Category Archive: 1320 Spotlight, 1320 Videos

Heads Up Small Tire Drag Racing From Mokan: Stock Block Shootout And Outlaw Small Tires

Small Tire Cars To The Front! As you can imagine, the small tire drag racing at Mokan is fun to watch and always full of excitement. Factor in the Outlaw Small Tire Spring Shootout and the Stock...

The NHRA Route 66 Nationals From Chicago Has Some Of The Best Hauling Serious Ass. Watch This!

They are tearing it up in Chicago at the Route 66 NHRA Nationals, and we’ve got the top qualifying runs right here to watch. Mike Salinas continues to impress in his Scrappers Top Fuel...

Watch A Drag Car Turn Into A Rally Car – New Video From Brazil, Car Travels Quarter Mile Into Jungle!

No, we are not rerunning the video we showed you the other day of a Chevy Opala running headong into a Brazilian jungle. Instead we were alerted to another video that came up on Facebook which...

Incredible Video: Watch A Pro Stock Motorcycle Crash From The Nose Of The Bike That Ran In The Other Lane

While I may not totally understand what motivates motorcycle drag racers I can tell you that I respect the daylights out of them and love to watch them do what they do. While I often joke about how...

Historic Drag Video: Early 1970s Wide World of Sports Drag Racing Coverage

There was a time when the only drag racing that was shown on television came in the form of coverage from ABC’s Wide World of Sports. Keith Jackson was on the call and with the resources of the...

Watch This Aussie Valiant Charger Run 9s With A Turbo Chrysler Inline Six And 275 M/Ts On The Back

Like many of you, the first time I ever saw an Australian Valiant Charger was when John Farone shipped his car over from Oz to compete at drag week. None of us knew what the hell the thing was with...

eBay: The Undisputed King Of The LS World Is For Sale – 3,500hp LSx Powered Camaro Runs 5s In Quarter, 3s In Eighth

It is, without dispute the baddest LSx powered drag car in the world. Run in big tire trim, run in Radial vs The World trim, run a quarter mile, and run an eighth, Super Dave Adkins’ Camaro has...

Awesome Bonneville Video: This 1989 Home Movie From The Salt Has Us Revved Up For Speed Week!

Speed Week 2019 is just a couple of months away and that has us dreaming of the gearhead Valhalla that we have come to know and love over the years. The Salt, The Great White Dyno, Bonneville,...

: Make The Most Brutal 10-second Run Ever In This Big Block Powered Tudor – Bonus Donut!

There are videos that are fun, there are videos that are brutal, and there are videos that are brutal fun. This is one of those videos. You are going to take a ride in the a big block powered Tudor...

All Challengers Welcome: Mighty Car Mods’ VW Golf Takes On A Group Of Machines!

Recently, Marty and Moog, the duo that make up Mighty Car Mods, decided to take a look at a late-model Volkswagen Golf R in an interesting light: could they make the Volkswagen hatchback run elevens...

Epic Video: Road Runners – A 1952 Film About Taking Racing Off The Streets With Period Footage From El Mirage, Santa Ana Drag Strip and More!

Hot rodding’s public perception in the early 1950s was not good. Movies were made about marauding bands of kids in hopped up Fords, news stories filled the papers about gruesome wrecks that...

Historic Drag Racing Footage: Sacremento Raceway Circa 1973 With Funny Car, Top Fuel, More! Legends!

It is always so awesome to find a piece of drag racing footage that we have not shared with you before, especially when that footage is fro California in the early 1970s. This one is bitter sweet...

Plenty Capable: The Buick With The Handicap Plate Has Something For You!

For a few years, I ran a hustle that involved a 2001 Buick Regal GS. The car surprised the hell out of me when I first test-drove it. And if it surprised me, naturally, it would surprise the holy...

Chicago Fire: Watch What Happened To Jeff Diehl When The Header Failed On His Funny Car

Just when you think you have seen it all. This video, taken several years back at the NHRA Rt 66 Nationals in Joliet, Illinois shows the effect of a funny car losing a header during a run. While...