Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
This Video Profile Of The Awesome Drastic Plastic AA/FA Will Have You Craving A Snoot Of Nitro!
It kind of goes without saying that fuel altered are the best thing ever but even in saying that, all things are not created equal. Yes, some fuel altereds are cooler than other and for varying...
The Way It Was: Watch The Green Elephant Funny Car Win The 1973 NHRA World Finals In Amarillo
To start, we should explain something that many people don’t really know or understand. Before 1970 there was no such thing as a funny car championship in NHRA drag racing. Then, between 1970...
SAFE! Watch This No-Prep Racing Mustang Go Into A Top End Slide After Breaking The Tires Loose
No-prep style drag racing has brought an amazing number of young people into the sport and that’s a great thing. They are attracted by the unpredictable nature of the action, the cool cars, the...
Morning Symphony: A Second-Gen Camaro’s Exercise In Simplicity
We cover a lot of racing events throughout the year. We see a lot of combinations that all work out beautifully. We see nitrous cars that take a dentist office’s monthly supply and turn it into...
Sometimes It Gets Weird Video: Odd Moments, Crazy Moments, and Bizarre Moments At The Drags – Must Watch Stuff
Drag racing is the simplest of motorsports. Fixed distance, straight line, two (ok, sometimes four cars), first guy or girl to the end wins. There’s this weird thing about humanity, though. We...
They Are Still Racing (and Crashing On) The Dirt Quarter Mile In Sonora, Mexico
It was a bunch of years ago now that we first showed you video of quarter mile drag racing on a dirt course in Sonora, Mexico. While sitting on a plane home from SEMA I started to wonder if they were...
Heavy Duty Teardown: Go Behind The Scenes With Hagerty As They Blast Apart The World’s Nastiest 401 Buick
Well, this is handy! We found a cool series on the Hagerty YouTube Channel that documents the behind the scenes process for the next “Redline Rebuild” video that the company will release....
Size Matters! There Is More To Choosing The Right Wheel Tub Size Than Meets The Eye. Here Is All The Info You Need.
Wheel tubs are a pretty easy to understand piece of the car, but getting the right size and installing them correctly isn’t always done as nicely as one might hope. In fact, wheel tub size and...
Choosing The Right Steering Wheel For Your Race Car Is About Way More Than Looks!
Sometimes the parts choices you make on your race car are for looks, sometimes for power, and sometimes for convenience or safety. But it always make me laugh when you realize that some of the...
Watch Tim Slavens Run 3.62 At 217 mph To Set The Record In His Bitchin 1969 Camaro Radial Car
I’m a ’69 Camaro owner and love them, so seeing a good one running down the race track really does it for me. Tim Slavens’ Camaro also happens to be the fastest of it’s kind...
This Is The Best Funny Car Pedalfest In Modern Drag Racing History – Awesome Stuff
When Phil Burkhart and Cruz Pedregon lined up next to each other at Bristol in 2004 neither of them knew that the next nine seconds of their lives would be some of the most intense in drag racing...
Now THIS Is A Burnout! Watch Arne Kallevik’s Massive Head Gasket Killing Smoker From Santa Pod
How about burnouts? We all love them, right? The thing is, they are not all created equally. A guy in a stock pickup truck melting one rear tire down to the cords is not the same as a wild...
The Parting Shift: Fairlane Fever! Watch A Liberty Equipped Big Block Car Take On A Lenco Equipped Small Block Machine!
One of our favorite video guys out of the Pacific Northwest is Rob Fedyk. Why? The biggest reason is that the guy totally gets it. He’s not trying to go over the top with crappy music and...
Historic Video: Watch The Hurst Hairy Olds Crash In 1967 – Was This The Last Pass The Wild Car Ever Made?
The Hurst Hairy Olds is one of the wildest promotional vehicles ever built dedicated to the sport of drag racing. Featuring twin, supercharged, nitro burning Oldsmobile 425ci V8 engines and four...