Category Archive: 1320 Spotlight, 1320 Videos, TECH, Videos

Even A Baddass Ride Like Alex Taylor’s Badmaro Needs Some Surprising Upgrades Sometimes!

When you think about the “famous” cars that you know from events or youtube channels or tv shows, especially the really nice ones, you sometimes assume that they have all high dollar...

Classic YouTube: Derrick Cope’s Tremendous Tire Explosion At Watkins Glen In 2016

Mangled sheetmetal at a NASCAR race isn’t exotic. In fact, many consider it a rite of passage to finish the race with a rear bumper that’s been tapped more times than a keg, doors that...

Urchfab Designs And Builds Something Comfy And Cool! The Xtreme Plasma CNC Motorcycle Gets An Air Ride Seat.

Most normal people have tons of ideas of cool stuff for their projects, but they don’t know the physics involved in making them a reality. Because of this most folks won’t try and the...

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Small Edit: Foose Sketches Up His One Change To A 1970 Chevelle

The 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle LS-6 454 was the first car that I understood as a “muscle car”. The look was perfect…take the typical two-door hardtop form of the bread and butter...

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The Beginning Of The Endtimes: How The Pursuit Special Came To Be

I knew about the Mad Max film franchise when I was little. One of the Nintendo games that my mother had enjoyed was Mad Max (it came out in 1990) and all I could tell you about that game is that it...

Control Timing With Holley EFI. Here’s How To Install And Wire A Dual Sync Distributor For Your Sniper

Switching from a carbureted combination to one that uses fuel injection can be a great way to improve drivability, fuel mileage, cold starts, and more for your hot rod or street machine. But as good...

Weekend Paint Job! – Painting Kym and Jim Fissel’s Anglia With Alex and Dennis Taylor!

One of the best things about summer is getting to hang out with our friends the Taylors during Rocky Mountain Race Week. It’s always fun with mom “Dammit” Deb Taylor, dad Dennis,...

Just A Small Step In The Right Direction: Giving A 1964 Galaxie A New Spark

I love the whole idea of driving your classic. They were regular cars that just managed to get old…what’s the issue with still driving them? Well…a couple of things, to be fair....

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BangShift Saturday Matinee: “The Junkman”, The World Record Holder For Wrecked Vehicles!

I had to watch this entire thing twice, just so I could attempt to comprehend what was going on besides a Cadillac Eldorado getting beat on like there was no tomorrow. There’s a story, but...

Random Car Review: The 1958-61 Kamov Sever-2 – In Soviet Russia, Anything Goes When You’re Buried In Snow

Russian creativity has to be commended. What other country could have dreamed up such an idea as the semi-aquatic, kind of boat/kind of large airplane hybrid like the Lun-class ekranoplan? Very few,...

Classic YouTube: 4WD Truck And Modified Tractor Pulling at Richmond In 1991

It’s been a minute since I was last at a truck pull, and I have to admit that I miss the violence of each run. Screaming engines under full load struggling against the weight of the trailer...

Classic YouTube: This Mazda 323GTX Overcooks A Jump At The 1993 Fenceline III SCCA Pro Rallysprint

Yes, that 1988 Mazda 323GTX is really as high up in the air as it appears. Yes, it crashed back to Earth, and yes, it hurt. This footage was taken at the 1993 Fenceline III SCCA Pro Rallysprint in...

On This Day: The Horrific 1955 Le Mans Disaster

It happened in the blink of an eye. Mike Hawthorne’s Jaguar pulled out in front of Lance Macklin’s Austin-Healey, who swerved into the path of Pierre Bouillin (aka Levegh)....

Classic YouTube: The 1988 Ford Tempo and Mercury Topaz Test By MotorWeek

Ever hear someone talk about the visceral feel of a car? How a good car can embed parts of itself into your senses, where you can hear, feel, see and smell it? Yeah…meet my visceral car. I have...