Category Archive: 1320 NHRA News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, BangShift News, CRASH & BURN, HISTORIC, RACING & ACTION, Videos

Watch Chuck Etchells Suffer A Massive Funny Car Fire At The 1994 NHRA Gatornationals – Drives It Like A Boss!

The late Chuck Etchells was a hardcore funny car racer. The dude scraped his way up the ladder and by the time his career peaked he was battling it out with the best racers in the world. Every hard...

Shake, Battle, and Roll 3: Watch 1994’s Greatest Compilation Of Monster Truck, Mud Bogging, and Pulling Carnage

Ahhh, yes! Time to take a mid-week trip back to the first half of the 1990s and experience some good old Diamond P video goodness with this, Shake, Battle, and Roll 3. Now if you were a drag racing...

Not The Pace Car! Watch The Wildest Way To Take Out An Innocent Mustang We’ve Ever Seen!

It’s the most quotable line from “Days of Thunder”. When Cole comes in for a pit under caution, Harry informs him to go out and hit the pace car. Why? “Because you’ve...

Fatal Leap: The Alaska Car Launch – Limo Off Of A Cliff, Anyone?

I need to apologize to you, readers. I think I have failed in one serious move. Remember the Cadillac limo, the craptacular 1980 Fleetwood Formal extended-length beauty that I ran once at King of the...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Car Would You Leap Into Infamy With?

The moment when Memphis Raines starts ripping gears towards the rollback wrecker, the Dixie horn as yet another Charger is offered up to the altar, the next stunt for a Fast and Furious...

This Guy Might Be The Happiest Person Ever After His Track-Prepped Honda S2000’s Wheel Failed!

Racing a car adds stress to every single component on the vehicle. Doesn’t matter what type of racing, doesn’t matter what kind of car. If you race it, you will find weaknesses and you...

Watch Kurt Anderson Crash His Arctic Arrow Rocket Dragster While Attempting To Break Sammy Miller’s Ice Speed Record – He Walked Away

We have been following the exploits of Kurt Anderson and the Minnesota “Rocket Boys” for a few years now as they have built, tested, and used their rocket powered creations, going ever...

Watch Marcus Birt Take Flight In His Radial vs The World Nitrous Corvette – Hang Time Supreme!

South Georgia Motorsports Park has been known as the “Home of the Flying Cars” for years and frankly it had been a few since we have see a car do what Marcus Birt’s did during...

Insane Video: Watch This BMW Launch 15ft Into The Air After Hitting A Boulder At 70mph – Crazy Stuff!

Drunk driving is the worst. It’s dangerous, it is stupid, and it get loads of people hurt and killed every yeah. Amazingly the woman driving in this video was not killed but her car was as was...

Classic YouTube: John Force’s Mild Roast At Indy In 1990

John Force is a mixture of attitude, sheer iron will, and a mouth that doesn’t understand what a leash is all about, embedded into a die-hard racer who has no trepidation about burying his foot...

Flying Brick! This Beater Volvo Has Hacked Fenders, Nitrous, Upgraded Wheels And Tires, And A “Baja Bar”. That Makes It Invincible, Right?

If you have never had the joy of romping an old car for what it’s worth, you are seriously missing out. I’m sure I’ll catch all sorts of hell for saying so, but you will be...

Watch Dan Horan Jr’s High Speed Trip Into The Catch Net At The 2020 NHRA Winternationals – 262mph And No Parachute!

There are certain things that one just kind of intrinsically knows about drag racing. The cars are loud, the cars are fast, and Pomona is short. It has been short for a very long time and...

Fire Is Bad: Watch Drifter Rudy Hansen’s C4 Corvette Erupt Into An Inferno And Burn To The Ground

There is no more helpless feeling in motorsports than watching a competition vehicle burn uncontrollably and that’s exactly the scene that erupted on the final day of Lone Star Drift Week 2020....

Oh Chute: John Zappia’s Parachute-Less Trip Into The Sand At Kiwnana Motorplex!

At the end of World War II, there was a ton of surplus military equipment that could be picked up and be put to good use outside of official military functions. You could buy surplus aircraft...