Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
Great Video: This Intense Look Back At The NHRA Top Fuel Final From Phoenix Rules!
The top fuel final round at the NHRA Phoenix race was literally one for the books. Two of the young female stars of the category were both vying for their first win. Both were working with new crew...
Watch Tera Graves Go 3.78 At North Star Dragway In John Hale’s ‘One Bad Texan’ Funny Car
Tera Graves is a woman on a nitro propelled mission. She has piloted all kinds of crazy fast stuff through her driving career but for the second (third?) time she has climbed behind the wheel of...
Classic YouTube: Pro Stock Eliminator Footage From The 1988 Australian Drag Racing Nationals At Willowbank Raceway!
I love 1980s Pro Stock footage. You have screaming engines that the drivers are willing to rev to the moon, dry hops, burnouts in excess, yet you still have cars that are basically the cars you see...
Watch As This FPV F6 Blasts Deep Into The Nines – Six Cylinder, Six-Speed Auto And Street Driven!
Had you told anyone twenty years ago that a car like this FPV (Ford Performance Vehicles) F6 would exist, you would have been laughed out of town. A rear-drive sedan? GM had just killed the B-bodies...
Awesome Video: March Meet Funny Car And Top Fuel From NitroAmerica’s Les Mayhew
Every year while we are standing up on the scaffolding bringing you all the LIVE March Meet racing action you can handle, Les Mayhew is running around getting sexy shots and killer video that he puts...
This Twin Turbo 2014 Mustang Runs 8.80s at 160mph on 20-inch Wheels – We Saw It With Our Own Eyes!
(Editor’s note: As I get ready to blast back down to Bradenton, Florida this week to call the action at the NMRA Spring Break Shootout, I wanted to recognize one of the most incredible cars...
Woah, Baby! Watch Bill Dunlap Go For The Wildest Top Fuel Dragster Ride At The 2015 March Meet – Centerline To Wall At 200+
Bill Dunlap and the High Speed Motorsports squad are among the the most respected nostalgia top fuel teams out there. These guys race all over the country and they have the parts, pieces, and...
Watch Steve Bell Make A Romping, Stomping 7-Second Stick Shift COPO Camaro Pass – The First Or Not?
Well this is just brutally awesome! In this video you will see racer Steve Bell wind up his COPO Camaro, drop the hammer and rip the shift lever to a seven second elapsed time. While this video says...
Major Wreckage Video: Two Dragsters Collide, One Flies, And A Dodge Camper Catches An Engine In The Face
In that kind of washed out lead photo you are seeing the beginnings of an exceptionally wild wreck that occurred in 1996 at Cordova during a UDRA (United Drag Racers Association) event. The footage...
This New Edge Mustang Doesn’t Have A Ford Motor, Or An LS Block. But It Will Whip A Hellcat!
Ok, ok…we’ve stirred up enough LS hate for the week. Have no fear, it’ll probably be about a week or so before the next big Chevy-swapped hatefest shows up on these pages, but for...
Danger Close: This Holden Ute Nearly Tags The Wall During The Powerskid Event At Powercruise!
Powerskidding: Break the rear tires loose and take off. You’re doing it right if it looks like a space shuttle launched horizontally with smoke pouring out of the rears at good speed. No...
Beauty And A Beater: Is There A Better Combination Than A Junkyard LS Engine In A Ford Fairmont?
It’s strange to think that LS swaps really took off because of one Ford Fairmont. The “Leroy Brown” 1982 Fairmont sedan built by Matt Happel was known for clubbing unsuspecting...
Here’s A Fun Look Back At The Best NHRA Winternationals Funny Car Finals In History
The NHRA Phoenix event is underway as you are reading this but we wanted to share this recently dropped NHRA video that looks back at some of the most memorable funny car final rounds in...
Go! vs Woah! – Les Mayhew Tackles The Great Debate Of Tradition Versus Progress In Nostalgia Racing
As you diehard BangShifters well know, we’ll be LIVE from the 2016 Good Vibrations March Meet at Bakersfield next weekend. That is one of the largest and most prestigious nostalgia drag races...