Category Archive: RACING & ACTION, Videos
NHRA Unleashed at National Trail this weekend, plus more video.
NHRA’s new UnLeashed series is visiting Hebron Ohio’s National Trail Raceway this weekend for the 3rd UnLeashed event of 2010. If you are looking for some of the quickest and fastest...
Wreck Video: Full Contact Aussie Road Racing
During our days announcing SCCA road races, one of the most fun classes to call was Spec Miata. What they lacked in power and speed they made up for in contact. It was Saturday Night Thunder with...
Video Bonanza: Duesenberg Drag Racing!
Recently the Ab Jenkins Memorial Duesenberg Festival of Speed went down in Indiana. The event was a historic gathering of the magnificent American machines and it also featured a Duesenberg drag race...
Extreme Wreckage Video: Sleepy Woman Drifts Jeep Into Convenience Store
Cars crashing into buildings make for good video. So long as no one gets hurt and the only wounds are suffered by bags of Cheetos and Funyuns we’re good with reveling in the carnage. This video...
Killer Drag Video: An Interview With Nitro-Shoe Mendy Fry Circa 1987!
Mendy Fry is one of the most sought after nostalgia nitro pilots in the world today. She’s in the Nostalgia Top Fuel 250mph club, has run down into the 5.80s in a nostalgia nitro flopper, and...
Killer Video: Plymouth Roadrunner Ads
Chrysler may not have been the sales leader of the muscle car era, but they were certainly the fun leader. We found a great video showing a compilation of Roadrunner ads from 1968-what looks to be...
Event Coverage: 4th Annual Burbank Charity Hot Rod and Race Car Show with Cacklefest Video
The 4th Annual Burbank, California, Charity Hot Rod and Race Car Show was a big hit on August 28th, 2010. The Masonic Lodge of Burbank puts on the show every year, with all proceeds going to support...
Wretched Excess Video: A Triple Allison V-12 Powered Pulling Tractor
You’ve seen tractors with a bunch of blown Hemi engines powering the rear wheels. You may have ever seen one or two with radial aircraft engines, but this is a first for us. A European tractor...
Rally Wreckage: A Brake Failure Sends a Rally Car Spectator Bowling
Amazingly, no one was hurt in this video, but man they came close! Apparently the car in this video suffered a brake failure of some kind, causing it to overcook the corner and head right toward a...
Great Vintage Video: Chevy Vega Development Footage From 1970!
We’ve featured vintage film from the old “Car and Track” show before, but this could be the coolest ever for a variety of reasons. As usual, Bud Lindemann leads us off on the...
Wild Wreck Video: In-Car Footage of a Dragster Rolling Over at Speed
The advent of the affordable on-board camera has made the wonder of in-car video a rather normal thing these days. Footage of cars crashing from the inside out never gets old in our book. We were...
Video Bonanza: Steam Tractors At Play
It has been too long since we attacked you with some good ol’ fashioned tractor action. Our open love of tractors is shared by a good portion of the BangShift universe, so when we were tipped...
Pikes Peak Video: In-Car Footage of Bill Caswell’s Trip Up the Mountain in the Infamous BMW
Our pal Bill Caswell dropped us a note recently to let us know that he had uploaded the actual in-car footage from his recent adventure at Pikes Peak. It is some awesome viewing. His world famous...