Pro Stock Time Machine – Check Out This IHRA Moutain Motor Action From St Louis, Circa 1985
With all the talk about today’s modern NHRA pro stock category and how mountain motors may be a part of it heading into the future, we thought we would look into the past. See, the NHRA tour...
Safety In 1975 Video: Watch Race Drivers And Regular People Talk About The Wonder Of Seatbelts 40+ Years Ago
There’s something to be said for seatbelts. We all went through a phase in our lives when putting on a seatbelt was like admitting you enjoyed Culture Club music in the 1980s. It was shameful...
Coolness! Check Out This Episode Of The Long Forgotten “Pro Drag Superstars” TV Show From 1985
I love finding stuff like this. Ever heard of the TV show “Pro Drag Superstars”? I sure had not before stumbling onto this video that was hiding a dark, recessed corner of YouTube. The...
Amazing Historical Video: Listen To Amazing Audio From Breedlove and Arfons During Their 1960s Land Speed Duel – Incredible Peek Into History
We show lots of old videos here on BangShift and some of them are silent. I normally am not too busted about that because the moving pictures are so compelling to look at you can get around the lack...
Satellite Launch: Digging A Long-Dead Plymouth Out Of It’s Grave!
Have you ever looked at a page like Cars in Barns or the many Instagram pages of forlorn, abandoned old machines and wondered just how much work really would need to go and bring that beast to life?...
Let’s Go Supermodified Racing! Ride Along During A Race At Sandusky Speedway – Awesome
With a big block Chevrolet hanging off the left side and competitors mere inches from the open wheels on the right, there can’t be anything more intense than driving a real-deal Supermodified....
Rust And Rarity: This 1970 IH Travelette Is A Project That Needs Finished!
I’m always a fan of the oddball project vehicle. Always have been, always will be. I don’t see much wrong in staying mainstream, but there’s always one common complaint: when...
The Starting Shift: A Gear Banging Pass in A Clutchless Five Speed Nova!
We’re freaking BangShift so we need to start our week with manual transmission violence, damn it! We’re getting back on the horse with a good one here. This is a Chevy Nova driven by a...
Sherriff Branford Approved: Can You Rally A Dodge Charger Pursuit?
I don’t know how many people are taught how to drive like they are a stunt driver when they are years away from a driver’s license, but it is one of the highlights of my childhood that I...
Incredible: The Project Apollo Archive Released More Than 8,000 Rarely Or Never Seen Apollo Mission Photos! Must See
Welcome to a bonafide Monday time suck. The link below is to the Project Apollo Archive and this is quite literally a stunning private effort that has been put forth to share and document the...
The Straight-Eight Challenge: Will Either One Of These Ancient Engines Run?
Waking up cars from the dead will always be a challenge, but for the past sixty years or so, give or take, the designs of the engine are pretty much the same: inline four, inline six, V8 and up....
BangShift Tune-Up: “Shake It Up” by The Cars (1981)
Oh, MTV…how you ruined a kid like me. Thanks to adults that had anything better to do than to keep their eyes on little old me, I fell for music videos hard. And in the late 1980s, MTV was...
In-Car Video: See What It Is Like To Race The Fastest Figure Eight Stock Car Series In America
We have showed you lots of video that highlights the complete craziness of Figure eight stock car racing in the past but we have never placed you inside one of the cars. Not only are we placing you...
