Category Archive: RACING & ACTION, Videos
More Big Car Greatness: Fords, Lincolns and Mercurys getting a workout
More Big Car Videos for you to enjoy, this time from the Blue Oval camp. Oddly, there isn’t a lot to choose from online. I looked for a bit, I came up with a couple of things, but the biggest...
Big Cars, Big Blocks, And Big Smoke: The Mopar Edition
The 1973 Oldsmobile whipping donuts with a thumper of a big-block woke a lot of y’all up, as it better: There is something about a big-ass boulevard cruiser at full scream that is just awesome....
Sleeper Video: An Aussie Wagon That Runs 10s And Looks Like It Belongs At A Nursing Home Parking Lot
This could be the quietest 10-second car in the world and that’s the way we like them, especially when they look like something an elderly woman would be driving. This old 1990s era Nissan...
Classic Rally Greatness: Watch A Mini And A Classic Escort Get Put Through The Paces
This is sweet footage from the Ford Archives. Called the Gems Rally Legends, this is a clip from a DVD made from three different films from the 1960’s-early 1970’s that shows the cars in...
Dyno Video: Watch A 428ci, NASCAR Race Block Based Chrysler Wedge Engine Scream Out 712 HP Naturally Aspirated!
It has been way too long since we featued a hot Chrysler wedge engine making a dyno pull on the blog. To right this wrong, we bring you the footage below which is of a nasty little bastard of an...
Video: Awesome Hovercraft Racing From France – Yeah, We Just Said Awesome, Racing, and France Together
(We know…you were expecting wall to wall Bonneville coverage today. Since the event has been cancelled, we’re going to highlight stuff that could be raced at Bonneville or stuff that...
The Parting Shift: How to Run 350mph at Bonneville in the Spectre Performance Speedliner
The Spectre Speedliner turned in some huge numbers at SCTA/BNI Bonneville Speed Week 2010. Company owner and ‘liner driver Amir Rosenbaum does a great job of narrating this multi-angle footage...
Bonneville Speed Week Video: Watch What It Looks Like Inside The Jesel Land Speed Racing Team Dodge Truck When It Spins At 260MPH At Bonneville
Jimmy Barton is a bad ass ladies and gentleman, and has a bunch of records here at Bonneville behind the wheel of the famed Jesel Racing Dodge Ram Pickup. He’s driven it with everything from 4...
Autocross Video: Ride Along In A Fast And Fantastic International Scout II Corner Burner!
When we saw the title to a video that suggested an International Scout II was on the autocross course we had to click it. Why? Mainly because the video was either going to show us a vehicle totally...
This Rabid FWD V8-powered Ford Festiva Is Severely Violent And Totally BangShift Approved!
How much head scratching did you do when you read that headline? We did plenty ourselves. When we searched “World’s Fastest Festiva” we expected to get a Shogun, the Festiva with a...
This Awesome Short Film On The Richmond and Stark Streamliner Will Totally Have You Pulling For These Guys
When I was putting together the story about the nine cars I think can better the existing wheel driven Bonneville speed record, I came across this short film about the Richmond and Stark streamliner....
Next-Gen Caddy CTS-V Seen Testing At The Nurburgring, Sounds As Wicked As Ever
When Lexus introduced the updated GS series in 1998, they did it by using one of the most well-done advertising campaigns ever, the “Something Wicked This Way Comes” ads. They...
Evil Little Sleeper: 728 WHP out of a Camry
Is there a car any less BangShift-y than a mid-1990’s Toyota Camry? These things are all over the place, at best have a 3.0L V6 humming out 185 hp, and are a perfect example of a...
Watch as JRT Customs’ Nissan Gets Sideways Off The Line At Loring!
One of the highlights of racing at Loring, Maine last weekend was watching JRT Customs’ 1995 Nissan D21 start off down the track. The SR20DET-powered truck launched soft, but even in second...