Category Archive: RACING & ACTION
Video Of Big Power Machines Doing A Hill Climb On Snow! BangShift Approved Use Of A Ski Slope!
We’ve all seen plenty of hillclimb events on sand or gravel, but this one is a first for us. This is arguably the most BangShift approved way to use a ski slope. Instead of running down it with...
The Ford Supervan: A Gurney-Westlake Powered British Utility Truck That We’d Give A Limb To Hammer On
The Ford Transit has only been on American shores for a few years. It looks like a Ford Fusion that melded with a small work van. In England, however, the Transit has been around for decades. The...
Rick’s Tanks How-To Video: Installing A Replacement Fuel Tank With In-Tank Pump In A ’57 Chevy
BangShift Contributor Justin Oney, and the gang from Rick’s Tanks, recently swapped out the factory fuel tank and hack job fuel system in Justin’s Craigslist ’57 Chevy project for...
We’re Hot In The Midst Of Muscle Car Engine Month So Let’s Celebrate The 429 Ford on 4/29!
It sure has been a busy week of “displacement days” here at BangShift. We screwed the pooch on 426 but we’ve made a valiant attempt to recover with stuff on 4/27, multiple posts on...
Drag Race Carnage Video: A Flying Camaro Wipes Out a Camera Platform at a Strip in Kuwait
There’s lots of reasons why race tracks do not have top end spectator bridges or fixed, overhanging camera stands at the finish line anymore like they used to. This video illustrates just about...
Scott Hall Explains Moroso’s Electronic Switch Panel: Program Your Car’s Electronics To Do What You Want
The world of automotive wiring has changed dramatically in the last 10 years. Companies like Painless Performance, American Autowire, Ron Francis and more have made wiring your hot rod, muscle car,...
Easter Egg: Watch the Guys at Induction Solutions Fly A Manifold Off the Bench With Nitrous Pressure!
Horsing around at the shop has long been a staple of the high performance and hot rodding community. In fact, lots of awesome stuff has come from such sessions of mechanical debauchery. Outside of...
IN CAR AUSSIE BURNOUT FOOTAGE! If You Ever Wondered What It Was Like, Here Is Your Chance To See!
We love Aussie burnout videos. But you can’t help but wonder how the hell those guys do all the donuts and spins and slides and yet most often seem to avoid hitting the barriers. With all the...
Roadkill: Good Corvettes, Bad Corvettes, Dead Corvettes, Corvettes In A Hole, You Get The Picture
This time on Roadkill, the guys buy and victimize a 1975 Corvette in a quest that takes them from Florida to Kentucky (almost to Las Vegas) so that they can visit the National Corvette Museum, ask to...
The Parting Shift: Two Tasks With One Hand (And The Guy Performs Them Both Better Then Us!)
I’m always inspired by guys who don’t let stuff get in the way of their love of cars, hot rods, trucks, or things of that sort. Be it physical impairments or other stuff, people find a...
Dyno Video: Just How Good Were Those 428 Super Cobra Jet Engines From The Factory, Anyway?
We tend to believe that the Ford 428 was probably the most under-appreciated engine of the muscle car era. We were thinking about the 428 powered Cobra Jet Mustangs that showed up and cleaned house...
Ford Racing Shows Us What Your Mustang Does When You Aren’t Home In This Fun Video
If this video from Ford Racing is an expose of what really happens to die-cast toys when their owners leave the house, my little abode here in Massachusetts must be the coolest place in town when no...
Funny Video: This Three Wheeled Mustang Is Your Daily Moment Of Automotive Stupidity
There aren’t many youTube video titles that stop me dead in my tracks, but anything involving “Three wheel” and “Mustang” is sure to grab my attention. This is a short...
This Video Shows How Ford Will Get A 2015 Mustang To The 86th Floor Of The Empire State Building Quickly
A couple weeks ago we told you the story of how Ford loaded a Mustang into an elevator at the Empire State Building in 1965 and displayed it on the 86th floor observatory of the building for a short...