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Our FREE LIVE Streaming Video Coverage Of The Spring Fling Million In Las Vegas Continues Today! 5-Days Of FREE RACING!!!

Mar 27, 20211320 Drag News, 1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Spotlight, BangShift 1320, DRAG RACES, Event Coverage, RACING & ACTION, Videos

Our FREE LIVE Streaming Video Coverage Of The Spring Fling Million In Las Vegas Continues Today! 5-Days Of FREE RACING!!!

That’s right folks, we’re SUPER excited to be bringing you 5 days of awesome bracket racing from The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway at the 2021 K&N Spring Fling Million presented by Optima Batteries. While the big show starts on Wednesday, we’ll be live on Tuesday afternoon for the American Race Cars, Todd’s Extreme Custom Paint, Dragster Shootout Race. The winner will take home a rolling American Race Cars 240″ Dragster chassis with a complete custom paint job by Todd’s. This is a big shootout for 32 cars and will be the perfect way to start off the weekend here in Vegas.

We will be live Tuesday afternoon, and then all day Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday for all the racing action. Check out the flyer below for details on the payout and event prizes, but know that Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday racers will be going after $30,000 to win. Friday is the big money Million race which has a guaranteed purse of $250,000 to the winner regardless of entries. We’re pretty sure this race is going to be off the hook based on our last west coast race this year. Given the fact that all the heavy hitters are heading cross country for it as well, this promises to be one hell of an event.

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FREE LIVE STREAMING DRAG RACING! We Are LIVE From The Southwest Showdown In Tucson All Weekend!

Mar 06, 20211320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320

FREE LIVE STREAMING DRAG RACING! We Are LIVE From The Southwest Showdown In Tucson All Weekend!

 

That’s right folks, we’re super excited to bring you our FIRST live streaming video broadcast of 2021 starting this Thursday afternoon from Tucson Dragway, home of the Southwest Shootout. With tens of Thousands of dollars on the line, including two special events within the event, someone can take home serious life changing cash this weekend. We’ll be on site setting up Thursday and going live Thursday evening for the first special event of the weekend, the Silver State Refrigeration Stimulus Race. Worth $8,000 to the winner, and with entry included for anyone that enters the entire weekend race and test and tune session Thursday, this is going to be one to watch. I can’t wait. I’ll be on site streaming the entire thing for all of you at home that can’t watch!

Big thanks to Silver State Refrigeration for being our live stream presenting sponsor, and to Holley for continuing to support all our live streaming video efforts in 2021. We also want to thank K&N, Jegs, and all the other sponsors. This weekend promises to be a great event and we are very excited to come back to this event after missing it in 2020. Jim, Matt, and all the staff at Tucson Dragway are super cool folks and great to work with, so we know the event will be a riot. If you are ready for some great racing, then tune in Thursday evening!

And if you aren’t already, then become a Subscriber on our BANGshift YouTube Page. Ring the bell and you will get notified when we go live!

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Long Lost Film Of ’66 Winternationals Found! Sunday Eliminations With Packed Pomona Grandstands!

Jan 31, 20211320 Event Coverage, 1320 NHRA News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320

Long Lost Film Of ’66 Winternationals Found! Sunday Eliminations With Packed Pomona Grandstands!

(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 1966 NHRA Winternationals, I’d been granted an NHRA photo/media credential with my best friend, at 14 years of age, lucky I know. It was my third time on the line at the Big Go West.

These ten minutes of original footage shows off some of the Top Fuel legends like the Greek, Don Prudhomme, Tom McEwen and Tony Nancy and event winner Mike Snively in Roland Leong’s Hawaiian. Leong recently said of the win, “Thats my wagon (at the end of the video). Must be 1966 and yes we won.” Leong added, “ After that we were on our way out of town going on tour to our first date and a ’55 Chevy towing a ’55 Chevy racecar side swiped a short bridge (while) passing us and then served into us. Wagon ended up upside down, trailer broke off and went about 1/4 mile into the desert. Both ’55 Chevy’s ended up upside down. Thankfully NO ONE got hurt.” Adding, “Thats my story and I’m sticking to it”. 

