Category Archive: 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, CRASH & BURN, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Best of 2019: Watch Tommy Johnson Jr Drive An Exploding Funny Car To A Round Win Like A Boss
What makes a good funny car driver? Solid reaction time? Getting the parachutes out on time? Keeping the car in the groove? All important but we think that the single most important attribute a funny...
Best of 2019: The Hellcat-Swapped Miata Goes Full Aussie Style At Hoonigan’s Playpen!
The Mazda MX-5 Miata is going to go down in history as one of the high points in small cars. A Japanese love letter to British roadsters of the past, the Miata and it’s staying power are...
Best of 2019: The First Off-The-Chain Chrysler 300C Burnout Machine We’ve Seen!
When we brought Angry Grandpa, our 2006 Chrysler 300C, into the project limelight, it wasn’t to do anything really radical with it. The point of hopping up a Linen Gold Metallic early-bird...
Best of 2019: This 1974 Chrysler Newport’s Mission In Life Is To Be Romped On!
Despite my efforts to convince anyone otherwise, it seems that I’m painted as a solid Mopar nut. Whatever…it’s not like I can’t look back on my history and deny that...
Best of 2019: This Gears and Gasoline Video About NHRA Drag Racing Is Ridiculously Well Made – Good Watch
Now THIS is a cool video. Made by the Gasoline and Gears YouTube channel it features the top fuel dragster and nitro funny car of the Force sisters. We’re guessing this thing was bankrolled by...
Best of 2019: The Buzzin’ Half-Dozen – Six-Cylinder Opalas Cutting Loose In Brazil
There are two ways to view the Chevrolet 250ci inline-six. There’s the way that most people I know see them: the base-model engine of many a GM product, solid and robust, but about as exciting...
Morning Symphony: Mopars Making The Donuts
Okay, this pretty much qualifies as a gift to myself, but every now and then you can justify that course of action. Gratuitous Chrysler-powered donut making machines tearing up a purpose-designated...
Classic YouTube: A Japanese Take On Land Speed Racing
Land speed racing is a drug. One hit is more than enough to excite. Two hits and you’re just about done. Any more and you’ll end up an addict, craving more and more speed. And either you...
Classic YouTube: 1981 Daytona 500 – Adapting To The Smaller Bodystyles After Years Of Big Cars
1981 was a transition year for NASCAR. This was the year that wheelbases changed from 115 inches to 112, which left cars like the Chevelle and the Torino in the dust and saw new models, like the...
Decade of Spills: Jet Carnage Action Video From Indy 2011 – A Friday Night Mess
It had been many years since the NHRA had jet cars at a national event so when the sanctioning body announced that they would have jets at the US Nationals to close the show on Friday and Saturday...
Lo Car VS Hi Car: Can A $450 Brake Upgrade Hang With A $4,500 Brake Upgrade?
There are certain truths that we hold to be self evident here at BangShift. The first is that physics and the laws therein are pretty damned accurate. The second is that hot rodders always want to...
Reindeer Games: This Fun and Goofy Video From Holley Is ALL About The Tire Smoke!
Every year Holley Performance comes up with a funny video for their “Happy Holley Days” promotion which carries the company through the Christmas season. This year is no different and...
Goodwood Video: Here’s The 10 Best Moments Of The Last 10 Years At Goodwood
There have been hundreds of different cars that have run up the hill at Lord March’s house in England during the Goodwood Festival of Speed and the Goodwood Revival over the last decade. The...
Yellow Bullet Nationals Video: Check Out This Killer Video From The East Coast’s Labor Day Drag Racing Bash!
What makes something good? In the case of art like this video it needs to appeal to some sense that you have. Maybe you like the music, the visual, the editing style, it has to strike you somewhere...