Category Archive: BangShift News, BangShift XL, CRASH & BURN, HISTORIC, MISC, Videos, XL Videos
Incredible Video: These Rocket Failures From The 1950s and 1960s At Vandenberg AFB Show The Rocky Road To Space
A few weeks ago I posted a video showing rocket engine failures from the Redstone, Titan, Atlas, and other rocket project families. This time I’m showing you something even more mechanically...
High Speed Exit: Watch This Porsche Hurtle Off The Course At Mid-Ohio Backwards At High Speed!
There’s some awesome fun to be had at track days, right? Getting out there in your car, ripping some laps, working on your cornering and braking techniques, etc. These are days where it’s...
Classic YouTube: Derrick Cope’s Tremendous Tire Explosion At Watkins Glen In 2016
Mangled sheetmetal at a NASCAR race isn’t exotic. In fact, many consider it a rite of passage to finish the race with a rear bumper that’s been tapped more times than a keg, doors that...
Classic YouTube: This Mazda 323GTX Overcooks A Jump At The 1993 Fenceline III SCCA Pro Rallysprint
Yes, that 1988 Mazda 323GTX is really as high up in the air as it appears. Yes, it crashed back to Earth, and yes, it hurt. This footage was taken at the 1993 Fenceline III SCCA Pro Rallysprint in...
Epic Crash Test Video: Throwing A Volvo Off A Cliff In The Name Of Safety!
When you base everything your company builds on the backbone of safety first, there will come a time when you have to put up or shut up. Volvo has ridden the safety bandwagon for as long as...
Carnage, Indeed: Here’s The Damage When A Tailshaft Disintegrated On The Dyno!
If you haven’t been following the Buick V6 build that Street Machine has been putting together for their Holden Berlina, then you might have missed the note that it’s being built for a...
NHRA Shop Talk: Why Stuff Blows Up – We Talk Carnage In Pro Stock, Pro Mod, and The Nitro Classes
Why does stuff blow up? That’s the topic of this week’s NHRA Shop Talk Live where Alan Reinhart and I talk drag racing and engine tech for your viewing pleasure. Using footage from the...
This Drone Video Of Brenden Mills Awful Woostock Fire Is Stunning – A Very Close Call, Mills OK
If you are a racer and you can watch this video without thinking about your own safety equipment and habits, you are either doing all the right stuff or you are out to lunch. Brenden Mills is a hard...
Insult To Injury: Watch This Street Racer Suffer A Manifold Explosion, A Fire, and Then A Visit From Johnny Law
There are bad days and then there are BAAAAD DAYS. The guy in the silver late model GTO suffers the latter in this video that was shot at some undisclosed street racing spot in Anywhere, USA. The...
Bird Bomb: James Wisdom’s Thunderbird Grenades At Bonne Terre
You hate to see it, don’t you? Nice car, sounds beefy, ready to take a rip down the strip, and just when the gettin’ is gettin’ good, there’s one loud report and shrapnel is...
The Ironing Board: What Happens When 1.5 Tons Of Concrete Land On An E30 BMW?
For years, scientists predicted that the Puget Sound region of Washington was due for a quake, and on February 28, 2001, they got it. The Nisqually earthquake measured out as a 6.8 on the Richter...
Classic YouTube: This 1964 FAA Controlled Crash Test Of A Douglas DC-7 – When You Must Be Certain Every Safety Feature Will Work…
Deer Valley, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix, has a rather grim history in the aviation world: for quite some time the FAA used the Deer Valley Airport to perform aircraft crash testing. The goal: to...
“Watch The Limbs”: Busted Knuckle Films’ “Maximum Destruction 2”
Smashing, bashing, breaking, carnage, swearing, bystanders gaining a healthy fear of a rapidly escalating situation…no, that’s not this video so much, that’s me breaking up the...
The Cockpit View Of The “Hot Stuff” Accident At The Reno Formula 1 Air Race Is Genuinely Horrifying
With aircraft, any mention of the word “crash” (or any of it’s synonyms, like “incident”, “incursion”, or the ubitiquous “oh, shit!”)...