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 [...]
Roadside Find: A 2003 Unimog That Is Set Up As The Ultimate Blizzard Fighter!
Posted in Car Features March 4, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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While cruising home from a feature car shoot with Dave Nutting yesterday morning, my dad called to let me know that he stumbled upon an auction site that listed a 2003 Unimog U500 for sale. I thought that was a neat thing to hear until pop said that the truck was at a location roughly [...]
Quick Look: A Bad Ass 1967 Olds 442 Under The Knife At DMC – Real Olds Engine With Exotic Parts And Twin Turbos!
Posted in BUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC February 27, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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We promised that we’d show you some cool stuff at DMC that did not involved a wrecked and rusty truck, well here is the first of several glimpses behind the curtain at DMC Racing in Halifax. This 1967 Olds 442 is absolutely freaking bad ass in every sense of the word. From the red paint [...]
Funny Car Forensics: Can You Give Us Some History About This Flopper On The Shelf?
Posted in Car Features February 27, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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Our buddy Blair is the lead man at the clandestine “bat cave body shop” that we visit from time to time here on BangShift. We happened by the shop the other day and while there was some great work being done on cars at floor level, the real star of the show is the vintage [...]
Turbo-Gasm: A Vintage Mustang Fastback: Small Tires, A Big Damn Turbo – Sexy Fabrication!
Posted in Car Features February 22, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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I stopped by Tube Chassis Designz yesterday to annoy and derail the productivity of my buddy Jon Sandahl and to check on the progress with the Fat Lane t-bolt build that we’ve been following. They have some fiberglass work being done now so as they’re cranking on other customer projects in the shop. One of [...]
Goliath’s Younger Brother! A 1972 Chevy C50 Pickup That Is Cool Truck Perfection
Posted in CHEVY February 20, 2013 by Chad Reynolds
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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 [...]
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 [...]
The AMX/GTO: 1969 AMX + 2006 GTO + Home Garage = BangShift Appproved Tire Melting Awesome
Posted in AMC February 12, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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If you give a hot rodder three things: a welder, creativity, and time, you are guaranteed some type of cool result. Such is the case with my neighbor (literally about a 1/4 mile down the road) Scott Huyghe and his near seamless melding of a forlorn 1969 AMX and a wrecked 2006 Pontiac GTO that [...]
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 [...]
Heavy Iron: Kenworth 963 Oil Field Trucks Come To Life – These Are The Kings Of The Desert!
Posted in Car Features February 5, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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(Photos credit: Kenworth Trucks) – When it comes to big, awesome trucks there are few bigger and more awesome than the mighty Kenworth 963 oil field truck. These massive off-highway trucks spend their time working in the desert or other inhospitable places where oil rigs are present. Their primary job in the field is to [...]
America’s Most Beautiful Roadster 2013 is John Mumford’s 1927 Ford Track T Built By Roy Brizio
Posted in Car Features January 27, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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We had the opportunity to meet and hang out with Mumford during the Goodguys Rodfather Tour, and can tell you that he is one awesome guy, just like his cars. Roy Brizio did the final assembly on this one and got it ready for the AMBR competition, and there is no doubt it was a [...]
BangShift Exlusive: George Poteet’s, Rad Rides Built, Talladega Inspired ’69 Torino Assembly Pics
Posted in FORD January 9, 2013 by Chad Reynolds
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(Photos by Rob McGaffin) The famed 1969 Torino, owned by George Poteet, that is being built at Rad Rides By Troy, has been the talk of the hot rodding world for the past couple years. And thanks to photographer Rob McGaffin, we’ve got update photos of it’s final assembly just taken yesterday! To say that [...]
Car Feature: One Ultra Bitchin, Kick Ass, 1930 Model A Ford We Want Bad!
Posted in FORD January 8, 2013 by Chad Reynolds
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Bad ass, bitchin, rad, cool, awesome… Not one of these conveys how bad assedly bitchin the Lafferty’s awesome, rad, and cool, 1930 Ford Model A really is. And before you get your panties all wadded up about how it’s not “traditional enough”, SHUT UP! All that matters, is that this IS one of the coolest [...]
1962 Plymouth Fury With 777 Original Miles – A BangShift Exclusive!
Posted in Car Features January 1, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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(Words and photos by Dave Nutting) – Bangshift contributing photographer Dave Nutting here to share an infamous time capsule of Mopar history that Brian Lohnes and I stumbled upon while working on another feature, one that involves more than a hundred pounds of boost, several thousand foot-pounds of torque, and smoky, rolling burnouts galore. After [...]
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 [...]
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