Category Archive: 1320 Videos

Lenco Lever: This Dude Shows Epic Skill In Rowing Through The Levers. This Is Why Lencos Are So Fun!

I got my NHRA Pro Stock license nearly 18 years ago now, and the thing I was most excited about in the whole experience was pulling levers on a Lenco. It was magic. It is a dance. A dance you can...

Vinny LaRosa Got All Four Wheels Off The Ground At No Mercy 9 And Then Spun The Car A Couple Times For Good Measure!

Big wheelstands are always fun to watch at the dragstrip, always. The ones we usually gravitate towards are the long, smooth, not so high ones that go for hundreds and hundreds of feet. When there is...

BLASPHEMI: 1320 Video Takes And Inside Look At Finnegan’s Bitchin Blown Hemi Gasser

A 1955 Hemi powered Chevrolet Gasser is not something you see everyday, and especially not on the street. But that’s exactly what Mike Finnegan has and does with his. In fact, instead of just...

Watch Andrew Johnson’s Short Flight And Hard Landing At No Mercy 8 – Car Came Back And Raced!

Andrew Johnson had one of the most interesting weekends of any Radial vs The World competitor at No Mercy 8 in 2017. Why? It was the first time he had ever bolted radials to his car that normally...

Sounds Of Perfection: This Blown 496ci Chevy On 85% Is The Sweetest Sounding Thing We Have Heard In A While!

There are lots of things in life that are acquired. We have acquired skills that we learn after hanging out with people who are good at stuff for a long time or practicing on our own, we have...

Think 1,000hp On Water Sounds Scary? Judging By This Video, You Are Right!

If you have ever experienced 1,000hp on asphalt you can only imagine what 1,000hp on water would be like. Ok, as someone who has experienced 1,000hp on asphalt I literally cannot imagine what was...

No Mercy Week: Take A Look Back At DeWayne Mills’ $50,000 Payday In PTC Radial Vs The World!

As you read this racers and vendors are stacking up at South Georgia Motorsports Park for No Mercy. This is the wild Donald Long promoted radial tire drag race that features classes like x275,...

Watch Robert Hight’s Explosive Final Round Win From The AAA Insurance Nationals At Gateway Motorsports Park

It was an incredible and scary finish to the nitro funny car category as Robert Hight took his AAA sponsored Chevrolet Camaro across the finish line at the sponsor’s race just before the car...

Riding With Alex Taylor: The “We Almost Burned The Nova To The Ground” Edition. Part 1

As if Drag Week 2018 was drama filled enough, Dennis Taylor tried to burn the Retro Nova to the ground! This is Part 1 of Riding with Alex Taylor the Drag Week Edition, and you’ll see that this...

If You’re Gonna Break Stuff, Break It As Bad As Cleetus Broke The Rearend!

How many times have you found the weak link in your vehicle the good old-fashioned way? Let’s see…I shattered three U-joints in my old four-speed Diplomat, roasted a transmission out of...

Video: How Stevie Fast Jackson Won The 2018 NHRA US Nationals – An Amazingly Improbable Victory

It was ugly. It was worse than ugly. This was embarrassing. Stevie Fast Jackson was cruising toward his third DNQ in a row as part of the E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Series. This was after building...

The European Screamer: Meet The Ford Taunus That Came From Estonia To Run Drag Week!

Blunt truth: I could go forever not knowing anything about Andres Arnover’s 1972 Ford Taunus except for what it looks like and be quite content. Part of me likens it to a 1970s Escort, the...

An Aussie View Of Drag Week From Bristol – Get The Insight That They Had

With the allure of driving highly modified cars that haul the mail by the ton across the countryside with no hassle from the cops (so long as you don’t do stupid things along the way),...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is Your Favorite Memory From A Track That’s Now Gone?

As I type this, I’m still coming to terms with the final blowout that I got to witness at Rocky Mountain Raceway as part of the Night of Fire weekend. I can’t explain just how pissed-off...