Category Archive: BangShift XL, FUNNY STUFF, RACING & ACTION, Videos, XL Videos
Hustlin’ HUMVEE Video: This Military HUMVEE Has A Hot Rod Duramax Swap And Runs 12s!
Ok…ok…Ooooook. This is awesome. There’s always something great of taking a slow vehicle and making it fast, right? The more slow the starting vehicle and the faster the end product...
Haulin’ Plenty: Trucks, Trucks And More Trucks From Urban Hillbilly’s Archives!
The split was explained early in my life: The car was for family trips and the truck was for work. That was that…if you didn’t need to haul anything around or didn’t need to tow...
Blown To A T: A Holden Gemini With A Screaming Six Rips It Up At Motorvation 33!
Ah, the lowly GM T-car. In America this platform got exactly zero respect…Chevrolet Chevette? Pontiac T-1000? No, thank you…too small and too underpowered. Nevermind the rear-drive...
WRC Rallye Monte-Carlo 2019 Shakedown Testing: Blowing Out The Cobwebs!
The holiday season is long past, and winter be damned, it’s time to get back into the swing of racing. Every form of motorsport is spooling up for the 2019 season and World Rally Championship...
World’s Angriest Cough Drop: This 500 Horsepower Toyota Starlet Is A Ripper!
Oh good lord is this thing angry. It’s a Toyota Starlet, a tiny little car that under normal circumstances is best left to MPG-touting types and frugal commuters. This particular example, on...
Morning Symphony: The Supercruise At Motorvation 33
While we’re dealing with Arctic blasts and icy, snowy conditions here in the Northern Hemisphere, in the Southern Hemisphere it’s the middle of summer and the fun only ramps up from the...
Morning Symphony: Sunday Drag Racing At Heathcote Raceway
Missing the dragstrip? Don’t feel alone. With everything around BangShift Mid-West soaked to the bone in never-ending rain showers, the only way that we will race anything in a straight line is...
What In The? That’s A Ford Ka Powered By A Barra Murdering Tires!
Here’s what you need to know about the Ford Ka: It’s a “city car” (read: damn tiny) that was running with Ford’s New Edge styling, prone to body rot, and was running...
Half-Mile Racing In Puerto Rico At The PR500 – Can You Say Hellcat Pickup?
Am I jealous that 1320Video packed up and went to Puerto Rico in the middle of winter? Yep. Can I blame them? No, not really. Half-mile racing going off this early in the year sounds pretty sweet to...
This 1970s Formula Vee Promotional Film Is Brilliant – The Class Continues Strong Today!
There are certain things that happen in racing which are so well designed and so well thought out that the make as much sense as 1+1=2. One of those things is Formula Vee. The open wheel racing class...
Morning Symphony: A Coyote-Powered 1987 Cougar Ripping Around Sears Point
(Photo: DW Burnett via Drunken Squirrel Racing) Color me shocked: very few people bother with 1987-88 Mercury Cougars as a fun vehicle. I can find a few builds from old CarDomain pages, and there is...
Video: Back In The Late 1980s 4-Wheel Steering Was The Gadget Of The Day – Remember The Mazda 626 4WS
As a young whippersnapper in the waning days of the 1980s I remember reading about, with some awe, rear wheel steering equipped cars. Not just the era’s big dollar exotics, but Japanese cars...
Life Insurance…Check: 72 Miles An Hour In A Go-Kart? Seems Safe Enough To Us!
Outside of the one-off builds like the infamous Gixxerkart, when would you expect to see a go-kart ripping past the wall at Interstate speeds? We aren’t talking shifter karts, either, just your...
