Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Watch a Rear Axle Failure Completely Destroy The Back Of 1968 Camaro Drag Car
We’ve all seen the videos of rear ends completely breaking free from drag cars, launching them into the air and smashing back down to Earth. This video is different from those in the fact that...
FREE California Hot Rod Reunion LIVE Replay 2012: If You Missed It The First Time We’ve Got It Again
Didn’t make it to Famoso for the California Hot Rod Reunion? Were racing and missed some of the action? Live under a rock and didn’t know BangShift would be there LIVE broadcasting from...
Best of 2012: Wild Video of a Funny Car Driver Getting Bathed In Boiling Hot Trans Fluid And Escaping
Driving a Funny Car, whether it is powered by a blown alky engine, a nitro mill, or even a gas motor takes real courage. This video is proof in living color. My pal Jon Wall owns and drives the...
Tonight 6PM Pacific – 9PM Eastern — PowerShift LIVE With Brian and Chad – The BS Year In Review!
It’s Thursday so that means that once again it is BangShift PowerShift time! Brian and Chad’s LIVE weekly show will be back and rolling tonight at 6pm Pacific and 9pm eastern. We’ll...
Tech Video: Holley Power Valves Explained
We ran across this simple video from Holley that shows the basics of Holley Power Valves and know that for some reason Power Valves seem to have a lot of voodoo surrounding them. There...
Video:Big Rig Burnout Video Counter Punch – A Working Mack Strikes Back Against The Aussies!
Chad’s video of the Bandag Bullet smoking tires is cute and all, but as he mentions in his blog item that truck is a specially built racing and tire frying machine. We’re not knocking it...
Burnout Video: This One May Be The Best Big Rig Burnout Ever
The Bandag Bullet is a 12 second big rig, which is super impressive, although I still think our own Thump Truck may be better just because it’s a 13 second fully functional and original weight...
FREE March Meet LIVE Replay 2012: BangShift.com’s Exclusive Broadcast From Famoso
Did you miss the March Meet this year? Watch it in it’s entirety right here through Christmas. It will conclude on Wednesday and then we’ll replay the 2012 Street Car Supernationals from...
Car Guy Toys: RC Pulling Tractors Video! Brian Is Going To Lose His Mind!
As our regular readers well know, Brian is a complete freak for trucks and tractors, and I’ve been to truck and tractor pulls a few times. And as any gearhead knows, those machines are setup...
REPLAY: PowerShift With Chad and Brian… End Of The World Edition! At 6 pm
Dudes, tomorrow is the end of the world according to all the crack pot jack holes, so tonight’s episode of Power Shift should be relatively interesting since we have nothing to lose and can say...
Sea Of Cones: The Coolest Intro To Autocrossing Film We’ve Seen – Why You Need To Do This Stuff!
There’s not doubt about the fact that autocross competitions involving cars that were not traditionally part of the autocross world have been growing at an explosive level over the last couple...
Video: Rental Car Burnout Extravaganza Thanks To The Guys At Aeromotive
I seriously have to apologize for not having this video up sooner since I was actually at the track when this burnout went down. I knew that a couple of Aermotive Fuel System guys watched it happen...
Video Bonanza: A History of Camaro TV Commercials 1967-1998 — We’ve Got A PILE Of ‘Em!
We’re not sure why we killed an hour looking for old TV commercials, but maybe you can spend half that looking at this compilation of Camaro ads over the years. There are 19 videos here because...
Video: The History and Awesome Personal Story Behind The Meyers Manx – An American Icon
It is a little bit ironic that we’s find this killer Hot Rod Unlimited episode about the famed Meyers Manx on the day when we already ran some air cooled VW content, but it would be appropriate...