Gasser Barn Find: The Surprise Package 1957 Chevy Bel Air D/Gas – 426 Max Wedge Mopar Power
Posted in Car Features February 14, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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Lauren & John McKee have recently purchased the coolest barn find in America. This is the “Surprise Package” 1957 Chevy D/Gas machine that is exactly how it was last raced in the early 1970s complete with a 426ci Max Wedge Chrysler engine, B&M Torqueflite transmission, and 8 3/4 Chrysler rear end! The car is an [...]
Steve Magnante’s Bad Seed Caddy Powered Chevette Lives!
Posted in Car Features March 26, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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(Photos by Scott Liggett) – The public loved it, the magazine company lawyers hated it, Steve Magnante built it, and gearheads still are obsessed with it to this day. The infamous “Bad Seed” Chevette, powered by a 500ci Cadillac engine was on hand at the Hot Rod Magazine Homecoming show in Pomona last weekend and [...]
Feature: A 1973 Chevelle That Personifies Working Man’s Pro Touring
Posted in Car Features January 1, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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There were some truly incredible rides at the 2012 Run to the Shore event held at New Jersey Motorsports Park in April. We oogled the likes of Billy Utley’s all conquering Nova and Jeff Schwartz’s uber-bitchin’ Tempest, but it was this 1973 Chevelle of New Jersey’s Sean Rich that really spun our crank. This is [...]
Best of BS 2012 Feature: Cummins Powered, Laid Out, Custom, 1957 Chevy 2-Ton Shop Truck
Posted in Car Features December 31, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Being the resident old truck lover here at BangShift, I nearly drove our golf cart into a ditch when I laid eyes on Brad Starks’s absolutely bitchin’ 1957 two ton truck at the Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion this summer. It was sitting in the show car area, attracting a bunch of attention and [...]
Car Feature: The Granny Goose II Modified Production 1969 Camaro
Posted in Car Features February 6, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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We’re lucky enough to spend lots of time at cool events either shooting video or photos of neat cars. During the Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion, we saw a D/Modified Production 1969 Camaro called the Granny Goose II and immediately fell in love. Modified Production was an NHRA class that appeared in 1964 and [...]
Goliath’s Younger Brother! A 1972 Chevy C50 Pickup That Is Cool Truck Perfection
You are never going to believe this one! Jeff Angeleri, GM Design engineer extraordinaire, among other things, sent us a picture of his super cool 1972 C50 pickup which is the brother of Goliath, Brian’s former 1966 Chevy C50 pickup (which is now owned by his buddy Paul)! They are even the same color! You [...]
Mini-Feature: The Wildest Paint Job We’ve Ever Seen On A Car That Actually Gets Driven
Posted in Car Features March 13, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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While walking through the grove at Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield last Friday during the rain, BangShifter Randal Burns and I spotted the most amazingly painted 1954 Chevy I have ever seen…and its a driver. There was no one around the car when we were drooling on it so I don’t have a lot in the [...]
Truckin’ Awesome: A 1972 Chevy Ramp Truck That Hauls A Chevelle and Hauls Tail Too!
Posted in Car Features March 25, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Okay, so if you haven’t noticed, we really dig trucks. We like bigger-than-normal trucks and the weird ones too, but sometimes it takes a simple classic truck to sweep us off our feet. That’s where Terry Davis’ vintage car hauler comes into the picture. We spotted this [...]
Win the Lottery and Buy the Friggin’ A-Team Van!
Posted in Car Features March 30, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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We remember Mike Meyers for his funny TV characters, being the voice of Shrek, starring in such cinematic hits as, So I Married an Ax Murderer, and generally being as funny as a Canadian can be. Little did we know that the dude is into cars or at least 1980s TV cars, because he commissioned [...]
Car Feature: Bitchin’ Blue Custom 1965 Acadian Wagon
Posted in Car Features July 5, 2012 by Chad Reynolds
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When we saw Dave Show’s 1965 Acadian Wagon, sitting in The Grove at Famoso Raceway during DragFest, we fell in love with the killer stance, insane paint, and cool cruiser vibe. The fact that Dave saw our coverage of DragFest, and thanked us for including a photo of the car in our coverage, was a [...]
Project Car Introduction: El Monte Carvo – A 1987 G-Body With A Literal and Figurative Twist
Posted in Car Features November 27, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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(Editor’s note: You’ve seen Dave Nutting’s byline many times on the electronic pages of BangShift. He our ace lensmen at BS Eastern World HQ. Outside of his handiness with a camera, the dude can also turn a wrench and he’s been neck deep on the Buford Project and other misadventures as well. Dave’s 1987 Monte [...]
Rare Clone: A Perfect Recreation Of Drag Racing’s Ultimate Misfit Nova
Posted in Car Features March 20, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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While rolling around the pits during the 2012 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green last summer something strange caught my eye. It actually caught my entire body as I executed a full throttle U-turn and sped back to the pit space occupied by Tennessean Kelvin Cannon and his girl friend Christy. Thankfully [...]
Car Feature: Bob Johnson’s ’55 Chevy. Could It Really Be The First To 200 At Bonneville?
Posted in CHEVY August 15, 2012 by Chad Reynolds
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Bob Johnson is a character. Not only does he always have something funny to say, but he also has bitchin cars, strong opinions, and a knack for bringing slightly strange cars out to Bonneville in the pursuit of more records. And if the company you keep is the measure of a man, Bob is a [...]
PRI 2012 Featurette: The Lucas Oil/MavTV Super Modified Pulling Tractor – Four Blown Elephants!
Posted in Car Features December 6, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Of all the booth vehicles that were on display at the 2012 PRI Show in Orlando, none drew a larger crowd than the Lucas Oil/MavTV Super Modified pulling tractor that’s campaigned by Rick and Keith Long. It was nearly impossible to get a clear photo of the tractor because hordes of people surrounded it from [...]
Video and Feature Story: Larry Larson’s 6-Second Drag Week Nova Cruising the Vegas Strip
Posted in Car Features November 30, 2009 by Chad Reynolds
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Last week we brought you video of Larry Larson’s incredible, Hot Rod Drag Week winning 1966 Nova running its first ever 6-second pass at the The Strip in Las Vegas, which is amazing for a 3,500-pound car that is really street driven. Now, to prove the street statement, we’ve got video of Larry cruising the [...]
Mini-Feature: The Steve Korney Stone-Woods-Cooke 1969 Corvette Blown Gasser
Posted in Car Features March 22, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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By the early 1970s the traditional gasser, like that of Barb Hamilton we showed you last week, The new generation of gassers used modern bodies, many of which didn’t have operational doors. The cars were essentially turning into gasoline burning funny cars. The catch? Somewhere deep down in their tube chassis were stock frame rails [...]
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