Category Archive: 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
Funny Video: Do You Like Your Redneck Boiled Or Smoked? Beer Fueled Decision Making At George Ray’s Wildcat Drag Strip
We all know the guy who takes stuff just that one step too far. You know who we’re talking about. Things are going along fine, someone has a funny idea, and then this guy has to take it to an...
Great video: A Profile On Grumpy Jenkins At The 1968 US Nationals – Brock Yates Hosted!
It was good to be Grumpy Jenkins in 1968. He had fully established himself on the scene as a killer in stock and super stock, he was at the helm of a growing business tuning said cars, and he was...
Vintage Video: An Awesome Look At The Long Gone Minnesota Dragways – Amazing Stuff
History being what it is and the internet being what it is, we love taking the time to find stuff that shows off awesome places that many people may have forgotten ever existed in the first place....
No Prep Means Big Power: Watch Alex Laughlin Run His Camaro On The Hub Dyno!
No Prep drag racing has evolved swiftly over the last few years. What was once a scene that appeared at small tracks across the country has crossed into the mainstream of the sport in a major way....
Horsepower For Peanuts: This Dude Takes A Forlorn Chevy 307 And For Nearly No Money, Makes A Fun Little Engine
The 307ci Chevy small block was never intended to be a performance engine. This was a piece designed as a prime mover for any number of cars and trucks in the Chevrolet and GMC families over the...
The Pile Of Parts: It’s A Chevy Truck With Big-Boy Power And A List Of Donor Vehicles A Mile Long
Frame: 1989 Chevrolet S-10. Cab: 1951 Chevrolet with 1952 doors. Bed: 1962 Chevrolet, modified to fit. Engine: 496ci big Chevrolet that’s somewhere near 700 horsepower with the help of just a...
Bonneville Record Breaker: This 1963 Film Shows Andy Granatelli Hauling On The Salt
Here’s some fun Bonneville video but it ain’t from speed week! Nope this video was made in 1963 by Studebaker to promote the safety and performance of the beautiful Avanti model. The...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Would You Love To See Return To Drag Racing?
Nitro. Nitrous. Personalities. Actual names on the cars instead of sponsorships. Funny car bodies that don’t look like someone did quick bar-soap art while scrubbing themselves down in the...
Pro-Jacks: The Most Bad Ass Race Car Accessory You’ll Have That Doesn’t Make It Faster
In this video the always entertaining Tim McAmis talks about Pro-Jacks. On their own, Pro-Jacks won’t make your car quicker or faster, but they are one of the more bad ass things you can have...
Disaster Video: Incredible Footage Of The Yellow River Drag Strip Calamity Has Surfaced – 50 Years Ago, 11 Killed
50 years ago the worst disaster in drag racing occurred at a little known, little spoken about track about 40 miles outside of Atlanta, Georgia. Yellow River Drag Strip was like so many places in...
American Success Story: Mike Salinas Talks Life, Struggle, and Work – From Poverty To Top Fuel
One of the neat things that we get to see each season as part of the NHRAonFox summer race broadcasts is the #MYJourney series. This series of in-depth interviews brings the backstories of the...
LIVE TONIGHT: Watch The US131 Northern Nationals – Quarter Mile Modern Top Fuel Drag Racing – WATCH HERE
Starting tonight at 6:30pm Eastern time BangShift.com will be LIVE from the US131 Northern Nationals in Martin, Michigan. This is one of the most unique and awesome match races in the country because...
One For Life: A 10-Second Slant Six Duster One-Owner Special
You’d swear that the V8 has been replaced with the turbocharged inline-six, the way a lot of the Internet seems to see things. There is no reason to doubt the reasons why…between the...
Morning Symphony: The Badass Brat – Proof That Anything Can Be A Racecar!
We’ll start with a correction: officially, the car you are looking at is a Subaru Brumby. The difference between a Brumby and the Subaru BRAT? None, whatsoever, outside of the placement of the...