Category Archive: RACING & ACTION, Videos
Nostalgia Pro Stock Video: The Reher – Morrison Tribute Camaro Takes on the WJ Tribute Camaro
Without a doubt, the next “big thing” in nostalgia race will be Nostalgia Pro Stock. We know of six cars across the country getting built and there are already a bunch of cool machines...
Nitro Video: The Beauty of a Perfect Nostalgia Fueler Run at Night
We got a note in our e-mail box from pal Cole Coonce, tipping us off to some video he shot over the weekend at Bakersfield, where the big “Saturday Night Nitro” match race was slated to...
VOTE NOW — BangShift Burnout Battle: A Hot Rodded Harley and a Healthy Mustang Burn ’em to the Cords
For our second installment of the minty-fresh BangShift Burnout Battle, we’ve got two guys from Massachusetts slugging it out in very different ways. Mike and Jeff were the first two guys to...
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...