1966 also presented a showcase to the early evolution from stock-bodied cars into nitro funny cars; Jack Chrisman’s red Comet, Gas Ronda’s Mustang, Maynard Rupp’s rear-engined Hemi-Powered Chevelle, Don Gay’s blown GTO, Steve Bovan’s altered wheelbase Nova, Joe Davis’ Colt 45 Mustang, Preston Honea’s Marlin and Bob Davis in the Jolly Green Giant Impala. These lumbering giants were relegated to the dragster classes, since NHRA had not yet recognized a true funny car class.

Along with them, was Super Stocker Bill “Grumpy” Jenkins in his ’66 Nova and event winner Shirley Shahan’s “Drag-on Lady” Plymouth Fury, the first woman to win a National Eliminator, at this Winternationals. 

There’s Big John Mazmanian and Stone Woods & Cook with a bunch of AA/Gas Supercharged monsters as well as some early Modified and Comp Eliminator cars too, in front of the packed Pomona Raceway grandstands. 

Grab a hot dog and a cold one for ten minutes in the Way Back machine for some long misplaced film from the ’66 Winternationals.

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Thanks to Periscope Films for the transfer and the music is from dcml dnb

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Ratty Muscle Cars presents Mopar Vs. Brand X 2020: Sending The Year Off With Screaming Engines

Nov 18, 20201320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320, BangShift Galleries, DRAG RACES, Drag Races, Event Coverage, Gallery

Ratty Muscle Cars presents Mopar Vs. Brand X 2020: Sending The Year Off With Screaming Engines

The one thing that stands out about Ratty Muscle Cars events isn’t that the cars are wicked fast, or that they are just rough versions of dream machines. It’s that they are used and not with kid gloves, either. Proof of point: the nicest cars on the property were getting just as rowdy as the purpose-built beaters who were designed to be moss-covered, dented and faded street hustlers. The lone Ford Maverick that showed up blasted Muletown Dyno’s rollers to the tune of over 500 horsepower and torque in the six hundreds. Dylan McCool was dry-launching his Cordoba in the back forty trying to figure out an off-the-line bog. I had my wife’s car, and all of it’s maybe 100 mildly irritated horsepower, in the burnout box lighting up at least one rear tire for all it was worth just for the hell of it. If there was a skidpad or a burnout arena, you can bet that most, if not all of these machines would be out there tearing donuts, cutting up and showing their ass. That is the point to the whole Ratty Muscle Cars movement: it’s just a car. Go out, do stuff and have fun with it.

The natural beauty of the day and location is one thing…touring through leafy backroads and fields of cotton in the middle of baling was amazing. But the most beautiful thing of all caught just about everybody off guard. A few days before the rescheduled event, J.D. Posey, the man with the beaten but beastly 1980 Dodge Aspen A38 that we featured, passed on. He had been at every one of these deals, and before that was a well-known and well-respected racer in the region. Suffice it to say that I was not expecting the Aspen to come rolling through the gates early in the morning. His widow, Pam, had brought the car in as one of J.D.’s last requests, and while there were tears around that story, there were plenty of smiles as well as she wheeled the Dodge around with everybody else.

Just before I left to make the trek back north in the Great Pumpkin Mustang, McCool and I had one last chat with Austin, and the sum of the conversation was this: we needed this Saturday. We needed to get out of the house, surround ourselves with friends, and enjoy one last gasp of nice, warm weather before we’re stuck inside for the winter. We needed this breather from the bullshit of this year. We needed to get into an old car and just go for a drive, and maybe let it all hang out a little bit before we settle back into the sofa and start dreaming of a turkey dinner.

And maybe, just maybe, we might do this again in the spring.

If you missed our last gallery, CLICK HERE to check it out, and be sure to click on a photo below to see more from Mopar Vs. Brand X!

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Not A Supercharger: This All-Billet Four Rotor Engine Build Is Awesome And Wild!

Awesome Build: Watch This Operational Scale Model Of A Rotary Engine Constructed With Lego Blocks!

Nov 09, 20201320 Videos, Apex Video, BangShift 1320, BangShift APEX, ENGINES, FUNNY STUFF, MISC, Videos

Awesome Build: Watch This Operational Scale Model Of A Rotary Engine Constructed With Lego Blocks!

This is easily one of the most awesome Lego builds we have ever seen. We know we had some rotary stuff on the front page today already but this is in a different league. The whole engine is custom built from the imagination of the guy snapping the blocks together, to start. This is not a kit, this is not something already made a video about. From the creation of the rotor itself to the fact that this thing has “spark plugs” intake and exhaust ports, the right eccentric travel and the list goes on and on, your mind will be blown like ours.

