Category Archive: MISC, Videos
Last Day of Voting: The First BangShift Burnout Battle Ends Today!
Consider this a sneak preview of coming attractions here at BangShift. We’re planning on a weekly burnout contest called the BangShift Burnout Battle! The details are still being worked out...
Killer Documentary Video Alert – Black Air: The Buick Grand National Documentary
Without question, the Buick Grand National is one of the greatest performance cars ever produced by General Motors. During a rather moribund time in the performance history of the Buick brand, this...
Kick Ass “Redband” Trailer For Car-Centric Movie Drive Released: Movie Looks Killer
You’ve undoubtedly heard some stuff about the upcoming movie, “Drive” starring Ryan Gosling. The premise of the movie pretty much rules. A Hollywood stunt driver supplements his...
Cool Video: A Guy Tests Out His Homebuilt Quarter-Scale Jet Dragster!
We’ve seen lots of neat miniature race cars, engines, and tractors in our day, but we’ve never seen a freakin’ home made jet dragster! This thing rules all and is even capable of...
Cool Video: Let’s Ride Motorcycles
So if we led off by telling you that the below video is an advertisement for a Taiwanese bank, we’re not sure you’d get far enough to check it out. It would be your loss of course,...
Cool Video: 101 year old Margaret Dunning Still Cruises Her 1930 Packard!
Margaret Dunning is 101 years old, which is pretty damned impressive in itself. Add the fact that she still cruises her 1930 Packard, changes its oil and spark plugs as well as the other maintenance...
Cool Video: A Tour of Spectre Performance Head Quarters With Amir Rosenbaum
Spectre Performance head honcho Amir Rosenbaum is one hard core car guy. From his exploits with the 400 mph “Speed by Spectre” streamliner, to his recent blog entries here on BangShift...
Video Tribute: Todd Gartshore, the Face and Co-Founder of Baer Brakes, passed away this weekend.
If you spent any time around Todd Gartshore, you learned a few good things. He had great sayings, told awesome jokes, and turned on his spokesperson face whenever it was needed. He would not write up...
Nitro Video: The Boss Bird Pontiac Powered Nitro Funny Car Thunders to Life!
There was a time when a Pontiac powered nitro flopper was pretty normal stuff. Guys like Dick Jesse and Arnie Beswick proudly flew the Poncho banner with header flames belching from under their cars....
The Parting Shift: Three Minutes of Cruising a Jeffco Planetary Transmission on the Street
We’ve made it clear in the past that we find few things more awesome than street driven cars with planetary transmissions like Lencos and Jeffcos. We’d be lying if we knew the intricate...
Get Caught Up With the 48-Hour Camaro Here With Video Updates!
If you need to get yourself caught up on how the 48 Hour Camaro project has progressed to this point, we’ve got you covered! Throughout the day, along with the live streaming broadcast of the...
Duck and Cover Video: Suburbans with Big Firepower
We’ve seen this video a few times, but it is really freakin’ wild. What you’re about to watch is a promotional video from a company called Dillon Aero. They make Gatling-type chain...