Car Show Gallery Update: The Texas Joy Ride Classic Car Show - Freeport, Texas

Car Show Gallery Update: The Texas Joy Ride Classic Car Show – Freeport, Texas

Posted in CAR SHOWS March 24, 2011  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

Our cavalcade of show galleries continues! We’re staying in Texas this time, but heading to the city of Freeport for the Texas Joy Ride Classic Car Show. Our man Charles Wickam was on the scene to shoot this show and he did a bang up job of it. We’re certainly not predicting the demise or [...]

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Event Gallery: Goodguys Spring Lonestar Nationals, Texas

Event Gallery: Goodguys Spring Lonestar Nationals, Texas

Posted in CAR SHOWS March 21, 2011  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

When we learned that the March Meet would fall on the same weekend at The Goodguys Lonestar Nationals, it kind of bummed us out. Normally Chad, who is the autocross announcer for the Goodguys, takes photos from the show and we make a gallery of them. Without Chad, we figured that the photos would be [...]

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Car Show Gallery: The Bay Community Car Show - Spanish Fort, Alabama

Car Show Gallery: The Bay Community Car Show – Spanish Fort, Alabama

Posted in CAR SHOWS March 21, 2011  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

A short while ago, we put out the call to BangShifters to submit their car show and cool gearhead event photos. They have responded en masse! This is another reader submitted gallery from a car show. We’re headed to sunny Alabama for the Bay Community car show, a neat local get together in Spanish Fort.  [...]

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Event Gallery: The Long Beach Swap Meet - March 2011

Event Gallery: The Long Beach Swap Meet – March 2011

Posted in CAR SHOWS March 16, 2011  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

While most of the country has not quite thawed into spring, Long Beach, California sure did this Sunday. The warm temps and sunny skies bring out SoCal residents like moths to porch lights. Long Beach Swap Meet was packed to the fences. Every vendor space was filled and the car coral/show lot was so stuffed [...]

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Event Gallery: 2011 Motorsports Expo - Syracuse, NY

Event Gallery: 2011 Motorsports Expo – Syracuse, NY

Posted in CAR SHOWS March 14, 2011  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

BangShifter Jeremy George recently attended the 2011 Motorsports Expo, held at the fairgrounds in Syracuse, NY. The show featured cars and stuff from multiple genres of racing, but the most prevalent were circle track racing iron in all shapes, sizes, and skill levels. From late model stock cars all the way up to the ground [...]

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Event Gallery: Goodguys Scottsdale 2011 - Scottsdale, Arizona

Event Gallery: Goodguys Scottsdale 2011 – Scottsdale, Arizona

Posted in CAR SHOWS March 14, 2011  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

Our own Chad Reynolds serves as the announcer for the autocross events held at Goodguys Rod and Custom Association shows across the country. When on his lunch break, Chad grabs his camera and hauls ass through the show, shooting photos of anything and everything that catches his eye. This past weekend he was in Scottsdale, [...]

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Event Gallery: The Temecula Rod Run - Temecula, California

Event Gallery: The Temecula Rod Run – Temecula, California

Posted in CAR SHOWS March 14, 2011  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

The Temecula Rod run is one of the neater car events that happens at this time in the year. The show, which draws over 500 cars that show, shine, cruise, and parade around the Old Town area of Temecula, California is a yearly sign that Spring ain’t too far off. We got out to the [...]

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Reader Show Gallery: The 2011 Advance Auto Parts Cavalcade of Cars - Hamburg, NY

Reader Show Gallery: The 2011 Advance Auto Parts Cavalcade of Cars – Hamburg, NY

Posted in CAR SHOWS March 9, 2011  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

BangShift reader Jays67 answered our call to BangShifters when we asked for photos from car shows, drag races, or any BangShifty event that our readers attend. In Jay’s case it was the 2011 Advance Auto Parts Cavalcade of Cars held in Hamburg, NY. This indoor show has been running for nearly 20 years, so it [...]

