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Classic YouTube: Summernats In Late 1980s Australia! Burnouts And A Start-Stop Challenge!

For years we’ve shown you the wild side of what an Australian auto event can be. The powerskids that leave Holdens looking like a horizontally-launched Space Shuttle as they rocket down the...

Weld Racing And The Andretti Family Team Up – 120 Years Of Combined Experience Between Them

It is always cool when companies and families have a legacy together. WELD Racing is celebrating their 50th anniversary this year and we all know the story of the racing Andretti family, right? The...

Rough Start: Can You Really Go Wrong With A Rough But Running X-body? This Pontiac Ventura Looks Like A Score!

I don’t know what it is about a primer gray GM X-body that makes me feel good. Maybe it’s fond memories of my mother’s Oldsmobile Omega, or maybe it’s because they make for...

Get Your Horsepower On: These DRCE3 Raw Castings Are The Building Blocks Of Serious Horsepower

With all of the rumors surrounding the pro stock class lately, it is sometimes easy to forget how incredible the machines themselves are. They have been refined to a razor’s edge. Some people...

BangShift Question Of The Day: How Far Gone Is Too Far Gone For You?

Between Brian, Chad and myself, we’ve got a list of winners that have been dragged home and propped up as a financially responsible, perfectly safe mode of transportation…or, at minimums,...

Dyno Video: Watch The Bob Book Built, 400ci NHRA Comp Eliminator Small Block That’s Headed For The Pacific Northwest Make A Rip

Now this is some small block music straight from the horsepower heavens. You are going to watch a 400ci small block Chrysler hemi engine make a rip saw of a dyno pull at Bob Book Racing Enterprises....

Money No Object: Richard Petty’s 1978 Dodge Magnum Race Car Is Up For Grabs!

Replacing Richard Petty’s 1974 Dodge Charger was always going to be a monumental tasking. At the end of the 1977 season, the Charger had proven to be highly successful and the pressure was on...

Meltdown Drags Craziness: Watch The Throttle Hang Wide Open On Brian Kohlman’s Nitro Hemi Coupe, Resulting In Carnage

Brian Kohlman’s nitro hemi coupe is one hell of a hot rod, sometimes it acts like it is from hell as well. Kohlman’s car uses an early Hemi on a nice load of fuel hooked to a stick shift...

We Want It And We Want It Bad: This FLU419 Small Emplacement Excavator Is Awesome If Not Totally Practical

At the end of the day, all military vehicles are tools, right? Designed to suit a job or purpose they help fighting men and women get the job done. That being said, there are LOTS of cool tools out...

Treat It Like A Rental: That’s $2 Million Worth Of Mercedes Ripping Up The Lawn!

Out of the thirty-five 1997 Mercedes CLK-GTR homologation street cars produced, six and only six were roadsters…you know, because what a GT1 homologation car needs more than anything is...

We Found A Volkswagen TDI Recall Regional Holding Facility At An Old Naval Air Base In Southeastern Massachusetts

This is nuts! My son Tom’s pal Adam is as big a car guy as Tom and he made mention to him one day this summer that there were a load of VWs parked on the grounds of what used to be the South...

Money No Object: With This 1969 Beaumont, How Much Is Hearing “What Is That?” Worth?

You see one 1969 Chevelle, you’ve seen them all. You’ve seen a similar vintage Pontiac, it’s the same. But if you see a 1969 Beaumont, your brain immediately sends the ultimate...

More High Flyin’ Stock And Super Stock Fun From Maple Grove – All Your Eastern Favorites Here!

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – We’ve been singing the praises of stock and super stock eliminator over the last few days as we have been sharing Joe Grippo’s photos from the late spring...

Check Out 1320Video’s Final Round Of Footage From Rocky Mountain Race Week 2017!

The trek is over and done with. Rocky Mountain Race Week 2017 is in the books, and the 1320Video crew are wrapping up their coverage for the week. There’s been plenty of fun looping from...