Category Archive: 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, FORD
Up, Up And Away! This Mustang Stands On The Bumper And Still Takes The Win!
There are wheel stands, and then there are those moments at the launch of a race that you suspect that the driver might have stepped a touch too far over the line of caution. In the case of this Fox...
The Owner Of This Pontiac Trans Am Grew Up With Bathurst, Has A Rally Car Background, And Works For Ken Block – Petrolicious Tells The Story!
It’s difficult to find anyone who watched Smokey and the Bandit who didn’t walk away afterwards wanting a black-and-gold Pontiac Trans Am. The film company may have beaten the Pontiacs...
Rough Start: Capitalizing On Someone Else’s Bad Day – What Would You Do With A $1,000 Fox Body Mustang?
Fox-body Mustangs are at an interesting point right now: they are certainly classics, excellent hot-rod fodder, and are finally starting to surge up in value, yet are still very approachable in...
Would You Rather, The Not-Quite-A-Musclecar Edition: Clean LeMans Or California-Find Dodge Coronet?
Not every Pontiac was a GTO Judge. Not every Mopar was a Hemi, or a 440 Six Pack. Not every Mustang had a Boss or a Cobra Jet under the hood. For decades, the 1964-1974 Musclecar Era has been solidly...
Bench Racing: How Would You Prepare This 5-speed 1987 Mercury Cougar?
If there is one thing I know that BangShifters are good for, it’s spending other people’s money when it comes to a project car build. And I’m amazed that we don’t exploit that...
Corvette And Porsche Meet The Wall After Meeting Each Other At The 12 Hours Of Sebring!
A wet racetrack and a ton of IMSA sports cars make for wild racing, and the 12 Hours of Sebring provided plenty of wild racing scenes, but not many were wilder than the tangle-up between Porsche...
It Came From Craigslist: The Ford Ute We Needed, Not The One We Deserve!
The basic plan for the two major American ute designs was to take the station wagon body, give it the coupe doors and turn the rest of the area into a bed. It’s a solid plan, it’s a cheap...
This Nitrous-Equipped Mustang Went Up In Flames At TX2K16!
It makes you sick to see this happen to a fellow racer, but one of the best ways to bring the realities of the dangers of racing is to see, without a doubt, just how quickly it all can go wrong. This...
Rough Start: What Happens When You Combine A Ford Thunderbird And A Chevrolet Camaro?
The second I saw this 1994 Ford Thunderbird, I couldn’t wait to see the reactions from you guys. Seriously…we all have heard Lohnes’ take on how much he seriously enjoys four-seat...
Unhinged: Thanks For The Letdown, Buick. Appreciate That.
Our jaws hit the floor. The Internet lit up. Facebook had it in the “trending topics” section almost immediately, and every auto journalist had to pick their jaws up off of the floor. The...
This 1975 Bricklin SV-1 Is Eye-Searingly Green And As Clean As They Come!
When Malcom Bricklin was putting together the idea for the SV-1 (Safety Vehicle-1), he might have had safety in mind but in a strange way, he was building a kind of muscle car: he wanted the...
This Pro Street Ford Maverick Is Everything A Car Needs…It’s Black, Nasty And Stout!
I’m just a sucker for a fast black Ford. Can’t explain it any other way than that. It all started with a spray-bombed 1973 Mercury Comet GT and ever since then, I equate a flat-black Ford...
Classic YouTube: 1986 Chevrolet IROC Z28 Camaro Advertisement
How were automotive jingles still a thing in 1986? If there is one advertising trend we are glad has gone the way of the dodo, it’s singsongy lyrics to a pop music riff, and that’s what...
