Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, CRASH & BURN, Videos
Video: A Hung Throttle Sends This Drag Car The Wrong Way On The Strip At Full Throttle!
I can’t find the exact quote, but I know that on more than one occasion I’ve heard Brian explain that seeing a car coming back up the track under throttle is his nightmare fuel. He...
Chemical Reaction: Anthony Begley’s “Chemical Warfare” Funny Car Explodes At Perth Motorplex!
In what many are calling one of the wildest Funny Car matchups they’ve seen in Australia in quite some time, two drivers both went up in bomb blasts during the same run at the “Nitro...
Your Moment Of Zen: The Drag Slick At The Hit In Slow Motion
There are many sciences and crafts that make a successful racer stand head and shoulders above the others, but on the strip, the master is traction. If you can’t grip, it doesn’t matter...
Boss Move: Yanking The Wheels On Your Licensing Pass In Your Turbo LS Chevy LUV
“Dude, don’t worry. If you wind up in prison, you just establish dominance. Find the biggest dude in the place and whoop his ass. Nobody will mess with you then.” Oh, to be young...
Morning Symphony: J. Malcom’s “Project Cheapskate” S-10 Tearing The Rears To Shreds!
A little less than a year ago, Justin Malcom decided that he was going to do a budget build up for himself. The car in question at the time was a G-body Monte Carlo and the budget was supposed to be...
Mr. October? Yes. Mr. February? Not So Much – The Year Reggie Jackson Hosted The NHRA Winternationals (Cringeworthy)
There are people in this world with legit gifts and talents. Reggie Jackson is one of them. Among the greatest baseball players of his generation and certainly among the greatest clutch performers in...
Watch Chris Economaki Cover The 1980 NHRA Winternationals For ABC’s Wide World of Sports
There are certain faces and names that we automatically connect to the world of auto racing. Voices, too. Chris Economaki is one of them, perhaps the best of them. The guy was everywhere and he was...
The “WTF?” Files: What Happens When You Make Your Own Homegrown Electric Turbochargers
To be a fly on the wall in the meeting that resulted in what you see here…oh, that would’ve been some cheap entertainment. The basis for the plan is simple: one pretty much...
Morning Symphony: A 427 Cammer-Powered 1955 Ford Gasser Being Driven In Hate
The 427 SOHC mill might not have been welcomed at NASCAR (be it by NASCAR’s own decision or by Chrysler’s meddling in the background) but the NHRA welcomed the psychotic variation of the...
Haulin’ Plenty: Trucks, Trucks And More Trucks From Urban Hillbilly’s Archives!
The split was explained early in my life: The car was for family trips and the truck was for work. That was that…if you didn’t need to haul anything around or didn’t need to tow...
World’s Angriest Cough Drop: This 500 Horsepower Toyota Starlet Is A Ripper!
Oh good lord is this thing angry. It’s a Toyota Starlet, a tiny little car that under normal circumstances is best left to MPG-touting types and frugal commuters. This particular example, on...
Morning Symphony: The Supercruise At Motorvation 33
While we’re dealing with Arctic blasts and icy, snowy conditions here in the Northern Hemisphere, in the Southern Hemisphere it’s the middle of summer and the fun only ramps up from the...
Morning Symphony: Sunday Drag Racing At Heathcote Raceway
Missing the dragstrip? Don’t feel alone. With everything around BangShift Mid-West soaked to the bone in never-ending rain showers, the only way that we will race anything in a straight line is...
