Event Gallery: The Owl’s Head Transportation Museum’s Snow Movers Exhibition
Posted in Event Coverage March 1, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Owl’s Head, Maine is a small hamlet outside of the coastal city of Rockland. It is home to the Owl’s Head Transportation Museum, one of the neatest automotive, airplane, and mechanically themed museums we’ve ever visited. Having caught wind of a yearly winter themed show the museum holds, we decided to pack up the family [...]
Massive Drag Gallery: The 2011 IHRA Mardi Gras Nitro Jam, Nearly 500 Photos!
Posted in DRAG RACES February 22, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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As you already know, we were at the IHRA Mardi Gras Nitro Jam last weekend. Our awesome photo contributor, Charles Wickam was there as well and snapped a monster gallery of photos to document the action. The show went really well and it was neat to see the best cars that Louisiana could offer hammer [...]
Event Gallery: Rolling Bones Hot Rod Shop Garage Night
Posted in CAR SHOWS February 9, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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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 [...]
Fun Gallery: Photos from the Pinup Contest at the 2011 Grand National Roadster Show
Posted in CAR SHOWS February 1, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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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 [...]
Event Coverage: More Than 1,000 Photos From the 2011 Grand National Roadster Show
Posted in CAR SHOWS January 30, 2011 by Chad Reynolds
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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. [...]
Event Coverage Re-Run: SCTA El Mirage July 2010
Posted in Event Coverage January 22, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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It’s LSR season and we’re gearing up for full coverage of east coast speed at Loring, Maine in a couple of weeks. Before we head up into the wilds of northern Main, we’ll share Chad’s great photos from the July SCTA meet held on the historic El Mirage dry lake. The conditions were sunny with [...]
Huge Event Gallery: The 2010 ADRL UTI Texas Drags
Posted in DRAG RACES January 22, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Last weekend’s ADRL UTI Texas Drags produced some big elapsed times, big wreckage, and inundated the fine people at Houston Raceway Park with big horsepower. Our man Charles Wickam was on the scene shooting great photos all weekend. We’ve compiled them into a mega gallery of nearly 300 photos. There’s hot rods, a hot track, [...]
Gallery: Dirt Track Insanity From Battleground Speedway!
Posted in Event Coverage January 22, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Charles Wickam has been a busy fellow shooting awesome photos for the BangShift universe to check out. He just wrapped an awesome shoot at the ADRL event in Houston and just a week before that he was at Battleground Speedway in Highlands, Texas snapping hundreds of pit and action photos from the high banks. It [...]
BangShift.com Announces Road Tour Express Team Members
Posted in Event Coverage January 12, 2011 by Chad Reynolds
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Team BangShift.com is ready to rock the roads of sunny southern California for the first Road Tour Express of 2011 and we’ve put together a hodgepodge group befitting he BangShift name. We’ve got the big three covered with a 10 second Mustang, a ’59 Chevy Impala Convertible, a ’63 Dodge Dart Wagon, and a Trans [...]
Join Team BangShift on the Road Tour Express!!!
Posted in Event Coverage January 6, 2011 by Chad Reynolds
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The first Road Tour Express of 2011 is about to kick off, West Coast Style! BangShift.com is leading one team to fame and glory in the land of movie stars, paparazzi, and red carpets, and want you to join us. We’re taking team member submissions now and will be announcing team participant winners January 11th. [...]
Best of BangShift 2010: Two Cars Smashing the Guardrail at the 2010 March Meet
Posted in DRAG RACES December 31, 2010 by Chad Reynolds
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In our photos of the 2010 March Meet at Auto Club Famoso Raceway, we happened to catch two photo sequences of cars hanging a hard right into the pit side guardrail. We don’t have details on the drivers or cars, but in both cases, the safety crew was right there and it was reported that [...]
Best of BangShift 2010: Jason Calderon Climbs the Ladder in a Beautiful Chevy II
Posted in DRAG RACES December 31, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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One of the great benefits of drag racing in New England is the fall weather. Cool air and moderate temperatures create situations where motors can be set on kill and the track hooks like it is coated in velcro. Racer Jason Calderon found out how true those words can be at a recent event at [...]
Event Coverage: The 2010 Goldenchild Nationals Snowmobile Ice Drag Race
Posted in BangShift Question Of The Day?? December 26, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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We had no idea what to expect when we headed north with two of our photographer buddies to cover the 2010 Goldenchild Nationals, an eighth-mile snowmobile drag race held on a frozen lake in Vermont. It blew our mental doors off. We also froze our gearhead asses off, but that was a small price to [...]
Event Coverage: Mooneyes Christmas Party 2010
Posted in CAR SHOWS December 12, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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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 [...]
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
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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 [...]
The 2010 Houston Autorama — Photo Gallery Two
Posted in CAR SHOWS December 1, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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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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