Category Archive: RACING & ACTION, Videos
133 MPH On The Highway, And It Is Perfectly Legal! Sign Us Up!
This video is not only cool because it has awesome cars and car guy stuff in it, but also because of just how giddy Kyle and the 1320 Video crew are during this trip to Germany. They run down the...
Fly High And Free: Open Class Tough Truck Racing From The Pacific Northwest!
Occasionally, we get our kicks watching someone as they take a mildly prepared rig like a Jeep Grand Cherokee onto a Tough Truck course and prove just how durable they truly are. That’s the...
Morning Symphony: How About A Little Aussie Rock, Courtesy Of A Twin-Turbo Monaro?
Zoran Gajic’s Monaro is known as “Brutus”. Hm…wonder how it got that name? Holden Monaros of any generation are the ones you want…Holden’s offering that grasped at...
American Powertrain Parting Shift: Watch A Bad Ass Run 5.70s In The Eighth With A Screaming Small Block 4-Speed Camaro
This is a 62-year old dude named Kurt who has himself one nasty Camaro. The car runs deep into the 5.70s in the eighth mile, which translates in the 8.90s on a quarter mile track. It has a...
Morning Symphony: Hillclimbing In An Opel Kadett
This is the case for the small car, the little four-banger that’s an absolute featherweight. What you are looking at is an Opel Kadett C, a car that doesn’t look like it’s root...
Street Car Takeover Indy: Maybe A Little Less Glue On The Track Next Year?
Having a sticky track at an event like Street Car Takeover is a racer’s dream. Takeovers aren’t so much about the racing as they are about the showboating, it seems. You want to get the...
Morning Symphony: Nurburgring Oldtimer Grand Prix – Where Old Race Cars Come Out To Raise Hell!
From the moment I saw a Renault Laguna from the British Touring Car Championship rip onto the track, I knew this video would be a gem. Look, we might have our favorite styles of racing and both Brian...
The “WTF?” Files: Who Offroads A Toyota Van, Really?!
Now here’s a vehicle that I don’t give much thought to ever, a 1980s-era Toyota Van. Toyota sold these one-box style things in the United States from 1983-1989 in both rear-drive and...
The Motorpool Mutt: Putting A Deuce And A Half On A Tough-Truck Course Was A Great Idea!
The list of sins I have against military vehicles from my time in the Army is honestly, admirable. I might know something about an LMTV that can see the upper end of 90 mph loaded if you knew who to...
Friend Of The Year: Who Would Let Their Buddy Drive Their Hellcat Charger Around The Nurburgring For Them?
How likely are you to toss over the keys of your baby to a buddy? Barring circumstances where it’s for the best, like using a designated driver because you’re three sheets to the wind or...
Morning Symphony: Working Out A 410ci Ford On The Skidpad In An XC Falcon!
Simply put, happiness is valve float. You’ve reached the max point of the engine’s capability to ingest and expel air. You’ve found the limit. Very few people will ever see the...
Classic YouTube: Sylvain Noël vs. Mario Racicot At The 2014 St Joseph de Beauce Race!
Out of all places, it’s gotta be Quebec that has some of the most wicked semi trucks doing more than just hauling the daily load. Any camion racing that goes down in the Francophile province...
Street Car Takeover Bowling Green! The Throwdown Of Big Boys Was A Battle!
While Chad and I watched pair after pair of machines try to make mincemeat out of each other in St. Louis, the Street Car Takeover Bowling Green event was going down, with Beech Bend Raceway hosting...
Meet The Beast! Burnout Legend Kranky Gives Hoonigan A Lesson In Tire Frying!
As we learned early on in BangShift’s existence with Burnout Mondays, if you think an Australian is down for taking the silver medal in the tire-frying competition, we have some very bad news...