Category Archive: MISC, Videos
Great Video: The Story Behind Dougzilla and the Best Drag Racing Burndown in 40 years
In drag racing, a burndown occurs when both competitors pre-stage and neither moves to the fully staged position. There is no rule as to whom has to stage first or second, and when two guys get it in...
Just Because: Original Dukes of Hazzard Bloopers
It’s hard to argue that the Dukes of Hazzard influenced every BangShifter one way or another, if only through today’s dire shortage of 1969 Chargers. Well, here’s a clip of Dukes as...
Wild Video: Suzuki Submarine
The Suzuki Samurai was a much maligned little 4×4 back when Consumer Reports got one to “roll” on its test course. Turns out that the little bastards are great off-road trucks with...
More Killer Swedish Video: A Hill Climb With a Wild Mix of Cars
Here’s another great piece of video that comes to us via a tip from Speedzzter, our blog contributing compatriot. We’re taking you back to Sweden but this time we’re ditching the...
Carnage Video: Un-F’ing-Believable In-Car View of a Massive Clutch Explosion
This one will blow your mind, and driver Tony Defelices is lucky that nothing else got blown off during this massive clutch explosion in his PSI-blown 1967 Camaro. Though the car is left-hand drive,...
Video: Even More SEMA and Street Car Invitational Coverage From Ridetech.com
The 2009 SEMA Show is a memory by now, but you can relive it with the most recent coverage posted by BangShift.com sponsor Ridetech. The company introduced a bunch of new products at the show,...
Carnage Video: Street Race Wreck, Camaro Rolls Over
BangShift member Kyle from 1320Video.com just keeps hooking us up with wild video. This time it’s a street race where a clean and fast ’68 Camaro ends up rolling over at the top end. The...
The Parting Shift: An 11-Second Pass in a 30,000-Mile Hemi GTX
We realize that many of you have checked out for Thanksgiving weekend, but that won’t stop us from posting our now-traditional, week-ending Parting Shift item. This time it’s from...
Video: Parking Brake Fail
This video is direct from FailBlog.org, and it’s pretty much self-explanatory. It might play better as a talkie, but you won’t miss the plot.
Thanksgiving Day Tire Roast: Insane Aussie Burnout with Unintentional Fire
Aussies seem to take their burnout contests seriously. We’ve shown you videos of guys rolling junk over, tires blowing to smithereens, and engines exploding during some of these competitions....
Video: An Incredible Save on the Sand Dunes
This one is oooold, but still entertaining. It appears to come from the Middle East. We know in Dubai they call stuff like this “dune bashing.” Over here we’d call it hill climbing....
Abandoned Drag Strip History: Double H in Blue Ridge, Georgia, with Video
With today’s focus on nostalgia, it’s neat to see so many people starting to remember the drag strips of the past and digging out their historic photos and videos for all to see. It helps...
Video: Behind the Scenes at Hot Rod Drag Week with Jay Brown and his Amazing Fords
BangShift member Hemi Joel (Nystrum) may be a Mopar guy, but he’s also the frequent passenger in Jay Brown’s wild, class-winning, FE-powered Fords during the Hot Rod Drag Week races. Joel...
Carnage Video: Guy Falls off a Motorcycle at 200 MPH, Twice!
Brian’s blog about the guy crashing the Top Fuel bike a few times reminded me that Keith Turk told me about a guy who fell off a motorcycle twice at around 200 mph at El Mirage Dry Lake,...