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Category Archive: BangShift News, MISC, Videos

Movie Car Chase Video: A Gran Fury vs. A Grand Ville in “Short Time”

Dabney Coleman plays Burt Simpson, a Seattle detective, learns that he has a disease that will kill him within two weeks, and that the only way his family receives any benefits is if he dies within...

Now The Hog You Ride Can Smell Like The Tastier Part Of The Hog You Eat: Bacon-Powered Motorcycle

There are many smells that come from a typical motorcycle: oil, chain lube, exhaust. Let’s not talk about the biker themselves. What could possibly make a motorcycle run better and smell...

This Video To Introduce The 2015 Indian Scout Motorcycle Calls Back On The Company’s History And Focuses Around The Wall Of Death

The Indian Motorcycle company’s legend was built between the years of 1901 and 1953 when the first iteration of the company built some of the most romanticized and (now) valuable motorcycles...

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Car Review: Watch As Regular Car Reviews Tries To Take A Serious Look At A Stage II DeLorean!

The DeLorean DMC-12’s story is well known here. The legend aside, the biggest problem with the silver gullwing’d wonder was that it was simply underpowered. 132hp isn’t fast, period, and when...

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Why Hasn’t This Idea Caught On? RWD V8 Chrysler LH Platforms-Make That Intrepid Haul!

The Chrysler LH platform was exactly what the company needed in the early 1990’s: Something that wasn’t a K-car that had looks, some performance and lots of value. Over the course of...

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Watch This Turkish F-16 Clear Air Show Fans By Mere Feet- Haircut, Anyone?

In aviation there is an inexplicable joy of seeing the machines doing their thing up close. Maybe it’s because as a kid, you spent most of your observation time watching planes fly over at 30,000...

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This donut/burnout (A) almost turns ugly and (B) almost makes us want a Mustang II

The Pinto-based Mustang II is the Mustang everybody likes to hate, but I will reveal a deep, dark secret about myself: I’ve always liked them. The tape-kit Cobra was wicked cool, and I even...

Cars, Burnouts And Rock And Roll Because It’s Friday!

Ok, let’s take a tally: Lohnes is currently somewhere tropical, drunk on rum doing his best Lonely Island “I’m On A Boat” impersonation…Chad’s a day away from...

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Carnage Video: Watch a Geo Metro Get Turned Into Farm Fertilizer!

Ah, the manure spreader. It doesn’t lead a glorious life. It spends every second of it’s life either taking crap, giving crap, being filled with crap, or reeking of crap. That’s a...

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The Parting Shift: A Screaming Detroit and 13-Speeds

We’re going two-stroke diesel with this week’s parting shift. This video rules on a couple of levels, but the sounds of the Deeetroit Diesel screaming away is something to note as well as...

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Those pictures of massive stockpiles of cars on the internet today are from 2009

Suddenly, it’s on the rise again: a photo of a massive lot of automobiles, accompanied by text that reads something like “Nobody is buying brand new cars anymore! Well they are, but not...

This Video Shows How Ford Will Get A 2015 Mustang To The 86th Floor Of The Empire State Building Quickly

A couple weeks ago we told you the story of how Ford loaded a Mustang into an elevator at the Empire State Building in 1965 and displayed it on the 86th floor observatory of the building for a short...

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The Undead Aussie Ford LTD Hearse Is The Greatest Burnout Machine Ever – Complete With Casket

We have to thank Aussie BangShifter John Tearle for the tip on this massive 1970s smoke machine from his homeland. The car is called Undead and it is a mid-1970s Aussie Ford LTD hearse. It seems that...

VIDEO: This Russian two-wheel drive motorcycle floats, and there’s an amazing surprise at the end

I’ve been a big fan of Rokon Trailbreaker motorcycles for a long time, so when I saw this Russian video, I figured it was just another clip of one of these unique, two-wheel drive American...

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