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Show Gallery: The 2013 Goodguys Nashville Nationals – Rods, Muscle, Trucks, Rain and More!

(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – We love Goodguys events, mainly because they’re not your typical car show. It’s much more than that, and it actually involves beating on your car, which is totally our style. This past weekend we checked out the Goodguys Nashville Nationals at LP Field and had a great [...]

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Mini-Feature: A 1957 International Welding Truck That’s The Same As It Was When It Left The Job Site

(Words and photos by Greg Rourke) - We sometimes see a guy at car shows with a 1957 International Harvester pickup. He tells us his grandfather bought the truck brand new, and converted it for his job as a pipeline welder. The welder/generator is belt driven off the driveshaft, there is a gearbox  that allows either [...]

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Magnante Speaks: Here’s the True Story Of The Bad Seed Chevette – Part One Of Three!

(Words and photos by Steve Magnante) – It has been over a decade since the April 2000 issue of Hot Rod magazine appeared on newsstands across the nation. The main image depicted an austere white Chevy Chevette Scooter riding on skinny front tires and plain steel rims – emerging from a dense cloud of tire [...]

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Drag Gallery: The ADRL Spring Drags 2013 – Cordova, Illinois

(Photos by Sean Smyth) – While Chad was up on the scaffolding in Cordova, Illinois during the ADRL Spring Drags last weekend, BangShift contributing photographer Sean Smyth was at ground level blasting away with his still camera. He captured some great images before coming down with something and having to leave the track in a [...]

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Gallery: The Earlville Cruise 2013 – Hot Rods, Muscle, Classics, Trucks, Patina, And Main St USA!

(Words by Greg Rourke — Photos by Rouke/Chiluk) – The Earlville cruise night only happens once a year in Earlville, Il., and that might be just enough. They shut down most of the town to accommodate the cars that come from all over, this year car count was well over 300. It looked like almost [...]


 
 

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Celebrity Car Death Match: Steve McQueen’s Bullitt Mustang VS James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5!

Posted in Celebrity Car Death Match May 22, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  32 comments

Yesterday two cool Jeep trucks battled it out but today we have literal cinematic titans attacking one another. Today is the ultra classic British cool versus American bad ass cool. But before we get into all that, let’s check the tale of the tape from yesterday: Today’s battle is nearly beyond description. Two insanely well [...]

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Dyno Video: Listen To A Hot Rodded 2.5L Mercury Marine V6 Scream To 10,500 RPM!

Posted in ENGINES May 22, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  5 comments

I don’t know lots about boat racing, but when there is a “Formula One” class, I’m going to assume it is pretty serious business. From what I can gather about the engine that serves as the centerpiece of this video, it is a highly modified 2.5L Mercury Marine used in the Formula class to power [...]

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Jet Hot High Performance Coatings Is Hiring! Become Part Of The Team And Aftermarket Industry!

Posted in Sponsor News May 22, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  0 comments

If you are a person with a sales background who loves cars, the road, and being a part of killer events and shows, does Jet Hot have an opportunity for you! That’s right. The industry leader in high performance coatings is looking for an aftermarket sales person based out of their North Carolina office. This [...]

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Incredible Fail Video: The Day “Jumpin” John Holland Failed To Jump 50 Chevettes, Totaled Four With His Body, and Lived!

Posted in CRASH & BURN May 22, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  7 comments

That blurry figure you see flying through the air in the lead photo is not a super hero although after you see what he lived through in this disaster of a failed motorcycle jump, you’ll think he is invincible. The man’s name is Jumpin’ John Holland and he became a bit of a local hero [...]

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eBay Find: A 1956 Ford Fairlane Custom Pro Streeter With The Heart Of A Rat!

Posted in eBay Find May 22, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  9 comments

Some of you will love this car and some of you will hate it. The lovers will be guys like us who don’t really get to worked up over crossbred engine swaps. The guys who hate it will be hardcore Ford fans that can’t see why someone would go through the work of slamming a [...]

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BangShift Question of the Day: If You Were Building a Bonneville Car, What Would it Be?

BangShift Question of the Day: If You Were Building a Bonneville Car, What Would it Be?

Posted in BangShift Question Of The Day?? May 22, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  36 comments

With all the hot and heavy action ready to get fired up in Wilmington again in a couple weeks and Speed Week looming on the horizon, we got to mentally bench racing with ourselves and started dreaming about the LSR rig we would build. There’s the side of us that would want to build something [...]

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Mini-Feature: A 1957 International Welding Truck That’s The Same As It Was When It Left The Job Site

Posted in Car Features May 22, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  5 comments

(Words and photos by Greg Rourke) - We sometimes see a guy at car shows with a 1957 International Harvester pickup. He tells us his grandfather bought the truck brand new, and converted it for his job as a pipeline welder. The welder/generator is belt driven off the driveshaft, there is a gearbox  that allows either [...]

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Video: Home Movie Footage From The 1960s Showing An Altered Being Push Started On A Neighborhood Street! 100% BangShift Approved!

Posted in HISTORIC May 22, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  2 comments

This is video that’s sure to put a big smile on your face! We saw this posted on Facebook and thought that the BS readership would totally be into seeing a group of guys in the 1960s push starting their altered on a residential street where they live. They apparently had just installed a brand [...]

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BangShift Daily Tune Up: Walk Don’t Run – The Ventures (1960)

Posted in BS Daily Tune Up May 22, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  1 comments

The Ventures are the largest selling instrumental group of all time. According to most sources, since the early 1960s the group has moved something like 100-million albums. The song that really launched them into the big time was this tune called, Walk Don’t Run. I have been jamming to it while rolling in the Hot [...]

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Craigslist Find: A Don Garlits Built 1984 Chrysler New Yorker With A Dual Quad 440 – UPDATE: GARLITS CLEARS THE AIR!

Posted in eBay Find May 21, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  26 comments

Update 5/21/2013 – As I had mentioned in the blog item that first ran regarding this car, I contacted Don Garlits himself regarding the claims made by the seller of the New Yorker. Some of the numbers the seller claims are out of whack, but his claims on the history of the car are correct. [...]

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Russian Dash Cam Insanity: Watch An Out Of Control Van Fly An Incredible Distance Through The Sky!

Posted in CRASH & BURN May 21, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  22 comments

We were tipped off to this video by multiple BS readers were were left as slack jawed as we were once viewing it. We have no idea what the hell caused this car to hit a barrier at an amazing rate of speed and launch skyward like it is part of a movie stunt. We’ve [...]

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