Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
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
Jun 26, 2017Brian LohnesComments Off on 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!
Jun 26, 2017Bryan McTaggart1
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!
Jun 26, 2017Bryan McTaggart2
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
Jun 25, 2017Bryan McTaggartComments Off on 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
Jun 24, 2017Brian Lohnes2
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
Jun 23, 2017Brian Lohnes2
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!
Jun 23, 2017Bryan McTaggart10
“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!
Jun 22, 2017Bryan McTaggart1
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!
Jun 20, 2017Bryan McTaggartComments Off on 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...
Historic Drag Racing From Tracks Around Illinois and Missouri – Four Wide Action and More!
Jun 20, 2017Brian Lohnes4
This weekend I’ll be calling the action at the NHRA event in Norwalk, Ohio. I am looking forward to this race as it will have lots of fun stuff going for it like pro mods, championship...
Watch This Huge-Wheel Equipped Monte Carlo Shear The Wheel Studs And Get Crazy!
Jun 19, 2017Brian Lohnes36
(By Greg Rourke) – Why do most drag racers not run on giant rims? Perhaps a visual aid is in order and this huge-wheel equipped Monte Carlo is it. Here we have the Track Mania event at Memphis...
Watch Clay Millican Win His First NHRA National Event In Top Fuel – Overwhelming Emotions, Incredible Story
Jun 19, 2017Brian Lohnes16
It was the most emotionally charged top fuel final round I have ever experienced in person and when Clay Millican charged down the track ahead of Leah Pritchett, the entirety of Bristol Dragway went...
Evil Little Pill: This Ford Fiesta ST Is Kicking Everybody’s Backside At A Half-Mile Run!
Jun 19, 2017Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Evil Little Pill: This Ford Fiesta ST Is Kicking Everybody’s Backside At A Half-Mile Run!
Say it with me: The Ford Fiesta ST is NOT a sleeper. It’s not a particularly fast car, true. It’s more meant to be a neat little daily, a runaround that doesn’t suck, an eco-car...
Dead To Rights Sleeper: Watch This Old Chevy Truck Rip Middle Georgia Motorsports Park A New One!
Jun 14, 2017Bryan McTaggart2
We will never get tired of old work trucks that find a second life as street sweepers. You know the kind…beat-up bed, rusty in spots, a seat cover that’s probably thirty years old (at...