Category Archive: MISC, Videos
Preview Video: Short Track Racing Reality Show Debuts on the History Channel This Sunday
Sunday night, January 10, the History Channel will debut “Madhouse,” a reality series based around the racing and personalities at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina....
Video: Off-Road Truck Out-Jumps Travis Pastrana With a 301-Foot Record
The marketing made it seem like the world was watching on New Years Eve when Travis Pastrana jumped a rally Subaru 269 feet onto a barge anchored in Long Beach harbor, a distance record for rally...
Video: Camaro Outruns BMW in Insane Swedish Snow Race
This is one of the best races known to man. It happens in Sweden, where BangShift.com member Gasfot Sweden races his beater second-generation Camaro in events that are like road races or...
Vintage Drag Video: Legendary American Racers Running at Santa Pod Raceway in England
Santa Pod Raceway in England opened up as the first permanent drag racing venue in Europe on Easter, 1966. It has been going strong ever since as the awesome video we have unearthed proves. It was...
BangShift.com Brings in 2010 with a Bang: 10 Great Videos of Cars Exploding!
Out with the old and in with the new! It’s now 2010, and since we have a digital lampshade on our head right about now and don’t have a way to share the occasion with you personally, we...
Video: Score! Travis Pastrana Sets the Rally Car Jump Record at 269 Feet!
In an amazing showing of bowling-ball sized stones, 26-year-old Travis Pastrana set the world record for a rally car jump on New Year’s Eve, flying his Subaru 269 feet over water and landing on...
Video: Travis Pastrana Crashes in Prep for Tonight’s 2010 New Year’s Jump in Long Beach, California
Travis Pastrana has done so much bat-poop crazy stuff with cars that it reminds us that we should do a video compilation of it all. Until then, watch ESPN tonight to see if he succeeded with this...
Totally Bitchin’ Video: Ford/Shelby Promo Film From 1965
It was very good to be Carroll Shelby in 1965. Hell, it is very good to be him now, but in the mid 1960s the man had the world by the stones. Bankrolled by the Ford Motor Company, Shelby was building...
Car Looks Dumb, Gets Great Mileage, With Video
Apparently making your car resemble a Gila monster will result in big mileage gains. We think it will also result in a marked reduction in the amount of lovin’ you receive from the opposiste...
Carnage Video: Failed Burnout Leads to Massive Clutch Explosion
Clutch explosions are among the most horrific examples of automotive component failures. Few things attached to a car have the ability to cause more instant carnage, to things both mechanical and...
Video Bonanza: Dyno Time!
We love dyno videos. Not dyno videos of stuff blowing up, catching fire, or generally malfunctioning, but dyno videos of cool motors being wrung out from bottom to top. We also have a love of...
Another Historic Track Dead: The Milwaukee Mile, With Video
It is claimed to be, at 106 years old, the oldest continuously operating race track in the country. It appears there will be no 107th season at the historic Milwaukee Mile. No national touring series...