Category Archive: 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
Watch The Wild Peace Maker Cadillac Wheelstander Spit Out A Rear Axle At Great Lakes Drag-O-Way In 1987!
A little while back we put out the call for info on the Peace Maker wheelstanders from our readers. Jim Brewer ran a series of these Caddy bodied exhibition machines and they were all cool to look...
Crash And Burn: Any Guesses As To Why This Maverick Wound Up Going Turtle?
It’s official for the driver of this Ford Maverick: this day is gonna suck. Information is very limited on what actually happened at Memphis Motorsports Park late last year, but the video from...
Sleeper Footage: A Trabant Versus A Nissan GT-R – Which Will Win, The Angry Vacuum Cleaner Or The Beer Can With Headlights?
In stock form a Trabant’s two-cycle engine would struggle to power one of the Nissan GT-R’s turbos, so just what exactly is going on here? A lesson in humility, my friends. Look at the...
Australian Burnout: “UIDIOT”, A Chevrolet-Powered Ford Cortina, Lets Loose At Brashernats
As most of us continue to freeze our bits off here in the Northern Hemisphere, in Australia they are still enjoying their summer. And of course, that means that we get more and more gratuitous...
The Parting Shift: Watch This Driver Pull Wheelies And Rip Gears In A Beautiful, Clutchless G-Force Equipped Monte Carlo
After Nutting’s transmission spit the bit in his Monte Carlo last week he has been mulling which direction to go with a gearbox. Should he just have the 200 rebuilt and be done with it? Should...
Watch Lee Shepherd and Bob Glidden Square Off In the Pro Stock Final At The ’79 Cajun Nationals! Big Mac and Evans On The Call
Well this video certainly touches ALL the right bases, huh? For starters we have Bob Glidden taking on Lee Shepherd which was a common sight not only in 1979 but in the years follow up until Shepherd...
Dynamite Run – A Documentary About the 1974 AHRA Winternationals
We got a note from pal-o-BangShift Dawn Mazi-Hovsepian cluing us in the on the fact that she unearthed and posted an totally cool old drag racing documentary film called “Dynamite Run”....
Watch A Pro Mod Body Get Narrowed At 150mph By Both Walls – OUCH
The Pro Mod class has evolved more than perhaps any other in the last 10-15 years. These cars have gone from lots of motor and little chassis to refined beasts that make more power than ever and do a...
Racing Footage: Outlaw 10.5 Drag Racing At Sydney Dragway – Small-Tire Door Cars Down Under!
We love small-tire doorslammer racing around here, and the Aussies love it too, and for good reason: It’s exciting drag racing. Watching high-power cars put the power down on small tires is a...
Watch Matt Hagan’s Major League Inferno From The 2015 NHRA Winternationals
There are LOTS of safety enhancements and systems built into modern nitro funny cars and they are there because for decades there have been some common enemies of funny car drivers. The most common...
Watch A Naturally Aspirated Reher Morrison 762ci Mountain Motor Make Nearly 1600HP On The Dyno!
Once Chad sees this video, he won’t be able to walk around in public for days. This 762ci monster on the dyno at Reher Morrison racing engines belts out 1595hp and 1235 ft/lbs of torque. They...
The F-Bomb From 2007 To Now – Chasing An Elusive 8-Second Time Slip – Never Before Seen Footage Here
Controversial, reclusive, mind-bendingly fast, and finally back among the living, Freiburger’s F-Bomb Camaro has been many things to may people. It had a role in a Fast and Furious movie, it...
Here’s a Cool Behind The Scenes Look At An NHRA Pro Stock Test Day (Video)
Whether you are a fan of modern day pro stock racing or not you have to respect the amount of work, time, and dedication that goes into making one of the top running cars as good as it is. In this...
Friday BOOM: A Collection Of Videos Featuring Funny Car Top Fuel, And Alky Dragster Wreckage At The NHRA Winternationals
The Winternationals are on ever racer’s short list of events to win. Pomona, Gainesville, Indy, and a handful of other “majors” are the big races that punctuate championship seasons...