Category Archive: RACING & ACTION, Videos
Ring This: Monster AWD Audi Action That Was…Left In The File Cabinet?!
Leave it to a pandemic to get people to dig through their files to find old, cool stuff to show off. I’m in no hurry, because pretty much everything I’ve owned (at least since 2001,...
QuarantinePiece Theater: This 1976 Documentary About Mario Andretti Is Absolutely Awesome
“Sometimes he tries too hard,” are the words said in about the only critical sentence this documentary has to offer. A 1976 film that follows Mario Andretti through various different...
Old School Monster Truck Video: Watch Bigfoot 8 Take Care Of Business At The Houston Astrodome In 1991
Today feels like a good day to take a trip back into the early 1990s and go monster truck racing at the Houston Astrodome. I never got to see a game, event, or monster truck race inside the Houston...
Amazing Video: Watch John Force Behind The Scenes In 1989 Arguing His Way Back Into A Race
This is really amazing behind the scenes video from the 1989 NHRA event at the Texas Motorplex and what it shows is simply awesome. You are going to see John Force argh his way back into a race after...
The Race To Death: This Is The Twisted, Crazy, Macabre, and True Tale Of The 1903 Paris To Madrid Race Disaster
It seems incredible by the standards of 2020, but the 1903 Paris to Madrid Race was such an incalculable calamity and had amassed such a loss of life that it was cancelled after the first day. In an...
QuarantinePiece Theater: The Entire 1971 Watkins Glen Can-Am Race Broadcast – Awesome Cars, Racing, and People!
It is Friday. It isn’t but in Quarantine-ville it is Friday afternoon. Let’s be honest with each other. You don’t want to be at the home office any more. Leaving isn’t an...
Ride With Ron: Make A Roaring 300mph Pass In The Napa Nitro Funny Car At Bandimere Speedway With Ron Capps
In a world that has been forcibly separated over the last few months, the incredible technology of 2020 continues to keep us together, however far apart we may physically be. Case in point, this...
Screaming Mimi: Watch And Listen To This 2.0L Vauxhall Four Banger Make 284 Naturally Aspirated Horsepower On The Dyno
Normally when we showcase engine dyno videos here at BangShift, there’s big horsepower involved. Today the horsepower is more modest but the engine is really neat. This is not an engine that we...
Morning Symphony: Desert-Blasting In A Polaris RZR With Darren Parsons At The Wheel
Two years ago BFGoodrich treated me to one of the best weekends in Vegas I’ve experienced to date. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Mint 400, I got the chance to come out and to get a...
Classic YouTube: The 1975 Winston 500 At Talladega via Car And Track
Another Monday and another week of not much going on at racetracks around the country, but thanks to YouTube, there’s a wonderful catalog of excellent action from the past to check out, which...
Watch Our Encore Presentation Of The US131 Northern Nationals. Nitro Nostalgia Top Fuel, Funny Cars, And More!
Ready for some NITRO!!!!????? So are we! So based on that need, the need for tear inducing, nose running, oh so sweet and nice nitromethane powered machines, we are bringing you an encore...
QuarantinePiece Theater: This Amazing Film Shows The 1966 and 1968 US Nationals In Full Color With Big Production Value!
This right here? This right here is absolute gold! This one video is actually two films kind of joined end to end to form one of the best examples of historic drag racing gold we have ever seen....
Incredible Send Off: This Collection Of The Top 10 Stirling Moss Moments At Goodwood Is Awesome
The world is still celebrating the life and times of Sir Stirling Moss, the British racing legend who owned the world of competitive driving from the late 1950 into the 1960s before suffering a...
Basically Brutal: Watch This Paxton Supercharged, Holley EFI Equipped, Stock Bottom End 302 Mustang Make Power On The Dyno
This right here is BangShifty as hell. It has been a long time since we saw someone doing some stuff stuff with a stock bottom end 302ci Ford in a Fox Mustang and when we stumbled upon this video we...