Category Archive: 1320 Videos
Sand Drags In Iceland Have a Bit of Everything, Including a Third-Gen Camaro!
Based solely on the country’s name, Iceland is unlikely to be a country you’d expect to find sand drags. However, the country has an off-road racing club that dates back to the mid-1970s and they...
The FAA Would Like A Word, Sir: Watch Mike Barran’s Pro Street Camaro Taking Flight At Shakedown At The Summit!
The action during the Shakedown At The Summit 14 race in Norwalk, Ohio was the kind of racing you want to see: strong classes, tightly-grouped times between the cars and drag races that were either...
Race Everything! Watch a Latvian Drag Race Between a Soviet-Built ZAZ and a Classic Mini
Bikernieki Race Track isn’t particularly well-known internationally, nor is the drag racing scene in Latvia, but we’re equal-opportunity race fans here at BangShift. If there’s a place in the...
Big Wreck: Doomsday No Prep Chevelle Almost Goes Through Guardrail
While we dig no prep racing, there is always something really really bad happening that just scares the crap out of us. A lot of times that something has to do with crap guardrails like the Armco...
This Volvo Wagon Hurt Some Feelings At LS Fest – Meet The “Trollvo”!
There is always one car at LS Fest that catches me off-guard. My first year, it was the ten-second Mitsubishi Eclipse, and last year it was a tie between the 1970 Challenger that was taking on all...
Thrill Of Victory Video: Watch The Awesome and Emotional Reaction A Bracket Finals Win Brings On
(By Jason Mazotta) – Drag racers have a number of reasons why they love the sport; the acceleration, the speed, the sound or smell, but for some it is seeing the win light at the finish line....
Mental Note: Use Less Boost! Watch This LSx Mustang Get All Four Wheels Off Of The Ground At LS Fest!
One good thing about LS Fest: if it hit the strip, it was set to kill. Nobody wants to be the guy holding back during the three-day love letter to GM’s late-model blocks during racing. We saw...
Would You Be Brave Enough To Drag Race A Suicide-Shifted Chopper Down The Strip?
For six years, motorcycles were my jam and to this day I still enjoy the occasional ride. My wildest years involved Yamaha two-strokes with enough power to scare the ever-living hell out of...
Watch An Outlaw 10.5 Car Run 4.18 and Stop The Clocks On The Rear Tires!
(By Jason Mazzotta) – One of the most exciting aspects of outlaw racing is the wheelie. Whether it is a Drag Radial car that launches and puts it on the bumper, or a twin turbo outlaw 10.5 car...
A Nitro Powered Pencil Sharpener? Now We’ve Seen It All.
We’ve seen nitro powered blenders, snow cone machines, and even food processors, but a pencil sharpener? Yeah, this one is creative, and funny, and was done for no other reason than because...
Watch The Crazy Swedes In Their Monster Of An Opel Ascona Drag Week Car Pull A Huge Wheelie At Orlando
If there is a hallmark of Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2016 that has already kind of showed itself before the beginning of the event, it is the large number of international entries that will be...
Aussie Burnouts Baby! Brasher Nats 2016 Cause Everyone Needs Tire Smoke On Sundays
The Aussie Burnout, or Skid, is world renowned. And Brasher Nats has become one of the premier events to show off your skills if you are an Aussie fond of destroying tires. So whenever we find good...
Watch The Quickest Pass Of Drag Week 2006 – Guess The Elapsed Time Before Pressing Play
This is kind of a fun game. Below we have video of the Hinson Supercars RX7 packing a turbocharged LS1 engine. This was the car that made the quickest pass of Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2006 and we...
1,500hp Chevette Video: This Car Was A Drag Week Fan (and announcer) Favorite! Watch It Work
One of the blessing/curse deals with being part of the Drag Week live feed is that I don’t have a lot of time to see cars in the morning before we start and since we cannot leave until everyone...