Category Archive: HISTORIC, RACING & ACTION, Videos
The 1966 World Series of Drag Racing – See The First Rear Engine Dragster To Break 200 In Action
When I find some barely watched old school drag racing video on YouTube my little heart usually skip a beat but when we find video with a crazy car we have never seen before, consult drag...
Watch This! Playing With Nitromethane Is Fun. Don’t Try This At Home Kiddos
If you burn your garage down lighting nitromethane on fire, that’s on you, not us or NitroAmerica. On a recent visit to Jason Rupert’s shop here in SoCal, Les Mayhew and the gang decided...
Watch This Old Holden Suffer Some Super Gnarly Axle Hop While Trying To Get A Burnout Going – Slow Motion Violence!
If you have ever been in a vehicle experiencing wheel hop, axle tramp, axle wrap, or whatever else you want to call it, you’d remember it. One of the most violent and destructive things to your...
The 2013 MotorManiaTV.com Crash Highlight Video Is Right Here!
Mark Walter, and the entire MotorManiaTV family, are great friends of BangShift.com and have put together an amazing collection of crashes, spins, flips, and fires from the 2013 racing season. All of...
Tribute Video: Shawn Nault 1965-2013 Driver Of The Arctic Thunder Nostalgia Fuel Funny Car
Shawn Nault, Driver of the Arctic Thunder Nostalgia Fuel Funny Car, lost his bravely fought battle with cancer on December 21st. As a member of the drag racing fraternity, he’ll be missed. As a...
Action Video: Le Mans Cars Driven On The Streets Of Japan!
“Car porn”. This phrase is used to describe an automotive-themed photo or video that depicts something so amazing and/or beautiful it leaves you as slack-jawed as the first time you caught a...
Jim Murphy’s Simple And Ingenious Cure For Nostalgia Top Fuel Oil Downs
In this video by our dude Les Mayhew, Nostalgia Top Fuel Veteran and Champion Jim Murphy shows the world his ingenious and simple cure for Nostalgia Top Fuel oil downs. He explains that as a...
Best of BangShift 2013: Watch A Mustang Violently Frag A Clutch During The Worst Failed Burnout Of All Time
Laying the hammer down while leaving a car show, the burger joint, an ice cream stand, or your parents’ driveway is part of the fun of snotty car ownership but that move isn’t without its...
Quain Stott, Greg Porter, Gene Cromer And Gassers Galore At Greer Dragway
You’ve seen us run videos of Quain Stott and his ultra bitchin Executioner wheels up Willy’s Gasser on multiple occasions here on BangShift.com, but this might be the best video he has...
Best of BangShift 2013: Watch A Custom Built V-Twin Spin To 12,000RPM And Make Nealy 120hp For A Pulling Garden Tractor!
Tractor pulling, in all of its various forms is pretty serious business. Sure the big diesel super stocks get lots of glory and we always pee a little when we see a machine with multiple blown...
Best of BangShift 2013: An All-Steel 1932 Ford Drag The Bumper And Still Run A Haul Ass Eighth-Mile Pass At Irwindale!
There’s only one thing better than video of a huge wheelstand and that’s video of a huge wheelstand that ends with the driver legging out a quick pass on top of it. That’s what...
Best of BangShift 2013: Watch A Nasty AA/Fuel Altered Wreck From Alaska! In-Car and Out Of Car Footage!
Alaska Raceway Park in Palmer, Alaska is a nice IHRA sanctioned, quarter mile strip that services the needs of American drag racers up in the great white north. The place is surrounded by majestic...
Best of BangShift 2013: Roger Penske and Mark Donohue Pitching Sunoco Fuels Circa 1968 (Video)
Roger Penske could be the coolest guy alive. He’s rich beyond all comprehension, has been in racing for nearly 50 years now, and still stands as a very successful racing team owner in both open...
Best of BangShift 2013: Watch A Fuel Altered Suffer A ‘Chute Failure And End Up In A Cornfield! Everyone Is OK!
The World Fuel Altered Nationals are a yearly part of the program at the famous Eddyville Raceway Park in Oksaloosa, Iowa. Eddyville is a really fast eighth mile strip and this race is a big one for...