Category Archive: RACING & ACTION, Videos
Classic YouTube: An Odd Fight Between A 5.4/5-speed Crown Victoria and…a Mercury Villager
From Sanair Super Speedway’s dragstrip in Quebec, we bring you one of the strangest heads-up races we’ve seen in a while. In the left lane is a 5.4-powered Ford Crown Victoria that has...
Sound and Fury: Ride In and Watch Outside Of A Vintage Matra-Simca Sports Prototype Racer At Goodwood – Wild!
Maybe one of the finest compliments anyone can bestow upon a race car, especially one that runs in a “prototype” style category is that it’s look and sound at timeless. Not in the...
Real Hustle Video: Watch The Quickest Stick Shift Coyote Mustang In The World Run 7.86 –
Joel Steele is the man who can claim to own the quickest h-pattern shifted Coyote anything after this rip he recently made at Beech Bend Motorsports Park, in Beech Bend Kentucky. The run, as you will...
Video: The Incredible Story of The John and Jack DeLorean Go Kart – A 7/10 Scale Indy Car That Anyone Could Race!
(Words and video by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Go karts strike a chord with so many people. They can be credited for giving people the racing bug, and they can be credited for giving people long...
Bonneville Speed Week Video: Record Setting Runs And Muscle Cars On The Salt During Speed Week 2020
What truly makes Bonneville Speed Week special is the variety of vehicles that you see hauling ass down the salt. Different body styles, different engine combos, and different visions are what...
If You Lost Against This Turbocharged Dodge Caravan, You Missed The Warning Signs!
One of the best lessons I ever learned in life I learned during Army basic training. Without a question, at six-foot-three and 228 pounds, I was one of, if not the biggest soldier in training during...
Monster Mack: Watch This Twin-Engine Aussie Mack Cruiseliner Cut Loose At Bindoon!
Diesel freaks bug me. Not those who extract maximum power out of engines designed to produce a ton of power, just those who insist that billowing black smoke out of a trash can from underneath a...
Old School Norwalk Video: Watch Eddie Harris Suffer A Bad Pro Mod Wreck At The IHRA World Nationals
The IHRA get credit for debuting the category during their 1990 season after flirting with it by running top sportsman quick eight shootouts during previous years. The new heads-up eliminator was as...
Fantastic FE Video: Watch A 482ci All-Aluminum Ford FE Big Block Get Built From Beginning To End
There’s nothing like a good engine assembly video to make us happy and this is a GOOD engine assembly video. Our pal Jeff was at Prestige Motorsports when the shop was building a 482ci...
Historic Drag Racing Film: Awesomeness, Craziness, and Badness From Fremont In The 1960s and 1970s
This right here is some GOLD. If you love old drag racing footage you’ll be on the edge of your seat for the 10:00 duration of this video. Why? You are going to see famous cars, wild runs, guys...
Watch Spencer Pigot’s Monster Wreck At The 2020 Indy 500 – This Was The Crash That Effectively Ended The Rae
The 104th running of the Indy 500 was apropos for the year 2020. It was bizarre with no fans, it was at times akin to a wrecking derby with a runtime of nearly 3.5 hours, and just when an incredible...
Killer Vintage Drag Video! Glidden, Prudhomme, Chi-Town and More At Motion Raceway!
From roughly 1970 through 1983 Motion Raceway in Assumption, Illinois was a place where drag racers flocked to burn tires and get their need for speed fulfilled. The track hosted lots of sportsman...
Watch Sammy Miller Try To Run Over 300mph In The Eighth At Under Two Seconds….On A Road Course In The Netherlands
Sammy Miller’s exploits have been often written, raved, and ranted about here on BangShift. The guy was known and loved all over the world as the king of the rocket powered drag races deep into...
8 Ton Sledge: Gar Wood’s 7,000hp Miss America X Boat Owned The World In ’32 and ’33 (Video)
If there is one giant in the history of American speed that I’d give anything to meet it would be Gar Wood. The guy made immense amounts of money in his life inventing stuff like the hydraulic...