Category Archive: FUNNY STUFF, HISTORIC, Videos
Those Vintage Training Films? They All Came From One Guy, and His Story is Awesome
If you’ve been following BangShift for a while, you know we love to find those great promotional films from the 1930s through the 1950s. Sharp-eyed readers will notice that at the...
Big Fail: This Video Is Nine Minutes of Cringe-Worthy Dump Truck Fails – How?!
Since I was a kid, I always wanted to drive a dump truck and for a while I got to do that. As a CDL holder and a guy who was hustling to pay the bills for a few years, I would pick up odd jobs and...
The Stupicharger: Hoonigan’s Lab Rat Firebird Returns With More Forced Induction!
On one hand, we have to say that we do not miss the “turdos” that used to be mounted on this Pontiac Firebird one bit. The car looked like a fan of Russian ekranoplans went way overboard...
The Steak, The Steam, The Suffering: Finnegan’s Woes Leading Up To The Showdown
By now you already know how this story plays out: Mike Finnegan packed his 1955 Chevy, “Blasphemi”, into his newest car hauler, grabbed a couple of friends to come along, and headed west,...
More Is Better, Right? It’s Now A THREE-Engined Lada, And It Still Drives!
Three engines. Twelve cylinders. A combined displacement of four liters. And no, it’s not a Ferrari mill. Instead, it’s the little red Lada that we’ve been showing you for the last...
Radioactive: This Collection of NASCAR Team Radio Communications From Atlanta Is Awesome
Any time we can get a window into the world of professional racing that we don’t typically get, we love it. In this case it is a video featuring radio communications from a bunch of the NASCAR...
Happy-Go-Pukey: Watch This Ford Ka Goes Into Spin Cycle Mode
At some point, being the mad scientist can be a hell of a lot of fun. Experiencing weightlessness in a Pontiac Catalina after the phrase “Let’s hit Banner Jump!” came out was...
Video: Boost and Nitromethane For The See Through Engine! Hand-chanical Fuel Injection
We have been following the saga of the guy with the YouTube channel and the obsession with Briggs and Stratton engines for some time now. He first kind of burst onto our radar when he ran one of his...
Pinch Buggy: 1320Video Found The Stubbiest VW Beetle We’ve Ever Seen!
We’ve seen numerous shortened cars before. Just off of the top of my head, I can remember a shrunken Nova, a stubby Chrysler Fifth Avenue and a chopped early 1990s Chrysler minivan. In most...
Like A Boss: Watch This Kiwi Drag Racer Huck His Altered Into A Skid To Prevent Going Long At The Strip
New Zealand’s Neil Morgan was on another pass in his blown Ford T-bodied altered. Another bouncing, half-crazed, short wheelbase charge down the quarter mile that he handled nicely. It was time...
Revenge Of The Fireturd! Hoonigan’s Craft-Store Turbo Project Returns!
When the thrashed and bashed third-gen Pontiac that Hoonigan slapped homemade turbos onto first made it’s appearance, many wondered if the guys were even trying anymore. Nevermind that they...
What Aerodynamics?! Get A Closer Look At The LS-Swapped Winnebago!
What has the frontal area of a barn that got thrown by a tornado, looks like a cinder block with wheels and a two-Earth-toned graphic around the perimeter, and is enough to make worried mothers spool...
Cleetus’ Auction Corvette Gets A New “Fresh” 4.8 With Hopes Of Running In The 8’s Soon!
The Auction Corvette is no stranger to breaking engines, after all it had done it before Cleetus even bough the damn thing. It has stuck to that script since he did purchase it, and now it is in need...
The Hoonigans Have A New Yard! After Being Shut Down From Doing Burnouts By The City, They Will Resume Now!
Most people watching Hoonigan videos have no clue what surrounds their location. And most people also had no clue that in the fall of 2018 the Hoonigans were told they could no longer film at their...