Category Archive: BangShift News, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Watch Mike Maier Horse Wrangle His Awesome Mustang Around the Road Course at the 2011 Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational
Earlier today we showed you some crazy video of Bill Maier wrecking in spectacular fashion during a 1982 Trans Am event at Laguna Seca Raceway in California. As it turns out, those racing genes were...
Watch Bill Maier’s Trans-Am Mustang Get Destroyed at Leguna Seca in 1982!
Despite the fact that we always seem to concentrate on Trans Am racing from the late 1960s and early 1970s, there was great racing for many years past that era. This video, shot at Leguna Seca in...
BS Approved Video: Watch a Nitro Harley Get Built in a Home Shop
Our pal Chuck Noble has been on the electronic pages of BangShift before. He’s the guy, we featured running a nitro motorcycle that had iron heads and carbs on it. Well, Chuck was using that...
Watch the First Episode of Roadkill – Freiburger and Finnegan’s New Show!
By now we’re sure you’ve heard that David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan of Hot Rod Magazine are going to have a monthly web tv show called Roadkill. The first episode went live today and...
Wreckage Video: A King of the Hammers Competitor Drives off a Cliff and Into a Huge Rock at High Speed
Yesterday we ran video featuring a King of the Hammers competitor completely mangling his buggy by barrel rolling it across the finish line of the race. The poor bastards in the video below...
Watch a Racer Complete the King of the Hammers Off Road Race With a Pirouette and Barrel Roll of his Truck!
There have been more than a few NASCAR races decided with a car crossing the finish line upside down, sideways, or otherwise hemmed up into another competitor’s machine. While those wreckage...
Watch a Restored Version of the First Zamboni Ever Built Go Back to Work on the Ice!
If you are a gearhead that’s ever attended a hockey game, you’ve wanted to drive the Zamboni. The Zamboni is of course the machine that lumbers out onto the ice between periods and...
Watch a BMW Road Race Car Hit a Competitor’s Tire and Launch Into the Air at High Speed
You can see lots of wrecks coming a mile a away. Maybe a couple of competitors have been trading paint for a lap or two and one finally gives the other the ol’ chrome horn, or a racer on the...
Insane Wreckage Video: A Massive Street Racing Crash Before the Race Even Starts!
Here’s more evidence of how dumb street racing is. This video shows two competitors sitting still on a darkened highway getting ready to launch off. The starter is standing between the two cars...
BangShift PSA: Drifting A Front End Loader on Ice in Siberia Will Get Your Boss Fired [w/video]
For decades when someone screwed up in Russia, they were sent to Siberia, a frozen hellish place that sucked your spirit and broke your will. The good news is that nothing seems to have changed in...
We Test the New BFGoodrich G-Force Sport Comp-2 on the Track
First let us say, that we have NEVER been to a tire test like the one that BFGoodrich put on at AutoClub California Speedway in Fontana this past week where they let us put their new G-Force Sport...
Watch a VW Transaxle Explode and Spread Its Guts Across the Pavement During a Burnout
In my time announcing drag races, I have had the pleasure of seeing all manner of junk explode with different levels of ferocity. From Funny Cars that literally blew their bodies into a million...
Video of a Small Block Chevy on 75% Nitro Running Through the Mufflers!
This could be the most insane BangShift reader project of all time but it is also the coolest. Scott Darrow is a BangShift reader and forum member. He is also a guy who makes his living wrenching on...
Chevy Silverado Super Bowl Ad Takes Direct Shot at Ford!
To use the title from a famous WWII era song, “Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!” The crosstown rivalry between Ford and Chevy is 100% back on track and we’re all starting...