Category Archive: FUNNY STUFF, Videos
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...
Using The Flame Throwers On A Hot Rod To Start A Fire Is Dangerously BangShift Approved (Video)
Sure, this is dangerous as all get out and some of you will probably admonish us for even running the video below on the site, but how could we not? Darr Hawthorne found it and sent us the tip so we...
Watch This 2014 S1000R Cause A Motorcycle Dyno To Explode And Catch Fire
This video has a triangulation of things that make it mandatory to watch. First, it has a pretty mean motorcycle in the form of a 2014 BMW 1000 R. This thing has a base price of like $13,000, makes...
A Camaro And A Monaro, Both Equipped With Big, Blown Engines, Perform Double Power Skid
Peter and Debbie Gray have just leapt onto our list of the “100 coolest people in Australia” for this awesome dueling power skid performance they laid down at the recent Autofest...
Crazy Collision Between A Minivan And A Cement Truck Caught On Dashcam!
There aren’t many Youtube videos that make me visibly flinch, but trust me, this is one of them. Watching a fully-loaded cement truck roll over and barrel towards the camera has been known to...
Video: Four Single Cylinder Briggs And Stratton Engines Turned Into One Engine
There are lots of projects we don’t entirely understand the motivation behind but we revel in their greatness anyway and this is one of those. The engine in the video began life as four...
Friday BOOM: Watch a Canadian Drag Racer Suffer A Massive Nitrous Explosion at The Grand Bend Motorplex
If nitrous explosions are judged on shrapnel and how high stuff flies, particularly chunks of the hood scoop, this one may be a hall of famer. The video shows a pair of Top Sportsman cars launching...
The Undead Aussie Ford LTD Hearse Is The Greatest Burnout Machine Ever – Complete With Casket
We have to thank Aussie BangShifter John Tearle for the tip on this massive 1970s smoke machine from his homeland. The car is called Undead and it is a mid-1970s Aussie Ford LTD hearse. It seems that...
Bang Up Video: Watch A $400,000 Lamborghini Aventador Get Smashed Up By A Dude Driving Like An Idiot In London
The base price for a Lamborghini Aventador is a shade (and we means a SHADE) under $400,000 US dollars. While we don’t have the cash or the desire to own one, they are impressive machines. Able...
No Engine Test Stand? No Problem! (With Video)
Here at BangShift we’re all about low buck builds and making due with what you have in regards to parts and tools. I’ll admit to having used a screwdriver as a pry bar or the handle of a...