Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
Crash, Bang, BOOM Video: These 1990s Era Nostalgia Drag Racing Wrecks Are Nasty
Nostalgia Drag Racing today in the year 2016 is a far different animal than the activity that began back in the 1970s and then really caught fire in the 1990s. If you had told someone in the middle...
Sick Week Epic Battle: MINIMOD VS PROMOD! The Neck and Neck BATTLE for #1 Spot! | Sick Week Day 3
Sick Week 2024 is upon us and the official first three days of racing are now in the books. It’s been an interesting few days, with sketchy runs, sketchy track conditions, and competition that...
Cleetus Wipes Out In Mullet! And Lots More Sketchy Stuff! Florida’s Sick Week 2024 Starts Now! | Sick Week Day 1 Action
Sick Week 2024 is upon us and the official first day of racing is now in the books. But it was NOT without drama as we saw some seriously sketchy runs, including Cleetus nearly wiping out Mullet when...
Jeff Lutz Returns To Drag And Drive! Florida’s Sick Week 2024 Starts Now! | Sick Week Day 0
It’s winter in Florida and that means it is time for Sick Week 2024, the first Drag and Drive event of the year. This event is always a good time, features some great heavy hitters, and is a...
The Land Rocket That Never Was: Could Donald Campbell’s Bluebird Mach 1.1 Have Broken The Sound Barrier?
There was nothing easy about being a record setter in the 1960s and Donald Campbell’s life proved that. Driven by a near obsession to not only match his famous father Malcom but to exceed him...
Hear The Legend Speak: This Awesome 1980s Profile Of Art Arfons Contains A Great Interview of The Man Himself
There are few people that I idolize in the cannon of hot rodding history but Art Arfons is one of them. I have written lots about him, I have made a long, long episode of my Dork-O-Motive podcast...
Pricelessly Cool: Watch The Incredible Process Of Printing An Inconel Header From Scratch – Amazing
Yes, we know. This process was really long. This process was incredibly expensive, complicated, and maybe unnecessarily complex but my goodness is it awesome. This is how Steph Papadakis Racing went...
Pounding Pontiac: Watch This Brutal 1963 LeMans Crank Off 9-Second Pure Poncho Elapsed Times
Yes, yes we know. There are easier ways to go 9s than to build a bad ass, multi-carb, tunnel ram, 482ci Pontiac V8 with a bunch of compression, and all the camshaft. There are easier ways but...
BangShift Tune Up: Spirit Of America – The Beach Boys (1963)
If there’s a cooler car song out there, let us know. As the only known song every written about a Bonneville car, this is about the best thing ever and it was performed by the Beach Boys! Of...
Old School Chassis Tech: This Video From 30 Years Ago Shows The Al Swindahl Bolt Together Top Fuel Chassis
There are names in drag racing that have had massive impact. We all know the Don Garlits’ of the world, we all know the Bob Glidden types of the world but what about the guys who made the cars...
Cool Video: Watch Some AHRA Drag Racing At The Old Tucson Dragway Circa 1983 – John Force and Others!
This is fun video! We’re going back to what looks like the 1983 AHRA Winternationals at the “old” Tucson Dragway which is about a 15 minute (or less) ride from the current Tucson...
Larry Larson Has Sold The Cadillac! Here’s The Last Event Video Of 2023. New Chevy II Project In The Works!
Yep, the famed Cadillac that Larry Larson has been racing in the No Prep Kings for the past few years has been sold and is getting a Cummins under the hood! Even funnier is that it is going Pro275...
Fun Historic Video: The 1982 NHRA US Nationals Sportsman Finals Were Full Of Cool Cars and Drivers
Why run a video showing the sportsman final rounds from the 1982 NHRA US Nationals on a random Tuesday in January? Why not? It’s the internet. Plus, who does not like to see cool drag cars...
Roland Leong, The Hawaiian, Is Gone. He Was Truly A Legend, In The Purist Sense Of The Word. RIP My Friend.
(Words by Darr Hawthorne and Chad Reynolds. Photos by Lou Hart – LionsAutomobilia.org) The word Legend is often used for those we looked up to, but Roland Leong was truly a Legend in the purest...