Category Archive: 1320 Spotlight, CAR FEATURES, FUNNY STUFF, MISC, Videos
Halloween Fun! The Taylors Dragula Inspired Coffin Car Fires Up And Does Halloween Burnouts!
Well folks, yesterday was Halloween so it is kinda fitting that Alex Taylor and her dad Dennis would be having a ton of fun in their Coffin Car. They posted several videos this week, but the three...
Junkyard L99 V8 Gets Nitrous Thrown At It. Will It Live?!?!? This Baby LT1 Is Only 4.3 Liters!
Back in the day when everyone wanted at LT1 to swap into their hot rod, many unknowing folks looked at donor Chevrolet Caprices and thought they were all LT1 equipped when in fact they often had 4.3L...
“A Smiling, Mid-Engined Box Of French Hate”: Davide Cironi Takes On The Renault 5 Turbo 2
The mass majority of the Renault Le Cars imported to the United States have either been shredded and reinvented as a legitimate toy car or have rotted back to the soil from where they came. Once they...
Cancer-Free: Making The Last Rust Repair On The Valiant Wagon
Getting every last scale of iron oxide out of a car that had it by the ton must be as satisfying as the moment the priest exorcises the demon from the afflicted. Few dare attempt and fewer still do a...
See And Hear The Story Of “Muscle Two”, Martin Sanchez’s Rescued Christine Fury
Halloween…one of my favorite times of the year, where things seem a little bit unsettled, and demons come back to haunt those who deserve the retribution. As a car guy, the one car that always...
The Concepts Of 1989: Check Out The Ford Splash and the Pontiac Stinger – What Was Their Influence?
It’s super cool to look back at concept cars from decades past. It gives us a window, typically, into the styling direction of a particular brand or even lets us see some stuff that the...
Classic YouTube: Daigo Saito Earning His Legendary Drifter Reputation!
By nature, racing and other automotive sports are all about showing off, and few disciplines are more associated with that kind of behavior than drifting. Unlike racing, which has performance and...
Halloween Hellride: T-Bird’s Final Ride From “The Crow”
1994’s “The Crow” might have the most connections to Halloween right after “Christine”. Take your pick: the dark storyline, the death of Eric Draven and his girlfriend...
Riding The Washington State Ferries During A Windstorm Wasn’t A Good Idea…
For the most part, riding the Washington State Ferry service is a pleasant affair. You drive onto one end of the ferry, let the workers chock your car, then you head up into the passenger cabin for a...
How It Went Down In ’83: Watch The 1983 NHRA World Finals From Orange County International Raceway
We’re zip tripping right back to 1983 to watch some action from the NHRA World Finals from Orange County International Raceway. This weekend the NHRA will close at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in...
NHRA Insider Podcast: Schumacher Speaks, Smith Dishes On His Championship Hopes, and Pedregon Joins Lohnes To Guess The Champs!
Tony Schumacher, Matt Smith, and Tony Pedregon join Brian Lohnes on this pre-Dodge NHRA Finals episode of the NHRA Insider Podcast. The conversation ranges from who we think can win championships,...
Speedy Swap: This 1968 Meyers Manx Has EcoTec Power And Has To Be Fun As Hell
Engine swaps have been the lifeblood of hot rodding for near a century now and while we tend to totally freak out over the ones that make huge horsepower or engines that seem like they...
Tractors and Trucks vs Stumps: This Is No Fail Video, This is A Compilation Of Mechanical Win
There are few more satisfying acts to perform in a truck or on a tractor than pulling stuff out of the ground. Trust me here, if you have never actually pulled out bushes, shrubs, small trees, or...
Horsepower Video: Don’t Fear The Valve – Watch This Boosted Vortec 4200 Inliner Pick Up Big Power On The Dyno
The Nelson family out of Pennsylvania is awesome. Chances are, if you read BangShift you have seen or heard of their exploits on Drag Week, at the former Ohio Mile, the Grassroots Motorsports $2000...