Category Archive: 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, CHEVY
It’s Just Cylinder Six, Nothing More – Watch As This Malibu Wagon Kills ‘Em All Wounded!
There are many tired, hackneyed cliches about never giving up in the face of defeat. And they exist for a reason: You aren’t defeated until you either give up or can’t physically move...
This Twin-Turbocharged Camaro Goes For The Moon At Memphis – Driver Ok, Car Ok, Firesuit Might Need A Wash!
Gauging the horizon to determine how your vehicle is traveling is for cars…no, wait. That’s wrong. That is correct for airplanes….cars are supposed to be level, not acting like they...
Big Fun In A Little Package – Drag Racing Smart Cars At A Historic Strip For A Good Cause (Video)
Many of you out there in BangShiftland are familiar with our pal Kevin Tetz. You have seen him on TV for years and his writing appears in magazines like Car Craft and others. The guy is a really cool...
Watch And Listen To This Nitrous Huffing Big Block Make 1,750hp On The Dyno – Header Flames And All
When I was with my kids at the drag strip last weekend I was reveling in the chance to teach them stuff about the cars they were looking at. Lots of the stuff we take for granted understanding like a...
Best of BS 2016: Les Mayhew’s Incredible 2015 March Meet Film Is Right Here!
Perhaps the greatest gift a person can receive in life is to find their calling. To locate, however it happens, the one thing that makes your wheels turn harder than anything else. The one thing that...
Best of BS 2016: This Naturally Aspirated Ultra Street Fairlane Thunderbolt Clone Run Five Flat In The Eighth
One of the craziest races in all of 2015 was the Outlaw Street Car Reunion which was held in Memphis last March. This was the famous “3s in the freeze” race where Jason Michalek ran his...
Best of BS 2016: Heresey At It’s Finest As A Rotary-Powered Chevy Nova Rolls Down The Quarter-Mile!
I swear, I watched this video several times, trying to see if someone dubbed over the audio of a well-built rotary motor over a Chevy Nova’s dragstrip run, and for the life of me, if it was,...
Best of BS 2016: Mustang GT350 Plus Mickey Thompson Drag Radials Plus Nitrous Equals 10s!
One of the cool things that always happens when new performance models come out are the “firsts”. The first people to get one to the drag strip is a big one and then the elapsed time...
Seat Swap! Watch Bryce Menzies Take On Drag Race And Cruz Pedregon Attack The Dirt – Plus A Crazy Match Race
It is always cool when professionals from disparate styles of racing get together and have fun with each other’s rides. In this case it is former NHRA funny car champion Cruz Pedregon and off...
Classic YouTube: Watch This Super Pro Dodge Avenger Lap National Trails Raceway!
If there is one thing that Chrysler did well in the 1980s and 1990s, it was building two-door body shells that looked great as drag cars. The Daytona, the LeBaron Coupe and the first-gen Avenger all...
Watch Chris Juliano’s Bad Ride From NHRA Norwalk – More Pro Mod Craziness
The J&A Service Company pro mod class has provided some of the most exciting, chilling, and downright crazy action of the 2016 NHRA Mello Yello drag racing season. Between close calls, near...
The Video Introduction To The Dave McClelland Motorsports Hall Of Fame Induction Is Amazing
So how to you create a video that encapsulates the truly great nature of a legend in just two minutes? You hand the project to someone who gets it. Les Mayhew is a guy who gets it and gets it to a...
Legends: The Bob Glidden Interview – This Recent Long Form Discussion With Glidden Is Outstanding
Earlier this week we showed you a 1980s interview with NHRA pro stock legend Bob Glidden from a television show called, “The Great Racers”. It was an awesome look into the man and his...
Watch Steve Harker Suffer A Massive Alcohol Funny Car Crash At NHRA Norwalk – Brutal
Steve Harker is one of the best guys who has ever strapped a helmet on his head and climbed into an alcohol funny car. Unfortunately, even the best are not immune to bad days at the drag strip and...