Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, HISTORIC, SHOWS & EVENTS, Videos
The 2018 NHRA SpringNationals Start Today: Watch The 1988 Version Of The Race At A Different Track Here
As we have been telling you all week, today the 2018 NHRA SpringNationals kick off in Baytown, Texas. The NHRA has been racing in Baytown since 1988 and we showed you some of that video earlier this...
Bad Bumpside: Watch This Big-Block Powered Ford Cut Loose On The Strip!
Painted white, this could have very well been the Ford truck that my dad drove when I was a wee tot. It’s one of precious few vehicles that I can see clearly that pre-dates my kindergarten...
Spin and Cringe: Watch A GT350 and A Porsche Spin Off The Track Because Of Oil And Hit Nothing!
Oil is racing’s greatest double edged sword, right? Its lubricity and slipperiness are what make engines live through grueling events like the HSR Classic 12 Hour at Sebring but in the event...
Coker Tire Cruise-In 2018: Between The Bricks And The Boulevard
Walking through the Coker Tire Cruise-In area is a weird feeling. There are a lot of old brown brick buildings that date back to when “industrial” really meant industrial, when things...
Track Records And UNFC Nitro Funny Car Championship Flames At Tucson Dragway Reunion!
(Photos by Bob Snyder) – Taking advantage of a near perfect race track and good weather conditions, Bobby Cottrell dominated a strong field of nitro funny cars to win the opening event of the...
Crazy Story: Tesla Is Flooding Machine Shops With Flawed Parts That Need Rework – This Is Nuts
Elon Musk has said since the beginning that he was not going to operate Tesla like any other car company and so far he has proven himself to be a man of his word…and that’s not always the...
BangShift Test Drive: 2019 Ram 1500 Laramie Crew Cab 4×4 – Was The Wait Worth It?
Call it a Ram, call it a Dodge, call it whatever you want…but know one fact above all others about Ma Mopar’s pickup truck design theory: you wait until you’ve bled out every last...
Coker Tire Cruise-In 2018: Running From The Storm Through A Field Of Iron
With the winds starting to finally spool up and the clouds starting to darken over the mountains towards the west, the pace had to be picked up if the rest of the Coker Tire Cruise-In wasn’t...
Video: An Evel Knievel Jump And The World’s Richest Demolition Derby – Great Footage From 1973
It was February 1973 and Evel Knievel was among the most famous people on Earth. His star would continue rising for another year until his disastrous failure at Snake River Canyon. One of...
What Does Sorting Out An Old Rally Car Look Like? Watch As Ken Block Tests Out His Escort Cosworth RS!
Ken Block does more than simply make grandiose stunt-driving videos…the dude is a legit racer, something that I’ve seen in person. (I also watched as he bailed a rally car that was going...
Muscle Before Muscle Was A Thing: Go For A Ride In The Hudson Hornet!
For the longest time, in my world, the musclecar era started with the 1964 Pontiac GTO. Period, point blank, move on, that was the end of the argument. But it wasn’t. You can make a case for...
Sorry, Officer, But I’m In The Clear: Burnouts From The Hillbillies And Hot Rods Show In Buffalo, Missouri!
Running down the center of Murphysboro, Illinois is Walnut Street, the main drag of the little sleepy town. Storefronts that date back to the early 1900s line the road on both sides east to west, and...
Looking For A Great Performing Distributor With The Right Look For Your Ford Flathead? Mallory’s Newest Offering May Be It!
There’s a million concerns on the minds of modern hot rodders, especially those guys building retro-style cars. You need to make it fit right, you need to make it run right, and you need to...
Searing Yellow…um…We Mean “Sebring Yellow”: This 1970 Oldsmobile Cutlass Rallye 350 Is A Neat Junior Supercar!
1970 was the high point of the factory supercars, but it was also the first time that you started to hear the rumble of bad weather that was creeping in on all of the fun. No kid with a decent job...