Category Archive: 1320 Spotlight, 1320 Videos
The Fastest Donks In The Country Battle It Out At Street Outlaws Event
Mar 04, 2018Chad ReynoldsComments Off on The Fastest Donks In The Country Battle It Out At Street Outlaws Event
Drag racing donks makes almost no sense. Or at least it didn’t make sense to me before. Now, I can respect it because it takes a lot of boost control or nitrous programming to make one of these...
REPLAY: Mid-West Pro Mods On BANGshift From The Texas Motorplex – Watch Here!
Mar 03, 2018Chad Reynolds3
That’s right folks, the 2018 Season Opener for the Mid-West Pro Mods is coming to the Texas Motorplex in Ennis and their famed concrete surface promises record performances for the MWPM...
A Jillion Spikes, A 5.3 LS Swap, Nitrous, And A Yugo Body Makes This Ice Racing Greatness
Mar 03, 2018Chad Reynolds2
The Merrill Ice Drags are hilarious because while a bunch of the cars racing look like normal drag cars with spiked tires, some are built by folks that march to the beat of a different drummer. Such...
Gone In Seconds: From A Theft Recovery To A Strip Screamer, This X275 Dodge Challenger Has Come Back Badder Than Ever!
Feb 28, 2018Bryan McTaggart1
If you hunt through the pages of Enterprise Rent-A-Car, you can come across the “Sports Car Rental” section. Instead of getting your basic mode of transportation, you can opt-in to drive...
Yugo, He Gone: Improving The Most Hated Car Ever With The Most Hated Engine Swap Ever!
Feb 28, 2018Bryan McTaggart7
“Two wrongs don’t make a right!” Story of my childhood, and many others, I’m sure. Story of Malcom Bricklin’s career, if we are to be honest, as well. First, he brought...
Scott Palmer and The NHRA Top Fuel Cat Spot Team Had A Runner Up Celebration For The Ages On Sunday Night In Phoenix
Feb 27, 2018Brian Lohnes6
Scott Palmer is one of NHRA top fuel drag racing’s unlikely and awesome heroes. The guy has worked for the majority of his life to get where he is today in the sport and he’s honestly...
Watch The Horrendous John Force Jonnie Lindberg Crash From The NHRA Arizona Nationals
Feb 26, 2018Brian Lohnes8
The silence hung over the track like a lead curtain. You could have heard a pin drop for minutes as the NHRA Safety Safari tended to both John Force and Jonnie Lindberg after one of the scariest...
The 1320 Video Gang Visits The Merrill Ice Drags. Drag Racing On A Lake Just Doesn’t Seem Right.
Feb 25, 2018Chad ReynoldsComments Off on The 1320 Video Gang Visits The Merrill Ice Drags. Drag Racing On A Lake Just Doesn’t Seem Right.
The Merrill Ice Drags have been going on since 1965 and bring out all kinds of ice racing craziness. But not every vehicle out there is a purpose built ice racer. In fact most of the cars, trucks,...
Calder Park Drag Racing – V8s From Old And New Schools Making Noise!
Feb 23, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Calder Park Drag Racing – V8s From Old And New Schools Making Noise!
We are about a month away from starting some test and tune days at Beech Bend with the Angry Grandpa Chrysler and honestly, the weather can’t clear up soon enough for us to start getting the...
Morning Symphony: The Highest-Revving Detroit Diesel-Powered Kenworth We’ve Seen Yet!
Feb 23, 2018Bryan McTaggart1
Diesels don’t rev. That’s just the truth of it. A couple of thousand RPMs and you’re in the upper limits for most oil-burners that have been produced. Four thousand RPM and...
This Cummins Powered Nova Was The Freakiest Car At Lights Out 9 And It Worked! Totally Awesome
Feb 22, 2018Brian Lohnes5
In drag racing, freaky and different usually mean fun but they also usually mean slow. Well, this Cummins powered Nova was the freakiest car at Lights Out 9 and it was anything but slow. In fact this...
BangShift Question Of The Day: How Do You Feel About Electric Hot Rods?
Feb 22, 2018Bryan McTaggart25
Forget my usual prose for once. Had you told me ten years ago that electric vehicles would be where they are today, I would have rolled out a list of suggestions for places you could go and what you...
Watch Stevie Fast Jackson Win The $50,000 Radial vs The World Prize At Lights Out 9 – His Path To Victory
Feb 21, 2018Brian Lohnes2
It was Stevie Fast Jackson, driving the famed Shadow 2.0 Camaro who drove to the $50,000 grand prize at Lights Out 9 last weekend. That’s the short story. The longer story is shown below and it...
Hot Rod Haulers! Place Your Bets Between The 1UZ-Powered Flatbed And the 1JZ-Powered Van!
Feb 21, 2018Bryan McTaggart4
A Mazda flatbed truck and a Mitsubishi L300 van. I’ll take “Vehicles You’d Never See On A Dragstrip” for a thousand, Alex. Small, compact utility vehicles from Japan...