Category Archive: BangShift XL, CRASH & BURN, HISTORIC, Videos, XL Videos
Classic YouTube: LARC-LX vs. NSU Behind The Lane Motor Museum
Jul 21, 2018Bryan McTaggart2
Sixty-two and a half feet long, twenty-six and a half feet wide, standing at a staggering nineteen feet, six inches tall and weighing in at an ungodly one hundred tons even, it’s the LARC-LX,...
Found The Fuse! This Pontiac Tempest Throws A Temper Tantrum And Breaks Heavily!
Jul 19, 2018Bryan McTaggart2
In racing, you need to have a “fuse”. That is the part of the power pathway between the engine and the tires that is going to give up first when the insane amount of forces being exerted...
A Lesson In Sportsmanship: Checking On The Other Guy After A Big Crash
Jul 16, 2018Bryan McTaggart1
Sportsmanship is a virtue that tends to get lost in translation when it comes to racing. To the outside perspective, the individuals in the machines are rivals and are locked in a kind of combat...
Calm Down, Turbo: This Mazda RX-3 Got Way Too Excited And Flipped (onto) It’s Lid!
Jul 14, 2018Bryan McTaggart2
Small car, short wheelbase, big power always equates to “twitchy” being used as an adjective to describe the handling characteristics. The more power applied, the more insane the handling...
Your Day Isn’t Today: Racing Mishaps From All Over The World!
Jul 14, 2018Bryan McTaggart1
Drivers take all of the risk when they choose to race. It doesn’t matter if you are pro, semi-pro or it’s your first lap or run down the strip…it’s all on you when you suit...
Doing It Wrong Video: Watch This Cackling Funny Car Throw The Rods Out And Put On A Flame Show
Jul 09, 2018Brian Lohnes5
Now, this is both a scary example and a valuable lesson regarding stuff that burns nitro. The scary example part is when the engine barfs the rods out the bottom and throws fire all over the place...
The Don’t Cringe Challenge: Check Out These Saves And Near Misses From Urban Hillbilly Video!
Jul 08, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on The Don’t Cringe Challenge: Check Out These Saves And Near Misses From Urban Hillbilly Video!
Don’t you love it when someone goes on and on about how easy drag racing is? Look…just because there isn’t a corner or two to deal with does not mean that everything is a walk in...
Brutality: Watch How Much Abuse A Jeep Grand Cherokee Can Take Before It Dies
Jul 03, 2018Bryan McTaggart5
When the Jeep Grand Cherokee debuted in the early 1990s, I though it was awesome…and many other people did too. Nevermind Bob Lutz driving one through plate glass in Detroit to announce...
Crazy Video, Crazier Story: Michigan Circle Track Worker Loses Foot In Tractor Incident – Tractor Runs Free On Circle Track
Jul 03, 2018Brian Lohnes1
This is one of those stories that will really make you cringe. For starters, we are glad that the man involved will be OK, if not completely intact. While details about how this whole mess got...
Not Quite The Holiday Road: Caravan Racing In Britain Is Pure Mayhem!
Jun 22, 2018Bryan McTaggart2
It’s not like regular short-track amateur racing is dangerous enough. Everybody is looking out for Number One and only Number One, and everybody else can either pack it up and go home or...
This 1966 Video Shows A Weird Form Of Stock Car Racing At Brands Hatch In England – A Yank Wins!
Jun 19, 2018Brian LohnesComments Off on This 1966 Video Shows A Weird Form Of Stock Car Racing At Brands Hatch In England – A Yank Wins!
While America may have invented “stock car racing” the product has gone global over the decades with each area of the world and even separate countries putting their own spin on the...
Lift, Man, Lift! Watch This Fox Body Fly At A Grudge Race In South Carolina!
Jun 14, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Lift, Man, Lift! Watch This Fox Body Fly At A Grudge Race In South Carolina!
I understand how passion and emotions can get the better of a racer when ego and reputation are on the line. That’s when you see all the stops come out and we get videos showing cars going...
Low Flying Objects Ahead: Dodging A Car Hood On The Interstate Will Wake You Up!
Jun 12, 2018Bryan McTaggart3
Didn’t we just talk about this not too long ago? It’s bad enough when things bounce out of a pickup truck or off of a trailer and into traffic. But what was captured on a dashcam recently...
DOH! Here’s What Happens When The Main Caps Do Not Get Torqued In Your Freshly Built Engine
Jun 04, 2018Brian Lohnes1
So we have all been there. Whether it was that little mistake on the first problem of the high school math test that threw off the rest of your answers or perhaps that little mistake with too many...






