Category Archive: RACING & ACTION, Videos
Video: A Day At The Drags With A Lenco Equipped Pontiac Firebird – Pure Mechanical Music!
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again. Some of our favorite videos are the ones where good camera angles are used, some nice cuts are made, and nothing else is done to screw with...
Watch A 3,000hp Ice Dragster Run 170-Mph In 1,000ft From A Standing Start!
At base, most gearheads are lunatics just trying to get out. Most of us are bound by our own lack of skill or resources, but there are those among us unhindered by such trivial worries. Those are the...
Watch Aussie Mark Sheehan’s Top Fuel Dragster Erupt In Flames On Start Up – Wild Nitro Fire!
This is some wild video! Top Fuel racer Mark Sheehan and his tuner, American John Smith were lucky to escape unscathed from this scary fire down in Australia. Sheehan was sitting in his car and Smith...
Watch The World’s Quickest And Fastest Street Legal Hearse Run 10.70s and Fry The Tires For Miles!
This video serves as more proof that horsepower can cure all ills. The guys at AMS Performance in Wisconsin took a mid 1990s Chevy Caprice hearse built by Superior Coachworks and stuffed it full of...
Video: Helmet Cam Footage Of What It Is Like To Drive An Exploding Top Fuel Dragster In Australia
In today’s world of great editing, high definition camera, and slick video tricks, it is easy for a cool piece of raw video to get missed. Take this purely awesome video of a top run for...
FREE LIVE STREAMING VIDEO: The IHRA Summit Racing PRO-AM Feb 2nd and 3rd.
Two races, 1 weekend, it’s the IHRA Summit Racing Equipment Pro-Am Series, and our buddy Mark Walter is live on location in Immokalee Florida bringing you all the action. Racing starts Saturday...
Great Video: The Trailer For The Upcoming Documentary Series – Where They Raced – A Neat Look At Long Gone Tracks
Harold Osmer’s books Where They Raced and Where They Raced Lap 2 are essential reading for any fan of American racing history. The two books concentrate on the the amazing auto racing history...
Rental Car Burnout Video: We Don’t Even Know Where To Start On How Great This Is
Yeah yeah yeah we’ve heard it before. We know, it’s not cool to bash rental cars, blah blah blah. This video rules no matter who you are. And if it makes you sleep better, just pretend it...
Video: A Fantastic Look At US 131 Dragway Through The Years From The Early 1960s To Today – Amazing Footage and Photos!
Thanks to pal-o-BangShift Dawn Mazi-Hovsepian we were tipped off to one of the most comprehensive and cool vintage drag racing videos we’ve ever seen on the interwebs. This film starts with...
Video: Ride Shotgun For A Lap In The Wild Slightly Disturbed Golf Kart Wheelstander!
We’re easily amused here at BangShift and by easily amused we mean totally in love with unique homebuilt stuff that a guy dreamed up after a couple beers and turned into reality. Such is our...
Drag Video: Watch An Insane Naturally Aspirated SRT8 Jeep Grand Cherokee Pull Huge Wheelies and Run Deep Into The 10s
Well this is totally nuts. Eric Koll is the owner and driver of this wild Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT-8. As best we can tell, the machine is powered by a stroker modern hemi that displaces somewhere...
Nitro Video: Watch A Top Fuel Bike Fire Up And Rip Off A Burnout….INSIDE THE SHOP!
I’ve often thought that the men and women who race Top Fuel motorcycles are all part of a small group of escaped mental patients that somehow fell into the same hobby. Seriously, to see one of...
Video: Courtney Force’s Worlds Fastest 1000 ft Funny Car Pass From A New Angle
Corey Michalek, who did the super bitchin video chronicle of what it is like to be a part of a Top Fuel team a while back, also was at PBIR for the PRO Winter Warmup shooting video. We got to talk to...
