Category Archive: RACING & ACTION, Videos
The Parting Shift: A Lap in Jim Halsey’s Nitrous Infected Pro Mod
Jim Halsey owns and operates one of the quickest nitrous pro mods in the country, and the world. In this video we ride along with him as he hauls ass down the strip at Rockingham Dragway in...
Smokey Yunick Video: How Ol’ Smoke Helped Develop the Corvette
Smokey Yunick is certainly a hall of fame BangShifter. He had his hands in innumerable projects over the years and developed everything from carbs to spark plugs. Yunick was also involved in the...
Epic Save: How to Drive a Pro Mod on Two Wheels!
Next weekend will be a busy one for Chad and I. He’ll be bringing you a live broadcast from the Pacific Street Car Association and Pro Stock Shootout from Las Vegas and I’ll be down in...
Wreckage Video: How Drag Racing Your Truck Across a Meadow Can End Really Bad
High speed antics with friends are best left to the drag strip, especially the paved drag strip. This video shows why driving full tilt across a field in a drag race with your buddy ain’t the...
Photos and Video: The Insane Frozen Assets Twin Turbo Unlimited Ice Dragster
We got tipped off to photos and video of an unlimited twin turbo ice dragster by BangShifter and motorsports photographer Kelly Anderson. The machine is based on a Spitzer dragster chassis, has a two...
Chute Fail Video: Jeff Lutz Stops His 200mph Shoebox With No Parachutes
Jeff Lutz’s 1957 Chevy is completely bad ass and gave ol’ Larry Larson a big run for his money during Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week last year. On one of Jeff’s best runs, a 7.11...
Wreckage Video: Two Cars Tangle Badly at the Top End of the Strip
This is a very violent wreck that illustrates some of the dangers that lurk at tracks which are not constructed to modern safety standards. When this pair of four second, eighth-mile door slammers...
Awesome Wheelstand Video: A Fiat-Bodied Altered Gets All Four Tires Off the Ground In Super Slo-Mo
Big time wheelstand videos are always favorites of ours. The may be the best one ever though. Filmed at Santa Pod Raceway in England, it features an altered that wears a Fiat body. The car starts to...
Nutso Racing Video: Roto-Tiller Drags From Arkansas
This is not anything like you expect it to be. This is not video of 2mph rototillers creeping along. Instead this is video of a truly wild event featuring (and we know this sounds totally insane)...
Epic Failure Video: Massive Cranes Folding Up Like An Erector Set
Cranes are amongst the most impressive machines in the BangShift universe. They serve a simple purpose, to lift heavy junk. The vast majority of the time they complete this task with little drama or...
The Parting Shift: Working the Tree Mounted Shifter in a Sweet 1961 Galaxie
It has been a long time since we featured someone making a three on the tree shifter work. In this case the car is an awesome 1961 Galaxie with a 390 that has been fortified with factory hi-po parts....
Rally Jump Carnage: Look Out Below!!
Those crazy rally drivers love to jump their cars. Normally they will get some air over berms and smallish hills in the woods. In this clip, you’ll see a guy completely misjudge a huge drop off...
Awesome Video: A Helmet-Cam View of a Wheelstander Run
We’ve always wanted to drive a wheelstander and this video really sealed the deal for us. Shot from a helmet-cam, it shows just how wild and wacky these machines are. The video comes from...