Category Archive: 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, HISTORIC, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Bonneville Record Breaker: This 1963 Film Shows Andy Granatelli Hauling On The Salt
Here’s some fun Bonneville video but it ain’t from speed week! Nope this video was made in 1963 by Studebaker to promote the safety and performance of the beautiful Avanti model. The...
Flyin Blind: Watch Jim Pace Haul Around Spa In Driving Rain Looking Through A Broken Opaque Windshield
Jim Pace has been our adopted road racing boss here at BangShift for years. This video may be his crowning one here on these electronic pages. Why? You are about to watch the man take one of the most...
Disaster Video: Incredible Footage Of The Yellow River Drag Strip Calamity Has Surfaced – 50 Years Ago, 11 Killed
50 years ago the worst disaster in drag racing occurred at a little known, little spoken about track about 40 miles outside of Atlanta, Georgia. Yellow River Drag Strip was like so many places in...
American Success Story: Mike Salinas Talks Life, Struggle, and Work – From Poverty To Top Fuel
One of the neat things that we get to see each season as part of the NHRAonFox summer race broadcasts is the #MYJourney series. This series of in-depth interviews brings the backstories of the...
Bonneville Video: Mechanical Music Off Of The Push Truck And Into Infinity
While it is true that big speed is the main draw at Bonneville, gearheads the world over will agree that the sound of a hot rod at full tilt for miles on end is intoxicating. This video gives a great...
One For Life: A 10-Second Slant Six Duster One-Owner Special
You’d swear that the V8 has been replaced with the turbocharged inline-six, the way a lot of the Internet seems to see things. There is no reason to doubt the reasons why…between the...
Watch Austin Prock Grab His First Top Fuel Win On The Day His Boss John Force Got 150
It is easy to understand how Austin Prock would have been a little nervous on Sunday at Seattle. He was appearing in his first ever top fuel final round. He was doing it mere seconds after his team...
Rooting Around: Rockbouncers In The Slop And The Steep In Kentucky!
Summertime in the state of Kentucky doesn’t always equate to dry, dusty back roads lined with corn fields. I can promise you that summer storms are capable of dumping inches of rain at a time...
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...