Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, 1320 NHRA News, BangShift 1320, BangShift News
PRI 2018: Steve Matusek Joins Elite Motorsports To Drive Turbocharged Pro Mod Mustang In 2019
(Photos by Erica Enders Racing Instagram) – It has been a highly eventful week of drag racing news so far at the 2018 PRI Show. Concentrating on the pro modified side of things, there was a...
2018 Houston Autorama Coverage: Here’s The Last Blast Of Photos From The Event – Indoor and Outdoor Cars
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Here’s it is, the last images from the 2018 Houston Autorama as shot by Charles Wickam. We’re going to show you cars that are inside and outside,...
Not Smart: Chicagoland Street Racers Jailed After Police Investigate Youtube Videos
(By Greg Rourke) – First off, these are my opinions. I’m Greg Rourke, just a contributor. Maybe I’m an cranky old guy. Strike that, I am a cranky old guy. I find nothing acceptable...
A Moment Of Zen: An Untouched Barn Find, And It’s First Wash
They might still be out there, but locating that one-in-a-million untouched barn find that isn’t reduced to paper-thin metal and a useful VIN tag is getting rarer by the day for the kinds of...
Great Idea Office, Nitrous Division: Cleetus And Crew Hit The Dyno With The Auction Corvette
Credit to Cleetus for making lemonade out of lemons here. We told you last week about how, in a moment of full impulse, he bought a C6 Corvette that had taken a mild tap up front from an auction for...
2018 Pumpkin Run Nationals Photo Gallery: Here’s More Cars, More Trucks, and more Cool
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Now we move on to muscle cars and this one is made up of the non-GMs in attendance. Remember we didn’t have time to get into the track area during...
Polishing A Silver Nugget: This Ford EXP Goes From Grungy To Gleaming!
I won’t lie…I was seriously looking at this Ford EXP on Craigslist for the last week and a half. If you are shocked by that news, then hello, welcome to McTaggart’s World of Weird...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Are You Going To Ask Santa To Bring You This Year?
You’ve got a couple of weeks left until the big day that involves boxes under the tree, you know. I’m shopping, you are shopping, everybody and their mother is shopping, it seems. Shop,...
Dick LaHaie Has Died At Age 76 – Relive A Top Fuel Win With He and Kim From 1985 – A True Legend
He was one of drag racing’s true gentlemen. Dick LaHaie was a racer that it was nearly impossible to root against. He and his daughter Kim were sentimental favorites during their rise to top...
Rough Start: Sleepy Brown – This 1979 Buick LeSabre Is The Perfect Hustle Car
A Buick LeSabre of similar vintage to the 1979 coupe that we found while surfing for Rough Start finds is one of our top picks for a true sleeper. That car, a blue mirror-image on nitrous, is known...
Do They Come Cooler Than This: 1964 LeSabre Convertible With A Cool Engine, New Parts, and Just Enough Rash To Rule
This car is absolutely and utterly awesome. I am not a guy who normally even thinks about liking convertibles but the fact of the matter is that I am in love with this one. Holy smokes. What you have...
Industry News: Race Winning Brands Acquires MGP Connecting Rods – A Burly Brand Gets Stronger
The week of the Performance Racing Industry show is always one that is packed with news and the guys at Race Winning Brands seem to have landed the first big blow. The company has announced that they...
Racing Action From King Of The Heap! Are $1,000 Crapcans Good At Racing?
Alright, I’m going to cop to a failure: I was planning on getting videos and much more photos from the first King of the Heap event of the year at NCM Motorsports Park. What ended up happening...
