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 [...]
(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 [...]
(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 [...]
(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 [...]
(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, [...]
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 [...]
(Photos by Justin Oney) – There are certain signs that you work for a cool company. One of those signs is that the business shuts own for a whole day so that the employees can all show up with their hot rods, trucks, muscle cars, and street machines! Such is the case with our pals [...]
We once again pointed ol Buford T Justice south and headed to Foxboro, Massachusetts yesterday for the bi-monthly Mass. Cruisers Association Foxboro Bass Pro Shops cruise. As we’ve told you in the past, this event draws 2,000-3,000 cars every other week and is held at the complex where the New England Patriots play. The expansive [...]
(Photos by Craig Sutherland) – Yesterday we ran the great video of Jim Pace making hot laps in Sebring with a vintage Can Am car. Today, Jim’s right hand man Craig Sutherland is sharing a bad ass gallery of photos that he shot at the famed “Mitty” race held each year at Road Atlanta. This [...]
(Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) – The annual spring-time right of passage, Spring Carlisle! Packed house this year for Friday of the multi-day swap, lots of folks looking for that gem among the millions of parts being offered up for sale. The car corral was particularly busy this year with everything from Muscle Cars, [...]
(Words and Photos by Greg Rourke) – Last Saturday we took in a little autocross action. The Windy City Miata Club puts one on most every weekend, with the Schaumburg Boomers ballpark parking lot their home turf. They also have a few other sites, including the Tire Rack headquarters race track. This Saturday was the [...]
(Photos by Bryan McTaggart) – If there’s one thing we love it is all inclusive shows and cruises. While everything that rolls in may not be our taste, we dig the vibe that everyone is welcome and feels at home displaying their stuff and checking out cars that they may have never even considered liking [...]
(Photos by Tony Maffini) – The East Coast Timing Association started its 2013 season in grand style with a big meet at its Wilmington, Ohio home. More than 175 racers competed last weekend in a dizzying myriad of classes that ranged from 125cc motorcycles to hairy chested turbocharged muscle cars streaking down the course at [...]
Amazing! Who would ever have thought? An entire event centered around the venerable Ford FE engine!?!? Perfect weather, an excellent car show, good racing and a great gathering of Ford folks and friends made the inaugral FE Race & Reunion a huge success. Doug Bender, Jody Aberts and Beaver Bob McCardle join forces and pulled [...]
For nearly 30 years the city of Seal Beach, California has been holding a yearly car show on their picturesque main street. This year, hundreds of cool cars attended the show which gets the local population out in droves to soak up the California sun, hang out at the great beach, and see some of [...]
Well, this is our final gallery from the 2013 Fabulous Fords Forever show that was held at the famed Knott’s Berry Farm amusement park in California last weekend. In this gallery we have Thunderbirds, hot rods, 1960s muscle cars, 1950s classics, bitchin’ wagons, and even stuff dating back to the days of wooden wheels and [...]