Category Archive: BangShift News, CRASH & BURN, HISTORIC, Videos
How to do stunts like Mad Max 2 – Step 1: Be prepared to hurt yourself
I’ve been influenced by a lot of movies over the years, but every single frame of Mad Max 2 — or The Road Warrior, as it was billed in the United States — is burned indelibly in my...
Doing It Wrong Video: How To Not Aqua Skip A Dirt Bike And Nearly Kill Yourself In The Process
The two legs jutting out from the massive splash down belong to a dirt bike rider who was attempting to aqua skip his dirt bike across this water obstacle at the Clovis MX park in New Mexico, right...
Dummy Video: A Dirt Path Is Not a Drag Strip
We’ve long been of the opinion that street racing is dumb. Racing on public streets where innocent people and bystanders can be hurt isn’t smart. Because of this video we found, we now...
’58 Ford Retractable goes up in flames north of Boston, and the owner’s blaming corn-based fuel
Over the weekend, the indispensable Boston news site Universal Hub posted this photo of a 1958 Ford Retractable engulfed in flame on Rt. 93 in Stoneham, 20 minutes north of the city. The owner...
Watch Raymond Commisso’s Massive Pro Mod Crash at Maple Grove
Canadian restaurateur and Pro Mod ace Raymond Commisso suffered a massive crash at the ADRL Spring Drags in 2012 contested on the famous Maple Grove Raceway drag strip. You’ll see the car...
Drag Race Carnage Video: A Flying Camaro Wipes Out a Camera Platform at a Strip in Kuwait
There’s lots of reasons why race tracks do not have top end spectator bridges or fixed, overhanging camera stands at the finish line anymore like they used to. This video illustrates just about...
Watch This 2014 S1000R Cause A Motorcycle Dyno To Explode And Catch Fire
This video has a triangulation of things that make it mandatory to watch. First, it has a pretty mean motorcycle in the form of a 2014 BMW 1000 R. This thing has a base price of like $13,000, makes...
Crazy Collision Between A Minivan And A Cement Truck Caught On Dashcam!
There aren’t many Youtube videos that make me visibly flinch, but trust me, this is one of them. Watching a fully-loaded cement truck roll over and barrel towards the camera has been known to...
Friday BOOM: Watch a Canadian Drag Racer Suffer A Massive Nitrous Explosion at The Grand Bend Motorplex
If nitrous explosions are judged on shrapnel and how high stuff flies, particularly chunks of the hood scoop, this one may be a hall of famer. The video shows a pair of Top Sportsman cars launching...
Bang Up Video: Watch A $400,000 Lamborghini Aventador Get Smashed Up By A Dude Driving Like An Idiot In London
The base price for a Lamborghini Aventador is a shade (and we means a SHADE) under $400,000 US dollars. While we don’t have the cash or the desire to own one, they are impressive machines. Able...
This English Demo Derby Car’s Clutch Explodes In The Pits And Makes Absolutely Comical Noises
We understand that exploding clutches are no joke and that they can be very, and we mean very bad for the health of the guy sitting near the transmission but sometimes funny is funny. We know that...
Watch an Australian Guy Lose Control of His Ute During a Burnout, Crash Through a Wall and Seriously Piss Off His Buddy
Australia has some of the toughest driving laws on the books. The so called “anti-hooning” statutes can get drivers into big trouble for being busted while speeding, street racing,...
Friday BOOM: Honda Engine Or Clutch Explosion Blows Front of Car Off
This video is totally insane. We got tipped off to it by BangShift.com reader and chassis man extrodinaire Jon Sandahl. What you’ll see is a Honda CRX at a drag strip. It suffers what we think...
Epic Save Video: How to Scrape the Door Handle on the Ground and Not Wreck Your Car
Drag cars often seem to defy the laws of physics with respect to acceleration, but the car in this video does it in a totally different way. There seems to be equal parts luck and driver acumen at...