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Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, Videos

Off-Side: Passenger-Side Offset Crash Tests For New Pickup Trucks

Pickup trucks composed 69% of the U.S. new vehicle sales at the beginning of 2019. Sixty-nine percent. They’ve replaced the SUV, the minivan, the station wagon and even the midsize sedan as the...

2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E 1400 Video: Smoking Tires, Great Drivers, and 1,400hp To All Four Wheels

We don’t really care whether you like electric cars or not, this video is pretty awesome. You are going to see the premier Ford Performance drivers in racing including Joey Logano, Chelsea...

“You might want to get back in it!”: Check Out The Story Of The F-106 Delta Dart “Cornfield Bomber”!

The Convair F-106 Delta Dart was a hot rod of the highest order when it came to interceptor aircraft. Mach 2.0 was just starting to reach the upper limits of the airspeed indicator (Mach 2.3 was...

Owned By The King Of Late-Night: Johnny Carson’s 1939 Chrysler Royal

The idea of a car being a heirloom is almost outlandish, I’m sad to say. I’d say that at least 98% of vehicles are viewed as an appliance, have always been viewed as an appliance, nothing...

Basic Tech Video: How to Shim a GM Starter for Proper Fitment

Starter shimming is one of those operations that we should all be participating in at some level, but few of us do. Normally when you are swapping a starter, you are stuck somewhere, annoyed that you...

Every Story Has Two Sides, And Carfection Found The Other Side To The DeLorean Motor Company Story – From The People Who Supported John Z.’s Dream

The story of John Z. DeLorean has been told time and time again, and that’s just here on BangShift. There is no doubt that the man was gifted when it came to his vision of what a car should...

Bitchin’ Historic Drag Video: 13-Minutes of Amazing Vintage Drag Racing Home Movies

Now this is the good stuff! We dug up a totally awesome 13-minute long video of vintage drag racing home movies. This footage comes from a variety of places like Enid, Oklahoma, Amarillo, Texas, and...

Video Proof That Rally Racers Are The Most Nuts Guys On The Planet! This Is Wild!

If there was any doubt in your mind that rally racers were not the hardest core, do anything to survive mo-fos in racing, let this video erase that. Shot down in South America somewhere, what you...

Classic YouTube: Mustang Vs. Camaro, 1994, Courtesy Of Motorweek!

Welcome to my “dammit, I’m getting old” moment, right here. In 1994 I was eleven years old, one year away from the rot-box Camaro that would be my first car, and happily tooling...

Rack Repair: Fixing A Valiant Wagon’s Front Subframe Rail’s Damage

Happiness this year is found in the garage, ain’t it? Yeah…this is where you learn if you are a car builder or just would rather watch one on television. I’m finding that I’m...

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How Much Power Can You Make With A Crate 514 Big Block Ford? A LOT!

GM always owned the factory crate engine world. No matter what make or model, you could go to any car show or race and find dozens of GM Crate engines in everything under the sun. But Ford and Mopar...

Let The Beauty Shine Through: Scrubbing The Ugly Off Of A Muralized Dodge Ramcharger

One thing that I always wondered when I was a kid, reading Sport Truck and other magazines in the 1990s, was how all of these vehicles that had gotten these radical, super-detailed paint jobs were...

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Diesel Revival 3: When In Doubt, Call In An Expert Before You Nuke The Engine

“Try, try and try again” is commendable in theory. In practice, there’s a point where you have to understand that you are doing something wrong and that if you keep up with your...

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Better Engine Building Video: Eliminate Common Lifter Failures – Roller and Flat Tappet!

If there is one thing that can hurt your heart, wallet, and will to live, it is a lifter failure in your high performance engine. Whether we are talking rollers or flat tappers, when a lifter goes,...