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

1,800 Horses Running: Watch How Quickly This Viper Dispatches The Half-Mile In Dallas!

For a quarter-century, the halo car at Dodge was the Viper. What started out as a “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” shot at recreating the magic and the violence of the...

Truck Trials! Check Out How Folks In The Czech Republic Play With Their Big Trucks!

It’s almost a rite of passage as a kid: those toy cars will, sooner or later, see a mud pit that will ultimately be roof-deep. Those plastic machines see all sorts of hell: splashing through...

The American Powertrain Parting Shift: A 1970s Hemi Powered Charger Chewing On The Road Course At Spa!

(By Scott Liggett) – The roar of a Nascar bred Hemi running around the European road tracks in a behemoth of a 70s Charger looks so wrong and sounds so scary. This Charger is a recreation of...

4/27: Paying Tribute To Ford’s FE Stomper In All It’s Forms!

Four twenty-seven. Cobra Jets, Super Cobra Jets, and Boss small blocks may run with it, but there is no doubt that Ford’s seven-liter race motor was a violent beast in it’s own right....

Short Course Racing! Check Out The New Short Course Track At Busted Knuckle Off-Road Park!

It’s not quite arenacross, not quite a rallycross, but it looks like a blast all the same. The short course that was just opened up at Busted Knuckle Off-Road Park in Stevenson, Alabama...

Morning Symphony: 20,000 RPM From A Cosworth-Built F1 V8

Somewhere north of about 4,500 the 368ci mill in the Cadillac limo floats the valves. Most small-block Chryslers hate life above 6,000 RPM without serious work, and the most rev-happy V8 I’ve...

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Classic YouTube: “Fiero: A Car Is Born”…See How The Pontiac P-Car Became The Affordable Mid-Engine Machine!

You can knock the Pontiac Fiero for many things: the suspension that was ganked from the Citation and Chevette  that didn’t live up to it’s promises, that small issue of engine fires, or...

Four Wide Chaos From The First NHRA Four-Wide Nationals In 2010 – Double Boomer

We’re coming up on what used to be the most polarizing race of the NHRA season this weekend. It’s the NGK Spark Plugs Four Wide Nationals at the massive zMax Dragway in Concord, North...

Painting On A Massive Scale: Watch This Timelapse Of An Emirates Boeing 777-200 As It Gets A New Coat!

A typical fully painted Boeing 777 similar to this Emirates 777-200 wears almost a quarter-ton of paint on it’s skin, with a maximum thickness of about 0.005″ across the board....

Saves, Wrecks, Near-Misses, and Spins – This Is Five Minutes of Action That’ll Have You All Wound Up

Last week we showed you kind of a crazy “highlight” reel type of video that was focused on the world of nostalgia drag racing and this week we’re back with another one. Yes, more...

MAHLE Piston Tech Video: Checking Out Skirt Wear and What It Can Tell You About Your Engine

Engines tell stories. They tell stories by how they run and what type of wear that they have. That being said, you need to be able to read the story to understand what the engine is telling you and...

9.90s And Plated: SRTMush’s Challenger Demon Was Whipping Up At ChallengerFest 9!

With ChallengerFest in the books until next Spring, we have time to reflect a bit on what we saw. We didn’t see too many Jeeps out playing this time…we can only assume that some WKs were...

This Promotional Film For The 1974 Pontiac GTO Is Retro Cool, But Still Highlights The Lameness Of The Car

The 1974 Pontiac GTO was the final gasp of the GTO nomenclature from Pontiac (before the revival in the 2000s) and it certainly was a shell of the car that arrived on the scene in 1964 and set the US...

The American Powertrain Parting Shift: Ripping The Gears In A Detroit Diesel Swapped 1971 Chevy Mini-Rig

We are typically not fans of the “mini-rig” look for trucks where guys try to make a pickup look and act like a big rig but in this case, we’re kind of on board, ok all the way on...