Category Archive: RACING & ACTION, Videos
The Parting Shift: Studebaker Drag Racing Edition
This week’s Parting Shift takes us to a killer little drag strip in Indiana called Brown County Dragway. It has operated since the 1950s, and by the looks of the video it has changed little...
Crazed Video: A Motorcycle Racer Drags His Knee and Then His Head Without Crashing!
We know jack squat about motorcycle road racing other than what we have observed on television. Our in-depth analysis is that the machines defy all logic with their ability to lay nearly flat and...
Totally Bitchin’ Video: The Story of a Dual Quad, Four Speed, 427 Powered 1964 Galaxie 500 XL
This video has been kicking around for a little while but we were recently reminded that we had never had it up here on the blog and that’s a crying shame. A simple, yet riveting video about a...
Watch This Nitro Soaked Video From Bakersfield That Absolutely Rules – Nothing Beats Nitro Cars Running At The Patch!
Les Mayhew and his Nitro America channel on YouTube rules the school when it comes to nostalgia drag racing videos. The dude is all over the place making high quality videos featuring front engine...
Watch The 1955 Belgian Grand Prix Through Amazingly Clear Footage And Equally Awesome Sound – Fangio, Moss, Hawthorne, More!
Formula One cars have always represented the pinnacle of automotive engineering during their many respective iterations over the years. This film was made by the Shell Oil Company in 1955 as a...
Watch A Volvo Rally Car Suffer An Insane Multi-Roll Crash At A Rally In Finland (Multiple Videos)
Rally guys are totally nuts, we have long admitted that. When their courses aren’t lined with big trees or narrow walls to smash into, there are ditches, streams, and other obstacles designed...
This Video Of Huckfest 2013 Will Make You Want To Buy A Desert Truck And Jump The Hell Out Of It – Fun In The Sand!
After talking with one of the guys who was at Huckfest this year and now seeing this video, I am pretty sure that BangShift will have to find a way to be there in 2014. How could we miss this?...
The Family That Hot Rods Together…Stays Together! The Patterson Family Likes Patina and Performance (Video)
We always love it when hot rodding is a multi-generational family affair and so do the guys at Holley. We can say that with confidence after watching this video, which was shot by the Holley guys at...
This Hyabusa Powered Golf Cart Burnout Machine Proves All Of Australia Is Gloriously Insane (Video)
Spending the year as the announcer for the ECTA has shown me many things about land speed racing but one of the most basic things I have learned is that Hyabusa motorcycles absolutely haul ass in...
Ride On The Roof As Sean Ashe’s X275 Mustang Spins Out Of Control And Whacks The Wall!
This is one of those happy ending stories that you’ll only hear at the race track. Sean Ashe’s flat black, ProCharged X275 Mustang is one bad mother of a car. This video is proof of the...
Video And More: Mecum Auction Features 4 Hemi Under Glass Cars To Sell As One Lot!
Barney Kinsey sent us the link to this one yesterday, and we couldn’t be happier that he did, but at the same time it’s a little sad to see these iconic drag cars leaving Bob...
Video: Proof That With Enough Power You Can Have A 10 Second SUV! This Jeep SRT8 Hauls!
Jesse Kleiber, aka BigKleib34 on YouTube, is a video shooting machine. He’s become this one man band who puts up a new video every single day, like the one below that features a 10 second Jeep...
The Wenrick Motorsports 1969 Camaro Hammers The Dyno With More Than 800hp Of Supercharged Small Block At The Wheels! (Video)
Those creepy, inappropriate noises you hear are likely coming all the way from BangShift western world hq because Chad just laid eyes onto the Wenrick Motorsports ‘Maro getting its violence on....
Video: The PSI Blown, Killer Buick Small Block Lives On The Drag Strip!
A couple of weeks ago we showed you what may be the most powerful Buick small block ever built. Based off of a Rodeck block and topped with some very rare billet Dart Buick cylinder heads, the engine...