Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320
BangShift Brawl: What’s The Greatest Factory Built Drag Car Ever?
So with this weekend’s upcoming NMCA/NMRA All-Star race we’ll get the season’s second dose of the awesome Holley EFI Factory Supercar class. This is a heads up eliminator where COPO...
eBay Find: This 1977 Pontiac Catalina Safari Station Wagon Is Perfect And 400 Powered – Sleeper Potential!
You can bust my chops all you want but I see this car and I see potential for something really, really fun. For starters the car is absolutely immaculate and has to be the finest 1977 Pontiac...
Great Video: Check Out This Feature With Rick Hoback And His 200mph C5 Corvette That Did The Job With A Full Interior And Stock Bottom End
Everyone claims that they want a multi-use car that they can use to compete or at least participate in multiple different faces of racing and do so in a competitive fashion. Rick Hoback is no...
“Dyno Dom” Blasco Assumes Director of Operations Role At Memphis International Raceway
Like one of those logic puzzles where you can only move one piece at a time to get to the end result, such has been the news coming out of the drag racing world over the last day. Just down the page...
This Goodyear Commercial From 1988 Features Bob Glidden’s Pro Stocker
We sure do dig old commercials like this one from Goodyear. We can’t remember the last time a commercial that featured anything Drag Racing related had anyone in it that didn’t drive...
In Memoriam: Jake Brantner, Drag Week Veteran, Fabricator, Builder And Father
It saddens us to inform you that Drag Week racer Jake Brantner is gone. Brantner, 39, was gunned down in the parking lot of a strip mall in Kansas City, Missouri in the evening hours of Sunday, April...
Dyno Dom’s Sikeston Dragway Is Now Jeffers Motorsports Park – Famed Chassis Builder Buys Dragstrip
One of the great stories that the drag racing world has produced over the last couple of years is that of a small eighth mile drag strip in Sikeston, Missouri. A man named Dom Blasco took ownership...
Crummy News: The Awesome Wild Rat Injected Fuel Altered Suffered A Major Crash Last Weekend – Driver OK
(Photos from Greg Lippard’s FB page) – If there has been a race car that we’ve been unabashed fan boys over here at BangShift it is the awesome Wild Rat injected fuel altered...
Action Photos: Radial Revenge Tour Coverage – Most Insane Radial Race Ever Right Here!
(Photos by Bad Brad’s Speed Shots) – The whole drag racing world was watching the happenings at Tulsa Raceway Park last weekend and we were doing it because of the incredible...
Check Out The Wild Ride That Brandon Pesz Goes On In Keith Haney’s Nitrous Camaro – Nearly Flips It Before Riding The Barrier!
Depending on how you view this, Brandon Pesz is either one hell of a driver or had enough luck on his side to take care of a good-sized city, because the run he made in Keith Haney’s...
Remember When Guy Fieri Was A Pitchman For Flowmaster? Neither Did We! (Video)
I’ve got to thank Jeff Lee and give props to the website Eater.com who recently ran the videos you will see below of Guy Fieri “before he was famous” serving as the talent in some...
Greg Anderson Wins 5th K&N Horsepower Pro Stock Challenge!
(Photos by Mike Burghardt) Greg Anderson won his fifth K&N Horsepower Pro Stock Challenge in his Summit Racing Equipment Camaro at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. He takes home a...
More Good News For Drag Racers: Sebring International Raceway To Host Season Series On Its Long Straight
There have been lots of “drag races” down the straight at Sebring over the years but they’ve mostly been short contests where two guys are trying to get to the next corner ahead of...
Wheelstands Aplenty: Round One Of The Australian Pro Street Association’s Championship at Calder Park!
You want to know where the thunder truly is Down Under? Visit any of the local tracks, you’ll find plenty of it, especially now that the Australian Pro Street Association’s 2016...