Category Archive: 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320

Watch A Young John Force Score A Weird Come From Behind Round Victory At The 1979 NHRA World Finals

Most people know John Force as the all conquering funny car driver that has amassed more national event wins and championships in NHRA competition than anyone has or probably ever will, but far less...

Burnout Battle For The Ages: Watch This Classic Ford Truck Fog Bank Norwalk And A Classic Cadillac

(By Jason Mazzotta) – If burnouts aren’t your thing then this is not the video for you. We head over to Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio, for the 2014 Night Under Fire event which...

Cool Video: The Story Of “The Pilgrimage” – An Inside Look At The First x275 Exhibition In NHRA History

Well this is pretty awesome. You are about to watch a video that tells the whole story of “The Pilgrimage” which was the name for the x275 exhibition put on at the 2017 NHRA New England...

Gearhead Video: The Story And Cool Tech Behind The Arias/Fontana Hemi – Chevy Block With Hemi Heads On Nitro!

We love guys that take the unique path in racing. They are typically the ones that aren’t afraid to experiment or stick their neck out a little further in an effort to learn and potentially...

This Holden Gemini Is A Screamer! It’s Made Nearly 800 Horses To The Wheels, Now It’s A Drag Car!

Belive me or not, but the car below is related to a Chevrolet Chevette. That’s a Holden Gemini, a car only seen in the U.S. market as the “Buick Isuzu Opel” and only for a short...

Watch Steve Matusek Take A Wild Ride In His NHRA Pro Mod – We Find The Bright Side, It’s Not As Bad As It Looks

In this video you are going to see Aeromotive’s Steve Matusek take a wild ride in his NHRA Pro Mod at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals. The racing was hot and heavy at Norwalk this...

This Hellcat-Swapped Jeep Grand Cherokee Moves Out! Check Out It’s Blast From Maple Grove!

The Modern Street Hemi Shootout series recently hit Maple Grove Raceway in Pennsylvania for the second leg of the 2017 racing season, and as usual for Dan VanHorn and crew, the sounds of very angry...

Classic YouTube: Nothing Says Happiness Quite Like A Small-Block Drag Chevette!

A V8 engine stuffed into a GM T-car is always a good time waiting to happen. The Chevrolet Chevette (and all of the GM badge-engineered versions, including the Buick-Opel and the Isuzu I-Mark) go...

Historical Footage: Warren Johnson Vs. Darrell Alderman At The 1991 NHRA Arizona Nationals

I recently spoke with a friend about the things I miss the most out of drag racing, and without any hesitation, my answer was Pro Stock. I know it exists today…but twenty years ago, Pro Stock...

Watch Roger Lessman’s Massive 1990 Streamliner Crash At Bonneville – He Lived…Somehow

Since Roger Lessman himself posted this video to his YouTube page, we don’t think that he’d have a problem with us sharing it here on BangShift. During the 1990 World of Speed meet on the...

The Parting Shift: Ride Along With Quain Stott As He Makes A Wild, Violent, And Sideways Gasser Run At Bristol

We’ve showed video of Quain Stott and his Grand Illusion Willys gasser before but this one is really something else. In this clip we see Stott racing the car at Bristol Dragway, otherwise known...

Twelve Seconds? Ten Seconds? Take A Guess How Fast This AMC Gremlin Is!

“Sleeper” is an overused term in my opinion. People will go well out of their way to justify how a particular car is a sleeper, and most fail the sniff test…tires, exhaust note,...

Morning Symphony: Flat-Footing A Ford GT40 At An LSR Race!

We all have that one dream situation: before you is an open stretch of road. No cops, nowhere for one to hide, you have no budget limitations, and someone else is footing the bill for the fuel...

An Attention-Getter: Watch Mitchell Luke Go For A Fiery Ride At Willowbank Raceway!

Some days, it just ain’t your day. You’ll usually know it within ten minutes of waking up. But there are other days where your luck runs out just as things were going good, and for...