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Category Archive: MISC, Videos

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...

If You’re Into Car-Sharing And Live In Toronto, You Might Get A Lift In Deadmau5’s McLaren

I do find it odd that once again I’m reporting on electronic artist Deadmau5 (aka Joel Zimmerman) and his car for a second time on BangShift, but after seeing this, I couldn’t pass it up....

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Check Out The Trailer For Forza Horizon 2: All In-Game Footage And It Looks Spectacular

Winter is coming, and it’s supposed to be a nasty one this year. Rain, snow, ice and cold temperatures do not make for happy BangShifters (excepting our Nordic friends, who don’t seem to...

Check This Out: Highly Detailed Model Trucks And Scenery At A Show In Germany

Most of us are used to the point-and-squirt style of remote controlled vehicles. But the highly detailed R/C car business is a big deal in other parts of the world. This video was taken this April at...

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Watch This Large Barge Of A 1973 Olds Rip Sweet Donuts On A Country Road – Sleeper City

Here’s a perfect video for a Saturday because it’ll make you smile and make you want to go out there and drive your hot rod. Why? Because this is pure fun in a big, cool car and because...

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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