Category Archive: HISTORIC, Videos
Killer Drag Video: Seven Minutes in Early Pro Stock Heaven
The birth of Pro Stock as a drag racing class is one of the clearest examples of mechanical evolution in racing. Starting in the early 1960s when the Big Three started funneling money into drag...
Killer Truck Video: A Pair of Hellacious Chevys Crushing Cars
There are few things cooler to our simplistic minds than watching large lifted trucks drive over cars. Call us names if you want, but the two trucks in this video, which take two divergent approaches...
Road Racing Video: In-Car Action at the Rockingham Chump Car Race
Our pal Jeff Huneycutt, who is an ace freelancer and the operator of StreetMuscleAction.com sent us a cool video link of some in-car action at the Rockingham ChumpCar race. Huneycutt and crew won the...
Crazy Fail Video: Aussie Guy Almost Runs Over The Starter While Doing a Burnout
This is about as close a call as you’ll ever see at the strip. We can say that this is the only time we’ve ever seen a starter actually jump for his life to get away from a wayward car....
Historic Drag Video: Awesome Old Footage of 427-Powered Comets and Fairlanes
After continuing to lust after the RacingJunk find Comet Cyclone we showed you a while ago, we went searching out cool Comet videos on YouTube and managed to hit the mother load. Ronnie Sox, Dyno...
The Parting Shift: Street Driving a Pro-Shifted T5
Being a gearhead is often about making sacrifices. Take this video for example. The guy driving the car obviously races it and because of that he had the T5 transmission “Pro-Shifted” by...
Groovy Video: 1970 Firestone Tires Commercial
Decades before the Ford Explorer debacle that would cost the brand dearly (and more than they deserved) Firestone was cranking out tires at a blinding rate for all different types of vehicles. Their...
Hilarious Video: The Old Driverless Van Trick
We’ve obviously been having some fun with it being April Fool’s Day and all, but this clip from a Canadian comedy television show is truly good stuff. A troup of people manipulate a...
Dyno Video: A Boss 429 Screaming to Be Let Out
The Boss 429 was certainly a bad hombre from Ford back in the day. As we told you a while back, there are companies where you can now buy new crate versions of the blue oval monster to bolt in your...
Insane Fail Video: How Not to Right a Tipped Over Tractor Trailer
This is one of the flat out nuttiest fail videos we have ever seen. It’s from a foreign country, which one we have no idea, and there’s lots of screaming and yelling in languages we...
Cool Video: A Top Fuel Hydroplane Throwing Header Flames on the Water
Top Fuel Hydros are the baddest mothers on the water. Take all the aspects of a fuel dragster or Funny Car, smoosh it down into a swoopy looking boat, and voila! You’ll be doing 250 mph on the...
Carnage Video: Guy Stuffs a Viper in a Line of Traffic
To set the scene, you’re out bombing around in your Viper, maybe even with a hottie in the passenger seat. Traffic is heavy, but you are slicing and dicing like Fangio. Life is good, and as...
Pulling Video: A Vintage Ford Sporting V8 Power
Since BangShift.com first got off the ground, we’ve not been shy of our affection for old tractors. We happened to be surfing YouTube as we do far too often and found some footage of an old...
Smoke Show Video: A 1993 Dodge Daytona Goes Out in a Fog of Glory
Let’s say that you have a 1993 Dodge Daytona that has thrown a rod and is emotionally dead to you. There are a couple of options to move on at that point. At least two of them involve a tow...