Category Archive: FUNNY STUFF, RACING & ACTION, Videos
The “WTF?” Files: Who Offroads A Toyota Van, Really?!
Now here’s a vehicle that I don’t give much thought to ever, a 1980s-era Toyota Van. Toyota sold these one-box style things in the United States from 1983-1989 in both rear-drive and...
The Motorpool Mutt: Putting A Deuce And A Half On A Tough-Truck Course Was A Great Idea!
The list of sins I have against military vehicles from my time in the Army is honestly, admirable. I might know something about an LMTV that can see the upper end of 90 mph loaded if you knew who to...
Friend Of The Year: Who Would Let Their Buddy Drive Their Hellcat Charger Around The Nurburgring For Them?
How likely are you to toss over the keys of your baby to a buddy? Barring circumstances where it’s for the best, like using a designated driver because you’re three sheets to the wind or...
Morning Symphony: Working Out A 410ci Ford On The Skidpad In An XC Falcon!
Simply put, happiness is valve float. You’ve reached the max point of the engine’s capability to ingest and expel air. You’ve found the limit. Very few people will ever see the...
Classic YouTube: Sylvain Noël vs. Mario Racicot At The 2014 St Joseph de Beauce Race!
Out of all places, it’s gotta be Quebec that has some of the most wicked semi trucks doing more than just hauling the daily load. Any camion racing that goes down in the Francophile province...
Street Car Takeover Bowling Green! The Throwdown Of Big Boys Was A Battle!
While Chad and I watched pair after pair of machines try to make mincemeat out of each other in St. Louis, the Street Car Takeover Bowling Green event was going down, with Beech Bend Raceway hosting...
Meet The Beast! Burnout Legend Kranky Gives Hoonigan A Lesson In Tire Frying!
As we learned early on in BangShift’s existence with Burnout Mondays, if you think an Australian is down for taking the silver medal in the tire-frying competition, we have some very bad news...
Please Secure Your Belongings Before Departure: This Malibu Got It’s Rear Window Knocked Out At Launch!
You’d think a drag race is a simple affair: point car at the finish line, don’t hit anything, and be sure to stop at the end and you’re fine. You’d think it’d be...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s Your Best “Yard Car” Memory?
We called it the “War Car”. It was a 1975-ish Dodge Coronet two-door that somehow had earned a target for elimination, a sentence of death by torture. The big brown barge of a Mopar...
How Do You Say ‘Straya? How About A V8 Supercar In A Burnout Contest?
Motorports in Australia, and go…let’s see here, there’s drag racing, of course…Stadium Super Trucks have proven to be popular…Ok, hell with it: V8 Supercars and...
Prove You Want That Win Light: All Four Tires Off Vs. Blowing The Engine At The End!
Competition brings out the best in any situation. Nobody wants to be the loser. Nobody wants to make their way back to their friends and admit that they got their ass handed to them. Everybody wants...
Morning Symphony: Gene Felton’s IMSA Chevrolet Nova At Road Atlanta
Gene Felton is not a guy you’d want to line up with on a road course anywhere. The gentleman can wheel pretty much whatever you put him in, though he’s done fantastic work in IMSA in the...
SEND IT! Mega Trucks Earning Their Wings At Maximum Power Park!
If there was ever a legitimate reason for building a Mega Truck, it’s long gone to history as far as we’re concerned…to us they are the middleman between a street-legal lifted beast...
