Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, Videos
Carnage Video: Flaming Rollover Crash at Shakedown at E-Town
This video has it all: a half-track wheelstand, a rollover, a guardrail smash, and fire. The best part is that driver Joe Newsham walked away from this wreck that happened at the Shakedown in E-Town...
Killer Video: Mechanic’s Creeper with 80cc Gas Motor
The engine is the head rest. The wheels look as though they were sourced from a Grainger catalog in the caster section. Steering is accomplished by a push/pull lever. There are not readily apparent...
Random Freakin’ Video: 1976 Chrysler Cordoba Open Road Race Car
We literally tripped over this piece of video from Streetfire.net. It was just too BangShiftingly perfect to skip over. This is video footage of an open road race car. That car happens to be a 1976...
Video: Chevrolet Pre-Event Teaser for 2009 SEMA Show Cars
It’s a good thing we have a true GM insider as a BangShift.com member, because we got tipped off to this latest Chevrolet teaser video on YouTube before hardly anyone had seen it. Check it out...
Carnage Video: Six Minutes of Drag Strip Thrills, Chills, and Spills
This is one killer piece of video! It is non-stop action for more than six minutes and contains more wrecks, wheelies, and close saves than you could possibly imagine. It seems like the majority of...
Video: Monster Wheelstand!
We have to thank BangShift.com member KSJ1 for posting a link to this amazing wheelstand video in our forum. The wheelstand shown in the video below is incredibly badass, and the the YouTube...
Killer Video: SOHC Ford Floating the Valves at Eight Grand
The is gearhead voyeurism: a look inside the valve cover of a 427 SOHC Ford motor at eight-freakin’-thousand RPM. What you’ll see is valve float. Not wildly bouncing valve float, but a...
Video: Great Small-Tire Camaro Wheelstand
BangShift.com member Eric68 has a great ’68 Camaro street and strip car that is a past entry into Drag Week. He recently added a 180hp nitrous shot to the potent small-block and ended up...
Video: Lunatic in Vermont Backflips a Monster Truck
The Vermonster 4×4 Festival up in Vermont is full of all kinds of neat stuff. There’s tuff truck racing, mud bogs, and the big payoff: monster truck action. Of course, the normal stuff for...
Video: Vintage AMC Javelin TV Commercials
A while back we posted a number of Chevy Camaro TV commercials from various model years. But, since it’s an AMC Javelin we have in our own driveway, we thought we should give some love to the...
King of the Trars: 850hp 1966 Galaxie Mud Bogger
Well, this one should put people in two distinct camps. You’ll either love it or absolutely hate it. “It” is a 1966 Ford Galaxie sporting an 850hp big-block Chevy motor, huge axles,...
BangShift Approved: A racer’s last pass.
On September 29th, 2009 Jerome Miller, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, passed away at age 72. You can read his obituary here. We didn’t know Jerome. Heck, we had never even heard of him until...
Video: Dan Wilkerson Walks Away From Wild Funny Car Wreck in Memphis
Dan Wilkerson, nitro Funny Car racer, and son of nitro Funny Car racer Tim Wilkerson was involved in a violent and bizarre crash at the rain delayed NHRA Mid-South Nationals, held at Memphis...
BangShift.com Day of Destruction: It’s a Wrap
October 5, 2009, marked the first ever BangShift.com Day of Destruction, where we brought you action videos every hour on the hour all day long, with every video loaded with crushing, exploding,...