Category Archive: 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
The Great Drivers: Bob Glidden – This 1980s Interview Between Brock Yates and Glidden Is Awesome
The Glidden name is alive and well in the sport of drag racing as Billy Glidden has made a return to NHRA J&A Pro Mod competition this weekend and the legacy shows no signs of slowing. It was...
Lucas Oil Drag Racing – Stock, Super Stock, Alcohol Classes, And More From The Texas Motorplex
NHRA Sportsman Drag Racing is the racing that all NHRA Drag Racing is built upon and it is going on around the country on any given weekend. This weekend is no different and racing is coming at you...
The Where’s And How’s Of Adding Weight To Your Race Car
In a world where making things lighter and lighter is an every day occurrence, it seems odd to be talking about adding weight to a race car. But the truth is that with insane levels of competition...
The American Powertrain Parting Shift: A Mustang Driver That Wields The Shift Handle Like A Weapon
This video rules because it is a nine second run with a stick box done the old fashioned way. This dude powershifts the absolute wee out of this car enroute to a 9.25/143mpg blast. The ‘Stang...
Watch This 1952 DeSoto Hemi Run With No Valve Covers On As The Owner Checks Top End Oiling
This video is pretty interesting on a couple of levels. For starters we get to see and hear a 1952 vintage DeSoto hemi run. In factory form this is a 276ci engine that made 160hp. It looks like this...
Video: Watch A Slingshot Dragster With Paddle Tires Compete At The Icelandic Sand Drags – Crazy and Awesome!
Normally when we show you video from Iceland, it features huge trucks climbing up impossibly steep hills, skittering over water, or just being generally bad ass. Well consider you Icelandic...
The Art Of Small Tire Racing: This Cinematic Look At Light Out 10 Is Stunning In Every Way
Jake Simmons is a freaking bad ass. Let’s just get that right out of the way. He is the guy who shot this film and put it all together and it really is a piece of drag racing artistry that you...
The Bad Old Days: Watch The Pro Stock Swan Dive Nationals From 1995 – Steve Evans Loses It!
It has been a good long while since we have seen anything even remotely comparable to what you are going to see below. This video comes from the DaveW YouTube channel and it is an amazing pull from...
This Video Profile Of The Awesome Drastic Plastic AA/FA Will Have You Craving A Snoot Of Nitro!
It kind of goes without saying that fuel altered are the best thing ever but even in saying that, all things are not created equal. Yes, some fuel altereds are cooler than other and for varying...
The Way It Was: Watch The Green Elephant Funny Car Win The 1973 NHRA World Finals In Amarillo
To start, we should explain something that many people don’t really know or understand. Before 1970 there was no such thing as a funny car championship in NHRA drag racing. Then, between 1970...
SAFE! Watch This No-Prep Racing Mustang Go Into A Top End Slide After Breaking The Tires Loose
No-prep style drag racing has brought an amazing number of young people into the sport and that’s a great thing. They are attracted by the unpredictable nature of the action, the cool cars, the...
Morning Symphony: A Second-Gen Camaro’s Exercise In Simplicity
We cover a lot of racing events throughout the year. We see a lot of combinations that all work out beautifully. We see nitrous cars that take a dentist office’s monthly supply and turn it into...
Sometimes It Gets Weird Video: Odd Moments, Crazy Moments, and Bizarre Moments At The Drags – Must Watch Stuff
Drag racing is the simplest of motorsports. Fixed distance, straight line, two (ok, sometimes four cars), first guy or girl to the end wins. There’s this weird thing about humanity, though. We...
They Are Still Racing (and Crashing On) The Dirt Quarter Mile In Sonora, Mexico
It was a bunch of years ago now that we first showed you video of quarter mile drag racing on a dirt course in Sonora, Mexico. While sitting on a plane home from SEMA I started to wonder if they were...