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Category Archive: MISC, Videos

Screw It, Buy A New Car: Removing A Spider From The Door Handle

I know the picture isn’t great, but let me assure you that the footage is enough that I’ll have shivers up my spine for a week thinking about this. The owner of this HSV Maloo is trying...

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Toyota UK Has Released A Tribute Video To Jeremy Clarkson

It speaks volumes when a car manufacturer creates a tribute to a critic. Toyota UK released this video, titled “Jeremy’s best bits…” which pays homage to all of the work and...

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This Is The End, My Friend: This Time Lapse Video Shows The Scrapping Of The Kalakala

(Lead photo: Tacoma News Tribune/Dean J. Koepfler) After decades of limbo, many a grand plan that failed and numerous wistful glances into the past, the ferry Kalakala is no more, having been...

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Valet Driver Makes A “Car Review” Video With A Customer’s BMW M4, BMW Forum Goes Vigilante To Bring Idiot His Due

Hell hath no fury like properly irate BMW owners. When a video surfaced on YouTube with the title “VALET DRIVE BMW M4”, members of the BMW forum Bimmerpost saw it, and immediately cried...

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This Homebuilt Go-Kart Uses A Drill Motor For Propulsion And A Frisbee For A Steering Wheel…Genius!

If you’re a kid with a go-kart, you win at life. Period, no argument, you win. Every other kid for miles around will be envious and jealous as you tool around at the wheel of your ride. It...

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Get An Early Start On Your Christmas 2015 Shopping Now: This Remote Control 1:4 Scale Liebherr Bucket Loader Would Look Great Parked Next To The Tree!

We’ve seen all manner of cool toys cross these pages, but none are quite as cool, handy, or capable as this. It’s a 1:4 scale Leibherr 576 articulated road-loader, or for the layman, a...

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Best of 2014: Watch A Master Metal Worker Literally Hand Form A Rear Quarter Panel From A Flat Piece of Steel

There’s bad ass and then there is BAD ASS. Australian Peter Tommasini is a master level metal worker and gearhead who runs a restoration shop down under and his skills are in full display...

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Best of 2014: Dealership Attempts To Fix Mustang By Driving It At Redline In First Gear Everywhere, Caught On Camera

At least every six months you see or hear of this stupidity. Last time I heard of it, a dealership ran the living hell out of a guy’s ZL1 Camaro. Now you have YouTube user macAbuzer getting...

Busted: A C7 Corvette Got The Ferris Bueller Treatment, And It Was Captured By The Car’s Valet Recorder

The C7 Corvette has many technological advancements that are really cool to use. One of them is the Performance Data Recorder (PDR) system. Normally, this is a system that records the car’s...

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Christmas Caroling, BangShift-Style: Punching A Trail Through The Snow In An AWD 300C To “Carol of the Bells”

Regardless of whether or not a metric ton of snow fell overnight, sooner or later you’re gonna have to go out in it. A good snowblower will take care of your driveway and maybe the first couple...

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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,...

The Second Video In The Craftsman Made To Race Series Is A Spectacular Look Inside The Hot Rod Chassis And Cycle Shop

BangShift readers are super familiar with the boys at Hot Rod Chassis and Cycle in Illinois. They are the guys who are building the Violent Valiant project we’re following along with the...

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Watch This UGR Tuned Lamborghini Run 219mph In The Standing HALF Mile

Underground Racing has made their name known over the last several years by taking super cars and turning them into hyper cars that make insane horsepower and achieve equally mind boggling speeds. In...