Category Archive: 1320 Sponsor News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, Sponsor News
Brought Back To Life: This 1965 Impala Uses A Single Turbo And A Stock Bottom End 6.0 To Run Deep 9s
The other day I posted a 1965 Impala pro touring car that was pretty tough to look at. The thing was overbuilt and weird looking and just someone’s idea of what a high end pro touring car...
Not The Beach, Mate: This Ballistic Meyers Manx Runs The Quarter Hard Once It Gets Reeled Back In!
Bruce F. Meyers might be fully credited for taking the Volkswagen Beetle, shrinking it down, and adding a trailing arm-style rear suspension and a body tub that lent itself well to cartoons, but in...
Morning Symphony: A Toyota Starlet With A Flame-Throwing Rotary
No replacement for displacement, eh? No, that old adage has been killed over and over. Sure, there is nothing like a big-bore, big cube V8 with all the civility of a Viking on full berserker mode,...
The Minivan: The Axle-Eating, Turbo-Popping Drag Week Bucket Of Fun!
There is a contingent of turbocharged, front-driver Mopar types that have been growing within the Drag Week ranks for a couple of years now. Cars like Shelby Omnis, Daytonas and the like putting down...
Bad Goat: This Pro Street 1966 GTO Owned By Hollywood Bobby Is ANGRY – Watch It In Action
Hollywood Bobby Treadwell is a well known dude in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area. His 1936 Plymouth, with is nitrous snorting 632 was well known on the streets and the strips of the area and the car...
Morning Symphony: The Sound Of Tortured Slicks Under A Stomping Chevy C-10
It’s the sound that we know so well here at BangShift, given the amount of time we spend working the 1320. The noise when a highly strung drag machine goes from sitting perfectly still to when...
Anti-Disco: This C3 Corvette Strip Terror Can Get Up And Get Down With It’s Own Soundtrack!
The C3 Corvette started out so strong, didn’t it? From the Mako Shark concepts to the 427-powered Stingrays, things looked great for the third generation of the sports car that America could...
Watch Steve Torrance Wak Away Unscathed From A Horrendous NHRA Top Fuel Wreck In Dallas
Texan Steve Torrance walked away from a horrendous NHRA top fuel wreck in Dallas on Sunday when his car cut down a rear tire and smashed into the wall going more then 300mph. The current NHRA top...
Dead Drag Strip File (Video): Check Out The History of Pocono Drag Lodge – Cool Pennsylvania Strip
One of the coolest ghost tracks in the USA is Pennsylvania’s Pocono Drag Lodge. The whole racing surface is very much intact, the old tower has been reskinned to look like a functional building...
The Most Insane Mooning Story Ever Told – Nicky Bonifante Tells A Wild One Started By Scott Kalitta
In the realm of stupid and hilarious things, this story as told by Nicky Bonifante is Olympic level. Bobby Bennett at CompetitionPlus.com captured the interview and the tale as part of his...
This 1987 IHRA Pro Stock Video Features Rickie Smith and Period Pro Stock Tech!
Oh 1980s pro stock, those were the days! We seriously love the visual “trueness” that these cars had (outwardly, anyway) to the cars that fans drove into the gate to watch the race in....
Sand Thing Is Our New Favorite Third Generation Camaro Ever – Dirt Drags!
The third generation Camaro is about as versatile a car as we have ever seen in the performance realm. Drag racing, road racing, autocross, trar conversions, and now dirt drag racing have all be...
Hellacious Fiery Wreckage Video: A Chevelle Smacks Both Walls and Explodes Like the Hindenburg
We don’t know what the hell is going on this week, but we were tipped off to yet another frightening drag race wreck video that features what Brock Yates would have called, “a whole BUNCH...
This Video Profile Of The MadSam Aussie Drift Car Is Great – Ford Guys Rejoice!
Obviously the Australians are crazy about their skid cars. It is a pretty fascinating scene because we don’t have it up here. The guys at Street Machine Magazine recently profiled a car called...