Category Archive: 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
This 1973 Film Called The Wonder Of Drag Racing Is A Spectacular Look At The Sport – Lots of Footage Featuring The Ill-Fated Wonder Wagon!
Jul 22, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on This 1973 Film Called The Wonder Of Drag Racing Is A Spectacular Look At The Sport – Lots of Footage Featuring The Ill-Fated Wonder Wagon!
It has been a while since we dropped some quality, old-school drag racing film action on you so here goes. This is a 1973 film called, “The Wonder of Drag Racing” and it was made by (you...
Watch Kenny Delco’s Rough Ride: Flips, And Spins, And Slides Oh My! Crashing Like This Is No Damn Good!
Jul 21, 2019Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Watch Kenny Delco’s Rough Ride: Flips, And Spins, And Slides Oh My! Crashing Like This Is No Damn Good!
Racecars crash sometimes, it’s part of the deal. Compared to the number of laps made on dragstrips world wide each week, the number that crashes is really small but that doesn’t mean it...
Family Vacation: The LS-Swapped Mitsubishi 3000GT And It’s Rocky Mountain Race Week Adventures!
Jul 21, 2019Bryan McTaggart2
How many of you have some kind of horror story about the long road trip you took when you were a kid? The one where the air conditioning in the Caravan crapped out, you were seconds away from...
Angry Toddler: This Fiat 126 Is Packing A Small-Block Chevy Somewhere In That Body!
Jul 20, 2019Bryan McTaggart6
“That’s not a car, it’s just a container to protect the engine from the weather.” First comment on this video…and they are not wrong in the slightest. If you don’t...
Amen Brother! You Don’t Need 37 M’fers To Go To The Starting Line! Tim McAmis Rules All.
Jul 20, 2019Chad Reynolds18
I often get sideways looks of disgust when I talk about how it annoys me that everyone nowadays needs someone to pull them into the staging beams at the dragstrip. If you are sitting within a couple...
Funny Video: Watch Aeromotive Boss Steve Matusek Take On His Employees On The Practice Tree – Hilarious
Jul 19, 2019Brian Lohnes1
If your boss is a drag racer, chances are you hear about his or her exploits on a week to week basis at the track with their race car. If your boss is a professional level drag racer, they likely...
The Cars Of Doorslammers 2019: Pro Mod Aston? AWD Camaro?! Yes, Please.
Jul 19, 2019Bryan McTaggart2
It’s easy to write off England as a land of small cars, small roads and Range Rovers. I’ll attest that if England looks remotely anything like Scotland did when I was last there, the...
Morning Symphony: Stick-Shift Racing At Street Car Takeover Charlotte
Jul 18, 2019Bryan McTaggart4
I can’t get enough of the noise of an H-pattern-shifted drag car. I don’t care if it’s a Mitsubishi EVO tuned to kill or a nasty LS-powered Camaro, a Sox and Martin Plymouth or...
We Love Track History: This Documentary Looks Back At The Awesome History Of Bandimere Speedway
Jul 18, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on We Love Track History: This Documentary Looks Back At The Awesome History Of Bandimere Speedway
The eyes of the NHRA drag racing world have all turned toward Bandimere Speedway as they have done for decades at this time of the year. The kick off for the grueling, vaunted, and frankly awesome...
Neck Braces For Everybody: The Hoonigans Meet The AWD Hurst/Olds
Jul 16, 2019Bryan McTaggart4
It is the thing that should not be. On it’s own, before he went off-the-rails insane with carbon-fiber everything, his 1982 Cutlass Hurst/Olds clone was pretty radical. Namely, it was because...
Incredible Video: Watch A Flying Hunk Of Blower Miss A Video Guy By Inches Or Less!
Jul 15, 2019Brian Lohnes1
This is quite possibly the closest “near miss” ever caught on film at a drag strip. No, we’re not talking about a near crash, we’re talking about a video guy nearly being...
Behind The Scenes Video: The Wild Scene At US Nationals Stock Eliminator Teardown!
Jul 13, 2019Brian Lohnes5
There’s good and bad to everything in life, right? In drag racing there’s also good and bad when you get called to the infamous “tech barn” especially when we are talking...
Video Bonanza: Blow Overs! From Doorslammers To Top Fuel – Flying High And Landing Hard
Jul 12, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on Video Bonanza: Blow Overs! From Doorslammers To Top Fuel – Flying High And Landing Hard
The blow over is one of drag racing’s most violent and spectacular sights. While front engine sling shots have been power wheelie-ing themselves over backward for ages (see the King and...
Chevette From Hell: Watch This Wild, Wheelstanding Little Monster Attack New England Dragway
Jul 11, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on Chevette From Hell: Watch This Wild, Wheelstanding Little Monster Attack New England Dragway
New England Dragway was in the national spotlight a few days ago as the NHRA contested the New England Nationals at the facility, the 13th stop on the organization’s 24-race tour. The good news...