Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, Videos
Watch A Lincoln Pace Car Wipe Out A Whole Trotter Horse Race – Horses OK, Couple Drivers Banged Up
Of all the wreck videos we have ever shown, this may be the craziest. Filmed at a horse race, it shows the motorized starting gate, otherwise known as an Lincoln leading the field of trotting horses...
Bitchin’ Rally Video: Watch This Ford Escort Mk1 Haul Tail On Two Different Rallies – Asphalt, Mud, Dirt, Awesome!
THIS is the good stuff, kids. Filmed at two different rallies in Switzerland, this classic Ford Escort dates from the late 1960s or early 1970s as it is a Mk1 and those were produced between 1968 and...
Insane Video: Watch A Monster Mining Dump Truck Spin A Complete and Unintentional Donut While Fully Loaded!
This is one of the more miraculous and incredible videos we have ever seen. This huge dump truck, working at what seems to be an open pit mine, is driving down a wet and mucky haul road with a pickup...
Dead Brand, Cool Ads : Oldsmobile — Neat Oldsmobile TV Commericals From The Past
This is the first item we’ll have in an on-going series here at BangShift called “Dead Brand, Cool Ads”. These items will feature television commercials from dead car companies in...
Endless Summer Video: Funny Car Match Race Perfection From The World Series
One of the highlights of the 2013 World Series of Drag Racing was the nostalgia nitro funny car action. Les Mayhew was there to record the melee and about a week ago he dropped this awesome video...
Action Videos: 10 Crazy Engine Swap Videos For Your Friday Viewing Pleasure
January 10th, 2014: Let this be forever known as “The day that Brian let me go hog wild with a montage of videos of cars with crazy engine swaps”. Some of these are oldies but goodies, while...
Watch This Awesome 428ci W9 Headed Chrysler Small Block Rip Off 748 Naturally Aspirated Horsepower
I’ve never owned anything with a Chrysler small block before but I have certainly announced lots of races where worked up Mopar mouse motors are making big noise. For me, there’s a weird...
This Six Second Street Legal Camaro From Mayland Is Chad’s Wet Dream Come To Life
Seriously folks, you may not hear from Chad for days after he sees this video. The guy may just lock himself in a room with the tape on loop and just space out for the weekend. Built by Drummond Race...
Watch Stormy Byrd Smoke The Tires For A Full Quarter Mile At Eagle Field!
If you have watched BangShift’s live streaming coverage of events like the March Meet and California Hot Rod Reunion then you have seen Stormy Byrd’s awesome Blown Fuel Modified Roadster...
Watch Noted Indy Car Restorer Tell The Story Of His Finding And Restoring The Bowes Seal Fast Indy Roadster
Bill Akin is known around the world as one of the premier Indy 500 historians and Indy 500 race car restorers. The guy has brought so many famous Indy roadsters back to life that it boggles the mind....
Action Video: Watch A BMW M235i Drift Without A Driver!
A week or so back Brian wrote about cruising down to Virginia in a 2014 Cadillac XTS-V Sport with adaptive cruise control. (Read about it HERE) In the blog item he marveled at the fact that the car...
The Hard Guys Funny Car Team Plans To Expand Schedule In 2014 – Look Out World, The New Englanders Are Coming!
One of the coolest on-going stories we have been following here at BangShift over the last couple years has been the creation and evolution of The Hard Guys nostalgia nitro funny car team. Lead by...
Engine Video: Watch A Hot Rod Beetle With A Turbo-Charged Subaru Motor Hit The Streets
As he often tends to do, Brian sent me a message the other night that consisted solely of a YouTube link and the words “Look at the link that I just sent”. Even though I know Brian and have been...
This Awesome Video Takes You Through the Bowling Green Corvette Plant – Follow The Line From Start To Finish
This is a really, really cool video that any gearhead will appreciate for the sheer technology involved. Basically over the course of the six minutes after you press play, you’ll follow the...