Category Archive: 1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, HISTORIC, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Best of 2018: Watch This Time Lapse Of Santa Pod’s Complete Concrete Resurfacing Job
I have often professed my love of Santa Pod Raceway, the famed English drag strip that I have never actually been to. It’s been the site of some great history and it serves as the European...
Best of 2018: Watch As This Barn-Find Fiat 850 Spider Gets Drug Out And Brought Back To Life
I love it when a left-for-dead car is brought back to life. I’m not talking the car whose transmission crapped out two months ago, either…I’m talking D-E-A-D car, the kind where...
Moroso Tech Video: Here’s The Theory And Practice Of Oil Pan Trap Door Baffling
It’s Wednesday so we figure that the collective brain of BangShift nation is firing on all cylinders today and is ready to learn. We came across this killer video from Moroso that explains the...
Best of 2018: This 1936 Chevrolet Standard Coupe Pick-Up Is A Vision To The Past
I could’ve sat there in the grass for an hour, just staring at what I was looking at. This could’ve easily been the 1930s…there was no noise except for my breathing and a slight...
Best of 2018: This Little Lady Is Restoring Her Own Volkswagen Beetle!
A common thread that pops up about once a month is how the car community is doomed because “young folk” aren’t into the hobby. “Young folk”, which essentially means...
Best of 2018: Watch as Mario Racicot’s 24-Cylinder Freightliner Argosy Threatens To Take The Weight Sled Home!
Information on what you’re going to see here is thin, but here’s what we have: You’re looking at a 2014 Freightliner Argosy that started out as a glider truck…that means you...
Who Left That There? This Monster Truck Tire Takes Out A Mud Racer At Dennis Anderson’s Muddy Motorsports Park
The typical monster truck tire is 66 inches tall, 43 inches wide, and weighs in somewhere between 800 and 900 pounds. they are derived from flotation tires used on farming equipment. Keep that in...
The World’s Largest Welding Cart? It Just Might Be, Cause It Holds A Bunch Of Machines
We’ve shown welding cart builds before, but never one like this! These videos from The Fabrication Series shows just how bad ass a welding cart build can be and also just how big you really can...
The Ultimate Sleds: Snowmobiles That Are Not For The Timid!
It’s official, finally: we have entered winter. The passing of the winter solstice on Friday means that the daylight hours are going to start getting longer and that we are on the way to...
Clamps, Clamps, And More Clamps. Quarter Panels And Roof Install On A 1967 Camaro
Quarter panels are an intimidating project for a lot of gearheads. Add a roof to the mix and it is a whole other experience entirely. With that said, the actual installation of both is a process...
Project Smokey: The Drowned Pontiac LeMans Is Actually Being Rebuilt!
When Kevin from Junkyard Digs said that he was serious about bringing the 1968 Pontiac LeMans he dragged out of it’s long-term resting spot, I was excited for him. When he said that he was...
Just Checking: OnStar Broke In On This Corvette ZR1’s Action Three Times In One Lap Of NCM Motorsports Park!
If there is one thing every racing driver can appreciate, it’s the surprising lack of sound in the car. Seems odd, right? No music blasting, no humans distracting or annoying…it’s...
Unknown Parts Counter Guy: Trust But Verify The Work That Is Being Done On Your Car!
The legion of minions that compose the face of automotive maintenance to the general public is a very mixed bag in this time and age to put it very mildly. You have counter-clerks at parts stores...
