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Mini-Feature: A 1957 International Welding Truck That’s The Same As It Was When It Left The Job Site
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Magnante Speaks: Here’s the True Story Of The Bad Seed Chevette – Part One Of Three!
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Drag Gallery: The ADRL Spring Drags 2013 – Cordova, Illinois
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Gallery: The Earlville Cruise 2013 – Hot Rods, Muscle, Classics, Truck, Patina, Main St USA Setting!
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ADRL Drag Racing LIVE And FREE Exclusively On BangShift.com Starting Saturday
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Gallery: The Earlville Cruise 2013 – Hot Rods, Muscle, Classics, Truck, Patina, Main St USA Setting!
(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 [...]
ADRL Drag Racing LIVE And FREE Exclusively On BangShift.com Starting Saturday
That’s right folks, LIVE ADRL Drag Racing is coming to BangShift.com and your intrepid host Chad Reynolds will be there guiding you through a weekend full of big and small tire drag racing. After getting a call from Kenny Knowling asking if we wanted to come hang out with the ADRL up in Cordova Illiinois [...]
Awesome Video: Scotty Cannon’s Controversial 1992 Lumina Pro Mod in Action
Posted in RACING & ACTION February 13, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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The IHRA created the Pro Modified drag racing class in 1990. Born from the Top Sportsman bracket racing category, the ever plucky IHRA recognized the wild popularity of the various quick eight and quick 16 shootouts that were happening all over the eastern (particularly the southeastern) US and decided to bring that flavor of no-holds-barred [...]
The Parting Shift: 11,000 RPM Insanity From Norway
Posted in General News February 12, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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Man alive! When we first watched this video of a Competition Eliminator car running in Oslo, Norway, we rubbed our eyes and watched again. Sporting a 297ci Ford motor, a tach that starts at 6,000 rpm, and a driver that can really row the Liberty 5-speed, this Ford Probe is off the charts awesome. Hell, [...]
Daytona Craigslist Find: Smokin’ Deal on Racer Pinto and Trailer
Posted in General News February 12, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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As we’ve been poking and prodding the soft underbelly of the Daytona, Florida, area by finding stuff on CraigsList we’ve brought you some interesting stuff. Here’s our chance to bring you a killer deal. Score a Pinto race car and a sweet trailer for $1500? Hell yeah! The ad tells virtually nothing about the Pinto, [...]
Great Read: Could Ford Pass GM in Sales?
Posted in General News February 12, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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With Ford hauling ass in the sales department recently, Toyota having to recall seemingly every car they’ve ever built, and GM still getting its sea legs back from their bankruptcy, there’s an outside chance that the blue oval clan could catch GM in US sales for 2010. Time will tell, but the gap isn’t as [...]
Daytona Craigslist Find: Killer 1937 Coupe Jalopy Racer
Posted in General News February 12, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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As we continue to tour the Daytona area through the prism of Craigslist in honor of the Daytona 500 this weekend, we’re going to bring you another killer old race car, but this one actually works and runs. It kind of looks like an old baseball bull pen car with a rollcage, and we’re still [...]
Good News: Camaro Sales So Strong Another Shift is Added to Oshawa Plant
Posted in General News February 12, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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Some good news on the General Motors front. The company has decided to add a shift at the Oshawa production plant in Canada to support the demand for the Camaro as well as the 2011 Buick Regal that will be rolled out mid-year. The plant is located outside of Toronto and has been running a [...]
Daytona Craigslist Find: Vintage 1957 Chevy Race Car
Posted in General News February 12, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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Continuing our look at Daytona, Florida, through the eyes of Craigslist, we found a vintage Chevy. This ’57 Chevy is a certified wreck. It’s thrashed, torn, worn, missing half of itself, and yet, we’re in total love. The hacked fender radius job done both on the front and rear and pre-historic roll bar make us [...]
Viper Dead in July, Could be Revived in 2012
Posted in General News February 12, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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Viper’s near 20 year production run comes to an end in July. Love them or hate them the car did a lot for the image of Chrysler when it went from wildly popular show car to a 1993 production model. It was an era that saw Chrysler revamping its whole line up and injecting a [...]
Daytona Craigslist Find: Bizarro V8 Astro Van
Posted in General News February 12, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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In honor of this weekend’s running of the Daytona 500 we’re going to take you on a tour of Daytona, Florida, in the only way we know how, through the eyes of Craigslist. If you’ve been reading BangShift.com for any length of time, you know that we’re not going to be showing you pristine ’69 [...]
Scots Test Out Amphibious Bus, We’ll Watch From Shore
Posted in MISC February 12, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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Human beings have the strange ability to continually develop new and fascinating ways of transportation. We also have the ability to create modes of transportation that could lead to the grisly demise of their passengers. Enter the “Amfibus,” a passenger bus that also doubles as a ferry boat. They are built in Holland and Glasgow, [...]
Kids Crash Car Into House, Church Deacon Issues Greatest Quote Ever
Posted in General News February 11, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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Imagine if your kids (yes we mean multiple kids) stole your car, loaded it up with friends, and then crashed the car into a house. You’d be totally pissed. You’re on the hook for the damage to the house and facing the possibility of hiring a defense attorney for the little jerks (unless you wanted [...]
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