Category Archive: 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
1966 Or Older Allowed: Pie Crust Slick Racing At Byron!
Here’s a sincere thought that has run through my head ever since I started writing here at BangShift: How do you relate to a time period that is older than you by decades? We have a broad...
This Basic Third-Gen Camaro Is Our Kind Of Jam – All Go, No Show!
Out of the fifty-some cars that have passed through my hands, only one has ever gotten painted with anything better than spray-paint cans of Krylon. Only two have ever gotten brand new wheels. Only...
Lunatic Video: Watch The Driver Of This Altered Get It Totally Vertical ON PURPOSE!
It takes a special kind of maniac to enter his altered into a wheelstand contest in the first place but said maniac kicks it up like 50 notches when he pulls the wheelie bars off the car and gets all...
The Turbo Six Just Works: This Stroked Holden Is A Street-Driven Monster
You can remember the GSX, the GNX, the Grand National all you want. If there is one thing that Buick should be remembered for, it should be the 231 cubic inch V6 that was in production for over forty...
Twin Blow Outs At 150mph? No Big Deal For The Driver Of This Chevelle
If there were a time for something to go wrong at the drag strip, the moment you are at peak speed and entering the deceleration zone would not be it. As it were, this was the exact scene at Ozark...
Fearsome Foursome: Here Are The Four Winning Runs From The Pro Categories At The 2019 NHRA Gatornationals
It was in the top three of the greatest drag races I have ever been to. It’ll likely stay in the top three of the greatest drag races I’ll ever go to. The 50th Amalie Oil NHRA...
Watch Mike Castellana’s Wild Ride From The 2019 NHRA Gatornationals – He Is OK
It was a rough start to the 2019 season for Mike Castellana, literally. His Al-Anabi Performance sponsored Camaro broke a rear axle, lost a wheel, and piled into the wall during qualifying, ending...
Video: Nothing But Awesome Photos And Footage Of 1960s and 1970s Drag Race Haulers – Trailers, Ramp Trucks, More!
(By Greg Rourke) – There was once a time when even the touring drag racing professionals moved around the country with a station wagon and a single axle open trailer. Yes BangShifters under...
TX2K19: When Being A Quick Street Car Just Isn’t Enough, Bring Out The Monsters
TX2K events are wild to me for one reason and one reason only: the “holy ….” factor involved when the E.T. and MPH numbers flash on the boards. You can have a quick street car all...
The Race Of Gentlemen Santa Barbara Drags: TROG Comes West And It Ruled!
There is no other race like The Race of Gentlemen, aka TROG. Each TROG event is a time travel of sorts, to a time when things were simple and racers were gentlemen, or so we thought anyway, and cars...
The 10th St. Patrick’s Classic Bracket Race Is LIVE Right Here!!!
Bracket racing season is in full swing and big money has already been paid out at events all across the country in the past couple of weeks. This weekend the 10th Annual St. Patrick’s Classic...
This Look Into The Crazy Busy Cockpit Of An Alky Funny Car Is Spectacular – Jason Rupert Getting It Done
Lots of BangShifters know the name Jason Rupert through his success in the nostalgia funny car world, but Jason has a long history in alky cars out on the west coast and this video shows him...
The View Of The 1955 Chevy Match Race, From Finnegan’s Eyes!
By now you pretty much know the story: Jon Chase from Hoonigan and Mike Finnegan had a best-of-three match race at the NHRA Winternationals in Pomona, California. The first race, Finnegan straight-up...
Watch Allen Johnson Suffer an Insane Pro Stock Wreck At The 1999 Gatornationals – He Walked Away (somehow)
NHRA Pro Stock is one of those classes where not much happens…until it does. In this case the guy the stuff was happening to was pro stock racer Allen Johnson and the devilish aerodynamics of...