Coyote Den: This Harmless Looking T-Bird Is One Of The Coolest Sleepers We Have Ever Seen
Posted in Car Features December 18, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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(Photos by Dave Nutting and Tube Chassis Designz) – We all love sleepers. Whether it is the idea of smashing someone with a flashy ride in the mouth (figuratively speaking) with something that looks like a sled, the skill required to actually build one sneaky enough to fool everyone, or just the idea of walking [...]
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 [...]
Nitro Resto – The Story of the Famed Country Girl Funny Car and How It Was Restored By The Family That Raced It
Posted in Car Features November 28, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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(Words and Photos by Mike Bradford) – In the racing world, if you don’t have deep pockets and want to go faster, one car is sold to fund the new toy. More often than not, the old car is forever lost, out of sight and mind while all effort is focused on the replacement. Such [...]
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 [...]
BS Barn Find Gallery: The Fortman and Kerr ’32 Ford – Winner At 1954 World Series of Drag Racing
Posted in Car Features November 21, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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(Words and Photos by Bob Chiluk) - Ok , we have all heard the stories before. We heard of a guy, who knows a guy,that saw a guy, that knew this guy’s next door neighbors’ best friend that has an old car in a garage. Most of these stories end up being car guy folk lore. [...]
SEMA 2012 Featurette: The Pure Vision Martini Mustang T5-R — An Incredible “What If” Of Ford Racing History
Posted in Car Features November 8, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Steve Strope and his Pure Vision company have created some amazing cars over the years but this could be his master stroke. Dubbed the T5-R, the 1966 Mustang you see before you is a product of Strope’s imagination and the outcome of a fictional meeting between Ford executive and the famed European Martini Racing organization. [...]
SEMA 2012 Featurette: Don “The Snake” Prudhomme’s 1970 Hot Wheels ‘Cuda Funny Car
Posted in Car Features November 5, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Of all the cars and trucks that filled the nearly one million square foot Las Vegas Convention Center last week during SEMA, the most historically significant race cars is this one. Don Prudhomme’s 1970 ‘Cuda Funny Car is the actual car he raced against Tom McEwen during the famous “Snake and Mongoose” days when the [...]
SEMA 2012 Featurette: Mark Stielow’s 1967 Camaro “Mayhem” – Greatest Pro Touring Car Ever?
Posted in Car Features November 2, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Mark Stielow’s name has been and will forever be connected to Camaros and for good reason. His awesome string of 1967 and 1969 Chevys have helped to both birth and revolutionize the Pro Touring world at every turn. His newest creation debuted at SEMA 2012 this week and he had dubbed it “Mayhem” because he [...]
SEMA Show 2012 Featurette: The Thunder Taker 1960 Cadillac Custom Hearse by Bryan Fuller Hot Rods
Posted in Car Features November 1, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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It is 8,000lbs of subtle metal work, flawless paint, a passenger compartment that’ll seat a football team with room to set up a train set inside, one of the largest sun roofs installed on any car in history and it rolls on the largest most heavy duty frame Art Morrison has ever built. This 1960 [...]
SEMA 2012 Featurette: A 1949 Dodge Power Wagon Crew Cab Built by Legacy Power Wagon of Wyoming
Posted in Car Features October 31, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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There’s literally dozens of vehicles here at the 2012 SEMA show that deserve coverage on the pages of BangShift and we’re planning on getting to many of them in the coming days and weeks, but this 1949 Dodge Power Wagon crew cab monster built by Legacy Power Wagon of Jackson, Wyoming will be the first. [...]
Mini-Feature Replay: The Incredible 1960 F100 by Two Brothers Custom Trucks From SEMA 2011!
Posted in Car Features October 29, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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(Editor’s Note: Our SEMA 2012 coverage will begin later today. Here’s my favorite piece of iron from SEMA 2011!) – Of all the vehicles I saw and crawled over at the 2011 SEMA show, none hit me harder than this 1960 F100 truck, built by 2 Brothers Custom Trucks of Springfield, Illinois. Cool from every [...]
1957 Chevy Factory Orrville Crew Cab Conversion – NAPCO 4WD and Power Steering – Lots of Photos!
Posted in Car Features October 11, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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When I got a text message with a photo of the truck you see below from Jon Sandahl at Tube Chassis Designz yesterday, I dropped everything I was doing and headed straight for his shop like my hair was on fire. He has this truck to do some work on it for the owner. It [...]
Car Feature: Lee Sicilio’s 283 MPH 1969 Dodge. Can He Run 300 In A Daytona? We Think So!
Posted in MOPAR August 21, 2012 by Chad Reynolds
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Lee Sicilio is a Texan with a penchant for Salt. His friends will tell you that nobody uses it on the rim of a Bloody Mary better, but they’ll also tell you that his drink making skills pale in comparison to his love of the salt at Bonneville. With numerous records behind the wheel of [...]
UPDATE: Lee Sicilio’s 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona Runs 283 MPH, Gets The Record, But No 300 YET
Posted in LAND SPEED RACES August 20, 2012 by Chad Reynolds
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Update Friday: Well it’s all over for Speed Week 2012, and Team Sicilio should be ultra proud of themselves. They came out with a brand new car and in less than a half dozen runs set a record at Bonneville. We know guys that are out there for decades and never get a record. They [...]
Bonneville Feature: Mark Warrick’s Flathead Powered, Soncy Road Speed Shop Special, Belly Tank XF/ Fuel Lakester
Posted in OTHER August 16, 2012 by Chad Reynolds
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While on the salt at Bonneville, we were lucky enough to grab some photos of pretty cool cars for features here on BangShift.com. We had heard about this little car before getting to the salt, but the details were a bit fuzzy so we’re glad we got to see it in person. We happen to [...]
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 [...]
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