Category Archive: MISC, Videos
Wild Photos and Video: A Log Impales a Mini-Van – Driver Miraculously Survives
Mar 09, 2012Brian Lohnes2
Well this would certainly get your attention! A guy driving down the highway, minding his own business in Mississippi had the close call of a lifetime yesterday when a logging truck was involved in...
Video: Is This the Largest Group Burnout of All Time?
Feb 27, 2012Brian Lohnes1
Australia’s Street Machine Summernats celebrated its 25th anniversary this year and they certainly did it in style. Rather than just fly some banners and sell some anniversary t-shirts, they...
Watch a Merlin Tank Engine Powered Street Rod Tool Around!
Feb 22, 2012Brian Lohnes2
Since I am hung up on engines today, here’s a video highlighting a street rod project that is using a massive Merlin tank engine for power.The build, as you would expect, seems to be totally...
BS Approved Video: Watch a Nitro Harley Get Built in a Home Shop
Feb 20, 2012Brian Lohnes2
Our pal Chuck Noble has been on the electronic pages of BangShift before. He’s the guy, we featured running a nitro motorcycle that had iron heads and carbs on it. Well, Chuck was using that...
Watch the First Episode of Roadkill – Freiburger and Finnegan’s New Show!
Feb 17, 2012Brian Lohnes8
By now we’re sure you’ve heard that David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan of Hot Rod Magazine are going to have a monthly web tv show called Roadkill. The first episode went live today and...
Watch a Restored Version of the First Zamboni Ever Built Go Back to Work on the Ice!
Feb 15, 2012Brian Lohnes3
If you are a gearhead that’s ever attended a hockey game, you’ve wanted to drive the Zamboni. The Zamboni is of course the machine that lumbers out onto the ice between periods and...
This Goodguys Scottsdale Show Video is the Most Bitchin’ Thing You’ll See Today
Feb 02, 2012Brian Lohnes3
We were tipped off to this artistic and frankly bitchin’ video of the 2011 Goodguys Scottsdale show. The video is set to some cool and non-intrusive music, has no voice over, and captures the...
WHERE ARE THEY NOW VIDEO: FORMER PRO MOD CHAMPION MITCH STOTT IS BUILDING RC PLANE LANDING GEAR?
Jan 06, 2012Brian Lohnes1
door slammer in the five second zone. He turned the trick back in 2003 at Darlington Dragway. He was a big force in the Pro Mod ranks through the 1990s and early into the 2000s. Then, like lots of...
An Awesome Look Inside MSD Headquarters and Manufacturing in El Paso, Texas
Dec 23, 2011Brian LohnesComments Off on An Awesome Look Inside MSD Headquarters and Manufacturing in El Paso, Texas
It is always cool to peek behind the curtain of a company like MSD to see where the parts that so many of us use on our stuff get made. MSD is based in El Paso, Texas and that’s where this...
Mucking Awesome Video: High Flying Highlights From the Bithlo Hill-n-Hole Races – Huge Trucks in Flight
Dec 07, 2011Brian LohnesComments Off on Mucking Awesome Video: High Flying Highlights From the Bithlo Hill-n-Hole Races – Huge Trucks in Flight
This video 100% solidified the fact that I need to visit the Bithlo Mud Racing complex next year. This is a highlight reel from the 2.5-ton class at a Hill-n-Hole event. The name does not mean the...
Neat Video: Max Papis Burns the Tires Off the Back of His Stock Car in Front of Fans in Italy
Dec 06, 2011Brian LohnesComments Off on Neat Video: Max Papis Burns the Tires Off the Back of His Stock Car in Front of Fans in Italy
While we may not have invented the burnout here in America, we certainly perfected it. As you’ll see in this video, tire smoke is an international gearhead language. What makes this scene cool...
Fun Video: Lawn Mower Racing – A Profile of a Uniquely American Motorsport
Dec 05, 2011Brian Lohnes1
Lawn mower racing is not a five mph sport. As you will see in this video, these highly modified machines can touch 60mph in less than five seconds. They are lowered and their suspensions are cut,...
Cool Video: Brett Voelkel of Air Ride and Lingenfelter Performance Engineering Hook Up To Hot Rod A CTS-V
Nov 30, 2011Brian LohnesComments Off on Cool Video: Brett Voelkel of Air Ride and Lingenfelter Performance Engineering Hook Up To Hot Rod A CTS-V
Here’s a video that falls into the “how to make a good thing better” department. When our pal and OG BangShifter Brett Voelkel scooped up a used Cadillac CTS-V we knew that it would...
Video: Jay Leno Checks Out the Hand Built Magnolia Special at his Big Dog Garage
Nov 10, 2011Brian Lohnes6
JT Nesbitt is a guy who defines what it means to be a BangShifter. After seeing a video on the Leno’s Garage website years ago, he decided to take up the challenge personally of building a sexy...





