Category Archive: RACING & ACTION, Videos
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...
Full Throated History: Watch The Legendary Indy 500 Winning Lotus 38 Run Up The Hill At Goodwood
The Lotus 38 was not the first car in the history of the Indy 500 to place the engine behind the driver’s head but it was the first to win with that configuration and it touched off the massive...
Indy 500 History Video: The Incredible Salt Walther Wreck During The Ill-Fated 1973 Indy 500
This weekend, yes this August weekend in 2020 the Indy 500 will be run. It will be run without spectators but the race will be run and we’re sure there will be a monster television audience...
Finnegan Speed Tests Three Stand Up Jet Skis To See If The New 2021 Yamaha Super Jet Is As Fast As It Looks
He did it for you…because he cares…and for science. On the surface this seems like a test anyone would want to do, but that’s only because most of you thinking a day on the lake...
Watch The Team Built Buckwheat Racing Trans Am Go 288 mph From Inside The Car At Bonneville Last Week!
When Jeffrey Ferguson sent me a “Content Submission”, which you can do as well by clicking the link at the bottom of the website, I wasn’t expecting this! I’m in love with...
The American Powertrain Parting Shift: Watch Todd Oden Launch His 1958 Chevy At 10,000 RPM!
If you did not already love the Southeast Gasser Association than this video will lock it down for you.You are about to take a ride with Todd Oden who is racing his 1958 Chevrolet called Double XX in...
2,300hp Strong: Steve Morris Dyno Tests and Explains His Latest Engine Building Adventure – Turbocharged Lamborghini V10s
Steve Morris Racing Engines is a company that has long been known by many BangShifters for any number of awesome reasons. The guy has been Tom Bailey’s horsepower supplier forever, his engines...
Listen Up: Ron Capps and Joe Morrison Talk Funny Car and Top Fuel On The NHRA Insider Podcast
I have a lot of fun making the NHRA Insider podcast each week because it’s a different want to talk about, learn about, and explore the world of NHRA Mello Yello championship drag racing....
Billet Bad Ass: Watching This 1,500hp 20B 3-Rotor Race Engine Get Assembled Is Really Cool
We’ve never built a rotary engine around here. Not Chad, not me, not McTag. They are insanely popular in certain sectors of the drag racing world and the fact that these things have progressed...
When The Announcer Becomes The Driver: Watch Mike Gallaway Pilot Bigfoot Around A Parking Lot Back In The Day
If you grew up watching pulling, mud bogging, or monster trucks, you know Mike Gallaway. He was a prolific announcer of that stuff and someone who’s voice would be coming through your TV screen...
All Four Turnin’: Outlaw Open 4×4 Trucks Pulling At Millers Tavern
Nothing against the built tractors, the radical Outlaws or even the wheel-standing 2wd classes, but for me, this is the pulling class that I came to watch. This is where pulling...
