UPDATE: We Made It! A Quick Update on the Successful Completion of Our 500-mile, 6-MPG Road Trip!
Posted in Event Coverage September 5, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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By the time you see this, my wife and I should be an hour or two into a seven hour trek to Salmanca, NY to pick up BangShift’s newest piece of project iron, a 1968 C50 Chevy tow truck we’re calling Brutus. The 480-mile trip should be interesting in the old wrecker which has the [...]
CLICK HERE TO Watch Free Live Streaming Video from the 2011 NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion!
Posted in DRAG RACES October 20, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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For the 5th consecutive year, BangShift.com brings you FREE Live Streaming Video from the NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion. Watch dozens of nitro burning Funny Cars and Dragsters run down the famed 1320 at Famoso Raceway. Big thanks to sponsors AFCO, Jet Hot, S&W Racecars, and GearStar who have made it possible for us to [...]
Show Gallery: The NEATTA Spring Tractor Pull and Antique Tractor Show
Posted in CAR SHOWS May 2, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Our annual rite of Spring arrived just yesterday in the form of the New England Antique Truck and Tractor Association’s Spring Show and Pull. This year we had a twist on our visitation of the event. That was the big green twist known as Goliath, our 1966 C50 truck. It drew lots of curiousity and [...]
Hot Rod Power Tour Day 6: Brake Lights, Bowling, Burgers…And Peeing
Posted in CAR SHOWS June 10, 2011 by Chad Reynolds
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To see Matt’s latest update, click here and we’ll take you right to it. This year’s Power Tour coverage promises to be some of our most fun yet. You see we conned our own Mad Matt Graves into running the whole deal with the Memphis Mob, and Detroit’s resident hipster John Clark, in a conglomeration [...]
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 [...]
Photo Galleries: The 2011 NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion
Posted in DRAG RACES October 22, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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While Chad mans the scaffolding high above the legendary drag strip at Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, California, our own Scott Liggett is snapping away with his camera to bring us great photos from the pits, the track and the Cacklefest! We’re going to break them up into batches of about a hundred photos each. Scott’s [...]
Road Trippin’ With Scott: Racking up 1200 Miles in a Recently Freshened 1973 Monte Carlo
Posted in Event Coverage October 24, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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I’m surprised to hear how few people will actually get in their old project ride and just hit the road. Sure, thousands cruise Hot Rod Magazine’s Power Tour, but that number pales in comparison to the sheer numbers of old rides that people own in this great country. So why does everyone hop in the [...]
Our 15 Favorite Door Slammers From the 2012 March Meet
Posted in DRAG RACES March 1, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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The two things that put the March Meet in a different class than other nostalgia drag races are the history that surrounds the event and the cars. Simply put, there are hot rods you’ll see at The Patch that you just are not going to see anywhere else. While we drool over virtually every car [...]
PRI 2012: Mike Moran’s New 4,400hp Billet Aluminum Hemi – Nearing Top Fuel HP With Alky and Turbos!
Posted in CAR SHOWS December 3, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Of all the cool, heavy duty, bleeding edge race stuff we saw at the 2012 PRI Show, this single engine was the showstopper. The 637ci Hemi that features a billet aluminum block and billet everything else is a clean sheet design from Mike Moran Racing Engines. The guys with the engine say that this version [...]
LIVE Streaming Video of Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week Awards Ceremony NOW
Posted in DRAG RACES September 17, 2011 by Chad Reynolds
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We have live streaming video of Drag Week 2011, right here. Visit us daily to see all the coverage right here at BangShift.com including Hot Rod’s Live Coverage, photo galleries, 1320video, and more. NOTE: We have been getting lots of calls and emails about Hot Rod’s LIVE Coverage, and want to make sure all of [...]
2012 March Meet Gallery: Awesome Artistic Photos From Liam Garrity
Posted in DRAG RACES March 5, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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(Photos by Liam Garrity) – By now, we’ve showed you the 2012 March Meet from many different perspectives and angles. From the broadcast tower where we shot our live video, to the top end where we captured Denver Schutz’s incredible encounter with the concrete wall, and the starting line where wheelstands and burnouts were the [...]
Massive Gallery: The Carlisle All Ford Nationals
Posted in CAR SHOWS June 15, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Joe Grippo is a lot of things to us here at BangShift but first and foremost, he’s a Ford man. That being said, it should come as no surprise that he nearly wore the shutter button off of his camera snapping photos as the massive Carlisle All Ford Nationals. From monster Aerostar vans to fabulous [...]
Event Gallery: 2011 Oswego Dragway Days – Oswego, Illinois
Posted in CAR SHOWS August 8, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Our man Greg Rourke was on the scene of a totally bitchin’ event last weekend. The 2011 Oswego Drag Strip days event serves as a yearly celebration of the memory of Oswego Dragway, a strip that operated from 1955 to 1980 in Oswego, Illinois. The irony that the city which essentially legislated the track out [...]
Grunt Force Trauma: The Recovery of Project Brutus – Our 1968 Chevy C50 Wrecker!
Posted in Event Coverage September 20, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Well, I can check the bucket list box that reads, “buy an old heap sight unseen, show up and drive it home 500 miles,” now. The mission to go out and get Brutus, the newest addition to the BangShift fleet was not wrought with a ton of drama or unplanned excitement. Sure, there were iron [...]
Crash Photo Sequence: Out Of Control Nitro Outlaw Pro Mod Impala At Ardmore Dragway
Posted in DRAG RACES September 4, 2012 by Chad Reynolds
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Chris Graves with Max Cackle Photography sent us this cool crash sequence from the recent Hot Rod Reunion at Ardmore Dragway in Oklahama. Aubrey, Texas driver Bebo Chandler took a wild ride in his 1965 Nitromethane burning Impala Texas Outlaw Pro Mod and Chris got the whole thing on film. After leaving the starting line [...]
Video: Roadster Shop and Covington Win Optima Batteries Street Machine of the Year in Columbus
Posted in CAR SHOWS July 13, 2011 by Chad Reynolds
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Alex Covington and the Roadster Shop staff are still celebrating after winning the 2011 Optima Batteries Goodguys Street Machine of the Year competition in Columbus at the Goodguys PPG Nationals in Columbus this past weekend. Our congratulations go out to the crew and all that contributed to the project. We had an opportunity to see [...]
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