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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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Cool! 1320Video Has Released The Drag Week 2005 DVD In Its Entirety For Free! Watch Here

May 20, 20201320 Videos, BangShift 1320

Cool! 1320Video Has Released The Drag Week 2005 DVD In Its Entirety For Free! Watch Here

Well now this is awesome. 1320Video has released the Drag Week 2005 DVD in its entirety and you can watch it below. We’re talking about the first ever Drag Week, the event where I met Chad and Freiburger, and the event that set the stage for what we know as BangShift more than a decade later. This is an amazing trip back through time, especially for the small group of us that were actually there. I was reporting on the event for CompetitionPlus.com, Chad was racing his famed Rusty wagon and Freiburger was the leader of the whole circus. Larry Larson was there, Carl Scott won, and guys like Tom Hogshead and Vince Rasch were making the first of their appearances at an event that they can brag, to this day, on never having missed one of. Freiburger can’t even say that.

Drag Week 2005 was insane for many reasons. The first is that this was a one way trip. There was no loop. We started at KCIR and ended up in Michigan. Oh, you towed your stuff to KCIR to start and it is all still there? Cool. Just drive back down to your trailer and go home. I’m not saying today’s Drag Week events are easy, because they are not. I am saying that these guys who did it the first time were a special brand of nuts.

Luminaries early in their careers came as well. Steve Morris, the well known engine builder is the guy with the massive Caprice wagon. Justin Burcham the guy in the then brand new Mustang had just begun to grow his JPC (Justin’s Power Center) into a central hub for late model Ford performance, hell Kyle and 1320Video were just some kids with cameras, long before their explosion in popularity. Some guy named Larry Larson who was well known around Missouri would start to rise to a place in the sport of drag racing we’re sure even HE didn’t attaining. It all started that first awkward day at KCIR.

Watch it from day one below. When you spot the pasty guy in the blue baseball cap, that’s me. When you spot the slightly bearded Chad, that’s him. Lots has changed since 2005 but one thing has not. We can say that we were actally there!

Press play below to watch the 1320Video Drag Week 2005 DVD in its entirety!

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Historical Drag Racing Video: Mario Andretti Drag Racing For The Only Time In His Life At Connecticut Dragway!

May 14, 20201320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, BangShift News, HISTORIC, MISC, RACING & ACTION, Videos

Historical Drag Racing Video: Mario Andretti Drag Racing For The Only Time In His Life At Connecticut Dragway!

This right here is some stuff! The first part of the video seems to date from the first half of the 1960s but the last half comes from 1968 and there’s one really specific way that we know that. This is rare footage of Mario Andretti drag racing for the only time in his life at Connecticut Dragway in 1968.

You will see him landing on the strip in a little Cessna, hanging out with the trophy queen and ultimately see him making laps in a Mustang on behalf of Tasca Ford! Andretti ran a match race against track owner Frank Maratta who is driving a Camaro prepared by Norwood Chevrolet. To double down on the awesome, the car that Andretti is likely a Tasca KR8, the car that the production Cobra Jet Mustangs were based off of! Surely they would not have stuck Mario in some 390 powered Mustang, right? He got the good stuff we’re sure.

There’s plenty of other fun stuff to be seen here in the form of wheel standers and loads of awesome cars but the real story if Mario. Recently on television he talked about this particular day and his memories all these years later are 100% spot on, the video proves it! You will see him fly in around the 13:00 minute mark and his runs against Maratta are shown around the 15:00 mark.

Drag racing history in living color!

Press play below to see this amazing footage from Connecticut Dragway!

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Taking Stock On Shocks: Do You Need Racing Shocks On Your Car? Consider Your Options In This Video

One of the most amazing things about the high performance aftermarket in the year 2020 is the level of choice presented to customers. You have choices in manufactures for virtually every product. Within those manufacturers you have options as to what you need, how hardcore you want to go, and what’s best for your car. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the suspension segment of the marketplace. Great companies making great products all have options but there are a select few that rise above the rest. Ridetech is one of them.

This video centers around one question. Do you need racing shocks on your car? What you are going to get is not a yes or no answer, but a presentation of the things that you should be considering when making a shock decision. You do not always need to order from the bottom of the page or from the back page of the catalog where the really gnarly stuff is.

Be educated, make the right choices, and spend wisely. Here’s the video –

Press play below to see this cool video from RideTech about shocks!

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This 1970 Drag Racing Documentary Film Is Awesome And We’ve Never Seen It Before – Total Coolness From A Long Dead Track!

May 08, 20201320 Videos, BangShift 1320

This 1970 Drag Racing Documentary Film Is Awesome And We’ve Never Seen It Before – Total Coolness From A Long Dead Track!

We revel in finding old drag racing footage on the internet that we don’t think you’ve seen before. This video is a prime example of that because we’re going to go ahead and believe you’ve not seen it because we haven’t yet and we’re trained professionals! Filmed at the 1970 NHRA World Finals held at the Dallas International Motor Speedway, this documentary style film is a seemingly educational/PR piece for drag racing and the NHRA. It talks about all the major points that the sport would want to trumpet in 1970. By that we mean, family, factory involvement in cars like pro stock, very fast cars like top fuel and floppers, the “every guy” element of sportsman racing, and on and on and on.

Outside of the coolness of the snippets and interviews shown with regular Joes in the pits, there is a great segment with Sox and Martin that includes interviews with Ronnie Sox, Buddy Martin, and footage of Jake King actually working in the S&M race shop back in the day. In-car footage of a 1970 funny car run (with a funny car that has a legit steering wheel in it), tons of great angles where you can look into a car on the starting line and see the driver dumping the clutch, awesomely named sportsman cars, and on and on. This video legitimately has it all.

One of the other things that needs to be mentioned is the star crossed track that the film was made at. Dallas International Motor Speedway was a full tilt super track opened in 1969. It featured a massive tower, suites, huge pits, and all the luxuries that you would expect at even a modern track. The problem is that only a couple years later the place was out of business after a flood, neighbor complaints, rainouts, and running the already thin wallets of the builders and promoters dry. Dallas was a case of shooting for the moon when a pole vault jump would have sufficed. The track did not need all the bells and whistles that it had and those luxuries ended up being like a cement block around the neck of the place while it was trying to tread water in the financial pool. That movie never ends well and this one was no exception. While the story of the track closing sucks, the video that came out of it is awesome!

PRESS PLAY ON EACH PART TO WATCH THIS 20-MINUTE DRAG RACING MASTERPIECE!

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