Category Archive: BUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, FUNNY STUFF, Videos
Christmas Caroling, BangShift-Style: Fun In The Snow With A Big-Block Buick To Bing Crosby’s “Winter Wonderland”!
When we were kids, snow was the best thing ever. It meant that school was possibly delayed or, if the odds favored us, closed. It meant that sledding and snowball fights were options, and it meant...
BangShift Holiday Shopping Guide: Power Wheels Sets A Real Ford F-150 Onto Four Of Their F-150s To Demonstrate Their Toughness
The ultimate toy under the tree for the up-and-coming gear head in your life should be a Power Wheels. It’s all the fun of driving with enough safety to keep the parents happy, and for decades,...
That Ain’t Right Video: Ok, Which One Of You Did A Burnout In A Prius?
If there is one car that is universally hated among pretty much all of the automotive world, it’s the Toyota Prius. No other car has stood so against what makes a car enjoyable than that...
Backyard Ingenuity Video: How One Man Turned A Totalled Chevy Corsica Into A Snowplow
“Necessity is the mother of invention” is often flung around, but honestly, when you’re snowed in, what is there to really invent? The shovel? Necessity may not inspire invention...
And Now, A 100HP Tuk-Tuk Equipped With Guns, Rockets, And A Flamethrower. Because Just Being Insane Is Overrated
I’m not much of a video gamer. Sure, I play Grand Theft Auto 5 enough that I could draw you directions complete with street names and addresses, and I played Forza Online enough that I had...
Russian Dash Cam Video That Brings New Meaning To The Term Dash Cam
We’ve got to thank faithful BangShift tipster Ray Johnson for sending us the link to the USDA prime cut of hilarious Russian dash cam goodness. The whole scene unfolds as they always do with a...
AWESOME BANGSHIFT APPROVED VIDEO: THE CHEAP ASS CHALLENGE – ICE BRIDGE EDITION
This video beats the snot out of ANYTHING you’ll see on TV today or tonight. Three guys on horrifyingly awful snow machines traveling nearly 300 miles in the northern Michigan winter, basically...
Roadkill! Freiburger And Finnegan Are Back With An Outtake Show, Plus Two Big Teasers
Normally, an outtake show is essentially where the stars phone in an episode, but the guys at Roadkill had a good reason to: they have amassed tons of great footage over the years that had not been...
Question Of The Day: If You Could Name One Product Accurately, What Would It Be?
It cranks and cranks, but just won’t kick over. And you can hear the battery winding down and you curse and pray simultaneously for the damn thing to just start. Soon, you get the clicking of...
Watch As This Jaguar Test Driver Turn His Passenger Into Gumby!
You’ll have to forgive the video quality, but this one is worth it. This footage comes from a Jaguar test drive at the factory about four years ago. The gentleman who is driving is one of the...
V8 Supercar Video: Some Funny And Absolutely Random Moments From Australia
V8 Supercar racing is the whiskey-drinking, cocaine-snorting cousin of NASCAR that our friends Down Under live for. The cars are much closer to the real vehicles for sale, the drivers have similar...
VIDEO: Seven Things You Probably Didn’t Know about Smokey and the Bandit
In the history of film, there are probably five movies we can all agree had more influence on our love of cars, and 1977’s Smokey and the Bandit has to be in the top three. Our buddy Craig...
Watch Robert De Niro In A Cool 1970 AMC Television Commercial – Before He Was Famous!
(By Greg Rourke) – Before he was Vito Corleone, before he was Travis Bickle, and long before he was Jimmy Conway, Robert De Niro made a commercial for American Motors. Back in the 70’s,...
Regular Car Review Takes On A Conquest That’s A Rolling Middle Finger To…Someone
The Chrysler Conquest (and it’s later sibling, the Dodge Stealth) didn’t have a great position in life. They were captive imports, or in other words, they were Mitsubishi throwing...