Carnage: Amazing News Photos of Early Car Wrecks From the City Streets of Boston
Leslie Jones was a staff photographer for the Boston Herald Newspaper for nearly 40 years, starting in 1917. Over that time he shot hundreds of thousands of images of a city on the move and in constant evolution. As it was the ‘teens when America really got obsessed with wheels, cars, and the pleasures of […]
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Having Fun In 1991: Wild Combos, Interesting Cars, And Laughs At The 1991 NHRA Mile High Nationals
The NHRA top alcohol dragster category is cool because you can run either an injected nitro burning engine or one that is supercharged on methanol. That wasn’t always the case. In fact there were all kinds of wild combos that were used (with limited success) in the category and this broadcast from the 1991 NHRA […]
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Drag Video: Ride On The Bottom Of A Mean Little Stick Shift Mustang!
There was a time when the best thing you could do when sorting out your drag car’s suspension was to paint a stripe on the tire and ask people in the stands or on the fence what they were seeing. If they knew what they were talking about you could work on your setup to […]
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Kissa Me Astro: This Retro-Review Of The Then New 1985 Chevy Astro Is A Fun Watch
One of the most incredible revelations from my career working at the gas station in high school was the day I was assisting the mechanic, Manny with a tune up on a 1980s era Astro Van. He told me to take the dog house off, pull the air cleaner and swap it for a fresh […]
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It’s Y-Block Day! Happy 3/12 To Ford Fans Everywhere – Let’s Look Back At The Ford 312 V8
When Ford needed a follow up to the venerable flathead V8 they knew it had to be good and it had to be tough. The replacement was the famed “Y-block” series of engines and they did a great job filling the shoes of the flathead by producing more horsepower and torque for Ford and Mercury […]
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Classic Drag Racing Film: Awesome Action At Southeastern Dragway In 1968
Now THIS is the kind of thing we really love to see. You are about to watch some killer drag racing action at Southeastern Dragway in 1968. The little track in Dallas, Georgia was about as far away from Pomona as one could get 50 years ago but as we all know, in the sport of […]
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Nitro Video: Watch This Hillclimbing Triumph T140 Thunder Up A Stepped Slope
We often think of nitromethane as only being a drag racing fuel but that is really, really wrong. Motorcycle guys love to burn nitro in various different disciplines of competition. In this video we’re going to watch a nasty hill climb motorcycle based on a 1970s Triumph T140 clamor its way up a stepped slope […]
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Here’s Mud In Your Eye! Watch This Compilation of Crazy Mud Bog Runs and Wrecks From The 1980s
With the explosion in popularity of monster trucks in the 1980s, other motorsports in that genre of competition were also uplifted. One of those sports was mud bog racing. It was the simple fact that many monster truck shows also featured mud runs as an “undercard” that helped the high horsepower machined designed to plane […]
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Old Caterpillar Video: This Introduction Film Of The Caterpillar 944 Wheel Loader From The 1950s Is Awesome
We take lots of stuff for granted today when we see it. Machines and operations that have seemingly been around since tim first began. The fact of the matter is that everything we do as human beings is evolutionary and that includes how we move the Earth and design the machines that we do it […]
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Old School Tech Video: This Breakdown Of A Road Ranger Big Rig Transmission From The 60s Is Brilliant!
There are millions of awesome videos on the automotive end of the internet and we try to find cool ones to show you every day here at BangShift. This particular video is an honest gem of 1960s tech and advertising that we think you are going to love. As a sidebar the thing is highly […]
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