Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, Videos
Carnage Video: Nine Cars Wrecked In Sixty Seconds…Did This 92-Year-Old Driver Set A New Record For Parking Lot Pinball?
See that Chrysler Pacifica in the picture? The one that just took the nose clean off of the Ford C-Max and looks to be hauling ass out of the parking lot? Yeah…he’s not done yet. A...
Unhinged: Why I’m Not Meant To Be A Highly-Skilled Mechanic, A Lesson Taught To Me By A Hose Clamp.
I’ve maintained for years now that in the grand scheme of things automotive, I’m first and foremost NOT a skilled wrench. Sure, I can work on a car and yes, I tend to do better than most,...
Roadtrip Video: The U.K.’s Car Magazine Pits A Mustang GT vs. BMW i8 vs. Lamborghini Huracan vs. Hellcat Challenger – Who Won?
It’s always curious to see what the reaction is from foreign publications when it comes to our cars. There’s the usual litany of jokes (can’t corner, subpar materials, crude) but...
Watch As Jay Leno Cuts Loose With James Garner’s Oldsmobile Banshee – He Even Drives The Beast On The Street!
The Oldsmobile Banshee is a freak among freaks. Set up similar to an old Baja truck, it’s roughly based on a 1969 Oldsmobile body that is shortened by two feet. They were built by Vic Hickey, a...
It May Have Cost The Owner North Of Forty Grand, But This Bugatti’s New Exhaust Has The “Quiet Hypercar” Growling Like The Devil’s Own Pit Bull
Forty thousand dollars will get you a great selection of new cars, a vast selection of used cars, a ton of modifications for your project, or whatever else your heart desires. That’s for us...
This Cool Promotional Video For the Mizar Air Car Otherwise Known As The Flying Pinto Is 1970s Cool – See It Take Off And Land
There isn’t a whole lot of good video showing the infamous Mizar Air Car in flight. The Mizar Air Car is probably better known as the “Flying Pinto” because the R&D unit was a...
Anarchy In The Forum: The Ugliest Car Contest Is In Full Swing, And Unfortunately There Are Pictures
We love our Forum members…they are the ones that made BangShift into what it is. They support us, act as our eyes and ears where we aren’t able to be, but sometimes they pull stunts like...
YouTube Classic: This Regal Burnout Video Shows Why You Edit Your Own Footage Instead Of Letting Your Friends Do It
I love W-body Regals with the blown 3.8L V6 in them…they are underrated and make an excellent platform for a good sleeper. And since they’re now dirt-cheap used cars, they make for a...
This Subaru BRZ Is Packing A JUN-Built 2.4 Liter V8 Made From Two Kawasaki Ninja Four-Cylinders – 11,000 RPM Screaming Yellow Jacket!
The Subaru BRZ is a cool little piece that, along with it’s Scion FR-S/Toyota 86 twin, is meant to be a return to the small, lightweight and tossable rear-wheel-drive coupe that Toyota used to...
Watch This Video Of The New Corvette LT4 Getting Built At Chevrolet’s Tonawanda Engine Plant
We dig plant tours around here. I don’t know why, but ever since I was a little kid I’ve loved touring everything from candy factories to tractor plants, and everything in between....
A Superbike On Studded Tires, A Snowmobile, And A Rally Porsche Drifting In Snow And Ice – Welcome To Finland!
Being as near to the Arctic Circle as Finland is, it’s no surprise that the locals can handle snow and ice. Whereas Brian has been dealing with a pattern of snow/shovel/repeat, the Finns simply...
Historical Footage: Torture-Testing A Plymouth The Old-Fashioned Way, By Using Stunt Drivers!
Nowadays, vehicles are subjected to torture tests in laboratories that can duplicate some of the most violent conditions that an automobile can possibly expect to endure. They are frozen, cooked,...
This Oldsmobile-Powered “Go-Kart” Just Might Be The Most Frightening Piece Of Backyard Engineering Ever
Performance comes via two methods: make more power, or lose more weight. Most of us go for the first option and proceed to build engines that crank power well beyond what the manufacturer expected....
