Category Archive: HISTORIC, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Find The Good Parts Of Snow And Ice With A Review Of Ken Block’s Cold-Weather Shenanigans
In the span of a couple of hours, BangShift Mid-West went from nearly 70 degrees and unseasonably warm to ice and snow. Literally, twenty-four hours is all it took. One day I was cruising along the...
Cleetus In An Aussie Burnout Contest! Watch As He Whips This LS-Powered Toyota Around!
Aussies love to shoot their mouths off about how no American can actually do a proper burnout. We happen to know some people with a wood-covered 1980s station wagon that could play that game quite...
Refueling While Tandem Drifting – This Is How You Keep A BMW Sideways For Over Eight Hours!
Eight hours sideways without stopping…that’s the record that BMW wanted to claim with their new variation of the M5 sport sedan. That’s a lofty goal, when you look at the logistics...
Tough Truck Racing For Breast Cancer Awareness – A Good Event For A Good Cause!
No gearhead worth their salt needs an excuse to go out, get behind the wheel, and play a little. If there’s a few free moments and gas in the tank, stand back and watch the entertainment. But...
Testing For Sevens: This Holden VL Cuts The Number On A 255 Radial Tire!
Remember back when you needed a big balloon slick to make enough grip to grab the track to make a single-digit pass? Now you’ve got folks with nearly stock tire sizes and no tubs whatsoever...
Winter Weather Have You Stuck? Sit Back And Watch Some SLMRA Lawnmower Ice Racing!
As I type this, I’m looking out the window of the office and I’m watching Mother Nature coat everything around BangShift Mid-West in a fine mist that is going to freeze up and make all...
As High As You Can: This Blazer Went Stargazing At Byron!
The Byron Wheelstanding competition is one of those love-it-or-hate-it events that happens throughout the year. You either love it because it’s raw power turning into wheelstands that get the...
Here’s Something We All Can Enjoy: A Small-Block Powered Porsche 914 Running Elevens!
The Porsche 914…the half-hearted Porsche. If you’re unfamiliar with these things, here’s the quick and dirty version: Porsche wanted to replace the 912 and Volkswagen wanted to...
Watch At The Hoonigan Team Welcome In The New Year Right: Eighteen Car Tire Fire!
The Hoonigan folks are car geeks to the core. Videos, jokes, and all of that mess are secondary to the machines. Everybody who hangs around the shop on a full-time basis has their car ready to go:...
This Rally-Racing Plymouth Valiant Rules! Watch This Classic A-body Tear Through The Forests!
Just like the Ford Falcon and the Chevy II, the Valiant was only meant to be the compact car that buyers wanted, that Detroit really didn’t want to build. Just like the other two, the Valiant...
Best of BS 2017: The Superformance Drift Cobra: A Supercharged Coyote Equals All Anger, All The Time!
Prior to BangShift, the loudest and most brash section of my life was the military. Every day started pretty much the same way: I drug my tired (and probably hung over) ass out of bed, I somehow...
Best of BS 2017: Rod Saboury And His Wild 1953 Corvette At Maple Grove In 1998!
The wildly painted, real-deal 1953 Chevrolet Corvette that wore the license plate “INTHE6S” was the stuff of legends for a young teenager who spent more than his fair share of time...
Best of BS 2017: These Two-Wheel-Drive “Rail Buggy” Builds Are Sweet! Watch Them Climb A Wooded Hill Like A Goat!
We’ve shown you rockbouncers, the unhinged, V8-packing, by-any-means-necessary full exo-caged machines that turn off-roading into a combative sport, but it’s not the only show going on...
