License Day: This Behind The Scenes Video Featuring Jason Rupert Getting His NHRA Funny Car License Is Awesome
Aug 04, 2021Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 NHRA News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, BangShift News, MISC, RACING & ACTION, Videos
We’ve long been Jason Rupert fans here at BangShift.com. During our years of streaming events like the March Meet, California Hot Rod Reunion, and others, we saw a lot of him. Typically we saw...
Watch This Crazy Junkyard Shredder Eat Entire Engines – Amazing Power And Destruction
Aug 04, 2021Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
The metal business is pretty interesting. After all, at the end of the day the raw value of the stuff in a junkyard is its weight in metal. The stuff gets sold, loaded onto ships, smelted down in...
Video Bonanza: Here’s The Right Way To Take Down Smoke Stacks
Aug 04, 2021Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
The science of destroying things is something that has fascinated people for hundreds of years. In an illustration of the true Yin and Yang of life, for every construction contractor there needs to...
The Wednesday Shift: Vintage Modified Eliminator Action from Connecticut Dragway Circa 1981
Aug 04, 2021Brian LohnesRACING & ACTION, Videos
This great piece of video shows extinct race cars running on an extinct race track: Modified Eliminator at a 1981 NHRA Divisional hosted at the long dead Connecticut Dragway. Modified Eliminator in...
$3,500 Build: A Chassis Swapped, Bagged, And Chopped 1954 Chevrolet Build For Just $3,500
Aug 04, 2021Chad ReynoldsDRIVETRAIN, ENGINE, SUSPENSION, TECH, Tech Stories, Videos
After successfully building an F100 for just $1,000, it would seem that building a 1954 Chevy would be a snap for $3,500. But it’s not that simple when you consider what Casey is going to do,...
NHRA Photos: Funny Cars, Funny Cars, And More Funny Cars. Plus Header Flames Galore!
Aug 04, 2021Chad Reynolds1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, 1320 NHRA News, 1320 Spotlight, BangShift Galleries, Drag Races, Gallery
(Photos by Wes Allison) Nitro is a riot to watch at night, and especially when it lights up the sides of a nitro burning Funny Car like the ones pictured in our gallery below. This is the first...
Abandoned Race Track Project: Tire Smoke, Tractors, A Turbo LS Swapped Lincoln, And The “Love Shack”
Aug 04, 2021Chad ReynoldsMISC, Videos
There is a lot of work going on to get this place up and running, but we love that they are also having a little fun in between. After all, you have to stay motivated. Yeah, that’s it. We call...
Alex Taylor’s Quest For The 6’s 1955 Chevy Project Is Legal! They Got Their NHRA Chassis Cert!
Aug 03, 2021Chad Reynolds1320 Cars With Doors Feature, 1320 Project Cars, 1320 Spotlight, 1320 Tech Story, 1320 Videos, CHEVY, OTHER, TECH, Tech Stories, Videos
No amount of thrashing will get you on the race track legally unless you’ve got an NHRA Chassis Certification. The car doesn’t have to be completely finished in order to get inspected and...
LS Swap Cruise Control Made Simple! Use Factory Parts To Add Cruise Control To Your LS Swapped Ride
Aug 03, 2021Chad ReynoldsENGINE, ENGINES, Hack of the Week, TECH, Tech Stories, Videos
Cruise control is a nice thing to have in your car or truck, but it isn’t always easy to do in your hot rod or truck that has had a late-model engine swap. For years we’ve used the Dakota...
Sheet Metal Tech: How To Bead Roll 2 STYLES of Door Panels!! Quilted Diamonds & Scales!!
Aug 03, 2021Chad ReynoldsOTHER, TECH, Tech Stories, Videos
Aluminum door panels can be super cool looking on hot rods, race cars, street machines, and trucks alike. From simple to complex, we’ve seen all kinds of them on all kinds of applications. The...
NHRA Photos: NHRA Top Fuel Action Photos From The 2021 NHRA Winternationals In Pomona!
Aug 03, 2021Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
(Photos by Wes Allison) Top Fuel is something special when you’ve got header flames shooting ten feet in the air. There really isn’t anything like it anywhere else. Thankfully, Wes was on...
Throwing Down Old School: This Chevy Opala Has An Inline Six, Webers, and Manual Transmission (Video)
Aug 03, 2021Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
It may not be the quickest way, it may not be the trickest way, but putting an old school hot rod together like this one is by far the coolest way to go racing. The Brazilian Chevy Opala that is...
