Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320
Billy Glidden To Drive The Mickey Thompson Equipped, Precision Turbo and Engine Pro Mod In E-Town!
Other than Ricky Smith completely steamrolling the rest of the field, the biggest story to come out of the 2016 NHRA J&A Services pro mod series is the fact that Billy Glidden has been named the...
A Bracket Bomber From The Day They Bought It, This 1977 Chevrolet Caprice Coupe Is On The Number No Matter What!
I walked through the staging lanes of Beech Bend, looking over the cars that were waiting to head out for their tuning passes, when I saw a shape that is etched into my memory: a...
Race Coverage: Extreme Outlaw Pro Mod Association At Virginia Motorsports Park
(Words and photos by Benoit Pigeon) – After a few attempts and race cancellations due to weather, the Extreme Outlaw Pro Mod, finally got it’s season start. For a couple times, this year,...
To The Maxx: Our 572 Big Block Chevrolet Makes 850 On The Motor With ProMaxx 340 Heads
(Words and Photos by Richard Holdener) What does it take to make big power these days? Well, the easiest route is obviously using some type of power adder like a turbo, supercharger or even the...
Urban Hillbilly Picks The 10 Best Wheelstands They Have Ever Captured – Lots Of Craziness Here
Wheel stands at the drag strip come in many, many shapes and sizes. There are the stock eliminator pop up wheelies where the cars running a ton of gear in them climb almost instantly and land about...
Anger: BLM, Racers, Governmental Groups Meet To Discuss State Of Salt Flats – No Direction Or Answers Yet
Last week a summit of sorts was held in Utah to discuss the condition and future of the Bonneville Salt Flats, not just for racing but as an entity. People from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM),...
Want The Hardest Dream Job Known To Man? Cruz Pedregon Needs A Crew Guy!
(Photo: PedregonRacing.com) – If you have dreamed about running away from home and joining the circus known as professional drag racing, here’s your shot. Cruz Pedregon is looking for a...
Watch An AMX Super Stocker Rip Off A 300-Foot Wheelie – No Sissy Sticks For This Guy!
Gharrett Ghezzi’s AMX super stocker is of the neatest cars I get to see in my announcing travels across the country. The thing is painted up in the factory AMC racing colors with that...
Tim Wilkerson Suffers Strange Crash During NHRA Kansas Nationals Eliminations
Tim Wilkerson was chewing his way through eliminations on Sunday at the NHRA Kansas nationals when disaster struck and he suffered one of the strangest funny car crashes we have ever seen. We were at...
Too Much At The Hit? Watch This Pontiac Firehawk Go Straight For The Sky!
Yanking the wheels at launch is one thing. Realizing that you no longer see the horizon…or the time displays at the end of the track…or trees…yeah, that might be just a step too...
REPLAY: LIVE Grudge Racing Here! The Battle At The Strip At LVMS Starts Saturday At Noon!
It’s on folks. The Battle at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, a grudge race like none you have ever seen, is on May 21st and the only way to watch is to get your ass to Vegas, or tune...
Dyno Symphony Video: 477ci @ 10,300 RPM Means Big Power And Bigger Sounds!
I have competition eliminator on the brain lately as I am doing some prep work for the upcoming NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series even I’ll be announcing at good ol’ New England Dragway...
Bless You, Craigslist: This 1980 Ford Pinto Is Beautiful And Filled With Promise!
You just have to laugh, even a little bit. Nose-high stance, big-and-little slot mags, bronze paint, Ford Pinto. This isn’t a car, it’s a seventh-grade sketch. It’s the Rat Fink...
