Category Archive: FUNNY STUFF, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Cleetus McFarland Almost Poops Himself Riding In Finnegan’s Game Over Jet Boat!
You’ve seen Mike Finnegan’s killer 700 plus cubic inch, 1,700 + horsepower, twin-turbo jet boat named Game Over on here before and we love the thing. It is sick, fast, and sexy as hell....
Four Digit Stomper: Check Out The Parts And Pieces Freiburger Is Going To Turn Into 1,000+ Naturally Aspirated Horsepower
Everyone has goals, right? Somedays our goal is to make it a full day without covering our shirt in mustard, somedays it is to get some work on a project knocked out, and somedays it is to find cool...
This 1962 Volvo 122S Commercial Has To Have One Of The Best Taglines Ever Used: “You Can Drive It Like You Hate It.”
Volvo’s reputation for building safe, durable automobiles has been cemented for years now, but in early 1960s America, if it didn’t come from an American manufacturer, chances were good...
Bring The Rattle: Waking Up A Hibernating V6-Powered Third Gen Camaro
The top end model always gets saved. Everyone wants the GT, the Trans Am, the AMX, the Super Sport. Nobody gives half a crap about the lower models. Four door? Nope. V6? Not unless it came with a...
The Maniac’s Truck: Go In-Depth Into Colin Furze’s 1988 Toyota!
The Toyota Hilux is indestructible. TopGear proved it by trying like hell to kill one and they failed. And they tried, indeed: among other, much more minor abuses, the Toyota was drowned in the...
Morning Symphony: Arias Hemi V6 – An Absolutely Rare Gem
The three parts of the description of the engine you are about to hear individually have merit. Hemi, by itself, needs no introduction. While primarily thought of as a Chrysler mill that has been...
Home-Grown Paint Job? Yeah…Uncle Tony Has A Thing Or Two To Say About That
One of the things that I’m flipping a coin on is whether I’m going to paint the Rough Start Fox or not. Our 1989 Mustang is two different shades of red (mostly Cabernet Red, some Bright...
Drag Racing Time Travel: These Films From Bakersfield and Indy Are An Amazing 1960s Time Portal
Long before the golden age of the internet and YouTube, if you were a kid who loved hot rods and fast cars and wanted to see more of them, you needed some gumption…and some money. Whether you...
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...