Category Archive: RACING & ACTION, Videos
Awesome Racing Video: A Real Vintage Trans-Am Boss 302 Mustang at Laguna Seca
If there could be one thing cooler than owning a Boss 302 formerly raced by George Follmer, it would be owning and racing that Follmer-driven Boss 302. Brian Ferron is a man who does the latter,...
Watch This Front Wheel Drive Drag Car Suffer A Catastrophic Tire Failure On The Dyno!
We love chassis dynos but we also fear them to some degree. Obviously we have run our projects on the dyno with varying levels of success, some destruction, and the constant thought in the back of...
Classic Video: Footage From Mickey Thompson’s SCORE Off Road Races At Riverside California In the 1980s
The idea of racing off road trucks in stadiums and arenas all over the country was born from the fertile mind of Mickey Thompson. The guys was obsessed with off road racing and even more so, he was...
Trouble Parking Your Massive Cadillac? Not Any More With This Genius Late 1940s Invention!
This is one of those old timey videos that’ll put a smile on your face for sure. Filmed in the Los Angeles area during the late 1940s, it shows an inventor’s great idea to aid in parallel...
Back Road Gold Online Viewing Party Tonight 9:30 Eastern! Click Here To Join The Fun!
WE WILL BE HAVING A LIVE ONLINE WATCHING PARTY RIGHT HERE FOR THE PREMIER OF THE SHOW. IT WILL BE AT 6:30 PACIFIC, 9:30 EASTERN RIGHT HERE WITH LIVE CHAT. TUNE IN TO THE SHOW AND GET OUT YOUR LAPTOP...
Video: The Duke Axial Piston Engine Is Weird And Cool
The ECTA’s Joe Timney sent me this video yesterday and I watched in a couple of times just to take it all in. The video is about the Duke engine which is an “axial” piston engine....
Action Video: Think Drifting Is Lame? Let’s See If this Video From A 2013 Gatebil Event Will Change Your Mind
When I was growing up, I was taught that there were three subjects never to bring up at social events, as discussing them would inevitable result in an argument with neither side having changed their...
A 200 MPH Electric Tether Car?! You Betcha… This Thing Is The Speed Demon Of Tether Cars
When we saw the video of the Vector Electric Tether Car running 202 MPH, we just about fell over. If you have never seen a tether car run up close and personal, we can tell you that it is WAY cooler...
1970s Car Accidents Were BRUTAL – Scenes From A Very Bad Day On A Rural Vermont Highway Circa 1975
The University of Vermont runs an amazing photo archive called the Vermont Landscape Change Program. It’s chock full of photos from every era, a lot of which have contemporary photos showing...
Look Ma, No Blower! This 1970 Aussie Valiant Burnout Machine Has A 358ci Dodge NASCAR Engine For Power – Screaming Hell!
Daniel Blok’s 1970 Valiant is one of the neatest cars we have seen in an Aussie “power skid” video because there’s no huffer, four guys in the car, and he completes a two...
Action Video: Matt Farah Of /DRIVE Tears Down Highway 341 In A 500 HP Syclone!
Have you ever seen a vehicle online, on TV, or in person and immediately thought, “This is one of the coolest things I have ever seen…Man, why didn’t I think of building it?” Admittedly I...
Buddy Holly Was a Motorhead And He Died 55 Years Ago Today – We Remember Him BangShift Style!
Fifty-five years ago today, Buddy Holly’s plane crashed and claimed the lives of three of the most up-and-coming rock and roll musicians the world knew to that point. But before Buddy Holly...
This Seattle Scrap Yard Painted Their Shear and Grapple Up Like A Seahawk And Used It To Eat A Bronco
This weekend there will be a gigantic football game between the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos. Technically we’re not allowed to use the specific title of the game or the NFL can sue...
Was This Luck Or A Real “Save”? Watch A Drag Racer Go On A Wild Ride After His Brakes Fail!
If there is something more terrifying than losing your brakes at high speed on a race track, feel free to let us know. The mere thought of it makes shivers run down our collective spines around here....