Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, Apex Video, BangShift 1320, BangShift News, FUNNY STUFF, MISC, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Chuffing Freakshow: This Steam Powered Dragster Is Small, Quick, and Weirdly Awesome
For starters, we know absolutely nothing about this car but we do know that we’re very interested by it. You are going to watch it run down a makeshift drag strip in the middle of nowhere and...
Video Proof That Awesomeness Has No Borders: Ride In A Finnish Built 1966 Dodge Dart Road Racer As It Burns Corners!
Horsepower, thumping engines, lateral g-forces, the smell of burning rubber, hot brakes, and spent race fuel are all internationally recognized as being awesome. During a time when hot rodders around...
Shop Tour: Take A Stroll Through The Tucson Workshop Of The NHRA’s Alan Reinhart – Cars, Parts, and Cool Tools
One of the reasons that Alan Reinhart and I hit it off when I first went out on the NHRA tour is because we’re both really into cars. Not just drag racing, but cars in general. Alan’s...
This Early 1980s NHRA SummerNationals Commercial Made Us Smile – The Music, The Attitude, The Voice!
Sometimes it is the simple things, right? On a day when I’d give my left arm to be at the drag strip a friend send a link to the video below. This is a television ad that ran in the New York...
Ludicrous Speed Video: Ride In A Legit DN4 Can-Am Car At Road America – These Things Are MONSTERS!
While the 1970s-spec film that exists around the famed Can-Am series if good, none of it really does a fantastic job of relaying the sheer brutality of the cars involved. These things were flyweight,...
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...