Category Archive: Car Features, MOPAR, Videos
Car Feature & Video Re-Run: Gary and Pam Beineke’s Serpent SRT-71 Dodge Charger
We featured several cars from the collection of Gary and Pam Beineke in 2009. Gary and Pam have made a name for themselves in the Mopar community by creating so-called, “what if?” cars....
Historic Drag Video: Footage From the Long Dead Golden Triangle Drag Strip
Golden Triangle Drag Strip, which was located just outside of Beaumont, Texas, has been dead for years. The former air strip is now crossed over by a highway, and serves as the backdrop of a little...
Screaming Dyno Video: 660hp At Nearly 9,000-RPM!
We purposely omitted the fact that the engine in this video is a V8 that would have normally been found in a Titan pickup truck. As you’ll see in this video, the engine has been reworked to...
Update Video: The Radial Engine MR2 is Running Like a Top
Last Sunday we showed you video of a Toyota MR2 that has been re-powered with an old radial airplane engine. Go ahead and re-read that if you need to. That first video showed the engine running, but...
Video: More Bad Ass Amphibious Military Truck Action, Bonus Splash Down!
Yesterday’s video of the old Army truck driving around the bottom of a lake was pretty great. We were then tipped off to some far more modern military truck action, this time featuring a...
Bangshift Mini-Feature: The Piss’d Off Pete 1960 Peterbilt
One of the coolest projects to hit the airwaves and webwaves over the last couple of years is Randy Grubb’s creation known as the Pissed Off Pete. This is a 1960 Peterbilt truck modified in the...
Nitrous Express Duramax Diesel Mustang leaves the building.
The Nitrous Express Mustang is going going gone. Our pal Mike Wood, owner of Nitrous Express, has been a fellow Drag Week glutton for several years now, and we have enjoyed hanging out with him and...
Carnage of the Week: An Old Dodge Camper in Hilarious Action on a Tough Truck Track
It doesn’t get any cooler than this. Someone bought an old crusty Dodge camper at a public auction for close to nothing, took said camper to the county fair, and then entered the thing, bone...
Killer Project Video: The Gixxer Kart Has A new Foe!
For years the golden standard of insane power to weight ratio on the internet has been the infamous “Gixxer kart” which mated the engine from a GSX-R motorcycle to the frame of a tiny go...
Historic Video Bonanza: The 1965 12 Hours of Sebring
Road course competition was like international chess in the 1960s. There were battles for supremacy in virtually all classes and we’re not talking driver versus driver competition, we’re...
100% BangShift Approved Video: Firing Up a Radial Airplane Engine Powered Toyota MR2
We normally don’t post a lot of stuff on the weekend because we’re usually out getting our BangShift on like the rest of you, but there are some “stop the presses moments” and...
The Parting Shift Rerun: The Coolest Job in the World, Driving an F1 Engine and Trans on a Test Stand
We’ve seen some awesome automotive jobs in our day, but the guy featured in this video has the best one hands down. The video is from the early 1990s and it shows a Renault V10 Formula One...
In-Car March Meet Funny Car Footage – Ron Capps Hauls the Mail!
Ron Capps sure had an interesting March Meet. He drove Del Worsham’s recreation of the famous Blue Max Mustang and was surrounded by an awesome all star crew. Dean Antonelli, Chuck Worsham, and...