Category Archive: RACING & ACTION
Football Sucks! Watch BangShift.com’s Replay Of The California Hot Rod Reunion Here Instead!
Are you tired of the same old same old on Thanksgiving? Wanna watch some racing instead of having to watch the same teams play the same game of football? Well you are in luck because we have all of...
Cool Video Of A Homebuilt Jet Engine Powering A Go Kart, With Afterburner And All!
This may be the best way to cook a Turkey! Clearly the dudes in this video designed and built this jet and go-kart in their back yard. At the same time, it’s pretty clear they aren’t a...
Frozen Turkey: Wild 1000-ft Snowmobile Radar Runs From Wisconsin – Massive Wheelies Included!
When we ran the videos of a snowmobile powered by a de-tuned top fuel motorcycle engine the other day it drew a bunch of responses from the quizzical to the amazed. One guy in particular, Todd Staege...
Turkey Jerky: The Greatest Rally Driving Video EVER. “Please Samir…I’m Begging You!”
Bar none this is the greatest Rally Driving video ever. I know, I know, that is a big statement, but keep in mind there are no crazy saves or insane driving maneuvers going on here. Instead, this is...
Watch A BangShifter Haul The Mail At The Pagoda Hill Climb In A Gnarly Home Built Car – Screaming Revs and Clipping Apexes!
BangShifter Sherman (we’ll hide his last name to protect the guilty) was a long time dirt track racer with the vehicle you will see in the video below. Similar to a Legends car, this is a...
Watch A GT350 Mustang Road Racer Attack The High Banks Of Daytona And Eat Porsches – Huge RPM Symphonic Sound
We have to thank Craig Sutherland for sending us this awesome video of Alex Hammond and Chris Beighton racing their real GT35o on the high banks of Daytona at the HSR Bob Snodgrass 2-Hour Enduro....
Video: Urban Snow Mobiling In Detroit! Passing Cars On The Freeway Can’t Be Legal, Can It?
When the weather turns in a lot of the country that means the crazy white stuff starts falling from the sky and while us West Coasters are enjoying nice clear weather all you northern hot rodders...
Aussie V8 Supercars Tangle – Driver Scores Direct Hit On Competitor’s Driver Side Door – All OK
Like the burnout contest guys, the Aussie V8 Supercar series is in full swing and last weekend the Phillip’s Island course played host to their brand of mechanical competition. You know and...
In-Car Videos: Making 7-Second Passes In A 5-Speed, Nitrous Fed, 498ci AMC Powered GREMLIN!
Kevin Fontenot is one of the most hardcore AMC guys on planet Earth. How do we know that? The dude has a Gremlin that runs in the 7-teens at nearly 190mph in Outlaw 10.5 trim. This car has a custom...
Video: Epic Rental Minivan Burnout That Results In Slight Panic And Lots Of AC Vent Smoke
If you don’t know what AC Vent smoke is, you haven’t done a big boy burnout in a new rental car and forgot to turn off the automatic climate control. We have, and can tell you that as...
Video: An Inside Look At The Ring Brothers… The Who, What, And Why That Explain How They Tick
For nearly 20 years the Ring Brothers have been building bitchin cars, but in the last decade they have truly come into their own and are considered to be one of the upper echelon custom car builders...
Best of BangShift – Carnage Video: A Stroker Boss 429 Explodes on the Dyno
This Boss 557 meets a spectacular end on the engine dyno when it appears that the flywheel explodes at peak RPM during a pull. The accompanying notes with the video say that there were multiple...
This Video Of A Sprint Car Chassis Being Crash Tested Is Crazy And Pretty Surprising
We have to thank the dudes at Racing Head Service for tipping us off to this video yesterday. As weird as it sounds, we have never thought about what race cars would look like getting subjected to...
In-Car Video Mayhem: What Happens Inside The Car When A Tire Shreds At 244 MPH!
Modern racing tires no matter the genre are all amazing testaments to engineering. From the amazing punishment absorbed by tires on desert race trucks to the grinding death that NASCAR racers put...