Category Archive: MISC, Videos
Cool Trucks, Cool Ads: International Scout
How about a cool, late-’60s, early-’70s ad for an International Scout? It seems that this one comes from across the pond as there’s a speaker who has a distinctly English accent and...
Cool Trucks, Cool Ads: 1986 Ford F250
Yesterday we brought you the stink with our slew of “Awful Cars, Awful Ads” blog entires. Today we’re turning the tables to show you cool ads featuring the most American vehicle...
Awful Cars, Awful Ads: The Yugo
Next on the docket of junk that is comprising our Awful Ads, Awful Cars fun today is the venerable Yugo. There are a bunch of people who will defend the little car that was sold for less and $4,000...
Video: The Old CarJunkieTV Blown Big-Block Chevy
I’m sick as a dog today and am just sitting around surfing YouTube. I found this old video we did back the days of CarJunkieTV.com and realized that it shows us dyno testing the same blown...
Awful Cars, Awful Ads: The 1983 Renault Alliance
The next member of our Awful Cars, Awful Ads hall of shame is the Renault Alliance. This putrid heap of shoddy French engineering was sold through AMC dealers after Renault took at 46 percdent stake...
Awful Cars, Awful Ads: The 1985 Plymouth Reliant/ Dodge Aries
Continuing with our Awful Cars, Awful Ads theme today, we have the 1985 Plymouth Reliant/Dodge Aries one-two punch. More like gut punch. Yes, these cars effectively saved Chrysler from sliding under...
Awful Cars, Awful Ads: The 1984 Cadillac Cimarron
On the heels of reading Rob Kinnan’s great editorial entitled “Crappy Cars” in the January 2010 edition of Hot Rod magazine, we were inspired to act on a crappy car impulse we were...
Carnage Video: Crazy Catastrophic Engine Failure Now in High Def
The engine explosion of the European Maid pulling tractor has graced this website a time or two, but never in high quality television footage. This is the one where the motor explodes and the block...
Video: The 40th Anniversary Ignition from MSD
Earlier in the week, BangShift.com showed you the new MSD 40th anniversary 6AL ignition box in a cool retro-style look. Power TV was also there in the MSD booth and got this video of our friend and...
Carnage Video: Flaming Rollover Crash at Shakedown at E-Town
This video has it all: a half-track wheelstand, a rollover, a guardrail smash, and fire. The best part is that driver Joe Newsham walked away from this wreck that happened at the Shakedown in E-Town...
Killer Video: Mechanic’s Creeper with 80cc Gas Motor
The engine is the head rest. The wheels look as though they were sourced from a Grainger catalog in the caster section. Steering is accomplished by a push/pull lever. There are not readily apparent...
Random Freakin’ Video: 1976 Chrysler Cordoba Open Road Race Car
We literally tripped over this piece of video from Streetfire.net. It was just too BangShiftingly perfect to skip over. This is video footage of an open road race car. That car happens to be a 1976...
Video: Chevrolet Pre-Event Teaser for 2009 SEMA Show Cars
It’s a good thing we have a true GM insider as a BangShift.com member, because we got tipped off to this latest Chevrolet teaser video on YouTube before hardly anyone had seen it. Check it out...
Carnage Video: Six Minutes of Drag Strip Thrills, Chills, and Spills
This is one killer piece of video! It is non-stop action for more than six minutes and contains more wrecks, wheelies, and close saves than you could possibly imagine. It seems like the majority of...