Category Archive: HISTORIC, Videos
Cool Video: Dr Jamie Meyer of GM Shows Six Significant Performance Cars From Chevy’s History
Chevrolet turns 100 this year and the company plans to celebrate that fact loud and proud during the 2011 Woodward Dream Cruise in and around Detroit. In this video, Dr. Jamie Meyer, one of the...
The True Story Behind The Fake Racetrack in Chrysler’s Latest TV Commercial
Dodge’s latest television commercial is a spot plugging their Durango SUV. Rather than showing the vehicle backing over a flower bed or slowly ambling up a crushed stone driveway, the spot...
Video: The Six Mile Trans Am Video from Ridetech
A 6 mile 1979 Trans Am is something to gawk at, and when Kitterman Motors decided to auction theirs off, the internet was a buzz. Bret Voelkel and Jason Brady from Ridetech went to bid, and quickly...
Historic Drag Racing Video: 1960s Drag Racing From Washington State
This fifteen and a half minute movie that depicts the people, places, and race cars of 1960s drag fiend gearheads in Washington state is pretty special. Yes, you’ll get to see Don Garlits run...
Awesome Old Drag Video: Fuel Altereds, Floppers, and Other Stuff At Irwindale Raceway Circa 1971
This is a cool piece of video, twelve minutes to be exact, featuring a big event at Irwindale Raceway back in 1971. There are awesome fuel floppers, fuel altereds and slingshot Top Fuel dragsters...
Historic Drag Video: Footage From the Long Dead Golden Triangle Drag Strip
Golden Triangle Drag Strip, which was located just outside of Beaumont, Texas, has been dead for years. The former air strip is now crossed over by a highway, and serves as the backdrop of a little...
Historic Video Bonanza: The 1965 12 Hours of Sebring
Road course competition was like international chess in the 1960s. There were battles for supremacy in virtually all classes and we’re not talking driver versus driver competition, we’re...
Bitchin’ Old Video: A Collection of 1936 Chevrolet Newsreels
Old promotional newsreel films are always a gas. This collection of Chevrolet-centric films from 1936 does not disappoint. There’s a bevy of bathing beauties using the car as a water slide and...
UPDATED Video: NHRA Motorsports Museum Low Flyers Car Club Panel Discussion
We are proud to be partnering with the NHRA Wally Parks Motorsports Museum to bring you all the history of drag racing and hot rods you can handle in 2011, presented by The Auto Club of Southern...
Video Lead Off: Early 1960s Vintage Films of Guys Blowing Donuts
Blowing donuts on dry pavement and in the snow is totally BangShift approved. We were tipped off to some footage from the early 1960s showing all kinds of cool old junk spinning out in different...
Video Bonanza: Hurst Drag Racing Film Collection – The Best Set of Old Drag Racing Movies We’ve Ever Seen
We think we’ve found the end of the internet in terms of vintage drag racing videos. This nearly hour long compendium of videos was produced by the Hurst Company and it chronicles the US...
Epic Drag Video Bonanza: The 1980 Popular Hot Rodding Championships
This is the longest and most complete set of videos we have ever found on YouTube with respect to a single drag race. It’ll blow your afternoon up and you will thank us for it. Run at US 131...
Video: A Bitchin’ 1961 International Dump Truck Commercial
When we watched this old International truck commercial from 1961 it made us kind of sad. Why? Mainly because we live in a world where we’ll never see another ad for a “personal”...