Category Archive: RACING & ACTION
Video: Saturday Night Nitro From Les Mayhew’s Nitro America
As usual Les has knocked it out of the park with his latest video. This one is from Famoso Raceway’s Saturday Night Nitro event earlier this summer. We haven’t been able to make it to one...
Video: This Bad Ass Video Of Mike Ryan Wrestling His Freightliner Up Pikes Peak Set Our Hearts A Flutter
A-flutter you say? You’re damned right a-flutter. What else would watching a huge Freightliner truck powered by a supercharged and turbocharged Gale Banks built mondo diesel flying up the side...
Tom Motry’s Drastic Plastic Resets All Time Fuel Altered Record With 5.286/275 MPH Blast – Video And Full Story HERE!
There are certain drag racing truths that I tend to hold as self evident. One of them was that Ron Fassl was going to own the record for the quickest AA/FA pass of all time until the end of time. Can...
Video: A Tour Of Larson Race Cars, A Look At The Killer Projects, The History Of Larry, His Nova, and Drag Week Dominance!
When my friends at Hot Rod called and asked if I’d be interested in hosting an episode of their YouTube show Hot Rod Unlimited at Larson Race Cars in Oak Grove, Missouri I was excited....
Video: Speed Demon 410mph Run At Bonneville Speed Week From The Push Truck
We were lucky enough to ride along in the Poteet and Main Speed Demon Push truck earlier this morning with Ron Main and Kenny Duttweiler and have video from the push truck for you to check out....
The World’s First 200 MPH Stock Bodied ’55 Chevy! Bob Johnson, Kent Waters, And Keith Dorton Do It!
August 15, 2013 UPDATE: THEY HAVE DONE IT!!! BOB JOHNSON, KENT WATERS, and KEITH DORTON MAKE A STOCK BODIED ’55 CHEVY RUN 200+ AT BONNEVILLE FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER. Last week we told you that...
Quick Videos: The Sights Ad Sounds Of Nitro On the Salt At Bonneville Speed Week
One of the things that really blew me away on the salt was the sheer number of cars running nitro and how much of it they were running. This wasn’t some weak suck 30% load that guys were...
The Parting Shift: Take A Ride Underneath A Screaming Super Stock/L Stick Shift Mustang!
We’ve featured the slick shifting Bobby Fazio on the pages of BangShift before but never like this! In one of the more unique angles you’ll ever see stick shift super stocker run down the...
Videos: The Motorcycle Engined Mini-Slingshot Hits The Dyno And A Clandestine Testing Location In England!
The Postman Pat guys have their new tiny slingshot dragster pretty well sorted out and are making final prep to get the car onto a drag strip asap. These two videos below show the car running at a...
BangShift Daily Tune Up Bonneville Edition: “Spirit Of America” The Beach Boys with Breedlove Video
If you are new to Bonneville and Land Speed Racing, you may not have heard of Craig Breedlove, but he was an American Icon in his Spirit Of America Land Speed Cars. He was the first man to average...
Video: The Theatrical Trailer For “Out Of Nothing” A Feature Level Film On Four Close Knit Bonneville Racers
We happened to stumble across this awesome trailer for the film, “Out of Nothing” recently and have watched the thing about 100 times since. It is a feature level film about four guys who...
Wild Video: Watch A 200hp Polaris RZR UTV Fly, Slide, Jump, and Generally Turn An Abandoned Iron Mine Into A Playground Of Motorized Mayhem!
Call us nuts but after you watch the video you may agree that Ken Block’s “Gymkhana” videos have just been owned by a dude in a wildly hot rodded Polaris RZR UTV. If the look is...
Watch Jon Wall Go On A Wild Wheelstanding Ride In The Fireball Monza Funny Car!
Jon Wall is one of our good friends here at BangShift and we’ve shown you great video before of him racing funny cars. He’s been doused in boiling transmission fluid and put through the...
In-Car Video: Watch A Classic Porsche Duel With Shelby Mustangs, Stingray Vettes, and Even A 1969 Pontiac Trans Am At Road America!
Porsche is certainly one of the greatest racing brands in automotive history. From their production based efforts to their competition entries in Trans Am, Le Mans, and virtually all of the other...