Category Archive: ENGINES, Videos
Video: The Duke Axial Piston Engine Is Weird And Cool
The ECTA’s Joe Timney sent me this video yesterday and I watched in a couple of times just to take it all in. The video is about the Duke engine which is an “axial” piston engine....
Action Video: Think Drifting Is Lame? Let’s See If this Video From A 2013 Gatebil Event Will Change Your Mind
When I was growing up, I was taught that there were three subjects never to bring up at social events, as discussing them would inevitable result in an argument with neither side having changed their...
A 200 MPH Electric Tether Car?! You Betcha… This Thing Is The Speed Demon Of Tether Cars
When we saw the video of the Vector Electric Tether Car running 202 MPH, we just about fell over. If you have never seen a tether car run up close and personal, we can tell you that it is WAY cooler...
1970s Car Accidents Were BRUTAL – Scenes From A Very Bad Day On A Rural Vermont Highway Circa 1975
The University of Vermont runs an amazing photo archive called the Vermont Landscape Change Program. It’s chock full of photos from every era, a lot of which have contemporary photos showing...
Look Ma, No Blower! This 1970 Aussie Valiant Burnout Machine Has A 358ci Dodge NASCAR Engine For Power – Screaming Hell!
Daniel Blok’s 1970 Valiant is one of the neatest cars we have seen in an Aussie “power skid” video because there’s no huffer, four guys in the car, and he completes a two...
Action Video: Matt Farah Of /DRIVE Tears Down Highway 341 In A 500 HP Syclone!
Have you ever seen a vehicle online, on TV, or in person and immediately thought, “This is one of the coolest things I have ever seen…Man, why didn’t I think of building it?” Admittedly I...
Buddy Holly Was a Motorhead And He Died 55 Years Ago Today – We Remember Him BangShift Style!
Fifty-five years ago today, Buddy Holly’s plane crashed and claimed the lives of three of the most up-and-coming rock and roll musicians the world knew to that point. But before Buddy Holly...
This Seattle Scrap Yard Painted Their Shear and Grapple Up Like A Seahawk And Used It To Eat A Bronco
This weekend there will be a gigantic football game between the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos. Technically we’re not allowed to use the specific title of the game or the NFL can sue...
Was This Luck Or A Real “Save”? Watch A Drag Racer Go On A Wild Ride After His Brakes Fail!
If there is something more terrifying than losing your brakes at high speed on a race track, feel free to let us know. The mere thought of it makes shivers run down our collective spines around here....
Watch The First Car To Ever Top 150-Mph Fire Up For The First Time In Decades
Sir Malcolm Campbell was one of the great heroes of the formative days of land speed record attempts. His machines were incredibly crude by the standards of today’s streamliners and ultra crazy...
Awesome Muscle Car Video: Factory Promotional Video for the 1970 AMC Rebel Machine
After showing your the wild LS powered AMC Eagle in our Craigslist find, we had to get you some pure AMC redemption with this video. For us, the coolest AMC video we have ever seen arrives in the...
Video: Where They Raced New Teaser PLUS – Where YOU Can Watch This Bitchin’ Documentary On February 9th!
We’ve showed you several clips from the Where They Raced documentary over the last year or two. This is the latest teaser released by Harry Pallenberg and the crew who has been working on the...
Four BangShift Approved Methods For Moving Snow – From Trains To Pulse Jets They’re Here!
Here in Chicago we don’t let a little snow shut down the whole joint but with the current situation in Buffalo that’s an whole different kettle of fish. During normal circumstances of...
