Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, 1320 NHRA News, BangShift 1320, BangShift News, MISC, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Working For A Living: What Do Top Fuel and Nitro Funny Car Crews When The NHRA’s On Hold? At Kalitta Motorsports, They Work!
Every team in motorsports is handling their respective downtime differently. The vast majority have drastically reduced staff, furloughed people, or in some cases totally parked their stuff. Racing...
Raw, Real, and Awesome: This 8mm Footage Of Drag Racing, Can-Am, and More From 1978-1981 Across The USA Is Epic
Let your brain work here for a hot second, ok? Yes, this is 8mm footage which means that there’s no sound. My suggestion? Open a second tab on your browser and run some bitchin’ music on...
Incredible Video: Watch The Semi-Finals and Finals Of A Multitude Of Classes At The 1963 NHRA US Nationals
This is some of the most stunning old school drag racing video we have ever seen. You are going to watch the semi-finals and finals of a multitude of classes at the 1963 NHRA US Nationals. This was...
Historic Drag Film: Watch Big Names and Great Runs From The 1967 NASCAR Summer Nationals at Niagra International Drag Strip
New York’s Niagra International Drag Strip was a hotbed of drag racing activity from its opening in 1961 through its closure in the middle 1970s. Racers from all around the New England region,...
Rough Video: Watch Drag Week Veteran Nick Plewniak Suffer A Flaming Wreck In The Dirty 30 At Edgewater Motor Sports Park – He Walked Away
There’s nothing more sickening than watching a person you know and respect pile up a race car at high speeds. Add in a lot of fire and you have a recipe for something really stunning and not in...
Massive Power: Watch The Murder Nova Make 3,700+ HP On A Hub Dyno!
There was a time a few years back that the most famous cars in America were owned by a couple of street racers from Oklahoma who became famous beyond their wildest dreams. Shawn and Chief, Chief and...
NHRA Rewind LIVE: Relive The 2019 NHRA Amalie Oil Gatornationals With Stevie Fast Jackson, Clay Millican, and Andrew Hines!
One of the things we have done a couple of times during this break from NHRA drag racing action is to make these NHRA Rewind LIVE shows. The first time it was members of the FOX Sports broadcast team...
Chuffing Freakshow: This Steam Powered Dragster Is Small, Quick, and Weirdly Awesome
For starters, we know absolutely nothing about this car but we do know that we’re very interested by it. You are going to watch it run down a makeshift drag strip in the middle of nowhere and...
Shop Tour: Take A Stroll Through The Tucson Workshop Of The NHRA’s Alan Reinhart – Cars, Parts, and Cool Tools
One of the reasons that Alan Reinhart and I hit it off when I first went out on the NHRA tour is because we’re both really into cars. Not just drag racing, but cars in general. Alan’s...
Still Out There: This Disassembled 1969/70 ZL1 427 Aluminum Big Block Is A Chevy Performance Treasure Trove
With the 50th anniversary of the NHRA pro stock class (and 51st of the AHRA version) coming up next month, it’s kind of neat to find some parts that would have been at the top of the wish list...
This Early 1980s NHRA SummerNationals Commercial Made Us Smile – The Music, The Attitude, The Voice!
Sometimes it is the simple things, right? On a day when I’d give my left arm to be at the drag strip a friend send a link to the video below. This is a television ad that ran in the New York...
American Bad Ass: Listen To The Incredible Story Of Art Arfons As Told By Humpy Wheeler, Vintage Audio, Tim Arfons, and More!
We all have our heroes, right? We all have those people that seem to personify some aspect of ourselves that we value. For me, Art Arfons is the greatest backyard hot rodder that ever lived and...
NHRA Insider: Ron Capps and Multi-Time Sportsman World Champ Austin Williams Talk About Work and The Mental Part of The Sport
It is always good to get a little window into the mentality of a racer and the mindset of championship level competitors, right? For this episode of the NHRA Insider Podcast, I wronged NHRA nitro...
