Category Archive: TECH
Video: Chevrolet Auto Mechanics 1936 “Spinning Levers”: How Transmissions and Synchros Work
Today’s videos are all going to focus on the 1936 editions of Chevrolet Auto Mechanics instructional and educational videos. The first is titled “Spinning Levers” and covers...
Video: Autocross Marriage Proposal “Will You Be My Co-Driver For Life?”
We’ve seen lots of proposals, and as car guys we always think the ones at the races are the coolest, but how about IN THE CAR! Yep, this dude Jake asked his girlfriend Maggie if she would marry...
Party Foul Video: Watch A Guy Wreck A Newish Diesel Chevy Truck At A Legal Street Drag Race In Nebraska
BangShift member at large BigDad found this video and posted it in our forum section the other day. It basically depicts the automotive equivalent of trying hard at gym class and then crapping your...
Drag Video: Three Minutes Of Killer In-Car Action From 422 Motorsports Team Cars – Wheels Up And Gear Jamming Fun!
Jim Amos has been creating killer drag racing video for longer than just about anyone on planet Earth. He tipped us off to some of his latest clips that will be made into a DVD soon that features...
Video: Munster’s Drag-u-la Dragster Racing For Pinks
Yesterday we got an interesting email from a BangShifter asking about this video of Grandpa Munster driving Drag-u-la. The video shows Grandpa trying to win back the Munster Koach after Herman lost...
Don’t Try This At Home Video: Watch A Dude Drift The Full Length Of A Highway Off Ramp Like A Pro
Even though this guy clearly has great car control skills and seems to have completed this maneuver before, we don’t see it as being all that bright a thing to do. He could have easily wadded...
Video: Watch One Of The Cleanest And Fastest Side By Side Outlaw AA/FA Runs Of All Time!
The Outlaw Fuel Altered Association is no stranger to the pages of BangShift. We’ve featured these guys a time or two getting after it on eighth mile tracks in Texas and this is some more of...
Video: Les Mayhew’s Baddest Nostalgia Drag Racing Video Yet. Un…F’ing…Believable!
To say that we are Les Mayhew groupies around here would be an understatement. This kid has been making videos for several years now, for no other reason than the same devout passion for Nostalgia...
Video: Watch An Arab Monster Truck Team In Testing. Giant Wheelstands And More!
This is a super cool video to watch. As you would expect from a part of the world where the Toyota Landcruiser is the king of all SUV’s, this monster truck is a Toyota Landcruiser. And...
Video: Truck Tug Of War Gone Wrong. Axle Breaks, Rocket Scientist Assesses Situation.
There isn’t much going on in a truck tug of war. Chain two trucks together, back to back, on the surface of your choice and tell them to get it on. Well, in this particular video they are doing...
Flaming Dyno Explosion Video: Big Revs and Bigger Wreckage
This is a good old fashioned dyno disaster. According to the poster of the video, the cause of the failure was a wrist pin that left it’s duty post at the worst time possible, during peak RPM...
Big Time Wreckage Video: A Crash Compilation From the 1920s to the 1950s
This video will have you cringing and wincing all the way through. It is an amazing collection of racing crashes from the earliest days of motorized competition through the 1950s. For many years,...
Awesome Video: Leeroy Yarbrough is Saved From Burning to Death at Daytona in 1964
Leeroy Yarbrough was one of NASCAR’s brightest stars in the latter 1960s. In 1969, the best year of his career he dominated the sport, winning seven races, among them the Daytona 500, Coke 600,...
Video: The Cars Of The 2013 Car Craft Street Machine Nationals. Sound Is Awesome!
This is not the most exciting video we have ever run on the site, but it pretty cool to watch and listen to. In these two videos you will see every car that drove in the gate at the DuQuoin...