Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
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...
Hot Five: 1,203 Horsepower Out Of 2.7L Of A Turbocharged Volvo Inline-Five
I’m a little partial to Volvos. The first burnout I ever did was in a 1976 242D two-door, and after watching hours upon hours of rally footage, I’ve come to appreciate the capabilities of...
The Cheap Racing LUV Made It To The Zip-Tie Drags! Here’s The Final Chapter In The Little Truck’s Mission!
After following the build of Broke Bastard Garage’s Chevrolet LUV, we’ve been waiting with baited breath to see how the truck handled the Zip-Tie Drags and the $3K Hooptie Challenge in...
Half-Mile Racing In Puerto Rico At The PR500 – Can You Say Hellcat Pickup?
Am I jealous that 1320Video packed up and went to Puerto Rico in the middle of winter? Yep. Can I blame them? No, not really. Half-mile racing going off this early in the year sounds pretty sweet to...
The Auction Mistake Corvette Lives Again! Dyno And Dragstrip Time!
One C6 Corvette with a lifetime of hell already seen blows up a transplant engine after making some big-boy power at the strip. Surely, that same Corvette deserves a chance for redemption, right?...
SICKO. Is It The Baddest 1966 Mustang In Australia? It Sure Looks Like It!
Anyone who builds blown big and small blocks, with the only intention being to sit them on the rev limiter for as long as possible, so as to smoke the tires until they blow is probably good. Actually...
Ryan Martin’s Fireball Camaro Takes On The Fireball Ford Lightning At Winter Meltdown No Prep
Ryan Martin’s Fireball Camaro is one of the most famous street race and No Prep cars on the planet and with good reason. This thing hauls ass and is a force to be reckoned with anytime he lines...