Destruction Video: Bus and Truck Crash Tests Gone Wrong
Planned crash testing for science and engineering is entertaining enough, but what happens when the crash testing becomes an accident in itself? These two videos answer that question. If you’re...
See the BangShift.com Photo Galleries
The photo galleries here on BangShift.com are the most viewed part of the website outside of the forums. For new or returning visitors, we wanted to make this post to send you to see some of the...
eBay Pick of the Week Destruction Edition: Own Your Own Car Crusher
In keeping with today’s stated theme of wall-to-wall destruction and carnage, we thought the ideal eBay pick would be the ultimate in automotive end-of-life technology, the car crusher....
Video: Day of Destruction Starts Now with Old-School Daredevils
As we announced on Friday, today, October 5, 2009, is the landmark first-ever BangShift.com Day of Destruction. We’ll bring you great compilations of automotive stuff getting trashed every hour...
Video: 7-Second AMC-Powered Gremlin!
BangShift member Eagle Kammback tipped us off to this Gremlin that just ran 7.91 at Milan with a 463-inch AMC motor that uses the stock block and stock-based crank! It also has a Liberty five-speed,...
Video: Swingin’ 1961 Chevrolet Commercial
This is a mind-blowing, nearly 2-minute commercial from back when GM was in a good mood. The piece from 1961 looks more like the opener for a Doris Day comedy than it does a car commercial, but it...
The Parting Shift: Getting it Done With a Five-Gear
Here’s a new weekly feature that we’ll use to lower the curtain on a week’s were here on the blog. Each week we’re going to fearure a video of someone really rowing a...
Who The Hell Owns Richard Petty Motorsports?
It seems that every other week we’re hearing news about Richard Petty’s NASCAR team and none of it ever seems to be good. There was the rumor of Dodge leaving them high and dry, a rumored...
Carnage Video: Nasty Mazda Rotary Tumbles in the Lights
You may think that import cars are weak sauce, but the guys in Puerto Rico figured out the Mazda rotary engines long ago and they have some insane action there on the country’s four drag...
Exhaust Violation May Lead to Capture of Murder Suspect
Can a pair of oddly placed exhaust stacks on a truck that has no business having exhaust stacks lead to the capture of an Illinois murder suspect? Authorities hope so. The truck was spotted in...
Paxton Blow-Through-Carb Superchargers for Small-Block Mopars
This really isn’t that new, but it’s just so bitchin’ that we wanted to remind you that Paxton makes blow-thru-carburetor systems for small-block Mopars. Boost is good, and it can...
Coming Monday: The Day of Destruction
We’ve been dropping videos of carnage on you over the last week, placing them here and there in the blog. We’ve had flying Corvettes, spinning big rigs, and even someone driving through a...
History Channel Announces New Shows; One Sounds Like A Glorious Trainwreck
The History Channel is on a reality show kick. We’re admittedly hooked on Ice Road Truckers. It sounds like lots of others are too as the channel’s web site has announced that THC will be...
Epic Hoon Fail Bonus: Teens Crash Car Through House, Pin Elderly Woman
If you thought our report on the kid who got busted doing burnouts hours after getting his license was bad, then you are really in for it when you hear the story of another hooning Aussie teen who...
