Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, 1320 NHRA News, BangShift 1320, BangShift News, HISTORIC, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Watch Matt Hartford Steal A Western Swing Sweep From Greg Anderson In Seattle – Holeshot!
It was signed, sealed, and nearly delivered. In all of the craziness surrounding John Force’s historic win in Seattle, one of the big stories that may have gotten lost in the shuffle is the pro...
Morning Symphony: Horsepower Versus The Dirt – Off-Roading Mechanical Violence Lives Here
The dragstrip offers up the most horsepower per event than anywhere else on Earth short of space launches. A fully-loaded NASCAR starting grid typically has 30,000 horsepower on tap when you add in...
Unending Craziness: Bob Tasca’s Monstrous Body Destroying Explosion At Seattle
The 2019 Magic Dry NHRA Northwest Nationals will go down as one of the most insane, off-the-wall events that the sport has ever seen. The way it ended was one thing. They way it played out through...
Watch NHRA Top Fuel Harley Rider Beau Layne Suffer A Horrendous Wreck and Walk Away
Beau Layne is one of the most seasoned, talented, and hardcore racers in the NHRA’s Mickey Thompson Top Fuel Harley-Davidson motorcycle class. His 2019 season is the best he has ever had with...
Watch John Force Race To His 150th Career NHRA National Event Win – The Greatest Career Of All Time
There are moments in time that the sport of drag racing can deliver which transcend the sport. John Force collecting his 150th career victory on the same day that his young teammate Austin Prock...
Epic Engine: Keith Dorton Has Built An SB2 V8 Into A Killer V6 For Bonneville – This Video Shows You How He Did It
Keith Dorton and his Automotive Specialists company have created some of the most amazing, powerful, and creative engines that the Bonneville Salt Flats have seen over the last decades, but this year...
We Will Persevere: EV West’s Tesla-Swapped BMW Proves That Hot Rodders Will Thrive After EVs Take Over
These are strange days to be a gearhead. I envy every last one of you who grew up between doo-wop music and fins, and the tail end of disco just before restorations went absolutely stratospheric....
Brand Loyal: Tommy Youman’s Twin Turbo GTO Judge Has A Billet Pontiac Engine And It Is Ready To Take On The World – Video
If you are a regular follower of the small tire drag racing scene Tommy Youman’s name is not entirely unfamiliar to you. He has run a few DuckX productions races down at South Georgia...
Watch The 1989 NHRA Seafair Nationals In Seattle: Legends Abound, Drama, A Tight Points Chase, and More!
Now THIS was a good race. The 1989 NHRA season was marked by several different factors but the major ones were guys like Warren Johnson, Bob Glidden, Gary Ormsby, Joe Amato, Don Prudhomme, and...
Videos: Hines, Anderson, Hight, and Billy Torrence Take Home Hardware From 2019 NHRA Sonoma Nationals
The second stop of the 2019 NHRA Western Swing brought the tour through some of the most beautiful scenery in the United States. Sonoma, California was the scene for the 2019 NHRA Sonoma Nationals...
Unhinged: The Beaten Horse Project Concept
The first time I saw the 1973 Mercury Comet GT, it was bright red with blacked-out trim. And that was the last time I saw it with any sort of red showing whatsoever. I’ve referenced this...
The “WTF?!” Files: A Violent Mud-Bogging Camaro/HMMWV Hybrid
Chopped-up first-gen Camaro, check. LS swap, check. Mud tires on a Camaro trar that has the words “The Honky Donk” across the spoiler, check. Cue up the hate mail, today’s the day....
This Turbocharged LS-Swapped Motorhome Rules – Plus Wild Footage From Cruisin’ Ocean City
Here’s one that should hit most BangShifters right between the eyes! This video captures a bunch of the action at the yearly cluster of horsepower known as Cruising Ocean City. This Maryland...
