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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!
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ADRL Drag Racing LIVE And FREE Exclusively On BangShift.com Starting Saturday
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 [...]
ADRL Drag Racing LIVE And FREE Exclusively On BangShift.com Starting Saturday
That’s right folks, LIVE ADRL Drag Racing is coming to BangShift.com and your intrepid host Chad Reynolds will be there guiding you through a weekend full of big and small tire drag racing. After getting a call from Kenny Knowling asking if we wanted to come hang out with the ADRL up in Cordova Illiinois [...]
Flaming Wreckage Video: A Relatively Low Speed Drag Racing Crash Results In A Melted Mustang! (Driver OK)
Posted in CRASH & BURN May 23, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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Lots of racers out there use front mounted fuel cells in their cars. The small cells can hold a few gallons of fuel, eliminate the weight of a tank in the rear and they also allow for better fuel deliver in some cases where the pump isn’t trying to “push” fuel in the wrong direction [...]
Celebrity Car Death Match: Rubber Duck’s 1977 Mack From Convoy VS The Blue Mule 1974 Ford From White Line Fever!
Posted in Celebrity Car Death Match May 23, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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Yesterday it was a face off between iconic cars and drivers with Steve McQueen and James Bond doing battle with their Mustang and Aston Martin respectively. Both the characters and the cars will forever been linked together. Hell, 50 years from now someone will know about the Bullitt car chase and James Bond movies will [...]
BangShift Daily Tune Up: Brand New Car – Mungo Jerry (1972)
Posted in BS Daily Tune Up May 23, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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Most people know the band Mungo Jerry from their campy hit “In The Summertime” but the group has a lot more to offer than just that one unique tune. This song from their 1972 album Boot Power is one of our favorite summer cruising tunes ever. The simple three minute rock song is called Brand [...]
Celebrity Car Death Match: Steve McQueen’s Bullitt Mustang VS James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5!
Posted in Celebrity Car Death Match May 22, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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Yesterday two cool Jeep trucks battled it out but today we have literal cinematic titans attacking one another. Today is the ultra classic British cool versus American bad ass cool. But before we get into all that, let’s check the tale of the tape from yesterday: Today’s battle is nearly beyond description. Two insanely well [...]
Dyno Video: Listen To A Hot Rodded 2.5L Mercury Marine V6 Scream To 10,500 RPM!
I don’t know lots about boat racing, but when there is a “Formula One” class, I’m going to assume it is pretty serious business. From what I can gather about the engine that serves as the centerpiece of this video, it is a highly modified 2.5L Mercury Marine used in the Formula class to power [...]
Jet Hot High Performance Coatings Is Hiring! Become Part Of The Team And Aftermarket Industry!
Posted in Sponsor News May 22, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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If you are a person with a sales background who loves cars, the road, and being a part of killer events and shows, does Jet Hot have an opportunity for you! That’s right. The industry leader in high performance coatings is looking for an aftermarket sales person based out of their North Carolina office. This [...]
Incredible Fail Video: The Day “Jumpin” John Holland Failed To Jump 50 Chevettes, Totaled Four With His Body, and Lived!
Posted in CRASH & BURN May 22, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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That blurry figure you see flying through the air in the lead photo is not a super hero although after you see what he lived through in this disaster of a failed motorcycle jump, you’ll think he is invincible. The man’s name is Jumpin’ John Holland and he became a bit of a local hero [...]
eBay Find: A 1956 Ford Fairlane Custom Pro Streeter With The Heart Of A Rat!
Some of you will love this car and some of you will hate it. The lovers will be guys like us who don’t really get to worked up over crossbred engine swaps. The guys who hate it will be hardcore Ford fans that can’t see why someone would go through the work of slamming a [...]
BangShift Question of the Day: If You Were Building a Bonneville Car, What Would it Be?
Posted in BangShift Question Of The Day?? May 22, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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With all the hot and heavy action ready to get fired up in Wilmington again in a couple weeks and Speed Week looming on the horizon, we got to mentally bench racing with ourselves and started dreaming about the LSR rig we would build. There’s the side of us that would want to build something [...]
Mini-Feature: A 1957 International Welding Truck That’s The Same As It Was When It Left The Job Site
Posted in Car Features May 22, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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(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 [...]
Video: Home Movie Footage From The 1960s Showing An Altered Being Push Started On A Neighborhood Street! 100% BangShift Approved!
This is video that’s sure to put a big smile on your face! We saw this posted on Facebook and thought that the BS readership would totally be into seeing a group of guys in the 1960s push starting their altered on a residential street where they live. They apparently had just installed a brand [...]
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