Category Archive: HISTORIC
Video: Henry Ford’s Sweepstakes Racecar Rides Again With NASCAR’s Carl Edwards
Our boy Ronnie Mankins sent us the link to this one yesterday and it’s bitchin. You hear all the stories about the racecars of the early 20th Century, but you can’t imagine what it must...
Video: Texas Pro Mods VS Fuel Altered Showdown At North Star Dragway
Les Mayhew has done it again with his latest video from the Texas Pro Mods VS Fuel Altered Showdown at North Star Dragway in Denton Texas. It was an event that pitted light weight ill handling...
Watch A Large Scale Model Of A 1927 Miller 91 Race Car Get Entirely Built Of 3D Printed Parts – Truly Amazing
We have shown some cool videos featuring the amazing technology that is 3D printing here on BangShift over the nearly six years we have been around, but this one takes the cake by a country...
This Video Of A Massive Horde Of Classic Cars and Trucks In Texas Will Blow Your Mind!
Drag Week gasser ace Keith Fox posted this amazing video (that we think he actually shot) on his Facebook page yesterday and our jaws have not come up off the floor yet. As Fox lives in the Lubbock,...
Video: Staging Duel At No Mercy IV, Smack Talk, Gestures, and More.
We’re not sure what the two dudes in this video were thinking exactly, but we sure as hell know that neither one of them wanted to stage first. There was some waiving and pointing and gesturing...
Watch Dario Franchitti’s Massive Houston Wreck That Broke His Back And Sent 13 Fans To The Hospital
When race cars with open wheels get together at high speeds, nothing good comes of it and sometimes the end result is literally horrifying. Such was the car last weekend in Houston where IndyCar ace...
The Parting Shift: Studebaker Drag Racing Edition
This week’s Parting Shift takes us to a killer little drag strip in Indiana called Brown County Dragway. It has operated since the 1950s, and by the looks of the video it has changed little...
Crazed Video: A Motorcycle Racer Drags His Knee and Then His Head Without Crashing!
We know jack squat about motorcycle road racing other than what we have observed on television. Our in-depth analysis is that the machines defy all logic with their ability to lay nearly flat and...
Totally Bitchin’ Video: The Story of a Dual Quad, Four Speed, 427 Powered 1964 Galaxie 500 XL
This video has been kicking around for a little while but we were recently reminded that we had never had it up here on the blog and that’s a crying shame. A simple, yet riveting video about a...
Watch This Nitro Soaked Video From Bakersfield That Absolutely Rules – Nothing Beats Nitro Cars Running At The Patch!
Les Mayhew and his Nitro America channel on YouTube rules the school when it comes to nostalgia drag racing videos. The dude is all over the place making high quality videos featuring front engine...
Watch The 1955 Belgian Grand Prix Through Amazingly Clear Footage And Equally Awesome Sound – Fangio, Moss, Hawthorne, More!
Formula One cars have always represented the pinnacle of automotive engineering during their many respective iterations over the years. This film was made by the Shell Oil Company in 1955 as a...
Watch A Volvo Rally Car Suffer An Insane Multi-Roll Crash At A Rally In Finland (Multiple Videos)
Rally guys are totally nuts, we have long admitted that. When their courses aren’t lined with big trees or narrow walls to smash into, there are ditches, streams, and other obstacles designed...
This Video Of Huckfest 2013 Will Make You Want To Buy A Desert Truck And Jump The Hell Out Of It – Fun In The Sand!
After talking with one of the guys who was at Huckfest this year and now seeing this video, I am pretty sure that BangShift will have to find a way to be there in 2014. How could we miss this?...
The Family That Hot Rods Together…Stays Together! The Patterson Family Likes Patina and Performance (Video)
We always love it when hot rodding is a multi-generational family affair and so do the guys at Holley. We can say that with confidence after watching this video, which was shot by the Holley guys at...