Category Archive: RACING & ACTION, Videos
Nitro Video: A Nitro Guzzling Flat Four VW Dragster That Goes 7s (and Could Go Into the 6s!)
Yesterday we told you about a slingshot powered by a nitro burning Jeep engine and today we’re bringing you more oddly awesome nitro powered stuff! This video is of the Wolfgang International...
Great Video: Hot Cars, Hot Laps, and Melting Tires at Norway’s Arctic Circle Raceway
We were tipped off to this great video by BangShift member Blazerteam, who happens to live in a Norwegian town called Mo i Rana. He’s a huge gearhead with a wild big block Chevy powered...
The Parting Shift: Flaming Camaro Edition
Jim Warter has some awesome videos of his Competition Eliminator Camaro on the interwebs. We think the best one is this clip that shows the car catching fire early in the run, but still sprinting to...
Hot Six Video: An Aussie Ford Falcon With Turbo Straight Six Power Tears Up the Strip
While Aussie gearheads love the V8 engine as much as their American brothers and sisters do, the history of performance cars down under has been marked with some pretty bad ass six cylinder engines....
Cool Video: The Most Artistic Drag Racing Video We’ve Seen In a While
We’re usually bringing you videos of stuff wrecking, exploding, and generally self-destructing on the drag strip. Today, for this brief shining moment, we’re going uptown, kids! The guys...
Truckin’ Awesome Video: True Monster Truck Drag Racing at Englishtown
We can hear the hate mail now. “MONSTER TRUCKS ON A DRAG STRIP?! Like our condoning or celebration of such a kick ass event is out of place. The whole sport of drag racing, especially on the...
Thursday Bonneville Video Bonanza: More Great Footage From the Salt
We could sit and watch cars launch off and power down the short and long courses at Bonneville all day long. Luckily for us, there are lots of fans and racers out there now carrying video cameras...
Wednesday Bonneville Video Bonanza: More Cool Video From Speed Week 2011!
Yesterday we brought you the freshest video we could find from Bonneville Speed Week 2011. Today, we’re back with the same thing because the sweet video footage keeps rolling in from the...
Update: The Hot Rod Magazine Special Camaro With a Supercharged Two Cylinder Big Block Chevy Runs 32.414 MPH – Qualifies for Record
Well this is oddly cool! When Keith Turk and Hot Rod Magazine’s David Freiburger fragged the 1100hp blown big block Chevy in their Camaro at Bonneville, all hope seemed lost for the week. The...
Bonneville 2011 Video Bonanza: Launches and Fly-Bys (Some Featuring the Handiwork of BangShifters!)
The videos are starting to roll out of Bonneville now, and we’ve scooped up a bunch of them to show you. Most are long distance fly bys but man, the sound is totally worth the price of...
The Parting Shift: A Regular Guy Shows GM How Powershifting Really Goes
In the blog item just below this one, we showed you a video from GM on how they test their manual transmissions “Woodward Ave” style. Those tests are designed to recreate the kind of...
Bonneville Video: Amir from Spectre Talks Us Through a 350mph Streamliner Run
The Speed by Spectre ‘Liner will be running at Bonneville next week and we’ll be there to cover it. Chad will be bringing the fight to the salt starting on Monday. But we digress. If...
Cool Video: A Vintage Ford Pro Stocker Rumbles Back To Life
There’s a slowly emerging crop of vintage Pro Stock drag race cars emerging around the country. Some, like this car were truly competitors back in the day, while others, like Brian...
The Parting Shift: Pulling Lenco Levers With the Front End in the Air!
Steve Clukey is a long time New England drag racer. He’s owned his Duster since it was brand new, and he has been beating it like a rented mule from day one. It has always been a stick shift...