There may be kids who watch this video and have a lightbulb come on in their minds about how one of these weird little engines work. In fact, they aren’t so weird when you see a happy little version of one, built of out of Lego blocks whirring away. This guy even went so far as to include the tip seals on the rotor in his build!

The addition of the “spark” light is a big one here because there are some animations that show the cycle of a rotary engine but when he dims the lights and then cranks the engine up with the little cam and rocker arm to trigger the light up block, things go from interesting to completely awesome.

We have no idea how many hours are in this build but what a teaching tool. I watched this with my kids and both of them were able to see what exactly happens inside the engine and they were both 100% more understanding of a rotary engine than they were after I explained it to them 100 times.

THIS is great!

Press play below to see this incredible scale model rotary engine built from Lego!

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FREE, LIVE Coverage Of Rocky Mountain Race Week Today! Join Us For Race Day Four Action From Pueblo!

Jun 28, 20201320 Event Coverage, BangShift 1320

FREE, LIVE Coverage Of Rocky Mountain Race Week Today! Join Us For Race Day Four Action From Pueblo!

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 at Pueblo Motorsports Park. With the track elevation 1,000′ lower than Bandimere and lots of cars still in the swing, we’re expecting some early “all out” runs. Chad spent his runs at Great Bend tuning on the wagon and is looking at Pueblo with a gleam in his eye that says he’s coming in strong. We’re looking forward to that run!

Chad and Cole are in Ethyl, their long roof Chevrolet that’s ran RMRW before, and Haley and I are packing the camera around in the back of a truck for each event. So join us as we start the trek, won’t you? Racing goes from 4-10 p.m. Central time so be sure to pop in and catch the action!

CLICK HERE to join us LIVE from Pueblo Motorsports Park for Day Four of Rocky Mountain Race Week!

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Project Bottle Rocket Coronet: Uncle Tony’s Featherweight Mopar Project Finally Sees The Track!

Jun 22, 20201320 Videos, BangShift 1320

Project Bottle Rocket Coronet: Uncle Tony’s Featherweight Mopar Project Finally Sees The Track!

I’ve been looking forward to this video more than I think Uncle Tony and Lamchop have…and that’s probably underrating how badly they’ve wanted this video to happen. The “Bottle Rocket” Coronet, their stripped-down taxicab Dodge that’s packing a 318 that acts like a pissed-off 340, a four-speed swap, and a ton of tricks that come straight from the catalog of DeFeo’s book of witchcraft, has been patiently waiting for a chance to hit a drag strip. Now, originally, this should’ve happened months ago, but besides the pandemic, there’s been another wrench in the plans: Lamchop’s cancer treatments. No matter how badly they wanted to get the car to the track, and how badly they wanted to see what it would do, his health takes priority over all. So it’s taken until the start of summer to get the Coronet lined up at the tree.

Now, why was I so antsy to see this? In my back catalog of cars is an infamous item: a 360, four-speed swapped 1987 Dodge Diplomat ex-cop unit that was known as “Warhammer”. When I saw the Coronet rock through the shifts the first time, I had flashbacks like you wouldn’t believe. Warhammer was the first car with any kind of mentionable power that I took to the dragstrip. At a test-and-tune at Temple Academy (read: Little River Dragway), the Diplomat’s one balls-out lap went like this: at the green, I stalled it trying to soft-launch the car. I restarted the car, tried again…and stalled again. I fired it off again and I let the car go fully unleashed. I lost the timeslip years ago, but the ballpark was low-17 seconds at over 110 miles per hour in the quarter. That meant that the Diplomat was nice and potent for an everyday-driver kind of car, and that with a check of tune, some cooler temperatures and a driver that actually knew what the f**k he was doing with three pedals and a shifter, that the Diplomat would be a rocker. The car never saw the strip again. So there is a bit of admiration (and a touch of jealousy, it must be said) for the learning curve that Lamchop is enjoying, because it’s something I didn’t do. Don’t cry for me, I’m planning on rectifying that soon enough.

Now, be sure to listen to the first part of the video…don’t skip ahead straight to the action. And understand that the Coronet isn’t going to be a sideways, smoking bucket of violence the first time out. This is the introductory lesson for Lamchop, and a sorting session for the Dodge. But enjoy it for what it is!

