Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
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...
Dynatech Header Rebate Program: Get Up To $100 Back On The Best Headers In The Industry
We know you like money and we know you like saving money, the cool thing is that the folks at Dynatech know that too and that’s why they have started Dynatech header rebate program for the fall...
Kontinentals Day of the Drags 2016: Our Last Blast Of Photos From The Best Little Drag Race in Texas
(Photos by Robert Paxton) – It’s that time again, we are getting to the end of the excellent Kontinentals Day of the Drags photos that Robert Paxton shot for us at Little River Raceway...
Day Of The Drags 2016: More Awesome Images From Little River Dragway In Texas!
(Photos by Robert Paxton) – We told you that we would be back with more action photos from the 2016 Kontinentals Day of the Drags from Little River Raceway in Texas and we were not kidding....
Pro Street Cool or Pro Street Weird? This 1978 Olds 442 Has Real Olds Power!
This one sure falls under the Dare to be Different banner, right? When’s the last time you saw a 1978 Olds 442 let alone one that’s been built into a ground pounding pro street car with a...
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...
Day of The Drags 2016: One Of The Coolest Drag Racing Events In The Country Rolls On
(Photos by Robert Paxton) – There are few events in the country with the cool factor that the Kontinentals Day of the Drags event has. This race is a gathering of cool, weird, old timey, and...
Kris Krabill Scores 1st NHRA Heritage Championship As Jason Rupert 3-Petes IHRA Nitro Funny Car Title!
(Words by Darr Hawthorne – IHRA photos Courtesy of IHRA Communications) Kris Krabill and the Austin & O’Brien “Northwest Hitter” Firebird nitro funny car team wrapped up the 2016...
Schadenfreude: This Editorial From The Quad Cities Times Sums Up The Epic World Series Of Drag Racing Fail Perfectly
You can’t blame them and certainly we do not. The Quad Cities Times newspaper was quick to jump on the fact that the move of the famed World Series of Drag Racing from its ancestral home on...
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...
