Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320, BangShift News

Mopar On A Mission: Alan Prusiensky Announces eCarMover.com As Title Sponsor For 2018 NRA Pro Stock Season

Mopar lovers who follow the world of NHRA pro stock racing will be excited to hear this! The headline says it all. Alan Prusiensky Announces eCarMover.com As Title Sponsor for 2018 NHRA Pro Stock...

This Supercharged Big-Block Suburban Is The Tow Vehicle You Deserve! Check Out This 1990s Throwback!

Sport trucks…which were mostly Chevy and GMC C/K trucks in monochromatic paint jobs wearing billet aluminum wheels slammed low to terra firma, looking sharp. You couldn’t get away from...

Shop Truck Winner! This 1989 Chevrolet Medium-Duty Build Is Greatness!

Your neighbor up the street just dropped seventy-something thousand dollars on a brand new Ford that does everything but please him as he drives down the Interstate. Around the block, you have the...

Morning Symphony: The GMC Astro That Can And Will Drag This Sled The Distance!

Everybody knows the story of The Little Engine That Could. “I think I can…I think I can…I think I can!” the Little Engine repeats to itself as it tries to climb the mountain...

Weekend Concours: Check Out The Restoration Of A Studebaker Wagonaire Matchbox Car!

From the first Hot Wheels car I ever got (a silver C4 Corvette with red interior that is somewhere in my garage) to present-day, I’ve had to have gone through tens of thousands of 1/64th scale...

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Cross-Functional Synergy: This Is What Happens When A Drifter Meets The Burnout Pad!

Drifting and Aussie-rules burnout contests aren’t too different from one another. The goal is to kill tires in the end, it all boils down to how that goal is achieved…do you use tons of...

2018 Cincinnati Cavalcade Of Customs: More Photos From Survivor Row Featuring Neat Stuff!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Back for more from the Survivor’s Alley section of the show.  The biggest thing going on in here are the 5 FJs gathered which included a RHD diesel...

Here’s A Fun Game To Play: Who Has The Fastest Daily Driver? The Hoonigans Challenge Each Other!

You can’t be a gearhead and not have some sort of ego issue going on. You just can’t. You can downplay it all you want, but in the end, you and yours has to rule in some shape or...

Sub Zero: Watch As John Bonner’s Small-Block SN-95 Mustang Steps Out For 2018

There are a lot of Mustangs out on dragstrips around the world that are the devil. They shouldn’t be able to do what they do…the contact patch they run is too small, the cars are wound...

Classic YouTube: Bob Mayer’s Independent Review Of The 1980 Chrysler Cordoba

I’ll let you in on a little secret about testing cars for manufacturers: they don’t like it when you are nice and honest with the cars you drive. Nowadays, the main bitches of testers...

Nitrous Oxide Systems And MSD Now Have A Complete Nitrous Kit For Your Late-Model Hemi-Powered Mopar LX!

As we’ve shown here with our Project Angry Grandpa Chrysler 300C, the Mopar LX platform is a great all-around vehicle. With good grunt from the V8s, rear wheel drive and all-wheel-drive...

Unhinged: The Beauty And Snark Of The Falcon Heavy Launch

It’s probably the biggest news story going: the SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch was a complete and total success and among all of the things going on with the event, the one thing everybody seems...

BangShift Tune-Up: “On Parole” by Motörhead (1975), With Bonus Police Chases!

The police chase is a staple of good car movies. What a natural fit: a good side and a bad side (you determine who is who), engines screaming, cars sliding, and a completely open rulebook for how...

The 1966 Winternationals Highlights, Powershifts, and A 1960s Steve Evans Doing Voice Over

There are cool old drag racing videos and then there’s THIS! We dug up this footage from the incredible drag racing archive known as YouTube. We’re not sure where the film first ran but...