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ADRL Drag Racing LIVE And FREE Exclusively On BangShift.com Starting Saturday

Posted in DRAG RACES May 18, 2013  by  Chad Reynolds > >  9 comments

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 [...]

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Show Gallery: The 2013 Tennessee Strawberry Festival – Hot Rods, Cool Trucks, Muscle and More!

Posted in CAR SHOWS May 17, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  0 comments

(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Last weekend, Tommy Lee Byrd made his annual trip (a whole 4 miles) to the Strawberry Festival Cruise In, held in his hometown of Dayton, Tennessee. It’s a typical small town festival that features a block party on Friday night, and a big parade on Saturday afternoon. [...]

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Show Gallery: More Killer Photos From The 10th George Barris Cruisin’ Back To The 50s Car Show

Posted in CAR SHOWS May 16, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  0 comments

(Photos by Scott Liggett) – Yesterday we showed you the first of two galleries that our LA correspondent Scott Liggett filed from the 10th George Barris Cruisin’ Back To The 50s Car Show. There was lots of cool iron featured in those images, but we had more than 100 additional images that were equally as [...]

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Drag Gallery: Out Last Blast Of Photos From The 2013 Spring Throwdown In T-Town!

Posted in DRAG RACES May 15, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  0 comments

(Photos by Brad Klaassen) – Well we’ve finally run to the end of Brad Klaassen’s great photos from the 2013 spring Throwdown in T-Town. The race was a smashing success with the track having full grandstands from the beginning on Friday all the way through the end of the deal late on Saturday night. There [...]

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Gallery: The 10th George Barris Cruisin’ Back To The ’50′s Car Show

Posted in CAR SHOWS May 15, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  5 comments

(Words and photos by Scott Liggett) – The 10th George Barris’ Cruisin’ Back To The ’50′s Car Show took over the downtown streets of Culver City on Saturday morning and brought in bigger crowds and more cars than any year before. Held right outside the front gates of the historic Culver Studios in the shadow of [...]

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Crazy Wheelstand Photo Sequence And Video! — Front Engine Dragster Goes For The Moon!

Posted in DRAG RACES May 14, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  2 comments

(Words and Photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Tommy Lee Byrd was at it again this weekend, shooting photos at yet another awesome event in the Southeast. This time it was the Spring Show N Go at Paradise Drag Strip in Calhoun, Georgia. You’ll see more photos from this event later, but for now you [...]

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Gallery: The 2013 Heidt’s Performance Challenge – Awesome Pro Touring Action On A Sweet Course!

Posted in Event Coverage May 14, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  1 comments

(Words by Bob Chiluk – Photos by Chiluk and Greg Rourke) – It is awesome when manufacturers realize that something big is going on they want in on the fun and help further the hobby in the process. The 2013 Heidt’s Performance Car Challenge at the Autobahn Country Club just outside Chicago was the place [...]

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Drag Gallery: The Throwdown In T-Town – Pro Mods, Small Tire Cars, Action, Pit Shots, More!

Posted in DRAG RACES May 13, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  0 comments

(Photos by Bras Klaassen) – The 2013 Spring version of the Throwdown in T-Town is officially in the books. If you missed our live broadcast, shame on you (we kid)! If you were one of the thousands of people who tuned in to see all the action, thanks and we’ll soon be telling you where [...]

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VIDEO REPLAY: THROW DOWN IN T-TOWN 2013 — CLICK TO WATCH WHAT YOU MISSED!

Posted in DRAG RACES May 10, 2013  by  Chad Reynolds > >  3 comments

It’s springtime, and that means the baddest group of Pro Mods, Outlaw 10.5s, and more are on their way to Tulsa Raceway Park for the 2013 $50k Throw Down in T-Town which starts Friday at 5:30PM Central Time. That’s 3:30 on the west coast and 6:30 on the east. BangShift.com will have exclusive LIVE Streaming [...]

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Eagle Field Drag Racing Is Back May 18-19 With Fresno Drags Reunion And More

Posted in DRAG RACES May 10, 2013  by  Chad Reynolds > >  4 comments

This one may be the best yet thanks to all the great new improvements that are going on now at Eagle Field. Don’t worry, they aren’t ruining the place with all kinds of modern touches, just dust control, some new paving, and better access. Here is what Rocky has to say, Lots going on behind [...]

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Drag Gallery: More Great Photos From The Pro Street Racing Association Event At Thunder Valley Raceway Park!

Posted in DRAG RACES May 9, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  0 comments

otos by Brad Klaassen) – Yesterday we brought you the first of a couple galleries we have from the recent running of the Pro Street Racing Association event at Thunder Valley Raceway Park in Oklahoma. This race brought out some of the coolest doorslammers in the region and it included everything from big tire pro [...]

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Drag Gallery: Pro Street Racing Action From Thunder Valley Raceway Park

Posted in DRAG RACES May 8, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  2 comments

(Photos by Brad Klaassen) – BangShift photo contributor Brad Klaassen was at Thunder Valley Raceway Park last weekend for the Pro Street Racing Association event at the great Oklahoma track. This was a doorslammer affair with some neat dragsters in the mix as well. There were lots of four second hardcore race cars at this [...]

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Gallery: More Great Photos From The Wheels And Keels Concours D’Elegance – Texas

Posted in CAR SHOWS May 7, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  0 comments

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – We promised you more photos from the incredibly Wheels and Keels Concours D’Elegance from Seabrook, Texas and here they are. Charles Wickam had great access to the event and spent a bunch of time hob-knobbing with guys like Bryan Fuller of Bryan Fuller Hot Rods, Al Unser Jr, and oogling [...]

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Event Gallery: The 2013 NSRA Nationals – Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, Tons Of Cool Stuff!

Posted in CAR SHOWS May 7, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  0 comments

(Words and Photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – The NSRA Street Rod Nationals South has been around for a long time and it’s generally held on the first weekend of May in Knoxville, Tennessee. It’s always a great event, with a couple thousand hot rods in attendance. Now that the NSRA has lifted its 1948 [...]

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Show Gallery: The 2013 Keels and Wheels Coucours D’Elegance – Incredible Variety Of Cars!

Posted in Event Coverage May 6, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  0 comments

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Charles Wickam was our man on the inside of last weekend’s Keels-n-Wheels Concours D’Elegance in Seabrook, Texas. This is one of the coolest car shows in America and one that we’d recommend putting on your 2014 list of stuff to do. Where else can you see a real birdcage Maserati, [...]

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Gallery: The Connecting Rods Car Club Cruise Night – May 2013

Posted in CAR SHOWS May 6, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  1 comments

Last Friday night, the Lohnes clan loaded into Buford T Justice and headed south to attend the first of the weekly Connecting Rods cruise nights of the 2013 season. This is a Friday night tradition that goes down at a local Walmart. Cars come from all over the local area and if we had to [...]

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