Category Archive: BangShift Galleries, Event Coverage, LAND SPEED RACES, Land Speed Races, Videos
Update: Even More! Bonneville Speed Week 2010 – Monday – Presented by Spectre Performance
The boys and girls at Bonneville have stepped on it to start the meat of Speed Week. The Poteet and Main Speed Demon is current top speed holder with a 408mph trip down Broadway. The...
The Parting Shift: Power Shifting Four Gears Down Main St.
As we prepare to bring the Bonneville coverage thunder this weekend and into next week, we’re leaving you with a short but entertaining Parting Shift this week. It is a Chevelle with a...
Crazy Crash Video: A Bad Motorcyclist Pays the Price
Riding a motorcycle is a dangerous enough enterprise when you are talented at it and generally know what you are doing. It becomes a painful experience when you are an idiot, like the man shown in...
Video Bonanza: Fun With Military Deuce and a Half 6×6 Trucks
The M35 family of trucks that have been serving the military for decades certainly do not get the amount of love that the little WWII-era Jeeps get with respect to their vital role in the service,...
Video: Insane Flaming Engine Failure and Freefalling Crowd Killer
Oh man is this video nuts. Racing up sand dunes is a full-on motorsports frenzy in the Middle East and this video shows the absolute worst case scenario at a dune event. The hot roddy truck makes it...
Cool Video: Bigfoot Burning Up the Strip
For the second year in a row, the ADRL has had the Bigfoot monster truck come out to their event at Gateway International Raceway outside of Saint Louis to make some laps. The Bigfoot guys had a good...
All-Time Carnage Video: Coach Bus Crash Testing
We’re total suckers for crash test video. We can watch cars smash into walls for days on end, but we’re now going to up our requirements. This is video of a coach-style bus being crash...
Video Carnage Bonanza: More Circle Track Spectator Drags Wreckage
Few things we have posted over the years here at BangShift.com have gotten us the response that the recent video bonanza featuring spectator drags wreckage from circle tracks across the country...
The Parting Shift: Bumper Cam Footage of Bob Self’s 218mph Ford GT From Loring, Maine
Bob Self’s totally bad ass 2006 Ford GT can lay claim to being the fastest car at Loring, Maine during the 2010 LTA event. Bob ran this monster to a 218mph lap and it sounded as sweet as...
Video: In-Car Foootage of a Run Up The Big Eliminator at Gravelrama
If there is one event we’re going to commit ourselves to checking out in 2011, it is Gravelrama, held every year in Cleves, Ohio. A veritable orgy of horsepower, rock crawling, flat drags,...
Insane Carnage Video: Open-Wheel Cars Make Crappy Airplanes
The nightmare scenario for any open wheel racer is tire-to-tire contact with a competitor, especially at high speed. One not need be a genius to see why it is a problem for the tires of these cars to...
American Thunder Video: A 1964 Fairlane 500 Hauls Ass on the ‘Ring
This is some of the greatest footage we’ve ever seen. This is video of a (modern) Holman Moody built 1964 Fairlane 500 being raced in Germany on the famed Nurburgring. It is in some sort of...
Old School Carnage: Killer World-Wide Footage From the 1980’s
The 1980s were filled with lots of great racing. They were also filled with lots of great wrecking as this video shows. Taking footage from all over the world, you’ll see everything from NASCAR...
Video: More Mooneyes Summer 2010, With Cacklefest
We had a great time at the Mooneyes Summer 2010 show and brought you photos and video of the car show, cacklefest and drag racing action, but here is more! You’ll find cool customs, hot rods,...