Category Archive: RACING & ACTION, Videos
Land Speed Video: Something Evil This Way Comes – A Look Back At Poteet And Main’s 2012 Conquering Season
The Poteet and Main Speed Demon is one of the great land speed race cars of our time. The machine has steadily and methodically gotten better ad fast each year and is now the definitive title holder...
Incredible Video: Watch The Grave Digger Monster Truck Leap and Land Directly On The Turtled Maximum Destruction Truck and Then Jump Over It!
Mock me if you wish, but damn do I love me some modern monster truck action. This video is proof of the capability that these amazing machines have. The trucks can fly and articulate like desert...
Watch The 48 Hour Camaro Take On The Gas Monkey Garage Guys In A Donut Cutting Contest!
Spoiler alert — The dudes from Ridetech and the 48 Hour Camaro are going to be on an upcoming episode of the gearhead show Fast n’ Loud. As is usually the case at the Gas Monkey Garage,...
Watch A Cummins Powered Dodge Ram Absolutely Destroy A Viper On The Drag Strip
That disappearing spec in the lead photo is a Dodge Viper and the vehicle making it shrink into nothingness is a massive one ton Dodge pickup with a highly worked over Cummins diesel that makes more...
Vintage Drag Video: Gassers, Door Slammers, Altereds, Dragsters And More From The Late 1960s In Missouri and Iowa
Old drag strip home movies are good for the soul, we’re convinced of that. This nearly 12-minute clip that was originally made by Carl and Char Hirst back in the late 1960s at Mid America...
Videos Of Win: A Twin Turbo Olds 455 Cutlass Sleeper Runs 10s – Plus A Crafty Home Made Solution To Modifying Pistons At Home For Full Floating Wrist Pins!
You know that above pretty much all else around here, we love sleepers. When said sleepers are home built using good old fashioned hot rod ingenuity they get our full attention and admiration, like...
Throwback Video: Chad Taunts Death Shooting Killer Drift Footage With Team Scion And Death Runs Away Scared
Way back in 2009 I was asked by John Naderi of Streefire to come out and shoot some video at Irwindale for a Scion Drift Team Test session. Turns out they were giving rides to some Rockstar Energy...
Screaming V8 Video: A NASCAR V8 + A Scion FR-S = A Toyota That Does Not Suck
We typically do not sing the praises of Toyota here at BangShift…quite the opposite really, but when something cool gets built we’re all over highlighting it. In this case, that cool...
Dyno Video: Watch A GT500 Mustang With A 3.6L Kenne Bell Blower Pull To 7,000 RPM – Screaming Goodness!
You certainly don’t have the like Mustangs to respect the late model GT500s that currently prowl the streets. With their blown 5.4L engines, even in stock form they haul buckets of ass. Of...
Vintage Video: A 1987 Drag Documentary Looks At Kenny Bernstein And The Budweiser Crew – Neat Stuff!
My first memories of really being a fan of drag racing become clear about the time I was seven. That was 1987, the same year that a German film crew made this short documentary about Kenny Bernstein...
Epic Historic Road Racing Video: Footage From The Opening Day At Riverside International Raceway – Ol’ Yeller, Corvettes, Mercedes, Ferraris and More!
This is the coolest silent move that I have ever seen. The footage was taken on the opening day of the now gone Riverside International Raceway in California and it features some of the coolest road...
VIDEO: Blown Altered Catches Flight At March Meet 2013. No Really It Gets All 4 Off At The Hit!
When this happened right before our eyes during our LIVE broadcast of the 2013 March Meet at Famoso’s famed Auto Club Famoso Raceway, we couldn’t believe our eyes. It’s not that we...
Video: Where They Raced Episode 3: Part 1 The Road Races
We are fully addicted to the “Where They Raced” video series now. Episode 3 is a two parter, and here is Part 1 for you to enjoy. Not only do we enjoy the hell out of each one, but we...
Video: A Tattered Sleeper Chevy Truck Runs DEEP 10s In Texas And Makes Us Weep With Joy
There are videos of the red Chevy farm truck with the cap on the bed pulling wheelies and roaring down the track, blowing flashier and newer cars into the weeds and those are nice, but this thing is...