Category Archive: FUNNY STUFF, Videos
Video: Golf Carts rule! Big power, burnouts, and wheelstands.
Racers have been using golf carts as pit vehicles for years, but more and more of them are showing up on the street, the dunes, the racetrack, etc. We’re sure that EZGO and Club Car are...
Chadmouth: 100MPH Couch? I’m not impressed. We could do better.
When we first heard about a speed record for a couch that was hit by a group of guys in Australia, we were intrigued. Once we saw the couch in question, we were not impressed. In fact so much so that...
Drag Video: The Lingenfelter Flat Plane Turbo Camaro Goes 8.71-162mph!
We’ve showed you the Lingenfelter flat plane crank engine on the dyno naturally aspirated, making about 700hp. We then showed it to you on the dyno with a turbo making over 1,000hp. As the guys...
Diesel Power Video: A 15-second Quarter Mile Kenworth Dump Truck
Talk about a sleeper! This video shows a nice looking Kenworth T800 dump truck hauling ass down the quarter mile at New England Dragway in Epping, NH during their yearly Truck Nationals event....
Drag Video: The World’s Fastest Couch Takes on a Holden SS Ute
The world’s fastest couch was recently clocked at a crazy 101mph. Seriously. Naturally, when one owns a 100mph couch, the next logical thing to do with it is to drag race a hot car. In this...
Wednesday Wheelie Video: A Pump Gas Camaro on the Bumper!
We’re fascinated with huge wheelstands and we’re guessing you are too. Hell, there are whole events designated just to the glorification of cars defying gravity for as long as possible....
Awesome Video: A World Record Semi-Truck Jump From Washington State
There are stunt jumps and then there’s this. Filmed in Washington State at Evergreen Speedway, it shows a sleeper cab equipped semi truck (an International perhaps?) gaining a full head of...
Monday Time Killer: Still Too Fast To Race – An Hour Long Documentary on Group B Rally Car History
We’ve written a bunch over about Group B rally cars over the years here at BangShift. We’re by no means rally experts, but these machines need to be in the lexicon of every serious...
Dyno Video: The Lingenfelter Flat Plane LS Motor Makes 1,000hp With Turbo – Exhaust Hotter Than the Sun!
Last week we showed you some video of the Lingenfelter Performance Engineering flat plane crank equipped GM LS engine. The mill made about 650hp and there were some notes that it was going to be...
The Parting Shift: Fire Shooting Big Rig Addition
Admittedly, I’m way behind schedule with this week’s Parting Shift. I was so deep in the soup that I enlisted the help of my pal and killer artist Stu Wotypka. Stu struck gold with this...
BangShift Burnout Battle – International Edition: A Delta 88 in England Takes on a Bitchin’ 1964 Skylark in the USA – FINAL DAY TO VOTE!
BangShift Burnout Battle fever has crossed over the ocean and landed in jolly ol’ England! This week we have for your viewing and voting pleasure a beautiful 1964 Buick Skylark ripping tires in...
WTF Video: A Squashed Russian SUV Rolling Down the Highway
We’ve all seen a smacked up car rolling down the road and wondered what the hell happened. Maybe the doors are all smashed in or there’s a headlight missing but overall the car is still...
Powerful Video: The 9-11 Boatlift – How Men of Action Evacuated Manhattan That Day
Forgive us if you have already seen this video. It is making tracks across the web in record time and for good reason. This is the story, as narrated by Tom Hanks, of the men who sprang to action on...
Nasty Wreck Video: Armco Guardrails Amplify Another Bad Wreck Into Pure Catastrophe
There are dozens of videos on the internet showing crashes at drag strips with armco-style guardrails. Sometimes the guardrails keep the cars contained to the strip, but most times, like in this...