Category Archive: RACING & ACTION, Videos
Best of BangShift 2010: Insane Icelandic Hillclimb Action
Icelandic hillclimb racers must hate gravity. There’s just no other way to explain why they attempt to race their tube chassis Jeeps and trucks up near vertical cliff faces, often with...
Video Bonanza: Hurst Drag Racing Film Collection – The Best Set of Old Drag Racing Movies We’ve Ever Seen
We think we’ve found the end of the internet in terms of vintage drag racing videos. This nearly hour long compendium of videos was produced by the Hurst Company and it chronicles the US...
Video: The Mystery of the Psycho Pulling Truck Has Been Solved, Sadly
Long about a year ago, we ran an item on the blog about George Stinnett’s legendary Psycho pulling truck. The old Ford Econoline truck became famous for dragging the sled with the front...
Epic Drag Video Bonanza: The 1980 Popular Hot Rodding Championships
This is the longest and most complete set of videos we have ever found on YouTube with respect to a single drag race. It’ll blow your afternoon up and you will thank us for it. Run at US 131...
Video: A Bitchin’ 1961 International Dump Truck Commercial
When we watched this old International truck commercial from 1961 it made us kind of sad. Why? Mainly because we live in a world where we’ll never see another ad for a “personal”...
Bitchin’ Vintage Drag Videos: Early 1960s Altereds, Gassers, and Twin Engine Top Gas Dragsters
These killer home movies come from one of our favorite eras in drag racing history, the early 1960s. It was here that the gas classes really started to come into their own, leading to the epic...
BangShift World Exclusive: Video of Captain Jack McClure Running his 200mph Rocket Go Kart!
We received this video from Captain Jack McClure last week and are finally getting it up for the world to see today. This is a special deal because to our knowledge, no one else has made any Captain...
Bitchin’ Historic Drag Video: Altered Wheelbase Mopars, Fuel Dragsters, Fuel Altereds, and a Tragic Fire
This is one of the coolest vintage drag racing videos we’ve dug up so far in our years of trolling YouTube. It features never before seen footage of some legendary altered wheelbase Mopar...
Video: Bitchin ’57 Chevy Burnout and Powershifting Action
When we were told about this video by BangShifter RevRods, we couldn’t wait to hit the play button. We’re confident you’ll feel the same way. After all, who can argue with the...
Goliath Video Update: 2010 Edition
We acquired Goliath, our now familiar 1966 C50 truck in November of 2009. In December, we posted an introductory video of the truck and took you along for a little ride. That was when the motor was...
EcoBoost Video: The New Twin-Turbo F-150 Hauls Ass!
We’ve been wondering what kinds of performance buyers could expect from the new EcoBoost V6 powered F-150. All the stats seemed pretty impressive. With 365hp and 420 lb/ft of torque, the math...
Killer Video: Bigfoot 1 Gets Thrashed in Take This Job and Shove It
It seems bizarre to say out loud, but the 1981 move Take This Job and Shove It was a significant event in the history of monster trucks. It was in the truck race scene of that film that Bigfoot One...
Cool Video: Old School Monster Trucks Crushing, Bogging…and Floating!
The modern day monster truck is a true marvel of engineering. They leap and fly like no other vehicles of their size and weight on Earth. Their engines and chassis technology allow them to launch...