Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, HISTORIC, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Watch The 1988 NHRA Southern Nationals Right Here – This Was A Race For The Ages
May 02, 2018Brian Lohnes1
Ahhhhh yes, as we continue on with the 2018 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing season Atlanta Dragway looms large on the horizon. That’s where we are racing this year as one of the tour’s true...
Morning Symphony: The Gringo Malibu Launching Like A Missile!
May 02, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Morning Symphony: The Gringo Malibu Launching Like A Missile!
Growing up, a four-door G-body Malibu would’ve been labeled a “parts car” and pushed out into the far sections of the yard. One in particular stayed in memory: a white Malibu, tan...
Video: The 1993 Ford Taurus SHO Was A Good Car – But How Good Was It? First Year For The Slushbox
May 01, 2018Brian Lohnes2
Maybe because it was the late 1980s and early 1990s. Maybe it was because I was a pre-teen and then a teen. Maybe it was because this was an era where pretty much every car that everyone was making...
Respect Your Elders: This 1922 Ford Model T Ran Street Machine’s Drag Challenge Weekend!
Apr 30, 2018Bryan McTaggart4
What will you be doing if you make it to the ripe old age of 96 years? If you get there, tell me the next time you see me wherever we end up, because I don’t expect to see a full century of...
Adrenaline Rush, Stat: 11/10ths Rally Action Footage That Doesn’t End In Crashes!
Apr 29, 2018Bryan McTaggart1
Rally racing is good for a couple of things. Like crashes! Sooner or later a highly powered psychotic bit of kit powered by a meat bag who is high on fear and adrenaline is going to find the rock, or...
1,800 Horses Running: Watch How Quickly This Viper Dispatches The Half-Mile In Dallas!
Apr 28, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on 1,800 Horses Running: Watch How Quickly This Viper Dispatches The Half-Mile In Dallas!
For a quarter-century, the halo car at Dodge was the Viper. What started out as a “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” shot at recreating the magic and the violence of the...
The American Powertrain Parting Shift: A 1970s Hemi Powered Charger Chewing On The Road Course At Spa!
Apr 27, 2018Brian Lohnes1
(By Scott Liggett) – The roar of a Nascar bred Hemi running around the European road tracks in a behemoth of a 70s Charger looks so wrong and sounds so scary. This Charger is a recreation of...
4/27: Paying Tribute To Ford’s FE Stomper In All It’s Forms!
Apr 27, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on 4/27: Paying Tribute To Ford’s FE Stomper In All It’s Forms!
Four twenty-seven. Cobra Jets, Super Cobra Jets, and Boss small blocks may run with it, but there is no doubt that Ford’s seven-liter race motor was a violent beast in it’s own right....
Short Course Racing! Check Out The New Short Course Track At Busted Knuckle Off-Road Park!
Apr 27, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Short Course Racing! Check Out The New Short Course Track At Busted Knuckle Off-Road Park!
It’s not quite arenacross, not quite a rallycross, but it looks like a blast all the same. The short course that was just opened up at Busted Knuckle Off-Road Park in Stevenson, Alabama...
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...






