Category Archive: 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320

Ever Wonder Why Turbo Drag Cars Take A While To Stage? This Drag Week Video Explains It With Great Clarity And Humor

One of the cool things that the Hot Rod staff did during Drag Week was attempt to answer some of the most common questions that came up in the chat room as we were doing the live video broadcast. As...

Watch This Nasty Two Car Crash From Ozark Raceway Park In Missouri – Drivers Walk Away But Cars Are Mangled

Urban Hillbilly Action Videos have really made a killer comeback this year and we’re thankful that they have. The guys who pioneered the types of video we see on the web commonly today still...

This Video Highlighting Doug Cline’s Drag Week Where He Ran 6s At All Tracks With No Trailer In A Steel Camaro Is Magnificent

There an irony about announcing literally every pass at Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week and being behind the eight ball about telling the stories on my own blog but the logistics of the event and the...

Watch NHRA Pro Stock Racer V. Gaines Suffer A Massive Barrel Rolling Top End Wreck At zMax Dragway

NHRA Pro Stock racer V. Gaines suffered a massive top end crash yesterday at the NHRA Pep Boys Nationals when his car got loose on the top end of the track and turned over multiple times before...

UPDATED: Larry Larson: Fastest Street Car In The World with a 6.16!

Larry Larson’s Chevy S-10 blasted a [email protected] run during the Drag Week Heads Up Competition on Saturday. After testing, tuning, breaking things, and a F-ton of sleepless nights and weekends,...

Watch The Most Dramatic Moment In Drag Week History – The Beyond All Thrash That Got Larson To The Line, But Not The Result He Wanted

Ultimately Chad will tell the whole tale of his 2014 Drag Week with Larry Larson. He’ll give you the details on how they got about an hour’s sleep total in three days, how they nearly...

Watch David Campbell’s Huge Manifold Explosion And Subsequent Fire From PDRA Rockingham

PDRA Pro Nitrous racer David Campbell went for a ride he will surely never forget last weekend at Rockingham Dragway in North Carolina. While making a qualifying attempt, Campbell’s Sonny...

Watch The Most Unbelievable Top Fuel Motorcycle Crash Ever – Rider Ends Up Going Down The Track Sitting On Competitor’s Wheelie Bars!

The image above with the two motorcycle racers apparently standing near the same bike may not seem like much but it shows the simply unfathomable aftermath of a top fuel motorcycle wreck that...

Flat Four No More: This VW Beetle Is Powered By A Chevy Inline Six And Is A Complete Frankenstein Hot Rod

So there I was, trolling YouTube for something interesting and fun to show you on this Sunday and I stepped right into this video accidentally. The car is called “Flat Four No More” and...

The Parting Shift: 11,000 RPM Insanity From Norway

Man alive! When we first watched this video of a Competition Eliminator car running in Oslo, Norway, we rubbed our eyes and watched again. Sporting a 297ci Ford motor, a tach that starts at 6,000...

Want To Know What The 2015 Challenger Drag Pack’s Supercharged Engine Will Have For Power? This Dyno Video May Be Telling Us

When we were at the reveal of the 2015 Dodge Challenger Drag Pack at the US Nationals, Chrysler was really tight lipped about the power output of the 426ci late model Hemi with the Whipple blower...

Crash And Burn: Watch As “Skinny Mike” Schwartz Goes For A Wild Ride At The 2014 Time Machine Nationals

“Skinny Mike” Schwartz went for one hell of a ride at the 2014 Time Machine Nationals at Great Lakes Dragway in Wisconsin. Don Besch filmed the accident, and according to him, during...

Here’s What Tom Bailey’s Bringing For Drag Week 2014 – Can The Defending Champ Double Up?

When Tom Bailey and right hand man Steve Morris took the top honors at Hot Rod Drag Week last year, they did so in a pretty non dramatic fashion. After trading blows with Dave Ahokas on day one in...

Watch This Brazilian Chevrolet Opala Wagon Run 8.18 At 165 With A Naturally Aspirated Chevy 250 Inline Six!

We have showed you some video from the drag racing scene in Brazil before but this is the coolest one we have shown yet. Why? Because the car that is featured in the video is a nasty little station...