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Category Archive: BangShift Galleries, Gallery, Shop Tours

Classic Iron Junkyard Gallery: Walk The Aisles of a Cool Junkyard in Pasadena, Texas With Lots of Neat Old Junk!

(Words and photos by Charles Wickam) – With the dog days of summer holding the gulf coast in a firm headlock, car shows during these months are pretty much nonexistent. So with a need to go...

Muscle Car and American Iron Junkyard Gallery: Fox Wrecker Service – Harrison, Michigan

(Photos by Chris Chenlo) – There’s something uniquely cool about the galleries we get from guys who have gone trolling through junkyards across America. Chris Chenlo was recently at Fox...

Shop Tour Gallery: High Speed Welding – Westmont, Illinois – They Have Grumpy’s Toy X!

(Words and Photos by Greg Rourke) – Dennis Spal, owner of High Speed Welding in Westmont, Il. says business is booming. He has a shop full of projects to keep him and his employee busy. He has...

Shop Invasion: DMC Racing – Eddie Kraewic’s Camaro and Alex Vettros’s Mustang Inside!

Last week I put a note on Facebook to my local gearhead homies asking if I could steal a compression tester for a couple days. One of the first guys to answer the call was Dennis MacPherson the owner...

Shop Tour Gallery: Speed Inc. – Schamburg, Illinois – Killer Builds, Burnouts, and More!

(Words and Photos by Bob Chiluk) – What a perfect name for your shop that builds killer LS powered machines! “Speed Inc” and its owner Tom ordered some perfect weather and temps.He...

Shop Tour Gallery: Midwest Hot Rods – Plainfield, Illinois

(Photos by Bob Chiluk and Greg Rourke – Words by Bob Chiluk) – Talk about an American hot rodding success story! A couple of guys have dream jobs building high end street rods, hot rods,...

Shop Tour: Hot Rod Chassis and Cycle – Addison, Illinois

(Words by Bob Chiluk – Photos by Greg Rourke and Bob Chiluk) – Technology is advancing at a dizzying pace. If we don’t grab on we will be left in the dust like a couple of fat guys...

Amazing Find Gallery: Abandoned Trucks and Cars in the Pennsylvania Woods!

(Photos by Doug Garrison) – One of the reasons that we love our nationwide network of photo contributors as much as we do is because they are all as tapped as Chad and I are. Take Doug...

Rolling Bones Hot Rod Shop Garage Night Gallery

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – New York’s Rolling Bones Hot Rod shop is known throughout the nation as a place that turns out killer traditional hot rods. They are also known for driving the...

Junkyard Gallery – A Tour of Desert Valley Auto Parts

(Photos by Bob Chiluk) – Bob Chiluk is one of our awesome photo contributors and he normally sends us stuff from the middle of the country. Recently he escaped to the west coast and submitted...

Gallery: 100+ Photos From Posies Rods and Customs Winter Open House

(Photos by Doug Garrison) – A while back, we brought you Joe Grippo’s photos from the winter open house at Posies Rods and Customs in Pennsylvania. As it turns out, our own Doug Garrison...

Shop Tour Gallery: Yoshi Kosaka’s Garage Company – Vintage Motorcycle Heaven

We have featured several galleries from Chicago BS photo contributor Bob Chiluk’s recent gearhead trip to California but this could be the coolest yet. Bob stopped by Yoski Kosaka’s...

Show Gallery: The 2011 Vintage Specialties Open House – Gettysburg, PA

The late fall show galleries just keep on rolling! Here’s a nice gallery from Pennsylvanian shooter Doug  Garrison. Doug recently attended the 2011 Vintage Specialties open house event in...

Neat Gallery: Touring a Little Texas Shop That is Full of Cool Junk

Consider this gallery a little departure from our normal galleries of car shows, races, and tours of museums and professional shops. The Lee Hartung collection auction reminded us that there are...