Category Archive: FUNNY STUFF, Videos
Video: Outakes from the New TV Show
Yesterday we announced the new TV show starring me and and Freiburger that airs tonight on TRU TV at 11:00 pm (but check the local listing, and if we’re not there, just tune in right after Full...
The Greatest Drag Race Wreck Photo Sequence of All Time? With Video, Too
We’ve been wondering when we would see the insane crash photos shot by British drag photographer Andy Wilsheer at the 2009 NHRA World Finals held at Pomona. Thanks to a tip from our pal Darr...
Video: Twin-Turbo V10 Cuda Runs 208 MPH at Chrysler Proving Grounds
Here’s a high-end muscle car that puts its reputation on the line and comes out clean. It’s the Super Cuda, built by Legendary Motor Cars, and it’s loaded with a twin turbo V10 that...
Preview Video: BangShift Chad and David Freiburger Star in a New Car TV Show on TRU, Premiering Dec. 15
We have not been able to announce this until now, but myself and Hot Rod editor David Freiburger are in a new car-guy TV show that is airing Tuesday, December 15, at 11:00 pm Eastern (but check your...
Carnage Video: 4 Minutes of Jumping Muscle Cars
Many BangShifters are totally against wrecking perfectly good old cars in the name of movie action, but we figure that as long as the cars were already wrecked 20-plus years ago, we might as well get...
Stunning Promo Video: The 1,000-MPH Race Between a Jet and the Bloodhound LSR Car
This is one of the best promotional videos ever. It depicts England’s Bloodhound SSC versus a jet fighter plane in the race to 1,000 mph in video-game-like detail. The Bloodhound is being built...
Amazing Video: Tiny Turbine Powered R/C Pulling Tractor
This is one of the craziest things we have ever seen. The video we dug up shows a very small remote control pulling tractor powered by an actual, tiny, turbine engine. We’d by lying if we said...
Wild Video: Monster Trucks Running an Eighth Mile Drag Race
You’ve got to give the guys and girls at the ADRL credit, they know how to put on one hell of a show. They pulled out all the stops at their final race of the season by having two monster...
Carnage Video: Smashing a Ford Aspire at 650 MPH
It seems this was on Mythbusters TV earlier in 2009, but we missed it until we were tipped to it by an item on Autoblog. Now that we have seen this video clip, we’re not sure how our lives were...
Video: Chip Foose Will Hot Rod a John Deere Tractor
How did we ever miss this? The Chip Foose media machine must not be firing on all 8 right now, because it was announced back in November that famed car designer Chip Foose has partnered with John...
Great Video: The Story Behind Dougzilla and the Best Drag Racing Burndown in 40 years
In drag racing, a burndown occurs when both competitors pre-stage and neither moves to the fully staged position. There is no rule as to whom has to stage first or second, and when two guys get it in...
Just Because: Original Dukes of Hazzard Bloopers
It’s hard to argue that the Dukes of Hazzard influenced every BangShifter one way or another, if only through today’s dire shortage of 1969 Chargers. Well, here’s a clip of Dukes as...
Wild Video: Suzuki Submarine
The Suzuki Samurai was a much maligned little 4×4 back when Consumer Reports got one to “roll” on its test course. Turns out that the little bastards are great off-road trucks with...
More Killer Swedish Video: A Hill Climb With a Wild Mix of Cars
Here’s another great piece of video that comes to us via a tip from Speedzzter, our blog contributing compatriot. We’re taking you back to Sweden but this time we’re ditching the...