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Category Archive: FUNNY STUFF, Videos

Killer Project Video: The Gixxer Kart Has A new Foe!

For years the golden standard of insane power to weight ratio on the internet has been the infamous “Gixxer kart” which mated the engine from a GSX-R motorcycle to the frame of a tiny go...

Video: A BangShift Approved Wheelstander Golf Cart

Wheelstanders rank as our favorite drag strip exhibition attractions. Sure, the jets are cool and put on a great show, but damn if we aren’t caught up in the idea of steering a car with the...

Smokey Yunick Video: How Ol’ Smoke Helped Develop the Corvette

Smokey Yunick is certainly a hall of fame BangShifter. He had his hands in innumerable projects over the years and developed everything from carbs to spark plugs. Yunick was also involved in the...

Nutso Racing Video: Roto-Tiller Drags From Arkansas

This is not anything like you expect it to be. This is not video of 2mph rototillers creeping along. Instead this is video of a truly wild event featuring (and we know this sounds totally insane)...

Funny Video: A Russian Dump Truck Clip With a Surprise Ending

After watching this video, we’re sure that comments involving Russian’s seemingly unquenchable thirst for vodka will follow. We looked at the video and nearly shut it off before the big...

Hilarious Video: Ken Block Ride Along Turns Adults Into Screaming Eight Year Old Girls

While this video is about a year old, the laughs you’ll get are timeless. Media darling Ken Block is the star of this one as he takes some unsuspecting rally video game players on a real life...

Bonneville Video: Hillbilly Flamethrower Hijinks at the Bend in the Road

We’ve heard from Bonneville Speed Week veterans that one needs to camp at bend in the road to get the full first timer’s experience. After watching this video of some hooligans having fun...

The Parting Shift: Whiplash in a 4-speed Stock Eliminator Nova!

Check this out! During a charity event, they allow a passenger to ride along in a 4-speed, 283 powered, 11 second Nova. The Stock Eliminator car was a few hundred pounds over weight, but still...

Video Bonanza: Great 1980’s TV Car Stunts

There wasn’t a better time in world history to be a stunt man than the 1980’s. Long before the advent of computer effects and complex filming processes, stunt men made it happen. If you...

Greatest Videos Ever: A 650cc Van-bodied Lawn Tractor

The is the most dangerous, ill-conceived idea ever. It is 100% BangShift.com approved and we’re jealous that it is not in our own driveway. Taking a lawn tractor chassis, mounting a 650cc motor...

Funny Video: How George Washington Kicked Ass in a Dodge Challenger

As we begin winding down for this Fourth of July holiday weekend, we were inspired to show you the recently minted web commercial for the Dodge Challenger. If you’ve not see it, George...

Whoopsie-Doodle Video: Automotive Prank Goes Wrong

Remember being a teenager and doing stupid junk with your car? Remember the time that stupid junk caused damage that you knew mom and dad were going to see and that you’d never be able to talk...

Hilarious Video: Three-Wide Bus Racing at a Michigan Oval

So far today we’ve taken you to Indy and to the Midwest Musclecar Challenge, two events featuring cars that have been designed, tested, and trashed on the race track. Now we’re headed to...

Hilarious Video: A Crazy, Dirt Track, Big Rig Race at the Webster County Fair

Talk about grassroots racing. Take an open area, throw some huge old equipment tires around the edges and center of said area, form an oval about a quarter mile in length, and allow people to race...