Category Archive: 1320 Spotlight, 1320 Videos
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...
Where It All Started: This Short Clip Of Hot Rod Drag Week 2005 Is A Far Cry From The Mania Of Today
Drag Week officially begins in a couple days and since we’ve got the fever we figured we would share this look back the the humble roots of the event. Oddly Drag Week had a lot to do with...
Watch Doorslammer Legend Tommy Mauney Get A Facefull Of Fire At Shady Side Dragway
Tommy Mauney (pronounced Mooney) is one of the great door slammer chassis builders and racers of all time. He was there for the beginning of pro mod, developed lots of the stuff that has been refined...
Dyno Video: Watch The Blown Flathead Powered Scrap Iron 2 Fox Body Mustang Roar Out 250hp
Here’s a land speed racing video that has no salt, no Ohio mile, no Texas mile, and frankly no forward motion. This is a video made by the Landry crew who run a car at the Ohio Mile and at...
Watch NHRA Funny Driver Ron Capps Hit The Sand Trap Hard At The US Nationals
It was a frightening day for veteran funny car driver Ron Capps yesterday when his NAPA Dodge had a parachute deployment problem at the top end and he entered the sand trap HARD. As you will see,...
Gearing Up For Winter: How About A Seven-Second Snowmobile? Yes, Please!
Winter sucks, and I’m not looking forward to it’s arrival in a few short weeks. I don’t care if it does sound like bitching…I’ll own that with a smile. Cold, rainy,...
The Parting Shift: A 351 Powered Tremec TKO Equipped Mustang Hits The Strip
Because we’re going to be living in the land of the LS next week at Holley LS Fest we figured that some good old Ford gear bashing was needed for this week’s Parting Shift. The subject at...
Watch Anthony Vanetti Go Hurtling Into The Net After His Pro Stock Bike Lost The Brakes At Indy
Pro Stock motorcycle racer Anthony Vanetti made his national event debut at the 62nd running of the NHRA Chevrolet Performance US Nationals and yesterday did not go quite the way he planned. Vanetti...
Watch The Tremendous Robert Hight Funny Car Explosion From The 2016 NHRA Chevrolet Performance US Nationals
There are a few things that we hold self-evident around here and one of them is that no matter what is done to advance technology and reliability in the nitro ranks, stuff will still blow up. Robert...
