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Show Gallery: The 2013 Goodguys Nashville Nationals – Rods, Muscle, Trucks, Rain and More!
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Mini-Feature: A 1957 International Welding Truck That’s The Same As It Was When It Left The Job Site
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Magnante Speaks: Here’s the True Story Of The Bad Seed Chevette – Part One Of Three!
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Drag Gallery: The ADRL Spring Drags 2013 – Cordova, Illinois
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Gallery: The Earlville Cruise 2013 – Hot Rods, Muscle, Classics, Trucks, Patina, And Main St USA!
Show Gallery: The 2013 Goodguys Nashville Nationals – Rods, Muscle, Trucks, Rain and More!
(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – We love Goodguys events, mainly because they’re not your typical car show. It’s much more than that, and it actually involves beating on your car, which is totally our style. This past weekend we checked out the Goodguys Nashville Nationals at LP Field and had a great [...]
Mini-Feature: A 1957 International Welding Truck That’s The Same As It Was When It Left The Job Site
(Words and photos by Greg Rourke) - We sometimes see a guy at car shows with a 1957 International Harvester pickup. He tells us his grandfather bought the truck brand new, and converted it for his job as a pipeline welder. The welder/generator is belt driven off the driveshaft, there is a gearbox that allows either [...]
Magnante Speaks: Here’s the True Story Of The Bad Seed Chevette – Part One Of Three!
(Words and photos by Steve Magnante) – It has been over a decade since the April 2000 issue of Hot Rod magazine appeared on newsstands across the nation. The main image depicted an austere white Chevy Chevette Scooter riding on skinny front tires and plain steel rims – emerging from a dense cloud of tire [...]
Drag Gallery: The ADRL Spring Drags 2013 – Cordova, Illinois
(Photos by Sean Smyth) – While Chad was up on the scaffolding in Cordova, Illinois during the ADRL Spring Drags last weekend, BangShift contributing photographer Sean Smyth was at ground level blasting away with his still camera. He captured some great images before coming down with something and having to leave the track in a [...]
Gallery: The Earlville Cruise 2013 – Hot Rods, Muscle, Classics, Trucks, Patina, And Main St USA!
(Words by Greg Rourke — Photos by Rouke/Chiluk) – The Earlville cruise night only happens once a year in Earlville, Il., and that might be just enough. They shut down most of the town to accommodate the cars that come from all over, this year car count was well over 300. It looked like almost [...]
AND WE HAVE A WINNER!!!! Who Won Ridetech’s ’33 Ford Gets Air Caption Contest? I KNOW I KNOW!
Posted in General News March 5, 2013 by Chad Reynolds
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We have a WINNER!!! Fastbak390 made up the winning caption, and will take home a pair of Ridetech Smooth Body shocks, plus 6 Ridetech shirts to share with his buddies. There were tons of great entries, and people are still sending them in just to be funny, even though the competition is over. Do you [...]
New Jersey’s Historic Island Dragway Is Dead And Gone Forever: Suck Ass News
Posted in General News December 12, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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The death of a drag strip, specially one that had been operating for more than 50 years, had historical significance, a local following, and stands as one of only three in the state of New Jersey is a gut punch to all drag racers and hot rodders. Island Dragway in Great Meadows, New Jersey was [...]
Celebrity Car Death Match: John Milner’s Deuce VS The California Kid 1934 Ford!
Posted in Celebrity Car Death Match April 25, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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Oh, so you thought the battle of the 1955 Chevys the other day was a tough barn burner, but those shoe boxes have nothing on these two truly iconic hot rods. That’s right, we’re placing the 1932 Ford of John Milner into the death match ring with the famous Pete Chapouris built 1934 Ford known [...]
Scrapple: The BangShift Guide to Automotive Crap That Happened This Week You Care Nothing About
Posted in General News April 13, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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It has been far too long since we last came at you with some scrapple here on BangShift. Chad and I have been working our asses off on a model rocket project in North Korea as of late and that has taken up most of our time. I don’t think it will make the news, [...]
Satan’s Weed Whacker: The Twisted Tale of the Kawasaki Triples
Posted in General News July 19, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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“But it’s only 60 horsepower…How wild a ride could this possibly be?….” Ya, in this age of storebought 9 second uber bikes, the H-2 Kawasaki looks almost silly on paper. 12 second quarter mile times? Right, I know, your kid sister’s scooter does that…. But the pure, sudden, violence that occurs when that mere 60 [...]
Buford T Justice Hits the Strip Tomorrow – Guess the ET and Win a Shirt!
Posted in CHEVY April 27, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Tomorrow is a big day in the history of BangShift’s project Buford T Justice. Our 1987 Caprice 9C1 will be running down the quarter mile asphalt aisle at New England Dragway in Epping, NH for the first time. The car is 100% stock aside from the dual exhaust from the manifolds back. It has about [...]
Celebrity Car Death Match: The 1955 Chevy From Two Lane Blacktop VS The Same 1955 Chevy From American Graffiti!
Posted in Celebrity Car Death Match April 23, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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We know what you’re saying right now and it has lots of swear words in it. We’re good with that because this is death match that absolutely has to happen and you know it does too. There can only be one supreme 1955 Chevy movie car and the fact that both movies used the same [...]
BangShift Project: Introducing the $200 Hauler…A Tow Rig on a BangShift Budget!
Posted in CHEVY May 24, 2012 by Chad Reynolds
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Although the economy is looking up, regular Joes like us are still hurting, and there are plenty of folks, like us, who just can’t afford a new tow rig. So, when the opportunity came for us to pick up a 2000 3/4 ton Suburban for $200 we jumped at it. With an LQ4 6 liter, [...]
Genius Or Sacrilege? A 1969 Camaro Station Wagon!
Posted in BangShift Question Of The Day?? April 9, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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(Photo by Justin Oney) – The response to this custom built creation should be interesting. Chad is the resident 1969 Camaro obsessed patient here at the BangShift insane asylum and since he likes them completely unmolested, this may not catch him right. Me? I think it is genius and would order one to be constructed [...]
Question of the Day: What the Slowest/Least Powerful Car You Have Ever Owned?
Posted in BangShift Question Of The Day?? June 28, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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After watching the cool video of the Formula Vee car tearing through the autocross with a little 1200 (or so) CC engine in the back of it, we got to thinking about low powered cars we have owned over the years. Now, the Formula Vee weighs 850lbs so it is pretty quick so the small [...]
Your Opinion Needed: Guys Take a New Camaro and Make it Look Like Crap – Lame or Cool?
Posted in General News May 11, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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The boys over at Jalopnik recently ran the story of two guys, Dave Sherer and Anthony Musilli of Long Island, New York. These guys screwed together a 1,000hp 2010 Camaro for use on the 2011 Hot Rod Magazine Power Tour. The catch is that they made the car look like total hell. We’re not talking [...]
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