly 800 Horses To The Wheels, Now It’s A Drag Car!
Jun 27, 2017Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
Belive me or not, but the car below is related to a Chevrolet Chevette. That’s a Holden Gemini, a car only seen in the U.S. market as the “Buick Isuzu Opel” and only for a short...
Incredible Video: Watch A Russian Crane Operator Leap To Safety As His Crane And A Bulldozer Topple Into A Cavernous Hole
Jun 26, 2017Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
It has been a while since we brought you some completely mind-blowing video from Russia, so we decided that it was time to peek around and see what we could find. In true BangShift fashion, we scored...
Watch Steve Matusek Take A Wild Ride In His NHRA Pro Mod – We Find The Bright Side, It’s Not As Bad As It Looks
Jun 26, 2017Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
In this video you are going to see Aeromotive’s Steve Matusek take a wild ride in his NHRA Pro Mod at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals. The racing was hot and heavy at Norwalk this...
Good, Cheap Fun: This Blown 454-powered 1978 Chevrolet Impala Looks Like A Good Time!
Jun 26, 2017Bryan McTaggartCHEVY, eBay Find
First, Chevrolet begat Impala. Then Chevrolet begat Chevelle. Then Chevelle swelled up to the size of a small oil tanker and Impala became a cruise liner. Then OPEC crises hit, big cars went out of...
Spin This: This Russian YouTuber Welded Three Ladas Together To Make One Giant Fidget Spinner!
Jun 26, 2017Bryan McTaggartFUNNY STUFF, Videos
Have you been inundated with the current “must-have” toy, the fidget spinner? It’s a bearing with a couple of weights at the end of the wings, or blades, or whatever you call them,...
Gonna Be Sore In The Morning: Watch As The “Buck Fever” John Deere Bounces Itself To Death!
Jun 26, 2017Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, CRASH & BURN, Videos, XL Videos
The amount of forces present in a tractor pull pass is incredible…there might not be a replacement for being on the starting line of a dragstrip when two Top Fuelers launch, but I’ll...
Watch This Duramax Powered Pickup Launch Its Driveshaft Like A Weapon And Nearly Kill The Camera Operator
Jun 26, 2017Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
Driveshaft failures on the dyno are near and dear to my heart as Buford turned the trick early in its life and also busted the transmission off the back of the engine in the process. While that one...
Morning Symphony: An Opel Kadett Mashed Up With A 1990s ZR-1 Corvette And A Flat Plane Crank LT-5
Jun 26, 2017Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX
A flat-plane crankshaft can really change up how a V8 engine behaves. Ask anybody who has heard…or better yet, driven…a new Mustang Shelby GT350. They rev like none other and sound...
This Hellcat-Swapped Jeep Grand Cherokee Moves Out! Check Out It’s Blast From Maple Grove!
Jun 26, 2017Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, MOPAR, TRUCKS
The Modern Street Hemi Shootout series recently hit Maple Grove Raceway in Pennsylvania for the second leg of the 2017 racing season, and as usual for Dan VanHorn and crew, the sounds of very angry...
Classic YouTube: Nothing Says Happiness Quite Like A Small-Block Drag Chevette!
Jun 26, 2017Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, CHEVY
A V8 engine stuffed into a GM T-car is always a good time waiting to happen. The Chevrolet Chevette (and all of the GM badge-engineered versions, including the Buick-Opel and the Isuzu I-Mark) go...
BangShift Working Vehicles Weekend: The Euclid TC-12 Bulldozer – A Double Wide, Twin Engined Monster!
Jun 25, 2017Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
Back in the ‘50s and early ‘60s the Euclid TC-12 was the biggest, baddest, and greenest bulldozer known to man. Few were built and their mechanical complexity often rendered them silent...
Historical Footage: Warren Johnson Vs. Darrell Alderman At The 1991 NHRA Arizona Nationals
Jun 25, 2017Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, BUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, HISTORIC, MOPAR, RACING & ACTION, Videos
I recently spoke with a friend about the things I miss the most out of drag racing, and without any hesitation, my answer was Pro Stock. I know it exists today…but twenty years ago, Pro Stock...
Classic YouTube: Cutting Some Donuts In An All-Wheel-Drive Ford Probe
Jun 25, 2017Bryan McTaggartFORD, HISTORIC, Videos
The story of how the Ford Probe existed at all is automotive legend: Ford had intended to kill off the Fox platform Mustang in favor of a Mazda-engineered, front-wheel-drive sport coupe by the...
The Coolest/Weirdest Timing Tower In Drag Racing History – The Mobile Dragster Tower!
Jun 25, 2017Brian Lohnes1320 Spotlight, BangShift 1320
The photos and video below represent some of the last existing evidence of the coolest and weirdest timing tower in drag racing history. For starters, lots of strips had and continue to have humble...
