Category Archive: RACING & ACTION, Videos
Action Videos: 10 Crazy Engine Swap Videos For Your Friday Viewing Pleasure
January 10th, 2014: Let this be forever known as “The day that Brian let me go hog wild with a montage of videos of cars with crazy engine swaps”. Some of these are oldies but goodies, while...
Watch This Awesome 428ci W9 Headed Chrysler Small Block Rip Off 748 Naturally Aspirated Horsepower
I’ve never owned anything with a Chrysler small block before but I have certainly announced lots of races where worked up Mopar mouse motors are making big noise. For me, there’s a weird...
This Six Second Street Legal Camaro From Mayland Is Chad’s Wet Dream Come To Life
Seriously folks, you may not hear from Chad for days after he sees this video. The guy may just lock himself in a room with the tape on loop and just space out for the weekend. Built by Drummond Race...
Watch Stormy Byrd Smoke The Tires For A Full Quarter Mile At Eagle Field!
If you have watched BangShift’s live streaming coverage of events like the March Meet and California Hot Rod Reunion then you have seen Stormy Byrd’s awesome Blown Fuel Modified Roadster...
Watch Noted Indy Car Restorer Tell The Story Of His Finding And Restoring The Bowes Seal Fast Indy Roadster
Bill Akin is known around the world as one of the premier Indy 500 historians and Indy 500 race car restorers. The guy has brought so many famous Indy roadsters back to life that it boggles the mind....
Action Video: Watch A BMW M235i Drift Without A Driver!
A week or so back Brian wrote about cruising down to Virginia in a 2014 Cadillac XTS-V Sport with adaptive cruise control. (Read about it HERE) In the blog item he marveled at the fact that the car...
The Hard Guys Funny Car Team Plans To Expand Schedule In 2014 – Look Out World, The New Englanders Are Coming!
One of the coolest on-going stories we have been following here at BangShift over the last couple years has been the creation and evolution of The Hard Guys nostalgia nitro funny car team. Lead by...
Engine Video: Watch A Hot Rod Beetle With A Turbo-Charged Subaru Motor Hit The Streets
As he often tends to do, Brian sent me a message the other night that consisted solely of a YouTube link and the words “Look at the link that I just sent”. Even though I know Brian and have been...
This Awesome Video Takes You Through the Bowling Green Corvette Plant – Follow The Line From Start To Finish
This is a really, really cool video that any gearhead will appreciate for the sheer technology involved. Basically over the course of the six minutes after you press play, you’ll follow the...
Ride Along On A Bad Fast Factory Five Cobra On The Autocross Course – Great Sound and Big Speed
It has been a while since we took you on a blazing ride around an autocross course. That’s mainly because the closest thing to an autocross at this time of the year is an ice race and half the...
This Video Of A Plane Crashing Into An Icelandic Drag Strip Is Shocking, Sad, and 100% Real
We have told you stories about airplanes landing on drag strips before. Some have done with permission, safely. Some have done it with permission and caused a giant disaster. Some have done it out of...
Vintage Video: An 80’s Bigfoot Music Video Tribute So Bad It’s Good
Today, Brian will be trying his hardest to convince you that the cars from the year he was born (1980) were better (Well, less awful, really) than the new cars from when I was born (1984). Rather...
Historic Drag Video: Watch Mickey Thompson Take On The Mooneyes Dragster In England Circa 1963!
Here’s some really neat video that will bring you back to a cool time in drag racing history, 1963. British interest in drag racing was on a growth spurt then and since the sport was...
Historic Video – See Dean Moon’s Moonbeam In Action Along With Dozens Of Other Bitchin’ Cars At The 1964 Brighton Speed Trials
The Brighton Speed Trials in England is one of the world’s most enduring racing events. First run in 1905 it was and always has been a “sprint” race as the British call it. What...