Category Archive: MISC, Videos
Amazing Video: Tiny Turbine Powered R/C Pulling Tractor
Dec 11, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Amazing Video: Tiny Turbine Powered R/C Pulling Tractor
This is one of the craziest things we have ever seen. The video we dug up shows a very small remote control pulling tractor powered by an actual, tiny, turbine engine. We’d by lying if we said...
Video: Chip Foose Will Hot Rod a John Deere Tractor
Dec 08, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Video: Chip Foose Will Hot Rod a John Deere Tractor
How did we ever miss this? The Chip Foose media machine must not be firing on all 8 right now, because it was announced back in November that famed car designer Chip Foose has partnered with John...
Great Video: The Story Behind Dougzilla and the Best Drag Racing Burndown in 40 years
Dec 08, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Great Video: The Story Behind Dougzilla and the Best Drag Racing Burndown in 40 years
In drag racing, a burndown occurs when both competitors pre-stage and neither moves to the fully staged position. There is no rule as to whom has to stage first or second, and when two guys get it in...
Wild Video: Suzuki Submarine
Dec 04, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Wild Video: Suzuki Submarine
The Suzuki Samurai was a much maligned little 4×4 back when Consumer Reports got one to “roll” on its test course. Turns out that the little bastards are great off-road trucks with...
The Parting Shift: An 11-Second Pass in a 30,000-Mile Hemi GTX
Nov 27, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on The Parting Shift: An 11-Second Pass in a 30,000-Mile Hemi GTX
We realize that many of you have checked out for Thanksgiving weekend, but that won’t stop us from posting our now-traditional, week-ending Parting Shift item. This time it’s from...
Video: 101-Year-Old Buys a 2010 Camaro SS
Nov 19, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Video: 101-Year-Old Buys a 2010 Camaro SS
Here’s a great one for you. The GM public relations machine was hoping for young buyers for the new 2010 Camaros, but one guy just single-handedly brought up the average. He’s 101 years...
Cool Trucks, Cool Ads: International Scout
Nov 18, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Cool Trucks, Cool Ads: International Scout
How about a cool, late-’60s, early-’70s ad for an International Scout? It seems that this one comes from across the pond as there’s a speaker who has a distinctly English accent and...
Cool Trucks, Cool Ads: 1986 Ford F250
Nov 18, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Cool Trucks, Cool Ads: 1986 Ford F250
Yesterday we brought you the stink with our slew of “Awful Cars, Awful Ads” blog entires. Today we’re turning the tables to show you cool ads featuring the most American vehicle...
Awful Cars, Awful Ads: The Yugo
Nov 17, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Awful Cars, Awful Ads: The Yugo
Next on the docket of junk that is comprising our Awful Ads, Awful Cars fun today is the venerable Yugo. There are a bunch of people who will defend the little car that was sold for less and $4,000...
Awful Cars, Awful Ads: The 1983 Renault Alliance
Nov 17, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Awful Cars, Awful Ads: The 1983 Renault Alliance
The next member of our Awful Cars, Awful Ads hall of shame is the Renault Alliance. This putrid heap of shoddy French engineering was sold through AMC dealers after Renault took at 46 percdent stake...
Awful Cars, Awful Ads: The 1985 Plymouth Reliant/ Dodge Aries
Nov 17, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Awful Cars, Awful Ads: The 1985 Plymouth Reliant/ Dodge Aries
Continuing with our Awful Cars, Awful Ads theme today, we have the 1985 Plymouth Reliant/Dodge Aries one-two punch. More like gut punch. Yes, these cars effectively saved Chrysler from sliding under...
Awful Cars, Awful Ads: The 1984 Cadillac Cimarron
Nov 17, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Awful Cars, Awful Ads: The 1984 Cadillac Cimarron
On the heels of reading Rob Kinnan’s great editorial entitled “Crappy Cars” in the January 2010 edition of Hot Rod magazine, we were inspired to act on a crappy car impulse we were...
Killer Video: Mechanic’s Creeper with 80cc Gas Motor
Nov 02, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Killer Video: Mechanic’s Creeper with 80cc Gas Motor
The engine is the head rest. The wheels look as though they were sourced from a Grainger catalog in the caster section. Steering is accomplished by a push/pull lever. There are not readily apparent...
Video: Chevrolet Pre-Event Teaser for 2009 SEMA Show Cars
Oct 29, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Video: Chevrolet Pre-Event Teaser for 2009 SEMA Show Cars
It’s a good thing we have a true GM insider as a BangShift.com member, because we got tipped off to this latest Chevrolet teaser video on YouTube before hardly anyone had seen it. Check it out...