Category Archive: BangShift News, BangShift XL, FUNNY STUFF, MISC, Videos, XL Videos
Impractical? Fooey! Watch This Pulling Tractor Take Care Of Multiple Jobs On The Farm!
There are times in this world when practicality rules all, right? Certainly aspects of life are just better when approached with that mindset. Racing and motorsport are not parts of this discussion....
Tuff Truck All-Star Moments: Watch The Top 10 Greatest Hits As These Tuff Truck Competitors Bring The Pain!
I freaking love Tuff Truck competitions. I love them because they are wacky, they are grassroots, and they are wide open for any crazy person to put whatever vehicle they feel like they want to on a...
Two Minutes of Cringe: This 1980s Thank You Video From Pontiac Fiero Plant Is Hilariously Weird
We know their heart was in the right place. We know the intention of this video was to thank and encourage a specific Pontiac dealer to keep pressing Fiero sales. We understand that these people are...
This 2019 Circle Track Spectator Drags Video May Be The Coolest “Stock Car” Racing Footage On The Internet
Maybe we’re weird, maybe we’re wrong, and maybe we’re right. We think that this compilation of 2019 spectator drags highlights from Beech Ridge Speedway in Maine could be the most...
The Mental Side Of Racing! Funny, Crazy Or Cringy Moments From 2019
The world of motorsports can be a crazy thing. Everybody always wants to see the consummate professional, the maverick with the attitude, the wild, aggressive driving styles that we know and love. It...
Weird Cars I Used To Want: The Saab Viggen Was A Weird and Quick Swedish Breath Of Fresh Air
When I was a little kid, my parents had some friends come over to the house and they drove up in a Saab. This was the 1980s mind you and it wasn’t like Saabs were growing on trees. The car was...
Pressure Cooker: Will A Steam-Powered Lada Samara Work Or Not?
What would I want next to me if I was in Russia at any point in time during the winter? A fire. I’m a pansy in the cold…wilting, shivering, absolutely unhappy with the overall situation....
Lawn Mower Mudding – You Needed A New Mower Anyways, Right?
I was not expecting to hear my father-in-law say that he was going to bring out the lawn mower the other day. The area around BangShift Mid-West is currently a toss up between muddy and just about...
Wintertime Weirdness: Keep Adding Spare Wheels!
Ah, it’s wintertime in the Northern Hemisphere, and that means it’s wintertime in Russia as well. And that means that the folks at Garage 54 start building the weird stuff…and...
The Luxury Breadbox: Chrysler’s 1990 Town and Country Mini-Van Was Woodgrain Lip Stick On A Pig
While Detroit has gotten way better at this in recent years, for a long time when a model got long in the tooth and we nearing the end of its current generation, sales lagged and they had a standard...
Listen Up Suckers: Stevie Fast Calls Out Every Pro Mod In the Country…And John Force?!
And we’re off! That’s exactly what I thought when I watched this video of Stevie Fast Jackson effectively calling out every pro mod racer in the country and the going the extra mile and...
Best of 2019: This MotorWeek Retro Review of A 1988 Pontiac LeMans Is Hilarious And Telling Of 1980s GM Thinking
We’re pretty sure it went something like this in the meeting room. “Wilson we need a car name here at Pontiac that people remember, but one that we have not whizzed on yet.” Young...
Best of 2019: Te Definition Of Tuff Truck: Watch This Jeep Cherokee Get Pounded!
We’re not sure if the driver ever walked in a fully upright position after completing this Tuff Truck run at the 2018 Lebanon Fair in Pennsylvania. We have seen plenty of gutsy tuff truck runs...
