Category Archive: BangShift News, CRASH & BURN
Ouch! Hot Rod Blocks Traffic After An Accident In New Zealand
(Photo: New Zealand Daily Herald/George Novak) It’s always cringeworthy when you hear of someone’s pride and joy getting wrecked. It’s seriously cringeworthy when you make the paper...
Watch A Kid Scare The Hell Out Of His Dad In A Sleeper LS-Turbo Fairmont!
This is like a great version of a gearhead silent movie. While we don’t get to hear the conversation between the driver (son) and the passenger (dad) we do get to hear the turbocharged LS...
New Jeep Renegade Commercial – Hipsters Replaced Off-Roading
The last time I posted something about the upcoming Jeep Renegade cute-ute, I made it clear that it was the furthest thing possible from what a Jeep stood for. It’s tiny, underpowered, low,...
Carnage Video: Watch a Geo Metro Get Turned Into Farm Fertilizer!
Ah, the manure spreader. It doesn’t lead a glorious life. It spends every second of it’s life either taking crap, giving crap, being filled with crap, or reeking of crap. That’s a...
The Promotional Video for the 1978 Dodge Aspen Lineup Is The Most Seventies Thing I’ve Seen…Ever!
It’s not a secret around BangShift that I’m a fan of Chrysler’s F-J-M bodystyles. I’ve at some point or another have dealt with all three: I almost had a really decent Aspen (F-car) when I...
BMW Takes Flight, No Dixie Horn Needed – An Incredible Jump From The Viru Rally In Estonia
You’ve gotta love rally. Insane speeds while driving like a maniac over any surface you can think of with a screaming passenger just sounds like a load of fun. It’s great to watch and a...
The Best Oil Sales Video In History. Piston King Motor Oil’s Dipstick Films Rule!
While looking at a video yesterday that someone sent in I noticed an ad on YouTube for Piston King Motor Oil. I clicked it because the logo looked cool and I’d never heard of Piston King Motor...
GM got mileage around the world from its “Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and Chevrolet” ad
Back in 1974 Chevrolet launched the “Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and Chevrolet” campaign, and those ads have been recognized by none other than Car and Driver as the best automobile...
Classic Gearhead Humor Video: Bill Cosby’s Routine About His Short Ownership of a Twin Blown Shelby Cobra – 200 MPH
A recent thread in our forum section about an aluminum bodied, twin Paxton blown, SOHC engined, Shelby Cobra got us thinking about one of the great automotive comedy routines of all time and the...
Video:Watch Two Lunatics Jump A Cadillac Into A Mud Bog Pit and Nearly Drown – Southern Fried Fun
Well, at least these guys are wearing helmets. We were tipped off to this video by BangShift reader Phil Ledge who was compelled to share it with us. Basically, what you’re going to see below...
Watch Wild Helment Cam Video of a Russian Guy Crashing His Motorcycle on the Highway and Walking Away!
This is the Russian dash/helmet cam video that takes Russian dash/helment cam videos to the next level. It takes about 18-seconds, literally, for things to go from normal to nightmare for the...
How to do stunts like Mad Max 2 – Step 1: Be prepared to hurt yourself
I’ve been influenced by a lot of movies over the years, but every single frame of Mad Max 2 — or The Road Warrior, as it was billed in the United States — is burned indelibly in my...
Doing It Wrong Video: How To Not Aqua Skip A Dirt Bike And Nearly Kill Yourself In The Process
The two legs jutting out from the massive splash down belong to a dirt bike rider who was attempting to aqua skip his dirt bike across this water obstacle at the Clovis MX park in New Mexico, right...
This Winnebago Burns The Hides Better Than John Force! A Motorhome Burnout Video You Won’t Believe.
You know how much we dig old motorhomes around here, and since the kids are all getting out of school and parent’s should be embarking on road trips, we are hoping that some of you BangShifters...