Category Archive: 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, FORD, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Morning Symphony: Light A Fire Under Your Butt And Get Going!
I am the world’s worst about getting out of bed when it’s time to wake up. Doesn’t matter what time the alarm is set, doesn’t matter what I’ve got planned to get done...
Get Them Out Of The Junkyard! This Dodge Stepside Drove Out Of The Spot It Sat In For Thirteen Years!
Something funny that I’ve noticed in the many groups, forums and other venues I tend to frequent: when it comes to the subject of junkyard rescues, it’s amazing just how little actually...
The Ultimate Power Move: Formula Offroad Water Skimming Is Brilliant!
A simple lesson: deep water plus a four-cycle engine equals bad time and lots of money lost. It’s called hydrolocking and it’s calling card is a bent connecting rod or other major...
The LS Fest Freakshow Parade: Here’s Ten Of The Most Interesting Swaps From Bowling Green!
This year, LS Fest had so much going on, so many things to see, that I didn’t get around to putting together my favorite collection of photos. You know, the one that I pretty much need to end...
History Lesson: The Story Of Tucker, From The Man To The Machine
Only 36 examples of the Tucker 48 were completed before the factory shut it’s doors, amid the SEC trial and questionable at best accusations levied against Preston Tucker. Fifty-one cars total...
Classic YouTube: Running Pikes Peak In An Oldsmobile Toronado In 1966
It rises west of Manitou Springs and climbs into the heavens. When you stand on the summit on a clear day, you can see five states’ worth of land and if you look carefully, some of the...
Incredible Video: Watch A Guy Survive A Street Racing Wreck And Climb Out Of A Decimated Mustang
This is by far the most improbable, incredible, and utterly stupefying video we have ever showed you here on BangShift. The scene is simple. A dewy night down south where a pair of Mustangs have...
Heave Ho: Side-Launching Ships Is Still A Spectacle To Watch!
One of the things I got to see while on vacation was the Bath Iron Works in Maine, from a boat on the Kennebec River. We got to see one of the new Zumwalt-class destroyers as it was being finished...
How It Should Be: A C1 Corvette Gasser That Anyone Should Be Proud To Own
Work backwards in the Corvette lineage for a moment. The current generation is technologically advanced, surgical on a track and can knock down 30-ish MPG if you keep your foot out of it. The C6 had...
DSM Goodness Inside: The Better Side Of Mitsubishis On Display At The DSM Shootout
Mitsubishi is a strange focal point of mine. I used to crack all of the crank walk jokes and “Danger to Manifold” lines I could. But at the same time, I have some very, very fond memories...
Classic YouTube: A Ten-Second Cadillac Fleetwood That Gets Jumpy At The Launch!
Would you be surprised that I’m on a big Cadillac kick again? I’ve been busy at BangShift Mid-West and part of the work has involved the dirt-cheap limo that has been lowering my property...
Morning Symphony: The Suzuki TL1000S Taking On The Great Lie Detector!
Meet a superbike that is considered one of the scariest two-wheeled contraptions ever unleashed unto the public, the 996cc Suzuki TL1000S. What was scary about a V-twin semi-crotch-rocket that could...
Watch Annie Whiteley’s High Speed Trip Into The Texas Motorplex Sand Trap – She Was OK
My obsession at finding and seeing as many drag strips on this planet as I possibly can stems from the fact that while all of them are (at base) long strips of asphalt and/or concrete, they each have...
