Category Archive: 1320 Cars With Doors Feature, 1320 Event Coverage, 1320 NHRA News, BangShift 1320
Jimmy Daniels Two-For-Two At US Nationals Mopar HEMI® Challenge
(Photos courtesy of Mopar Motorsports) Second generation Mopar racer Jimmy Daniels is now two-for-two in the Mopar HEMI® Challenge. The 21-year-old driver from Yardley, Pennsylvania, made...
Pro Stock’s Allen Johnson Calls It Quits After 2017 Season
(Photos Bob Wingfield, Jeff Burghardt, Mike Burghardt and Mopar Motorsports) One of the last remaining non-Chevrolet NHRA Pro Stock racers, Allen Johnson, has carried the Mopar flag for his entire...
Anything Goes: This 2007 Dodge Charger Daytona Can Do Just About Everything!
Early on Sunday morning, as Haley and I were packing up Angry Grandpa for the long drive back to Kentucky, few cars remained from the MSHS group that we had been hanging around with all week. One...
Bonneville Legend: Art Arfons’ Cyclops – Up Close And Personal
Art Arfons’s famed Cyclops jet dragster was a prolific machine in its time. The giant jet engine on wheels held Bonneville records (one of which still stands), was converted into a boat for a...
How To Make Money Building A Race Car: The 12.99 Dart Is A Lesson In Frugality You Need
There has been a push for the last twenty or so years to make your car be and do just about everything. It’s the essence of Pro Touring: classic looks, modern performance, comfy cruiser, brutal...
Watch This Awesome Sleeper Saturn SL2 Destroy A Fifth Gen Camaro On The Strip
BangShifter Scott Sousa has one of the most awesome little humiliation machines we have ever seen and he was cool enough to send us the inside dirt on the car along with the some video of the thing...
Pretty/Wicked: Justin Moses’s 1956 Chevy Steals The Show, Then Puts One On!
At an event like the Holley Hot Rod Reunion, it’s very, very difficult to stand out when everybody and their mother is trying to stand out. You have to have an “X-factor”, something...
The Rolling Dare: KingSpeed Race And Repair’s 2006 Dodge Ram 2500 Is Built To Be Challenged
A built diesel truck, a real performance built, tuned-to-the-hilt truck that is much more than a monster exhaust pipe and clouds of smoke, is the most anti-sleeper thing there is. Big, loud, and...
Project Weapon X Update: Some Unexpected and Unwanted Curveballs Strike The Build
(By Robert Williams) – 6 weeks into the Weapon X build and here’s where it stands… After writing and sending Part 1, I lost my work assistant Craig, due to a serious injury to one...
This 1968 Coronet Has A 650hp Hemi, A Great Father And Son Story, And 10-Second Time Slips
I always think of myself as kind of a “non-denominational” car guy. I like lots of different things including but not limited to muscle cars of all different makes, trucks of the slow...
The Conversion: Creating A Racer With A 2015 Dodge Charger R/T
Not everyone who is at the track is a born and bred car geek with fuel in their veins. It’s a large amount of the people you will meet, but there are plenty of converts as well…those who...
King Boss! Ohio George Montgomery’s 1969 Mustang Boss 429 Twin Turbo Gasser
Ohio George Montgomery is one of drag racing’s Gasser Gods. He was a driving force in the class from its earliest days right up until it moved back toward the realm of the Competition...
Car Feature: The Blown, Hemi Powered Charland Deuce Is BangShifty To Its Core
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – 1932 Fords. Often referred to as a ‘deuce’. I’ve heard some in recent years some say they are tired of them because more exist today than were...
