Category Archive: 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, RACING & ACTION, Videos

Calder Park Drag Racing – V8s From Old And New Schools Making Noise!

We are about a month away from starting some test and tune days at Beech Bend with the Angry Grandpa Chrysler and honestly, the weather can’t clear up soon enough for us to start getting the...

Morning Symphony: The Highest-Revving Detroit Diesel-Powered Kenworth We’ve Seen Yet!

Diesels don’t rev. That’s just the truth of it. A couple of thousand RPMs and you’re in the upper limits for most oil-burners that have been produced. Four thousand RPM and...

This Cummins Powered Nova Was The Freakiest Car At Lights Out 9 And It Worked! Totally Awesome

In drag racing, freaky and different usually mean fun but they also usually mean slow. Well, this Cummins powered Nova was the freakiest car at Lights Out 9 and it was anything but slow. In fact this...

Riot! Check Out The Highlights From Jake Burkey’s 2017 Rockbouncing Season!

What you will see here is Jake Burkey’s last season with the old Riot buggy…for 2018 he’s stepping up to a newer, lighter rig that is expected to show up to the first event of the...

BangShift Question Of The Day: How Many Uses Can You Come Up With For An Old Limo?

It’s weird to me, how quickly a limousine goes from being the car you want to be seen in to being the car you never want to be near. It seems to happen in the blink of an eye. Maybe it’s...

Hot Rod Haulers! Place Your Bets Between The 1UZ-Powered Flatbed And the 1JZ-Powered Van!

A Mazda flatbed truck and a Mitsubishi L300 van. I’ll take “Vehicles You’d Never See On A Dragstrip” for a thousand, Alex. Small, compact utility vehicles from Japan...

Treat It Like A Rental: Watch As This 1995 Buick Century Takes Every Ounce Of Abuse Thrown At It!

It’s an automotive cockroach. The Buick Century, the one made between 1982 and 1996, might be proof that at some point in time GM actually did try to make a good front-driver car for the 1980s....

Hell Charger: See The Story On The Live-Action Ghost Rider Build Here!

The 1969 Dodge Charger, once again. Do you think that anybody in Auburn Hills could have even come close to grasping just how much of a legend this car would become? They had no clue, I’m sure...

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Morning Symphony: Retired Rally Cars On Snow! Watch As A Ford Focus RS, Ford Fiesta WRC And Peugeot 206 Go Play!

There are still a few weeks left of winter to deal with. That means that even though I’m looking at beautiful temperatures and sunny skies for the next couple of days around BangShift Mid-West,...

Monday Morning Madness: Sidecar Motorcross Jumps To Classic Van Halen!

I have to wonder how the conversation goes when a team for sidecar motorcross gets put together. It’s one thing to ask your buddies to help you out in the pits for a weekend for the promise of...

How To Service Your Ridetech Air Ride Solenoid Valves At Home

If you have Air Suspension on your hot rod, like we do on several of ours, you are occasionally going to need to service your air solenoid valves like any moving part on your hot rod. If you live in...

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Bathurst Ride-Along Greatness: Murray Walker’s Ride-Along Lap With Brad Jones In 1997

One of the most well-known pieces of footage from the Bathurst race in Australia is when Darrell Waltrip got to ride along in the passenger seat for a lap of Mount Panorama in Jason Bright’s...

Classic YouTube: The Bob Mayer Review (Roast?) Of The 1979 Ford Mustang Ghia

The kids call it being “savage”. I refer to it as “blunt-force honesty”. To others, it’s simply stating the plain facts, feelings of others be damned. In today’s...

Here’s How To Choose The Right Air Compressor For Your Garage Or Shop

We just moved the BANGshift West Coast shop from a commercial space to a new spot behind the house. The size is the same, but the layout is much much better, and we’re working really hard to...

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