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Event Gallery: The 2011 Texas Hot Rod Hoedown

Event Gallery: The 2011 Texas Hot Rod Hoedown

Posted in CAR SHOWS March 6, 2011  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

This being our second show/cruise gallery in two days, hope for Spring is on the rise! BangShift’s intrepid Texas lensman Charles Wickam hit the 2011 Texas Hot Rod Hoedown in New Caney this past weekend and sent in more than 200 photos of kustoms, gassers, bobbers, sleds, rats, muscle cars, and general coolness from the [...]

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Event Gallery: Rolling Bones Hot Rod Shop Garage Night

Event Gallery: Rolling Bones Hot Rod Shop Garage Night

Posted in CAR SHOWS February 9, 2011  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

Despite the horrific weather that the Northeastern US has been experiencing, die hard hot rodders are still finding ways to have fun. Take this gallery by our own photo maven Joe Grippo for example. It features a night of hanging out and talking cars at the Rolling Bones Hot Rod Shop in NY. The Rolling [...]

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Fun Gallery: Photos from the Pinup Contest at the 2011 Grand National Roadster Show

Fun Gallery: Photos from the Pinup Contest at the 2011 Grand National Roadster Show

Posted in CAR SHOWS February 1, 2011  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

One of the cool things that has come from the resurgence of the traditional hot rodding culture is the reinvention of the classic “pin up girl”. It is pretty common these days to have a pin-up girl contest at larger shows, especially those catering to the trad-rodding audience. Since the GNRS draws a huge preponderance [...]

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Event Coverage: More Than 1,000 Photos From the 2011 Grand National Roadster Show

Event Coverage: More Than 1,000 Photos From the 2011 Grand National Roadster Show

Posted in CAR SHOWS January 30, 2011  by  Chad Reynolds > > 

The 2011 Grand National Roadster Show is in full swing, and the battle for America’s Most Beautiful Roadster Title is on. We’ll be covering the event all weekend long, and have a new gallery up with over 300 great pictures of Hot Rods, Street Rods, Muscle Cars, and Trucks from the Fairplex in Pomona California. [...]

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Event Coverage: Mooneyes Christmas Party 2010

Event Coverage: Mooneyes Christmas Party 2010

Posted in CAR SHOWS December 12, 2010  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

This weekend was the 2010 Mooneyes Christmas Party which is held every December at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale. We have been going to this show for the past couple of years, but were hit with really bad weather last December and had to wait until July for the event to be completed. Not so this [...]

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Show Coverage: We've got 250 photos from the 2010 John Force Racing Holiday Car Show

Show Coverage: We’ve got 250 photos from the 2010 John Force Racing Holiday Car Show

Posted in CAR SHOWS December 6, 2010  by  Chad Reynolds > > 

December means more than car parts under the tree for Southern California residents, it also means it’s time for the John Force Racing Holiday Car Show and Toy Drive 2010. Yorba Linda, home to John Force Racing, is packed with traffic control officers, hot rods, and race cars of all kinds in preparation for the [...]

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The 2010 Houston Autorama -- Photo Gallery Two

The 2010 Houston Autorama — Photo Gallery Two

Posted in CAR SHOWS December 1, 2010  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

The 2010 Houston Autorama went down last weekend and Charles Wickam was there to snap more than 600 photos of the humongous affair. There are so many photos from the Houston Autorama that we busted them into two galleries. This is the second collection of nearly 300 photos.  The Houston Autorama is a part of [...]

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2010 Houston Autorama Show Gallery - Part 1

2010 Houston Autorama Show Gallery – Part 1

Posted in CAR SHOWS November 30, 2010  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

The 2010 Houston Autorama went down last weekend and Charles Wickam was there to snap more than 600 photos of the humongous affair. There are so many photos from the Houston Autorama that we’re busting them into two galleries and spreading the love over two days. Indoor show season is officially here! The Houston Autorama [...]

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