Category Archive: RACING & ACTION, Videos
Video: John Force talks about racing, testing, and grand kids.
This marks the beginning of a week full of NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing interviews and action here at BangShift.com. And who more appropriate to start off the week than John Force himself....
UPDATED Video: NHRA Motorsports Museum Low Flyers Car Club Panel Discussion
We are proud to be partnering with the NHRA Wally Parks Motorsports Museum to bring you all the history of drag racing and hot rods you can handle in 2011, presented by The Auto Club of Southern...
Amazing Survival Video: Jay Upton Crashes a Top Fuel Bike at 193mph and Lives
Jay Upton is a Top Fuel motorcycle rider down in Australia. He rides a wild 1500cc Honda machine that wears a totally streamlined body. It is one fearsome looking rig, especially when under power and...
Modern Nostalgia Video: The Night That Pro Stock Came Back to Life
The one thing missing from today’s booming world of nostalgia drag racing is a vintage Pro Stock class. You know what we’re talking about. Small blocks, real four speed transmissions,...
Killer Videos: How to Wrench on a 1929 Duesenberg Model J in Your Home Shop
Duesenbergs are very freaking rare, guys who wrench on their own Duesenbergs at home are even more so. Luckily, BangShifter “Hemi” Joel Nystrom is one of those dudes and he has the video...
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)...