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Unhinged: The Noose Left In Bubba Wallace’s Garage (Warning: Language)

Stealing The Show In Orlando: Watch The Quickest Side By Side Pro275 Pass Ever And Mark Micke’s Record Shattering 3.82 Run!

Jun 01, 20201320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, BangShift News, HISTORIC, MISC, RACING & ACTION, Videos

Stealing The Show In Orlando: Watch The Quickest Side By Side Pro275 Pass Ever And Mark Micke’s Record Shattering 3.82 Run!

There are certain times in drag racing where you can actually pinpoint the moment where a class or category put itself onto the map for good. That moment for the Pro275 class happened last weekend at Orlando Speed World Drag Strip in Florida during Donald Long’s Covid-8 race. The best Pro275 cars in the country were on hand and they were taking advantage of a well prepped course to set records and put on one heck of a show.

These cars are mostly machines from the Radial vs The World class that have elected to run on the smaller 275 width tire and at more weight than they’d be competitive at in RvW. The horsepower, technology, and ability of the cars and the teams is exactly the same as is found in the “bigger” tire class and since so many high profile teams have “made the switch” to the 275 class, its specter in the sport has grown. Now this being said, some of those well known teams struggled to get the hang of the smaller tire and while we knew it wouldn’t take them too long a time, it was a hot second before we saw a weekend like we just witnessed.

Mark Micke wresting the record from the hands of Ron Green was pretty awesome. The former RvW record holder ran 3.82 to better the 3.83 second mark that Green had set during the US Street Nationals in Bradenton, Florida earlier this year. You’ll also see the quickest side by side in the category’s history as well here.

Pro275 is no joke. It never was and it never has been. Now though? Now things have changed. It’s not growing up anymore. That class has officially arrived!

Press play below to watch record setting Pro275 passes at Orlando Speed World –

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Meziere Enterprises Safety Lock Radiator Cap Should Be Mandatory Equipment On Every Race Car

In racing we always talk about the big stuff. We talk about big tires, big horsepower, big numbers, and big performances but the reality is that the little things are what not only win you races but keep you safe. Take the Meziere Enterprises Safety Lock radiator cap. This device is a real world solution to a real world problem. I can give you at least a dozen examples of wrecks I have seen on the track due to people’s radiator caps failing, coming off, or otherwise letting them down. With the unique and awesome Safety Lock design, these problems are quite literally eliminated.

Made from billet aluminum and available in multiple pressures, the cap utilizes a roller pin design to contact and secure itself to the filler neck and then there’s the locking shell which is quite literally the lynch pin of the system. Once the shell is installed and the safety pin is inserted, that thing cannot come off.

There’s nothing worse than wrecking your stuff because of something like a radiator cap. Actually there is. There’s wrecking the track for your fellow competitors and potentially wrecking someone else’s car if they get caught up in your mess. This is a great solution to a problem that exists in the world and can be solved. We think every race car in the country needs one!

Press play below to see a great video on the Meziere locking safety radiator cap –

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A Mopar Story For The Ages: How A Kid Bought A Hemi 1966 Plymouth Belvedere New, Won at The Drags, and Got It Back Decades Later

(Photo Credit: Mopar Muscle Magazine) – We love stories about guys who have held onto their first cool car for life and never let it go but we may love the stories when guys had to part with their car and somehow got it back years later. That’s the story of this 1966 Plymouth Belvedere that was bought new by a 22-year old gas station mechanic named Dennis Geniuch in Massachusetts. From there it was drag raced, winning track championships and ultimate an AHRA national event in the top stock class. Then life got in the way and the car was sold, likely never to be seen again. Amazingly, that was not the case as you will learn from the story linked below.

The 426 Hemi was was installed in the car when it was built still lives in the nose of this beast. The interior and most everything else on the car is original as well. You will see that one of the owners who had the car before Dennis got it back did some work on the real wheel wells to stick a larger tire under it and frankly we think it makes the car look even more tough.

Perhaps our favorite part of this story is that Dennis cruises the car on a weekly basis and it is always at a show during the spring and summer months in Massachusetts where Dennis lives. This is truly an awesome car and an even better story.

Click here for the full feature and more than 40 photos of this car 

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