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Category Archive: FUNNY STUFF, RACING & ACTION, Videos

Here’s The 12 Days of Burnouts 2020 In Their Entirety! See All 12 Smoke Shows Right Here.

Burnouts are great no matter what time of year, but there is something extra cool about burnouts during the holidays. Maybe it’s the Christmas trees on the roofs of high powered hot rods, maybe...

Best of 2020: This 1972 Ford Truck Commercial Is Crazier Than You Think It Was To Make

This tv commercial for 1972 Ford trucks is pretty good. There’s the requisite goofy premise and storyline to follow but there is also vintage dirt bikes, jumps, sideways action, and a whole lot...

Incredible: Jack Bally Built A Flying 1/3 Scale B-17 Bomber From Scratch – Video and Info Here!

(By Scott Liggett) –We at Bangshift.com have such respect for the generation of WWII. Part of that respect includes the machines the men and women used to fight a world war against enemies...

Story Time: The Good, Bad, And Downright Nasty Side Of BTCC With Legendary Driver Jason Plato

The best part of living life are the stories that you get to share with others along the way. I can say it for just about every single solitary year of my life: the stories that I have defy belief, I...

This Hilarious Video Mocking The Lexus December To Remember Sales Event Is Great

Beyond the spiked egg-nog, the hearing of the same damned stories over and over again, and kids asking for stuff, one of the great traditions during the Christmas season are the ridiculous ads run by...

Nitro Time Machine: Watch Bob Gilbertson Collect An Awesome and Improbable Texas Funny Car Win!

The stock and trade of drag racing is surprise. The fact that it is a sport so heavy on momentary performance means that there are things that can happen in the blink of an eye that wouldn’t...

Maybe 8.5 Lives: A Quick Look At Zero-G Training Involving One Unappreciative Kitten

If you weren’t aware, I have animal magnetism. No, not the same kind Chad swears up an down he has as he does his sexy walk up to the starting line in his flip-flops. What I mean is that cats...

Messing With The Meter Maid 101: Park A 1977 Evel Knievel Indycar At An Expired Meter!

The parking meter, oh how we loathe thee. Paying for the privilege of parking the car is an annoyance…it used to be that if you didn’t have change, that you were plumb out of luck, but...

This Is A Floppy Fiberglass Hood Repair Kit! It Also Ads Hundreds Of Horsepower And Makes It Better At Hauling Christmas Trees

This may be my favorite episode of Finnegan’s Garage. Not only is it full of the fun and power that we all know and love, but the dose of humor that runs through this whole thing is exactly...

This Snowmobile Vs. Jetski Chase Video Proves That Anything Goes In Finland!

I should’ve known it from the moment I saw the action kick off. Two jet ski riders and a guy who is driving…not skipping across, like we’ve seen, but actually driving…a...

This Promotional Film Touting The New 1974 Opels Is Pretty Awesome And Hilarious

Opens are cool cars. Of course everyone thinks of the GT model when they conjure the idea of a 1970s German car being sold in a Buick dealer but there were other Opels as well. Cars like he Manta...

Classic YouTube: This VW Golf Gives A 350Z And A Porsche A Great Lesson In Humility!

It takes a bit of cojones to pick a fight with a Porsche 911. From their introduction in 1964 to the modern day, the 911 has been the backbone of the Porsche lineup. The base models are no slouches,...

Historical Video: The 1982 Ford EXP, A Great Snow Beater For The 1980s?

The Ford EXP is a polarizing car…it’s a two-seat Escort with one of the most…uh, unique…styling treatments up front. If you squint a little, it looks like a very surprised...

Cringy Turkey: This Vintage Film From Firestone Tells The Stories of Making Brake Linings – Unknown Danger

It happens often in our world that humans stumble upon something cool, adapt it into many faces of every day life and then years down the road discover that it likely wasn’t the best move...