Jan 31, 2021Darr Hawthorne1320 Event Coverage, 1320 NHRA News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320 (Film and Words by Darr Hawthorne ) In 1965 Santa brought me a new 16mm Bolex film camera, rather than using my dad’s cameras any-longer. The first opportunity I had to use it was on the Pomona Raceway starting line at the …
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NHRA Insider Podcast: The Grudge Men Cometh – Joey Gladstone and JR Gray Talk NHRA, Grudge Racing, and More
Jan 26, 2021Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, BangShift News, MISC, RACING & ACTION, Videos Joey Gladstone and JR Gray join Brian Lohnes on this episode of the NHRA Insider podcast. Both men have backgrounds in drag racing’s grudge scene and have worked their way to the worlds of NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle …
Bored This Winter? Buy This Never Fired Russian Liquid Propellant Rocket And Become The Hit Of The Neighborhood!
Jan 15, 2021Brian Lohnes1320 Online Find, Apex Online Find, BangShift 1320, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, eBay Find It has been a while since we’ve seen a person selling a cool rocket engine on eBay. We’re guessing that being quarantined and stuck at home maybe forced the rocket owners to mess with their own stuff rather …
Mini-Feature: Hubert Platt’s Georgia Shaker III 1965 Ford Falcon A/FX
Hubert Platt’s Georgia Shaker III is one of the more interesting door slammers to come out of the mid-1960s. Platt was a southern match-bash star who had tasted the sweetness of a factory deal in the early 1960s with Chevrolet. It was then that the legend of the Georgia Shaker name was born. The first …
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Why Do Nitrous Pro Mods Make Header Flames? Why Do They Blow Up? Let Rickie Smith And Shannon Jenkins Tell You!
Oct 15, 2020Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320 Nitrous is awesome in every application but when used on 900ci engines for drag racing it is otherworldly. It is a fascinating way to make power and very, very popular. The cars have some great elements like the sound, the header flames, and one not so great element …
When Mercury Was A Going Concern: This 1986 Laser Disc Preview Of Mercury’s Performance Cars Is Cool
Sep 10, 2020Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, Apex Video, BangShift 1320, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, HISTORIC, MISC, RACING & ACTION, Videos Back when the Mercury division of Ford was a happening thing, they were all about getting on the performance bandwagon like the rest of the world was. Of course they, like the divisions of GM were …
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We live in weird, uncertain times. There’s some new wrinkle in the way we live our lives nearly every day. The good thing? Our cars are still there to keep us sane. You can socially distance yourself in your hot rod quite easily and with the windows down, the air rushing in, and the late …
FREE, LIVE Coverage Of Rocky Mountain Race Week Today! Join Us For Race Day Four Action From Pueblo!
Jun 28, 2020Bryan McTaggart1320 Event Coverage, BangShift 1320 We will be going LIVE at 4 p.m. Mountain time! We are on the road and are ready to kick off the fun that is Rocky Mountain Race Week! We are on the OG tour route this year. Race Day four has us in Pueblo, Colorado, running …
How It’s Made Video: Follow A Cam From Core Selection To Finish Product At The COMP Cams Factory!
This is an awesome video that shows us some amazing stuff about one of the aftermarket industry’s truly important names. Yes, we are going inside the COMP Cams factory in Tennessee to see how a camshaft is made from the selection of the core to the machining and even to the micro finishing processes that …