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

Hazardous Weather Outlook: This Ford Lightning Is Quick Enough To Earn The Name

Yeah, I see that Kentucky license plate on the back of this first-gen Ford Lightning. And I can say that I do not remember seeing this rig anywhere recently, so I have more questions than answers...

A Restomod, A Ute And A Mopar: This CL Valiant Ute Is A Dream Concept Come True!

Chad thinks that within a couple of years, that he’ll have me in a “traditional” Mopar. I think that means that he believes that he’ll find a way that I’ll suddenly fall...

A Workday Dream: Hooking A HEMTT Up To The Sled At A Pull!

This should qualify as cheating in some sense of the word. The Oshkosh HEMTT series of military trucks are beasts…Detroit Diesel powered, 8×8 beasts that weigh as much as a starter home...

This 1955 Chrysler Promotional Film Touts The Famous $100,000,000 Look – Great Watch

1955 was a huge year for the auto industry in America and Chrysler needed it to be a good one. In typical Chrysler fashion, they didn’t completely slay it but they did make some hay while the...

Get A Grip: Big Tire And True Street No-Prep Racing From Ozark Raceway Park!

If you’re going to roll into an event with some big-ass tires steamrolling underneath your ride and still have a license plate bolted onto the ride, two things should happen: you need to prove...

Watch The 1988 NHRA Winston All-Stars From Atlanta Right Here – Really Fun Stuff!

As you read this I’ll be heading to or working at Atlanta Dragway as part of the 2018 NHRA Southern Nationals. Atlanta Dragway was still a pretty new joint back in 1988 when this video was made...

Eff The Rule Book: Demolition Drag Racing Is What Happens When The Patients Run The Asylum!

Drag racing is an ORGANIZED sport! Organization is what gave drag racing some legitimacy during the days where hot-rodders were looked at as a plague on society in their chopped-up gow jobs,...

Watch The 1988 NHRA Southern Nationals Right Here – This Was A Race For The Ages

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!

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

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!

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!

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!

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!

(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...