Category Archive: MISC, Videos
Dyno Video: A Turbocharged 1938 Harley LSR Bike on the Chassis Dyno
Land Speed Racing is undoubtedly the last bastion of pure mechanical expression. Weird, arcane engine combinations are used without apology to set records and do things they were never originally...
Neato Video: A Stock 1929 Model A Flat Towing a 1930 Model A
There’s a fine line between genius and lunatic in the gearhead world, and the dude in this video is totally walking it. Flat towing another car with a stock (and we mean like 40hp engine,...
Craigslist Find: A Bad Ass 1978 Dodge Muscle Truck, with Video
Many times our Craigslist picks highlight some godawful wrecks or lampoon some big pile of mechanical grossness, but this week that is not the case. We found a totally awesome Dodge truck for sale in...
Killer Truck Video: A Pair of Hellacious Chevys Crushing Cars
There are few things cooler to our simplistic minds than watching large lifted trucks drive over cars. Call us names if you want, but the two trucks in this video, which take two divergent approaches...
The Parting Shift: Street Driving a Pro-Shifted T5
Being a gearhead is often about making sacrifices. Take this video for example. The guy driving the car obviously races it and because of that he had the T5 transmission “Pro-Shifted” by...
Hilarious Video: The Old Driverless Van Trick
We’ve obviously been having some fun with it being April Fool’s Day and all, but this clip from a Canadian comedy television show is truly good stuff. A troup of people manipulate a...
Cool Video: A Top Fuel Hydroplane Throwing Header Flames on the Water
Top Fuel Hydros are the baddest mothers on the water. Take all the aspects of a fuel dragster or Funny Car, smoosh it down into a swoopy looking boat, and voila! You’ll be doing 250 mph on the...
Pulling Video: A Vintage Ford Sporting V8 Power
Since BangShift.com first got off the ground, we’ve not been shy of our affection for old tractors. We happened to be surfing YouTube as we do far too often and found some footage of an old...
Killer Video: The Priapism Speed Buggy Burning Tires and Hauling Ass
The (as named by Hot Rod Magazine) Priapism has been a bit of a sensation since hitting the pages of the magazine. The tube chassis, twin V8 powered rod is a master work of fabrication and has a...
Video: More Mud-Based Bad-Assery From Bithlo Motorsports Park
Last week we dropped some killer video of huge trucks flying through the air at Orlando, Florida’s Bithlo Motorsports Park. There’s no hang time in this video but there is one kick ass...
Friday Nitro Video: Don Prudhomme Fires Up His Hot Wheels ‘Cuda Flopper
Don Prudhomme hung up his drag racing spurs prior to the 2010 NHRA season. Without a major sponsor to support his racing operation, the Snake wasn’t going to run a sub-standard team, so...
Burnout Video: Crazy Aussie Smokes the Tires For a Quarter-Mile
This quarter mile burnout is cool for a couple reasons, the first is because it’s done by a 440 Ambassador. The second is because that Ambassador is a wagon. While it appears that the driver is...