Category Archive: 1320 Online Find, BangShift 1320, BangShift News, Racing Junk Find
This Real 1967 RO23 Belvedere Is Immaculate And Powered By A Ray Barton Hemi – OOGA BOOGA!
Feb 05, 2019Brian Lohnes17
If you wanted to sell muscle cars to serious enthusiasts in the middle 1960s there was one place to do it, at the drags. Every company figured this out by the latter half of the decade and that is...
RacingJunk: Want To Be A Pro Stock Hero? Start With The Same Raw Chevrolet DRCE 3 Block They Do
Feb 01, 2019Brian Lohnes2
A couple of weeks ago, Bruno Massel and I got to shoot a bunch of fun tv footage from the KB Racing shop in Mooresville, North Carolina. We made a shop tour video, shot multiple tech segments, and...
RacingJunk: This 1950 Plymouth Business Coupe Has A Big Blown Hemi Engine!
Jan 30, 2019Brian Lohnes4
Ok, this is freaking awesome. Why? You are looking at a gnarly engine and transmission all plugged into a largely unloved body style. When is the last time you have seen a 526ci blown hemi ending in...
Why Does This Awesome Not Happen More Often: 1955 Ford Steel Body On Stock Car Chassis
Jan 17, 2019Brian Lohnes3
Doesn’t it seem like, especially with the popularity of nostalgia drag racing that there would be nostalgia stock car racing going crazy all over the country? For as many disaffected NASCAR fas...
Apex Predator: A 1995 Pontiac Firebird That Is Dying To Hit The Apexes!
Jan 17, 2019Bryan McTaggart1
In nature, the contrast of black and a bright, vibrant color is usually a form of aposematic coloring. Big word, I know, but you know what it means. When you see a black and white furry animal that...
Live Out Your Altered Wheelbase Fantasies With This 1965 Plymouth Belvedere!
Jan 16, 2019Brian Lohnes9
This is so freaking awesome we can hardly stand it. You are looking at an altered wheelbase 1965 Plymouth Belvedere that is street legal and packing a cross-ram equipped hemi for power. The inside of...
Money No Object: The Big-Finned 1960 Plymouth Belvedere From NMCA’s Nostalgia Super Stock Is On The Market!
Jan 12, 2019Bryan McTaggart11
Wow, color us shocked. We’ve grown accustomed to seeing Al Wilson’s 1960 Plymouth Belvedere running in Nostalgia Super Stock at NMCA events. In a class dominated by mid-1960s Mopars, the...
Clean and Mean: This 1988 Mustang LX Has A ProCharged Small Block Ford Under The Hood and Not A Hair Out Of Place
Jan 11, 2019Brian Lohnes2
Not all drag cars are created equal. Sounds like a simple thing to say but machines like this 1988 Mustang LX remind us of that every once in a while. This car is not only bad fast (or should be) it...
This 1993 GMC Sierra GT Runs 8’s With A Small Block And An F2 ProCharger!
Jan 06, 2019Chad ReynoldsComments Off on This 1993 GMC Sierra GT Runs 8’s With A Small Block And An F2 ProCharger!
Getting a fullsize pickup to haul ass is pretty easy if you take away all the stock everything and slide it over a tube chassis, but if you keep most of the stock truck and then try and run in the...
Best of 2018: Somebody Please Get This 1985 Cadillac Coupe de Ville Racer Back On The Track!
Dec 25, 2018Bryan McTaggart8
We love the freaks here at BangShift! Ok, maybe it’s more that I personally love the freaks, but one look at this 1985 Cadillac Coupe de Ville and you should at least understand why I’m...
This 8-Second Procharged Falcon Makes Over 1000 HP At The Tires And Would Be A Beast On The Street
Dec 22, 2018Chad Reynolds4
Ford’s Falcon is no stranger to the dragstrip, as the lightweight package has been popular for swapping in most any Ford engine under the sun. Big blocks, small blocks, Mod motors, and more,...
RacingJunk Find: This Jet Van Is The Most BangShifty Thing For Sale On The Internet Today
Dec 13, 2018Brian Lohnes2
Wowie, wow, wow, wow. Yes, this is a chopped, channeled, clamshell split, and dragon painted 1979 Ford Econoline van with a big ol’ fire-spitting J-34 jet engine slammed into the back of it....
Racing Junk Find: A Former IMSA IROC Camaro Racer That Needs To Become An Autocross Warrior
Nov 25, 2018Bryan McTaggart4
By 1985, it was becoming apparent that there was a pulse, no matter how weak it was, coming from Detroit. After about a decade of slab-sided, softly sprung sedans that inspired exactly nobody,...
Racing Junk Find: You’ve Never Craved A 440ci Chrysler Big Block Powered Pulling Freightliner?
Nov 19, 2018Brian Lohnes3
Big rig pulling trucks are awesome in whatever form they show up in, seriously. Whether they are worked, long-nose big rigs with huge diesel engines or machines like this with a stubby design and of...