Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, 1320 Spotlight, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, BangShift News, HISTORIC, MISC, RACING & ACTION, Videos
American Bad Ass: Listen To The Incredible Story Of Art Arfons As Told By Humpy Wheeler, Vintage Audio, Tim Arfons, and More!
We all have our heroes, right? We all have those people that seem to personify some aspect of ourselves that we value. For me, Art Arfons is the greatest backyard hot rodder that ever lived and...
The First Big Cash Days Event Of 2020! 1320 Video Goes To Mexico To Cover Big Hitters Running For Big Money
Cash Days events are always a good time, with everything you love about smack talking street/grudge racing combined with real money for the winners. And the side bets are sometimes as good as the...
Stunning Video: This Cinematic Look At The 2020 BFGoodrich Tires Mint 400 Is Beautiful and Breathtaking
The guys at Mad Media are up to their old tricks again. The Martelli Brothers have made some of the coolest off-road videos we have ever posted on BangShift (and we have posted a few!) but this time...
Morning Symphony: Turbocharger Heaven On The Burnout Pad
Australian burnout contests are pretty predictable: something with a blower case the size of a small child is going to roll out onto the pad and proceed to give that climate activist from Sweden...
Ring This: Monster AWD Audi Action That Was…Left In The File Cabinet?!
Leave it to a pandemic to get people to dig through their files to find old, cool stuff to show off. I’m in no hurry, because pretty much everything I’ve owned (at least since 2001,...
QuarantinePiece Theater: This 1976 Documentary About Mario Andretti Is Absolutely Awesome
“Sometimes he tries too hard,” are the words said in about the only critical sentence this documentary has to offer. A 1976 film that follows Mario Andretti through various different...
Old School Monster Truck Video: Watch Bigfoot 8 Take Care Of Business At The Houston Astrodome In 1991
Today feels like a good day to take a trip back into the early 1990s and go monster truck racing at the Houston Astrodome. I never got to see a game, event, or monster truck race inside the Houston...
Amazing Video: Watch John Force Behind The Scenes In 1989 Arguing His Way Back Into A Race
This is really amazing behind the scenes video from the 1989 NHRA event at the Texas Motorplex and what it shows is simply awesome. You are going to see John Force argh his way back into a race after...
The Race To Death: This Is The Twisted, Crazy, Macabre, and True Tale Of The 1903 Paris To Madrid Race Disaster
It seems incredible by the standards of 2020, but the 1903 Paris to Madrid Race was such an incalculable calamity and had amassed such a loss of life that it was cancelled after the first day. In an...
QuarantinePiece Theater: The Entire 1971 Watkins Glen Can-Am Race Broadcast – Awesome Cars, Racing, and People!
It is Friday. It isn’t but in Quarantine-ville it is Friday afternoon. Let’s be honest with each other. You don’t want to be at the home office any more. Leaving isn’t an...
Ride With Ron: Make A Roaring 300mph Pass In The Napa Nitro Funny Car At Bandimere Speedway With Ron Capps
In a world that has been forcibly separated over the last few months, the incredible technology of 2020 continues to keep us together, however far apart we may physically be. Case in point, this...
Screaming Mimi: Watch And Listen To This 2.0L Vauxhall Four Banger Make 284 Naturally Aspirated Horsepower On The Dyno
Normally when we showcase engine dyno videos here at BangShift, there’s big horsepower involved. Today the horsepower is more modest but the engine is really neat. This is not an engine that we...
Morning Symphony: Desert-Blasting In A Polaris RZR With Darren Parsons At The Wheel
Two years ago BFGoodrich treated me to one of the best weekends in Vegas I’ve experienced to date. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Mint 400, I got the chance to come out and to get a...
