Category Archive: 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, FORD, RACING & ACTION, Videos

Morning Symphony: Light A Fire Under Your Butt And Get Going!

I am the world’s worst about getting out of bed when it’s time to wake up. Doesn’t matter what time the alarm is set, doesn’t matter what I’ve got planned to get done...

The Ultimate Power Move: Formula Offroad Water Skimming Is Brilliant!

A simple lesson: deep water plus a four-cycle engine equals bad time and lots of money lost. It’s called hydrolocking and it’s calling card is a bent connecting rod or other major...

Classic YouTube: Running Pikes Peak In An Oldsmobile Toronado In 1966

It rises west of Manitou Springs and climbs into the heavens. When you stand on the summit on a clear day, you can see five states’ worth of land and if you look carefully, some of the...

Incredible Video: Watch A Guy Survive A Street Racing Wreck And Climb Out Of A Decimated Mustang

This is by far the most improbable, incredible, and utterly stupefying video we have ever showed you here on BangShift. The scene is simple. A dewy night down south where a pair of Mustangs have...

How It Should Be: A C1 Corvette Gasser That Anyone Should Be Proud To Own

Work backwards in the Corvette lineage for a moment. The current generation is technologically advanced, surgical on a track and can knock down 30-ish MPG if you keep your foot out of it. The C6 had...

DSM Goodness Inside: The Better Side Of Mitsubishis On Display At The DSM Shootout

Mitsubishi is a strange focal point of mine. I used to crack all of the crank walk jokes and “Danger to Manifold” lines I could. But at the same time, I have some very, very fond memories...

Classic YouTube: A Ten-Second Cadillac Fleetwood That Gets Jumpy At The Launch!

Would you be surprised that I’m on a big Cadillac kick again? I’ve been busy at BangShift Mid-West and part of the work has involved the dirt-cheap limo that has been lowering my property...

Watch Annie Whiteley’s High Speed Trip Into The Texas Motorplex Sand Trap – She Was OK

My obsession at finding and seeing as many drag strips on this planet as I possibly can stems from the fact that while all of them are (at base) long strips of asphalt and/or concrete, they each have...

Timeless Angles: A Full Field Of Pre-1966 Race Machines At Imola’s Motor Legends Festival

Curves that let the air roll around the car instead of meeting it like a barn door at speed. Deep air intakes meant to emulate jet aircraft intakes, directing massive amounts of much-needed air to...

Saying Goodbye To The Ford Falcon At Bathurst The Right Way…Racing It With A Mustang And A GT!

Put the final nail in the coffin, the Ford Falcon is utterly dead as a new car goes in Australia. When the folks at Bathurst are saying their final farewells to a car that has deeper roots than it...

BangShift Sound Check Video: Crank The Speakers And LOVE These Sounds From The Classic 12 Hours Of Sebring

The HSR Classic 12 Hours of Sebring is one of the coolest vintage races that happens in North America each year. We often share videos from events like this because they are awesome and the cars are...

Video: This LIVE NHRA Today From The 1992 Chief Auto Parts Nationals In Texas Is Awesome

Now THIS is fun drag racing TV, to us anyway. You are going to watch an episode of NHRA Today made at the Texas motorplex 26 years ago during the 1992 Chief Auto Parts Nationals in Texas. It is fun...

Watch Justin Martin And His Nova Make The Quickest Limited Drag Radial Run In History 4.09!

Justin Martin was a solid player in the Limited Drag Radial category of competition at Diamond Pistons No Mercy last weekend. The car was rattling off numbers in the low ‘teens despite the...

LS Killer: This Aussie Ford Falcon Has A Warmed Up Barra Inline 6 and It Goes 9s

In a country fully obsessed with LS swaps, LS performance, and LS bragging rights, it seems inconceivable that there would ever be a challenger to the king of cheap horsepower. That challenger comes...