Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, HISTORIC, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Drag History Video: Here’s the Broadcast Of The 1988 IHRA Texas Nationals – The Weekend The 5-Second Barrier Fell
They’re just numbers. They are just digits on a slip of paper or on a scoreboard. That’s what the world sees. That’s what people who have never measured themselves against time,...
Historic Drag Video: This Footage From The 1981 Olympics Of Drag Racing Is Awesome
Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week rolls into historic Great Lakes Dragaway today. This place, which rose to prominence behind the creative, wacky, and tireless work of the late Broadway Bob Metzler is cool....
The Aussies Attack No Mercy 9 And Are Turning Heads Every Which Way
Australians, or at least racing Australians, are a strange lot. They know it, we know it, everyone just knows it. But that’s not the only reason we love them and are thrilled to see them at any...
No Mercy 9’s Radial VS The World Top 16, Racing For $50,000!
Radial vs The World, the granddaddy of all radial classes, is competing for $50,000 here at No Mercy 9. These are the top 16 qualifiers who are battling it out for the title and the check....
Lenco Lever: This Dude Shows Epic Skill In Rowing Through The Levers. This Is Why Lencos Are So Fun!
I got my NHRA Pro Stock license nearly 18 years ago now, and the thing I was most excited about in the whole experience was pulling levers on a Lenco. It was magic. It is a dance. A dance you can...
Vinny LaRosa Got All Four Wheels Off The Ground At No Mercy 9 And Then Spun The Car A Couple Times For Good Measure!
Big wheelstands are always fun to watch at the dragstrip, always. The ones we usually gravitate towards are the long, smooth, not so high ones that go for hundreds and hundreds of feet. When there is...
BLASPHEMI: 1320 Video Takes And Inside Look At Finnegan’s Bitchin Blown Hemi Gasser
A 1955 Hemi powered Chevrolet Gasser is not something you see everyday, and especially not on the street. But that’s exactly what Mike Finnegan has and does with his. In fact, instead of just...
Watch Andrew Johnson’s Short Flight And Hard Landing At No Mercy 8 – Car Came Back And Raced!
Andrew Johnson had one of the most interesting weekends of any Radial vs The World competitor at No Mercy 8 in 2017. Why? It was the first time he had ever bolted radials to his car that normally...
Sounds Of Perfection: This Blown 496ci Chevy On 85% Is The Sweetest Sounding Thing We Have Heard In A While!
There are lots of things in life that are acquired. We have acquired skills that we learn after hanging out with people who are good at stuff for a long time or practicing on our own, we have...
Think 1,000hp On Water Sounds Scary? Judging By This Video, You Are Right!
If you have ever experienced 1,000hp on asphalt you can only imagine what 1,000hp on water would be like. Ok, as someone who has experienced 1,000hp on asphalt I literally cannot imagine what was...
No Mercy Week: Take A Look Back At DeWayne Mills’ $50,000 Payday In PTC Radial Vs The World!
As you read this racers and vendors are stacking up at South Georgia Motorsports Park for No Mercy. This is the wild Donald Long promoted radial tire drag race that features classes like x275,...
Watch Robert Hight’s Explosive Final Round Win From The AAA Insurance Nationals At Gateway Motorsports Park
It was an incredible and scary finish to the nitro funny car category as Robert Hight took his AAA sponsored Chevrolet Camaro across the finish line at the sponsor’s race just before the car...
Riding With Alex Taylor: The “We Almost Burned The Nova To The Ground” Edition. Part 1
As if Drag Week 2018 was drama filled enough, Dennis Taylor tried to burn the Retro Nova to the ground! This is Part 1 of Riding with Alex Taylor the Drag Week Edition, and you’ll see that this...
