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Historical Feature: Art Arfons’ Cyclops Jet Dragster – Up Close And Personal
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Funny Car Folk Art: Build Yours or Buy Mine – Helpful Tips For Building Altered Wheelbase Models
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Gallery: Nostalgia Pro Stock Builds At High Speed Welding – Bunny Burkett Pink Pinto!
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Gallery: The NHRA Hot Rod Reunion–Hot Rods, Nostalgia Drags and Burnouts at the Host Hotel!
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Incredible Video: Watch As A Dragster Blows A 150mph Donut At The Top End And Hits…NOTHING!
Historical Feature: Art Arfons’ Cyclops Jet Dragster – Up Close And Personal
Art Arfons’s famed Cyclops jet dragster was a prolific machine in its time. The giant jet engine on wheels held Bonneville records (one of which still stands), was converted into a boat for a water speed record attempt, and made untold hundreds of runs at drag strips and events across north America between 1962 and [...]
Funny Car Folk Art: Build Yours or Buy Mine – Helpful Tips For Building Altered Wheelbase Models
(Words and Photos by Steve Magnante – SteveMags.com) – I love building model cars. There, I’ve said it. Even though certain voices in society call model building a childish pursuit, don’t believe them for a second. Few other activities are as effective at nurturing the problem solving and task-completion facets of the human brain as [...]
Gallery: Nostalgia Pro Stock Builds At High Speed Welding – Bunny Burkett Pink Pinto!
(Words and photos by Greg Rourke) – Last time we visited Dennis Spal at his High Speed Welding shop in Westmont, Illinois he was finishing up the mechanical restoration of Grumpy’s Toy X. That car was verified as the real deal by Grumpy himself. Recently Dennis invited me over to see his latest project, a [...]
Gallery: The NHRA Hot Rod Reunion–Hot Rods, Nostalgia Drags and Burnouts at the Host Hotel!
(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Bangshift was in full force at the Holley National Hot Rod Reunion this past weekend, in Bowling Green, Kentucky. With Brian on the microphone, Chad manning the live feed and Charles Wickam shooting still photos, it was pretty much a wall-to-wall Bangshift weekend. But wait, there’s more! [...]
Incredible Video: Watch As A Dragster Blows A 150mph Donut At The Top End And Hits…NOTHING!
Any Taub was competing at Atco Dragway recently in her rear engine sportsman dragster. From the looks of the dial in board, this is a very low 7-second dragster, so we can safely assume that the car runs about 200mph and that means we can also assume that by half track it is making about [...]
BangShift and Ridetech present BBQ Bash 2010 in Bowling Green, Kentucky, on June 8, 2010
Posted in General News May 25, 2010 by Chad Reynolds
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We are proud to announce that Ridetech, in addition to being the presenting sponsor of BangShift.com’s 2010 Hot Rod Power Tour coverage, will be partnering with us to bring BBQ to the Bowling Green stop on Tuesday June 8th. BangShift.com members, special guests, and the Ridetech team will be hanging out right after the evening’s [...]
Power Tour Prep: The Definitive Road Trip Kit
Posted in General News May 25, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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With the Hot Rod Power Tour looming just around the corner and a bunch of dedicated BangShift.com readers and forum members preparing their junk for the long haul, we thought now would be the perfect time to highlight an awesome thread from our Unofficial Hot Rod Power Tour message board. The thread features the most [...]
Video: Gary and Pam Beineke’s K&K Insurance 1971 Daytona Clone Flying at Maxton
Posted in RACING & ACTION May 25, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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Bobby Issac and Harry Hyde famously bombarded the Bonneville Salt Flats with a 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona stock car in September of 1971. Chrysler had chopped its racing budget and the wing car was reduced to a limited schedule, so the team decided to have some fun during a break in their NASCAR schedule. Today, [...]
LIFE Gallery: Bizarro Automotive Concepts From the Past
Posted in General News May 25, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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People have been trying, since the inception of the automobile, to design a better automobile. Since we’re all still pretty much rolling around in glorified versions of the Model T, most of the far-out ideas have been too weird for mass consumption. Take the vehicle pictured in this blog item. It’s the 1958 Ford Nucleon [...]
The World’s Fastest Motorcycle is For Sale
Posted in General News May 25, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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The BUB Seven Streamliner is the world’s fastest motorcycle. It gained that title by hauling nearly 400 mph of ass at Bonneville in 2009 during a FIM and AMA sanctioned motorcycle land speed meet. The car is for sale because the owner’s business is in the tank and he needs to liquidate some assets to [...]
Event Gallery: Eagle Field Fresno Dragways Reunion
Posted in CAR SHOWS May 25, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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We missed a truly kick-ass event last weekend at Eagle Field in Firebaugh, California. Luckily, BangShift.com reader Jim Becker was on hand and brought his camera. He took some great shots of the vintage drag iron in the pits and duking it out flag-start style on a makeshift drag strip. Talk about retro-cool! Eagle Field [...]
Event Gallery: The 2010 Editors’ Challenge from Goodguys Orange County Get Together
Posted in Event Coverage May 24, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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Earlier this month at the Goodguys Orange County Get-Together (click here to see the BangShift.com show gallery), the organization hosted its annual Editors’ Challenge autocross. Our own Chad Reynolds was the announcer for the contest that pitted 11 magazine editors against each other in a unique format that tested their skills in not only their [...]
Cruise Gallery: The Kemah Kruise in Kemah, Texas
Posted in CAR SHOWS May 24, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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We’re bringing the gallery thunder today, and that’s because we have a kick-ass network of contributing photographers out there across the country delivering the goods. This collection of more than 100 photos from the Kemah Kruise in Kemah, Texas is full of heavy iron that appears to see clandestine street racing action. One truck even [...]
Vintage Ad: Car Prices that will make you laugh and cry
Posted in General News May 24, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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We were forwarded this awesome vintage advertisement for Best Chevrolet, a dealership that is still very much in business located in Hingham, Massachusetts. According to Jon Sandahl, the guy who sent us the ad, it is from 1958. There’s some neat stuff for sale and the prices may bring a tear to your eye when [...]
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Event Gallery: The 5th Annual Goodguys Nashville Nationals
Posted in General News May 24, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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Chad Reynolds, the bearded half of the BangShift.com brotherhood, was at the 5th Annual Goodguys Nashville Nationals, a massive car show held at LP Field, home of the Tennessee Titans football team. The show drew thousands of cars and Chad managed to escape his duty as the event announcer on the autocross course to photo [...]
Barnstormin’: It’s All Fun and Games Until…Smash!
Posted in General News May 24, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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I left the house on Sunday afternoon in a bit of a rush. After failing to heed my wife’s order of refilling our propane tank for the gas grill, the thing ran out half way through making dinner. Going out on a Sunday afternoon, heading to a store I pretty much knew was closed, my [...]
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