Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, 1320 Project Cars, 1320 Spotlight, 1320 Tech Story, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
How Light Is It? Building The Lightest Nitrous Pro Mod Ever, Episode 1
Cameron Johnson Race Cars and Jamie Hancock have joined forces to try and build the lightest Pro Mod ever. Why? Because they want to run it in Radial Vs The World where the minimum weight with driver...
Alex Taylor Q&A Session: What’s The Name Of The New ’55 Project? Why Are You Doing It That Way? And All Kinds Of Other Questions, Answered Right Here.
Alex Taylors New 1955 Chevrolet project is being built with two goals. One is to run in the 6’s in the quarter, and the other is for it to run 200 mph at the same time. Will it do it? Why a...
Alex, Debbie, And Dennis Taylor Build Their Own Fiberglass Body Parts For Alex Taylor’s New 6-second ’55 Chevy Build
Yep, you read that right. They are making their own fiberglass parts, from scratch. If you know the Taylors, you know that this is something they have done for other projects but to see it being done...
Parts, Parts, And More Parts! Alex Taylor’s 6-second 1955 Chevy Project Gets Big Turbos, And All Kinds Of Other Goodies Plus More Chassis Work!
It’s on! Alex and Dennis Taylor are in a mad thrash to get Alex’s newest project, her big tire 1955 Chevrolet, ready to run in the 6’s and go 200 mph in the quarter. To do that...
Alex Taylor’s 6-second 1955 Chevy Chassis Planning And First Tubing Being Bent
In this installment of Alex Taylor’s 6-second ’55 Chevy build you’ll get a preview of some of the parts going in this sucker as well as the planning that goes into building a...
Alex Taylor’s 6-second ’55 Chevy Project Is In Full Swing And The Patina Shall Be Preserved!
Anyone that knows me, knows my affinity for patina on great Chevrolet’s and that it all started with my 1956 Chevrolet Bel Air Station Wagon. So you can imagine that the newest project that...
Alex Taylor Is Aiming For The 6’s In A Street Car, But It Won’t Be In Her Camaro
Alex Taylor has been going quicker and quicker in her leaf sprung, street driven, twin turbo LS powered Badmaro these past couple of years, but when she decided that she wanted to really step it up...
The Twin Turbo Extreme S10 Blazer Continues To Go Together. Rocky Mountain Race Week Here It Comes!
Here it is, the latest on the Twin Turbo Extreme S1o Blazer build over at Motion Raceworks. They are putting this thing together for one of the owners, Brian, and it is going to be a beast on the...
Fitzee Shows Us How To Build Rust Repair Panels From Scratch. This Stuff Isn’t As Hard As You’d Think!
Fitzee’s Fabrications is building a car that he calls Crusty, because it is just that. Because the car is getting built into a cool drag car, and a ton of the rusty crusty bits have to be cut...
Finnegan’s 1961 Caddy Is Back For A Tight Fitting Cage And An Awesome Rearend!
This 1961 Cadillac project that Finnegan is working on really turns our crank. With the goal being Caddy comfort with 8 second drag strip ETs and the potential for 200 mph in the standing mile, this...
Check Out Richard Holdener’s New Field Find Nova Project He’s Calling The River Monster.
Yeah, it’s been underwater. Yeah, it’s kinda ugly. Yeah, it is going to need a lot of work. But you know what? It’s still a 1972 Nova and it is going to be one hell of a testbed for...
Day 5: El Toro Update. Build An 8-second Car In 8 Days! They Are Jamming Now
Can they pull it off? An 8-second quarter mile capable car in just 8 days? I think they can and with 5 days down, the boys are making headway. With the talent and resources these guys have they...
Motion Raceworks Is Building An 8 Second Car In 8 Days!!! Meet El Toro!
I’ve been part of a team that built a car in just 48 hours, and I’ve been part of a team that twice built an 8 second car in 10 days, and both required a lot of planning. The task of...
New Project Alert! Motion Raceworks Kick Off The Drag Week/Rocky Mountain Race Week Extreme Blazer Project!
Before too long everyone at Motion Raceworks is going to have a car ready to run on Rocky Mountain Race Week and Drag Week! They’ve been getting Novas and GTOs ready and now it’s time for...