Category Archive: BangShift News, BangShift XL, HISTORIC, MISC, RACING & ACTION, Videos, XL Videos
Crushing History: This Recap Of The 1988 Monster Truck Racing Season Shows A Historic Year
Is a sport really a sport before there is a champion? We don’t really think so and that’s why the 1988 TNT Renegade Monster Truck racing season was such a big deal. It was the first year...
Raw, Real, and Awesome: This 8mm Footage Of Drag Racing, Can-Am, and More From 1978-1981 Across The USA Is Epic
Let your brain work here for a hot second, ok? Yes, this is 8mm footage which means that there’s no sound. My suggestion? Open a second tab on your browser and run some bitchin’ music on...
Incredible Video: Watch The Semi-Finals and Finals Of A Multitude Of Classes At The 1963 NHRA US Nationals
This is some of the most stunning old school drag racing video we have ever seen. You are going to watch the semi-finals and finals of a multitude of classes at the 1963 NHRA US Nationals. This was...
Historic Drag Film: Watch Big Names and Great Runs From The 1967 NASCAR Summer Nationals at Niagra International Drag Strip
New York’s Niagra International Drag Strip was a hotbed of drag racing activity from its opening in 1961 through its closure in the middle 1970s. Racers from all around the New England region,...
Rough Video: Watch Drag Week Veteran Nick Plewniak Suffer A Flaming Wreck In The Dirty 30 At Edgewater Motor Sports Park – He Walked Away
There’s nothing more sickening than watching a person you know and respect pile up a race car at high speeds. Add in a lot of fire and you have a recipe for something really stunning and not in...
The Killer Plane And The American Hero That Tamed It: This Is The Story of Jimmy Doolittle and the Gee Bee R1
This was the fastest land based machine in the world in 1932. It had 45-mph on Sir Malcom Campbell’s land based monster, it had 172-mph on Gar Wood’s boat that packed four massive Packard...
Massive Power: Watch The Murder Nova Make 3,700+ HP On A Hub Dyno!
There was a time a few years back that the most famous cars in America were owned by a couple of street racers from Oklahoma who became famous beyond their wildest dreams. Shawn and Chief, Chief and...
NHRA Rewind LIVE: Relive The 2019 NHRA Amalie Oil Gatornationals With Stevie Fast Jackson, Clay Millican, and Andrew Hines!
One of the things we have done a couple of times during this break from NHRA drag racing action is to make these NHRA Rewind LIVE shows. The first time it was members of the FOX Sports broadcast team...
On The Farm and In The Shop: Catching Up With Matt Hagan and Scott Palmer
As everyone and their brother has a different way that they are getting through this time of no racing it’s interesting to catch up with the people in the sport to see what they’re up to....
Chuffing Freakshow: This Steam Powered Dragster Is Small, Quick, and Weirdly Awesome
For starters, we know absolutely nothing about this car but we do know that we’re very interested by it. You are going to watch it run down a makeshift drag strip in the middle of nowhere and...
Video Proof That Awesomeness Has No Borders: Ride In A Finnish Built 1966 Dodge Dart Road Racer As It Burns Corners!
Horsepower, thumping engines, lateral g-forces, the smell of burning rubber, hot brakes, and spent race fuel are all internationally recognized as being awesome. During a time when hot rodders around...
Shop Tour: Take A Stroll Through The Tucson Workshop Of The NHRA’s Alan Reinhart – Cars, Parts, and Cool Tools
One of the reasons that Alan Reinhart and I hit it off when I first went out on the NHRA tour is because we’re both really into cars. Not just drag racing, but cars in general. Alan’s...
This Early 1980s NHRA SummerNationals Commercial Made Us Smile – The Music, The Attitude, The Voice!
Sometimes it is the simple things, right? On a day when I’d give my left arm to be at the drag strip a friend send a link to the video below. This is a television ad that ran in the New York...
Ludicrous Speed Video: Ride In A Legit DN4 Can-Am Car At Road America – These Things Are MONSTERS!
While the 1970s-spec film that exists around the famed Can-Am series if good, none of it really does a fantastic job of relaying the sheer brutality of the cars involved. These things were flyweight,...