Category Archive: RACING & ACTION, Videos
Awesome Video: A Helmet-Cam View of a Wheelstander Run
We’ve always wanted to drive a wheelstander and this video really sealed the deal for us. Shot from a helmet-cam, it shows just how wild and wacky these machines are. The video comes from...
Awesome Vintage Promotional Video: The Turbocharged Oldsmobile Jetfire V8
With the current hot rodding love affair with turbocharging in full swing, it is important to see the domestic history of exhaust driven compressors. That tale starts with the currently dead...
Road Course Video: Take a Lap on the Roof of the DSE Camaro
Kyle and Stacy Tucker at Detroit Speed are noted speed freaks. Between their skills on the autocross courses, road courses, and Kyle’s experience at the Baja 1000, driving skills are not...
The Parting Shift: Suicide Shifting the Coolest Custom Harley We’ve Ever Seen
In the nearly 100 Parting Shift items we have published over the last couple years, we never thought to include a motorcycle with a suicide shifter. Why? Clearly it is because we’re morons, but...
Video: 2010’s Wildest Doorslammer Close Calls and Wall Bangers
2010 was certainly a wild year at the drags. The small tire scene continues to be white hot and this video shows some of the craziest action from last year. Filmed at many southern tracks like South...
Horrific Wreck Video: Australia’s Debbie Reed Suffers a Massive Top End Crash
Debbie Reed is a name very familiar to Aussie drag racing fans, but maybe not so for North American straight line followers. She’s been in the sport for 30 years and is a successful Top Alcohol...
Awesome Video: A Gathering of Vintage Dirt Track Iron Tearing up the Track
Much of America’s racing heritage was built on dirt tracks by men driving dangerous machines on small rings all over the country. There wasn’t a fairgrounds in America without a horse...
Awesome Historic Drag Video: Dragsters, Altereds, and A/FX Action from Lions Drag Strip
Oh, is this a winner! An awesome three minute home movie film from Lions Drag Strip back in the 1960s, it captures several fuel dragsters smoking the hides, and ultra rare footage of Hubert...
Video Lead Off: Early 1960s Vintage Films of Guys Blowing Donuts
Blowing donuts on dry pavement and in the snow is totally BangShift approved. We were tipped off to some footage from the early 1960s showing all kinds of cool old junk spinning out in different...
Video: Wheels Up Aussie Drag Racing Excitement
We are always entertained by the Aussies and their penchant for killer horsepower and burnouts. We also love their willingness to turn any flat piece of asphalt into a dragstrip. One of the best...
Open Track Day Wreckage: How To Crash Your Evo While Not Wearing Any Safety Gear
Open track days are riotous fun. They are the type of events that allow people who have always wanted to road race a shot at the track to test their mettle. In the case of this video, which shows a...
Best of BangShift 2010: Insane Icelandic Hillclimb Action
Icelandic hillclimb racers must hate gravity. There’s just no other way to explain why they attempt to race their tube chassis Jeeps and trucks up near vertical cliff faces, often with...