Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, CRASH & BURN, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Four Wide Chaos From The First NHRA Four-Wide Nationals In 2010 – Double Boomer
Apr 25, 2018Brian Lohnes1
We’re coming up on what used to be the most polarizing race of the NHRA season this weekend. It’s the NGK Spark Plugs Four Wide Nationals at the massive zMax Dragway in Concord, North...
9.90s And Plated: SRTMush’s Challenger Demon Was Whipping Up At ChallengerFest 9!
Apr 23, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on 9.90s And Plated: SRTMush’s Challenger Demon Was Whipping Up At ChallengerFest 9!
With ChallengerFest in the books until next Spring, we have time to reflect a bit on what we saw. We didn’t see too many Jeeps out playing this time…we can only assume that some WKs were...
WoahStock: Watch This Fox Body Mustang Get On Its Side In Bizarre Fashion At Darlington Dragway
Apr 20, 2018Brian Lohnes2
Here’s a general rule of thumb. If you are operating a video camera on the outside of the wall at a drag strip and you see the underside of a car hurtling towards you at speed, you may want to...
Bad Bumpside: Watch This Big-Block Powered Ford Cut Loose On The Strip!
Apr 20, 2018Bryan McTaggart5
Painted white, this could have very well been the Ford truck that my dad drove when I was a wee tot. It’s one of precious few vehicles that I can see clearly that pre-dates my kindergarten...
Spin and Cringe: Watch A GT350 and A Porsche Spin Off The Track Because Of Oil And Hit Nothing!
Apr 20, 2018Brian LohnesComments Off on Spin and Cringe: Watch A GT350 and A Porsche Spin Off The Track Because Of Oil And Hit Nothing!
Oil is racing’s greatest double edged sword, right? Its lubricity and slipperiness are what make engines live through grueling events like the HSR Classic 12 Hour at Sebring but in the event...
Sorry, Officer, But I’m In The Clear: Burnouts From The Hillbillies And Hot Rods Show In Buffalo, Missouri!
Apr 18, 2018Bryan McTaggart2
Running down the center of Murphysboro, Illinois is Walnut Street, the main drag of the little sleepy town. Storefronts that date back to the early 1900s line the road on both sides east to west, and...
Drag Challenge Weekend 2018: A Three-Day Aussie Battle Royale For Street Cars!
Apr 16, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Drag Challenge Weekend 2018: A Three-Day Aussie Battle Royale For Street Cars!
The Aussies have eaten up the concept of the rolling roadshow/drag racing setup. They’ve played at Drag Week and have a taste for more. What you will see here is Drag Challenge...
Morning Symphony: A Nitrous-Infused Wheels-Up Cutlass Launch
Apr 15, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Morning Symphony: A Nitrous-Infused Wheels-Up Cutlass Launch
I never got to drive either one of the 1979 Olds Cutlasses I owned. The green one, the most useable, had a 260 Olds V8 that was making enough white smoke the one time I got it running that it...
Classic YouTube: Wringing Out A 1953 Buick At The Autocross
Apr 13, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Classic YouTube: Wringing Out A 1953 Buick At The Autocross
I’m not 100% sure which particular model Todd Holdren’s 1953 Buick is (attribute that to my illiteracy of vehicles pre-1955) but what can be said without any questioning is that the...
Less Show, More Go: This Square-Body Chevy Grudge Racer Is An Exercise In Simplicity…And Brutality!
Apr 12, 2018Bryan McTaggart1
Your mind is the only real limitation you have when it comes to building up a square-body GM truck right. Pick an engine, pick a trans, pick a rearend that you won’t shatter like glass at the...
The Psychotic Shopping Cart: This 600cc Honda-Powered Trike Is The Toy We All Want!
Apr 12, 2018Bryan McTaggart3
To hell with every safety council that wet their pants at the sight of a three-wheeled ATV, I love the things. Honda 125 and 200cc three-wheeled four-stroke thumpers were what I grew up thrashing...
Wild Rides: Here’s Five Minutes Of Insanity From The World Of Nostalgia Drag Racing
Apr 12, 2018Brian LohnesComments Off on Wild Rides: Here’s Five Minutes Of Insanity From The World Of Nostalgia Drag Racing
This is five minutes of crazy. Five minutes of insanity from the world of nostalgia drag racing. Blower explosions, drivers getting bathed in hot transmission fluid, burnouts gone wrong, barrel...
Morning Symphony: The Renault 5 Turbo II – The Good Stuff That The French Didn’t Share
Apr 11, 2018Bryan McTaggart1
“Le Performance Car”…nope. “When there is a car from the country that just built the world’s fastest train”…congrats on the train, now try again. “Le...
Morning Symphony: The Subaru That Everybody Wanted, The WRC Group A Impreza
Apr 09, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Morning Symphony: The Subaru That Everybody Wanted, The WRC Group A Impreza
When you grow up in a household that is filled with nothing but love for American products and treats every imported car like a tin-can beater that needed to go to the crusher years ago, it’s...






