Category Archive: HISTORIC, RACING & ACTION
The Baja 1000, A World Of X Documentary To Air Thursday, Plus A Kurt Caselli Tribute And New TV Deal For SCORE!
We love off road racing around here. I know it’s not necessarily our “norm”, but ever since I attended the Baja 1000 back in 2007 I’ve been hooked. The SCORE Baja 1000 is one...
These Sand Dune Races In The United Arab Emirates Are Wild! Mondo Huge Turbos On Everything From Straight Sixes To V8s – Horsepower Overload!
Every time I see the sand dunes in the UAE it makes me want to go to visit just so I can play. They are huge, and made of great sand that looks like a riot to play in. For the guys in this video the...
Merry Christmas Year One Style: Turbos, Trans Ams, and Tire Smoke Oh My!
If you aren’t familiar with the guys over at Year One, then you haven’t built a car in the last 15 years. And if you don’t know about their affinity for burnouts, then this video...
Watch This! The Biggest Tree Trimming Saw Ever And The Crazy Bastard That Wields It!
We are fans of crazy cool stuff around here, and it really doesn’t matter what it is as long as it’s motorized. Well, this is one bad ass motorized mother of mayhem. It’s actually...
The Parting Shift: A 1950 GMC with Two Transmissions and Two Screaming Strokes of Detroit Diesel Power!
Oh man, is this cool! We stumbled upon this video of a kick ass 1950 GMC truck zipping down the road and making sweet, sweet diesel noise from the turbocharged four cylinder Detroit engine and...
NitroAmerica Presents In Car Video And Interviews With Tera Wendland Graves, Junior Fuel Driver
Tera Wendland Graves is a certified bad ass and Nostalgia Drag Racing junky. Her and husband Chris Graves run Max Cackle Photography and submit photos to us here on BangShift.com pretty regularly....
A Romanian Kid Built A Lego Hot Rod And It Actually Drives! 500,000 Pieces!
Be warned people, be warned. I showed this video to my Lego obsessed 5 and 7 year old sons and they flipped out. More specifically they flipped out, ran upstairs and then I heard the noise. You know...
Watch Kris Foster And Other Dirtbike Free Riders Perform Incredible Stunts And Jumps Using The Land!
As best we know, dirt bike free riding is simply heading out into the countryside, mountains, etc with your dirt bike and eschewing roads and trails for the natural habitat and the cool obstacles it...
This Match Race In Thailand Between A Hot Rod Diesel Truck And A 125cc Scooter Is Nuts!
We have been harping for a long time on the idea that drag racing is not just something that happens between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. There are strips on every continent aside from those...
This Paddle Tire Equipped Fox Mustang On A Puerto Rican Sand Drag Strip Makes Our Pants Tight (video)
Juncos, Puerto Rico was founded in 1797 and has a population of about 40,000 people as best my extensive research into the place can find. The extensive research was done while eating an extensive...
Awesome Videos: Watch And Ride On Board With The Green Monster 19 Front Motor Turbine Dragster!
We were among the first to tell you about Tim Arfons’ project in recreating the front engined, wheel driven, turbine dragster that terrorized drag strips nearly 40 years ago. Now we’re...
Watch Two Insanely Modified Puerto Rican International Diesel School Buses Do Burnouts And Drag Race! One Of These Runs 13s!
No joke, although you cannot see the scoreboards at the end of this video the “winning” bus is capable of running in the 13-second time zone. How do we know that? We’re including an...
This Twin Turbo 292ci Y-Block Powered 1962 Ford F100 Makes 721hp At The Tire And Looks Beastly On The Dyno
A year or so ago I made a sideways comment about Y-Block Ford engines and their ability to make power, which thoroughly pissed of the Y-Block community. The hate came in from all sides and quickly I...
The Parting Shift: Gear Banging Awesomeness in a 1964 Impala!
There’s nothing cooler than a full-boogie barge with a stick box. This in-car video, taken at Atco Dragway in New Jersey shows a really beautiful 1964 Impala race car getting hammered on the...