Category Archive: 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320

The Starting Shift: A Gear Banging Pass in A Clutchless Five Speed Nova!

We’re freaking BangShift so we need to start our week with manual transmission violence, damn it! We’re getting back on the horse with a good one here. This is a Chevy Nova driven by a...

Episode 1 Of $10K Drag Shootout 2: Can We Win It Again? $10k In Cash And The Moonshine Missile Are At Stake

Last year’s $10k Drag Shootout was an absolute riot, and at the same time an absolute ass whip. But man was it rewarding and cool. We won the car, our Mustang named Beer Money, and $10k in cash...

FREE LIVE STREAMING VIDEO: Pro Mods In Memphis! Mid-West Pro Mod Series LIVE Friday And Saturday!

 Update: 10:00 A.M. is go-time for Saturday’s live stream! Memphis, plug your ears this weekend. It’s going to be nice and loud. The Mid-West Pro Mod Series is at Memphis International...

This Tilting And Extending Welding Table Is A Pretty Cool Home Built Project That We’d Love To Have In The Shop

If you are regular here on BANGshift then you know that welding is one of the things I like most. And that means that welding projects and helping you guys learn how to weld is something I love being...

Video: Nine Minutes Of 1950s, 1960, and 1970s, Gasser Footage From Tracks All Over The Country – Absolutely Awesome!

As much as nostalgia funny cars totally exploded on the drag racing scene over the last 10 years or so, gassers have been proliferating at a pretty impressive rate that only seems to be picking up...

Broken Front Sheetmetal, Broken K-Frame, Broken Head…Nothing Stopped This Mustang At LS Fest X!

Perseverance. The ability to push through just about anything that comes your way with a positive, through hell and brimstone attitude, is the difference between the normal person and the winner....

The American Powertrain Parting Shift: Cranking Four Gears In A Really Hot VW Bug!

The subject of this week’s American Powertrain Parting Shift is a hot rodded VW Bug that runs in the high 10s in the quarter and sub seven seconds in the eighth mile. In this video we’ll...

Watch This Twin Engine Opel Calibra From Poland Rip Off 8-second Quarter Mile Times

There’s nothing like the spirit and creativity of hot rodding, especially when that spirit an creativity is to only applied to make a car look good but it is also applied to make a car run...

Horsepower Video: Watch An Aussie Small Block Chevy Get Run Naturally Aspirated And Turbo Charged — BIG Power On The Pump!

We don’t understand things like “math” and “time zones” so we’re figuring that is it already like Wednesday morning or something in Australia as we write this,...

Daniels Wins Fourth U.S. Nationals Mopar HEMI Challenge In A Row!

(Photos by Mike Burghardt) – The hugely popular Mopar HEMI Challenge at the U.S. Nationals continued again this year with 16 of the drag racing’s best period SS/AH Hemi Darts and Cuda’s,...

Holley LS Fest X: The Show Fields, From The Sweet To The Suicidal

Okay, so I spent a lot of time wandering through the show fields of LS Fest X. I’ll admit it, I was looking for something that I wasn’t finding on the dragstrip or the autocross course....

Small But Mighty: This 550-horse Seat Arosa Runs VW TDI Power!

Volkswagen’s TDI diesel engine program was supposed to be a gem, a method of clean fuel technology that saw diesel powered vehicles not as coal-rolling pickup trucks, but small, efficient cars...

Holley LS Fest X: Rides And Fun In The Kentucky Sun!

So for the last few days, we’ve told you, as best as we can, just how unreal Saturday was at LS Fest X. We’ve tried to tell you with numbers, with visions of scale, with photographs...

Holley LS Fest X: The Motherlode Arrives For The Festivities!

The event is over, but we’re still coming to grips with just how huge LS Fest X really was. We’ve seen the drone shots, and we doubt we’ll ever know just how many tens of thousands...