Category Archive: HISTORIC, Videos
Historic Drag Video: Fuelers, Floppers, Pro Stocks, and epic Linda Vaughn footage
Anyone who has ever attended a packed out drag race at Rockingham Dragway in Rockingham, North Carolina can tell you that when the atmosphere is right and the cars are flying, the place feels about...
Vintage Drag Racing Video: A Whole Lot of Hemi Love
We’re gearing up for our epic live broadcast of the 2010 Holley NHRA Hot Rod Reunion this weekend and decided to seek some vintage Hemi footage for a reason. One of the facets of the race...
Dyno Video: Tuning a BangShifter’s Kick Ass Road Racer on the Rollers
BangShift.com member Bob Holmes, along with his teammates competes in the NASA American Iron road racing series. The team competes with a Mustang, but not in the configuration you’d expect....
Killer 1960’s Vintage Drag Racing Video: Stockers, Gassers, and Slammers at ETown
This could be the coolest old drag racing video we have ever seen. Why? Oh, there are about a hundred reasons. Firstly, it was shot by Rick Moroso’s mom at Englishtown sometime in the 1960s....
Video: BangShift.com and Ridetech present BBQ Bologna Bash 2010 for the Forum Freaks!
Check it out! Video from the First Annual BangShift.com Ridetech Forum Freaks BBQ Bologna Bash! You’ll dig it.
Killer Vintage Drag Video: The Ford Drag Team Circa 1969
This is one of the most awesome vintage drag videos we’ve ever seen and that’s no exaggeration. It’s old footage of the 1969 version of the Ford Drag Team with Hubert Platt, Ed...
Angry Elephant: Dyno Video of Lee Sicilio’s Hemi Daytona LSR Car
Our buddy Scott Clark, known as DieselGeek on the BangShift.com forums spends some of his free time tuning fuel injection setups on all different kinds of machinery. He’s messed around with...
Vintage Drag Video: Billy Meyer and Gary Densham Burn Their Floppers to the Ground
It’s been said that if you drive a Funny Car long enough, you’ll have to experience a fire. Both Gary Densham and Billy Meyer certainly did, as evidenced from this vintage footage from...
Unintentional Stunt Jump Video: A Drunk Driver Launches Her Car in Dallas
Well this may have sobered her up. A suspected drunk driver in Dallas, Texas, launched her car over a set of toll booths at the DFW Airport when she failed to slow down and pay the toll. We can only...
Russian Carnage Video: Street Racing Is a Bad Idea There, Too
As this video proves, it isn’t just dumb to street race in North America, it’s stupid all over the world. This is some heavy duty carnage when two cars launch off and amazingly, a...
Whoopsie-Doodle Video: Automotive Prank Goes Wrong
Remember being a teenager and doing stupid junk with your car? Remember the time that stupid junk caused damage that you knew mom and dad were going to see and that you’d never be able to talk...
Hilarious Video: Three-Wide Bus Racing at a Michigan Oval
So far today we’ve taken you to Indy and to the Midwest Musclecar Challenge, two events featuring cars that have been designed, tested, and trashed on the race track. Now we’re headed to...
The Parting Shift: Robert Schmitt’s Killer 1967 Chevelle
We’re checking out for the long holiday weekend, but before we abandon our battle station on the blog we wanted to leave you with some good ol’ fashioned gear rowing. Robert...
Crazy Flaming Carnage Video: 18-Wheeler T-Bones Dump Truck
We’ll start with the punchline. According to the Associated Press, neither driver in this massive collision was hurt. We cannot fathom how that is possible because the impact looks like someone...