Category Archive: 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Wild Rides: Here’s Five Minutes Of Insanity From The World Of Nostalgia Drag Racing
This is five minutes of crazy. Five minutes of insanity from the world of nostalgia drag racing. Blower explosions, drivers getting bathed in hot transmission fluid, burnouts gone wrong, barrel...
Awesome Historic Video: Combat Engineers In Action During WWII – Building, Fixing, Winning
As much as I love old films from WWII, this one may take the cake. The video is a tribute to the incredible work and achievements of United States combat engineers during the war. From building roads...
Morning Symphony: The Renault 5 Turbo II – The Good Stuff That The French Didn’t Share
“Le Performance Car”…nope. “When there is a car from the country that just built the world’s fastest train”…congrats on the train, now try again. “Le...
Classic YouTube: “Styling And The Experimental Car”, A Ford Film Of Dream Machines
Concept cars…the dream machines that you never got but the manufacturers would sink millions into just to test some theories or to drum up some interest. They always had my attention…some...
The Working Giant: Take A Better Look At This Case IH Quadtrac Tractor!
As the sun (FINALLY) starts to warm up the areas around BangShift Mid-West, it’s quickly becoming Early Tractor Season. We get two seasons: early, where ground has to be tilled, fertilizer has...
Sampling The Forbidden Fruit: This 1978 Holden Torana UC Has A Lot To Like!
The Holden Torana was the mini-muscle car that could for Australia. The A9X and S/LR packages turned what was basic small-car motoring into something to behold with the addition of the 308ci Holden...
The Prototypical Derelict: Jonathan Ward’s 1954 DeSoto Stops By The Hoonigan’s Shop!
Take a moment as you watch this video and study Johnathan Ward. He comes across initially as a college professor who has no trouble having a drink with his most talented students. Note that I said...
Morning Symphony: The Subaru That Everybody Wanted, The WRC Group A Impreza
When you grow up in a household that is filled with nothing but love for American products and treats every imported car like a tin-can beater that needed to go to the crusher years ago, it’s...
Return To The Heavens: Take A Ride On The Back Of Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity!
When VSS Enterprise broke up over the Mojave Desert in late 2014, there was a knee-jerk reaction to what happened: since this was a private firm’s spacecraft, and since it used technology that...
Happy 4/08! Celebrate With The Sounds Of Angry Stroked Chrysler Small-Block!
The standard Chrysler 360 measurement is a 4″ bore coupled with a 3.58″ stroke. It wasn’t a bad mill out of the box, but when you compare it to the 340, an engine with a reputation...
Have An 8.8 Rear You Want To Narrow At Home? Here Is One Low Buck Low Tech Way To Do It
The 8.8 rear is one strong, readily available, and affordable rear end that is perfect for MANY projects. And because they came in so many different cars and trucks over the years they are in...
Progressive Controller, Man! Watch This Buick Regal Pogo-Stick Down The Strip!
Remember what a turbocharged car was like thirty years ago? You started off slow as the engine worked it’s way through the lag and when the boost came on, you had better know how to drive,...
Morning Symphony: The Sound Of Complete Reckless Abandon From The Burnout King Competition
I’ve done it drag racing, I’ve done it road racing, and I didn’t have a choice when it came to land-speed racing: that’s playing the safe card so that the car I was running...
