Category Archive: HISTORIC, Videos
Cool Old Video: Ten Minutes of Kooky AMC Commercials Circa 1973
We love old car ads around here so when we saw a compilation video made up of the entire 1973 AMC television ad catalog, we had to share it with all of you out there in readerland. While on a long...
Cool Old Promo Video: Curtis Turner and Ford’s Total Performance Campaign
Few men in NASCAR history drove harder or lived faster than Curtis Turner. He was one of the sport’s first bonafide legends and because of that he was used as a pitch man. In this video...
More Killer Stunt Video: 1956 Chevy Promo Film Featuring the Joie Chitwood Stunt Drivers
We were a little harsh on the Joie Chitwood stunt show earlier, relaying our last memory of the program as relating only to the fact that they were driving Toyota Camrys. It wasn’t always like...
Cool Old Video: The Marathon Oil Hurricane Hell Drivers
Stunt and precision driving shows ain’t what they used to be. Scratch that, they are exactly what they used to be, except now they don’t do the truly death defying stuff like jumping cars...
Classic Ad Video: The 1967 Pontiac GTO
We took a little heat yesterday for admitting that we thought Chrysler’s “Man’s Last Stand” television commercial for the Charger was kind of neat. We’ve found a classic...
Killer Drag Video: Seven Minutes in Early Pro Stock Heaven
The birth of Pro Stock as a drag racing class is one of the clearest examples of mechanical evolution in racing. Starting in the early 1960s when the Big Three started funneling money into drag...
Historic Drag Video: Awesome Old Footage of 427-Powered Comets and Fairlanes
After continuing to lust after the RacingJunk find Comet Cyclone we showed you a while ago, we went searching out cool Comet videos on YouTube and managed to hit the mother load. Ronnie Sox, Dyno...
Groovy Video: 1970 Firestone Tires Commercial
Decades before the Ford Explorer debacle that would cost the brand dearly (and more than they deserved) Firestone was cranking out tires at a blinding rate for all different types of vehicles. Their...
Videos: Big Willie Robinson and the Brotherhood of Street Racers
We were thinking about Big Willie Robinson’s 1969 Daytona being posted on eBay and thought to go looking for some background on the man and on his Brotherhood of Street Racers organization. We...
Historic Video: Mickey Thompson Becomes the First American over 400 MPH
A few weeks ago our Southern California division posted a bunch of photos of the Mickey Thompson display at the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum. What we didn’t know at the time is that...
Killer Vintage Drag Footage: Pacific Raceways 1963
In less than 24 hours, BangShift.com’s live streaming broadcast of the 52nd Bakersfield March Meet will kick off, and to get you ready, here’s some vintage drag racing footage from 1963....
Killer Video: Mickey Thompson’s 1969 Mustang Funny Car in Action at Bristol AHRA Race
Crank your speakers up when you press play on this killer vintage drag footage. If you’ve ever wondered what a SOHC Ford motor sounds like on a full load of nitro, that question will be...